Overview

We believe every New Zealander has the right to a warm, dry, healthy, and affordable place to live and yet, in Aotearoa New Zealand, 102,123 people – 2.2% of the population – are severely housing deprived, almost half of them under the age of 25. ¹

• As part of the Housing First Collective, Visionwest Community Housing Tenancy Services provides transitional and permanent housing solutions for the homeless.
• Our Community Housing Support Services provide wraparound support for our client whānau to enable them to escape poverty, sustain their tenancies, and work towards achieving their future goals.

Around 20% of children in Aotearoa New Zealand live in a household with lower than 50% of the national median income after deducting housing costs. ²

• Money Mentors is Visionwest’s personalised financial mentoring hub for those who want support with their financial challenges.

Almost 40% of New Zealand households experience food insecurity, while 19% of children live in households that experience food insecurity. ³

• Our Pātaka Kai provides food for whānau who would otherwise go without, often delivering parcels to those in isolation or without transport.
• We work with food charity partners who supply Visionwest with food, and we distribute this to other community organisations.
• Through Te Kapu, a Glen Eden Baptist Church initiative, a free weekly lunch is provided to Visionwest client whānau and the wider community.

Nearly 1 in 4 New Zealand adults (aged 18 and over) experience ‘poor’ mental wellbeing on the World Health Organisation’s WHO-5 scale. ⁴ We believe that, with the right support, people can overcome many of the challenging situations they face and move forward in their lives.

• Visionwest Wellbeing Centre offers a range of confidential counselling and wellbeing services to whānau of all ages including counselling support for children, families, and couples.
• Our Kōtuitui programme provides in-school counselling for children in local primary and intermediate schools, and we provide clