North Porirua Care Centre

The North Porirua Care Centre serves the wider North Porirua community through the provision of specialised care services like counselling, social work assistance and mental health.

The North Porirua Care Centre provides counselling and social work services to people living in the Porirua community. The NPCC Trust oversees the Centre and manager works voluntarily with the Trust and the team.

The Trust has a vision for providing community services to meet identified social needs.

Care Centre  (233 1248) 

History

NPCC was established to provideservices to our community without regard to culture, gender, religion or economic standing. We believe a strong network of caring services will bring great benefit to the North Porirua community and beyond. These benefits include stronger family units, reduced child and family stress, less demand on secondary and tertiary services, early intervention and preventative outcomes, and stronger, happier communities.

The Care Centre was built on the Mana Counselling Service, Johannes Sijbrant and Vanessa Lynch, which has been established for 14 years and has a good reputation in the community. Amanda Rowe, our Social Worker started working in her role in February this year and was appointed in response to an identified need. Another Counsellor Robyn Te Paiho will join the team when the Centre moves to a new location. She already is very much part of the team, attending monthly team meetings and providing some supervision for Amanda.

The inclusion of a Social Worker into the team has already had positive outcomes, with individuals and families being assisted to manage their lives better, in order to participate more fully in community, school and work activities.

The Care Centre Trust oversees the activities of the Centre, which is managed by a voluntary Manager.

Vision

The provision of community support services to the North Porirua community in response to identified social needs.

Values

The North Porirua Care Centre will provide services to our community without regard to culture, gender, religion or economic standing, meeting needs not met by other services.

The North Porirua Care Centre believes in astrong network of services to benefit to the North Porirua community and beyond in order for every person to have hope and know a pathway to healing and wholeness.

Our objectives and value statements provide direction and foundation to the work of the NPCC; they are to be adhered to by all trustees, employees, service providers and volunteer workers of the NPCC.

Our immediate goals are to relocate and get funding to continue providing current services.

The Trust is excited about progress being made to date and keen to ensure that we are able to provide the sort of services that will enable families with needs to be supported and function well within their communities.

NPCC Objectives

• To provide accessible and affordable support services targeting unaddressed needs in North Porirua;
• To increase the number and types of support services provided through the Trust; and
• To provide support services in an independent and financially viable manner.

Short term goals: 1-3 years

• To gain funding from a wide range of community sources, fundraisingactivities and donations.
• To employ an Administrator/Finance/Reception person.
• To increase volunteer and paid staffing.
• Expand into a new [geographic] area within North Porirua
• To review the Trust positions and identify and address gaps.
• To review the direction of the Care Centre and formulate a 5 year plan.

Long term goal

• To establish a fully operational Care Centre from which identified services are provided and to which people can come to meet social and other needs.

It is the intent of the Trust to not duplicate services. Donations will be used only for services, and administering those services, which are not being provided by Government and Non-Government organisations.

Amanda Rowe

(Registered Social Worker, MA (Applied) in Social Work, DAPPANZ, Post Graduate certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)

Amanda is an experienced Social Worker, and has worked in many areas including:

• Care and protection

• Adoption issues

• Disability

• Challenging behaviour

Amanda has a sound knowledge of community resources, is strengths based, has perseverance and resilience and a ‘whatever it takes’ attitude.

Robyn Te Paiho

Robyn is a qualified Social Worker and counsellor.  She has worked in the Porirua region since 2004 in the following areas:

• Grief and Loss

• Health issues (including depression and anxiety)

• Adjusting to life changes

• Self discovery and self worth

• Spiritual growth

• Strengthening couples (can facilitate the ‘Prepare and Enrich’ programme)

• Adjustment to disability and loss

• Working with youth

Victoria Wilks  Bachelor of Social Work

Victoria has lived in the Porirua community for 8 years is a strong advocate for the people she works with and likes to work alongside families and other agencies, assisting them to get themselves through difficulties.  Specialty areas include:

• Care and protection

• Adoption

• Care of the Elderly

• Hospital based Social Work

Current members of the North Porirua Care Centre Trust Board:

Robyn Crow: MB ChB, Dip Obs FRNZCGP - 25 yrs General Practice experience.

John SutherlandIA, CISA,FIIA(NZ), Dip Business Studies. Ministry of Defence Evaluation Analyst

Glenys Evans: Treasurer B Com; worked in IRD.

Susan Walker: Funding research, financial and administration management

BSc, biochemistry; graduate Diploma in Business computing. Work medical chemistry and microbiology.

Care Centre Manager:

Lis Pyle, (Volunteer) Dip Phty, NZIM Cert Management; 35 years clinical and management experience. Lis has managed Hutt Valley Health Physiotherapy for 10 years; then was Manager for Assessment and Rehabilitation Ltd (now defunct) for 8 years and Quality Manager for 2 years. This was a multi-disciplinary team providing community based services under ACC and DHB contracts – mainly assessment services. Lis helped set up and establish the Company; developed a multi-disciplinary team based in Porirua; then expanded the Company to include teams providing services throughout the Lower North Island.

All current Trustees and the Manager are members of North Porirua Baptist Church

Mana Counselling Service

A specialised and highly regarded counselling and pyschotherapy service that operates within the Care Centre. MCS has been making a positive contribution to our region for over 15 years.

To access these services phone (04) 233 1248 (any time message) or send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Counsellors:

Johannes Sijbrant (Registered Psychotherapist with specialization in children and adolescents: B. CAT (NL), MNZACAP, MCTAA, MNZCCA. ACC. CYF and PHO approved.)

Johannes provides counselling and psychotherapy for children, adolescents, families and adults who may experience difficulties in areas such as:

• Early development
• Communication
• Relationships
• Self Image
• Abuse
• Parenting
• Social functioning
• Behaviour
• Emotionality
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Grief and loss