Community Involvement

Kawerau is renowned of its friendliness and community spirit and this is reflected in the wide range of services and community groups active in the town.

Heartland Services
Plunket
Strengthening Families
Whakatane Hospital & Regional Community Services
Koru Chiropractic Clinic
Safe Kawerau Kids Injury Prevention Project
Eastbay REAP
Parents As First Teachers
Kawerau & Districts Neighbourhood Support Trust
Kawerau Safer Communities Trust
Tuwharetoa Ki Kawerau
Kawerau Lions Club
Rotary Club of Kawerau
Kawerau Blue Light
K-oper-8 (Co-operate)

Heartland Services

Heartland Services are located in the KEA Building, 60 Onslow St., Kawerau.

Plunket

Plunket provides Well Child Services. We support Health and Well Being of Families/Whanau and young children 0-5 yrs.

Services Offered

Some home visits are offered for families who access Plunket
We provide support and information to parents/families to make positive choices that promote health
Regular checks of your child's progress
2 x Plunket Nurses
1 x Kaiawhina
(Clinics by appointment)

Clinic Ph: 323 8203
Fax: 323 8207
Health Promoter Ph: 323 8201

Strengthening Families

Strengthening families is a way for agencies to work together more effectively with families/whanau.
This will only happen with family/whanau consent. Families/whanau decides:

What outcomes they want to achieve
What their issues and needs are
Who will work with them
Who will be the key worker to monitor that the planned tasks are completed
Is a process that provides better co-ordination and support to meet the needs identified by the family/whanau

Co-ordinator contact details:
Phone: (07) 308 4098
Mobile: 027 205 4787

Whakatane Hospital & Regional Community Services

Kawerau Clinic
Phone: (07) 323 1132
Fax: (07) 323 8217

We provide the following services to the Kawerau community:

District Nursing Services
Oncology/Palliative Care
Child Health and Paediatrics
Mental Health Services
Cervical Screening
Hearing Therapy Services
Podiatrist
Health Education
- Diet and Diabetes
- Respiratory
- Cardiac
Eye Health
- Visque Eye care Centre

Koru Chiropractic Clinic

We're open Monday to Friday
8.30 - 4.00

Safe Kawerau Kids Injury Prevention Project

Phone (07) 323 8605
SKIP's purpose is to implement programmes to reduce unintentional injuries for children 0-14 years.

SKIP provides a car seat rental scheme.
SKIP's current targets:

Use of car seats
Cycle Safety
Pedestrian Safety
Burns Prevention
Falls Prevention

Eastbay REAP

He Poutoko Matauranga
Phone: (07) 323 8605
Fax: (07) 323 8607

REAP provides and supports projects in the Early Childhood, Schools and Adult & Community sectors.

We respond to communities learning needs including:

Parenting programmes
Community Liaising
Support for Early Childhood centres
Support for schools
Adult workshops to meet a wide range of needs
Adult literacy and numeracy support

Call in and discuss how we can help meet your learning needs

In addition, REAP provides public access to:

Colour printing
The Internet
Faxing
Photocopying

Parents As First Teachers

Phone: (07) 323 8605 or (07) 323 7392
Fax: (07) 323 8607

PAFT offers FREE, practical, effective help to families in the following ways:

Helping you to understand your child's growth and development
Helping you gain confidence in your parenting skills
Helping you to encourage your child's growth and development
Offering support and guidance to parents
This support lasts from birth to 3 years

Kawerau & Districts Neighbourhood Support Trust

Phone: (07) 323 6603
Fax: (07) 323 6603

Neighbourhood Support is a programme aimed at community safety. Our aims:

Strengthening the Community by introducing the concept of neighbours working together
Increasing safety and security through communication
Helping to remove the fear of crime
Deterring criminal activities
This is a FREE service

We work in partnership with:

Civil Defence
St John
Citizens Patrol
NZ Fire Service
NZ Police

Kawerau Safer Communities Trust

Phone: (07) 323 6603
Fax: (07) 323 6603

Safer Communities is an initiative aimed at preventing and/or reducing crime in our
Community. We seek to address the following issues:

Burglary
Theft from and of cars
Serious traffic offending
Youth offending

Tuwharetoa ki Kawerau

Health, Education and Social Services

Tuwharetoa ki Kawerau is situated in Islington Street, Kawerau. Its Kaupapa is to provide quality health education and social services within the rohe o Tuwharetoa ki Kawerau that reflect Te Wairua (Spirit), Te Hinengaro (mind), Te Tinana (body) and Te Whanau (family). Tuwharetoa ki Kawerau offers:

Whanau ora rangatahi services
Tamariki ora/well child services
Mama and Pepi services
A sexual reproductive health clinic
Kaumatua services
Health Promotion services
Early intervention alcohol and drugs services
Family start programme
Counselling services
Problem gambling
Mahi ngahere course

For further general information phone (07) 323 8025
Crisis numbers phone 0800 527 4747 (Hauora) or 0800 200 664 (FS)

Kawerau Lions Club

Our Origin
Lions Clubs began in the United States of America in 1917. A group of independent clubs responded to a call from a young Chicago insurance agent, Melvin Jones, to launch a club which had community service as its prime aim.

The first New Zealand Lions Club was formed in 1955 in Auckland and has now grown to nearly 450 Clubs, with a membership of almost 12,000. Worldwide the International Association of Lions Clubs has a membership of approximately 1.4 million in 194 countries and geographical areas.

Fellowship - good times; meeting people; building lasting friendships; service to the Community; learning new skills; leadership and personal development - these are just some of the good things about being a member of Lions, the world's largest and most active service club.

Our Activities
The emphasis is on community service in all forms. Our programmes serve the young and the aged, the disabled and the disadvantaged - anybody who has a need.

Programmes are conducted locally, nationally and internationally. They include sight conservation and work with the blind, citizenship services, hearing and speech action, programmes with the deaf, drug education, environment, recreational, health and social services.

Lions Clubs provide help in times of emergency and great need - drought or flood, earthquake or cyclone.

Lions' contributions to the development and care of New Zealand youth include living skills programmes, drug awareness, an international youth exchange programme, the national Young Speech maker Contest, and our Leo clubs.

Our Clubs
Most Lions Clubs meet at least twice a month, usually over dinner. However, some meet for lunch or breakfast. You will no doubt be able to find a Club which fits your lifestyle.

Many meetings feature interesting guest speakers and all provide opportunities to build friendships. Clubs are always on the lookout for different entertaining programmes and activities for meetings, often involving partners and families of members.

As a member, you have opportunities to participate to a level that your work, family and other commitments allow. You can choose the activities and committees with which you wish to be involved. You will have every opportunity to develop your leadership and organisational abilities. If you choose, you may take on offices that lead through to presidency of your Club and beyond to district and international level of involvement.

Above all, you will enjoy working with other members on even the simplest of projects and get satisfaction from knowing that you are helping your community at the same time.

To become a Member
MEMBERSHIP of a Lions Club is by invitation, open to men and women over the age of 18 years and of good moral character and reputation.

Contact Details:

Kawerau Lions Club
C/- Secretary
P.O. Box 185
KAWERAU 3169

Tony and Lynda Moller
Grieve Rd, R.D. 2
Whakatane
(07) 322-8387 Res
(07) 306-9009 Bus
(07)323-8072 Fax
tony.moller@kaweraudc.govt.nz

Nelson Rangi
P.O. Box 185
Kawerau 3075
(07) 323-6116 Res
(07) 323-6118 Fax
nelson.rangi@xtra.co.nz

Rotary Club of Kawerau

Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.

The Rotary Club of Kawerau was formed in 1960 and the Charter meeting was held 10th June 1961, with 24 foundation members.

Rotarians meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programmes dealing with topics of local and global importance.

The Kawerau Club meets at 5.30 pm on each Wednesday, in the Bert Hamilton Memorial Hall on Porritt Drive, Kawerau. The meal begins at 6.00 pm, business session is from 6.35 pm to 6.50 pm, and then the guest speaker talks for about 15 minutes followed by questions. Typically the meeting finishes about 7.30 pm.

Rotarians plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational and cultural exchange projects that improve people's lives at both the local and world levels.

Rotary in Kawerau provides an opportunity to participate in:

Kawerau youth development
Supporting community projects
Assisting the aged, such as the Mountain View Lifecare Village
Supporting student exchange programmes
Playing our part in international projects such as eliminating polio
Fellowship, meeting and working with new friends
Learning from a wide range of interesting topics from visiting speakers
Improving your personal and professional networks, and sharing with like-minded colleagues.

Contact:

Di Mangham
President
Phone: 07 323 8812

or

John Brierley
Treasurer
Phone: 07 323 7458
Email: rockwren15@xtra.co.nz

Kawerau Blue Light

Blue Light is a Police initiative designed to:

Reduce the incidence of young people becoming an offender or victim of crime
Encourage better relations among the police, young people, their parents and the Community.

This is achieved by organizing and running a variety of supervised cultural, social, sporting and educational activities in an environment free from alcohol, drugs and violence.

In 2002, Youth Aid Police Officer, Constable George Westerman, was appointed and with the assistance of local schools and agencies, the Kawerau Blue Light Trust was resurrected. Since then the Kawerau Blue Light Trust has put together extremely successful events and activities.

The programmes that the Kawerau Blue Light Trust has introduced since 2002 have built positive relationships among young people, their parents and the wider Community. The Police believe the Kawerau Blue Light Trust activities have contributed to a reduction in juvenile offending.

For further information contact:

Wes Allan, Blue Light Project Manager, Jellicoe Court, Kawerau
Ph: (07) 323 6603
E-mail:

K-oper-8 (Co-operate)

K-oper-8 is a Kawerau action group established in response to a Local Service Mapping project which identified the need for agencies to work closely together to make services and information more accessible to those people in the Kawerau Community in need of social services.

Although the initial focus of the group was for Government agencies to work more cohesively, the group took a more proactive leadership role by initiating projects that had a wider positive impact on the whole Community.

For further information contact:

Kawerau District Council
Ph (07) 306 9009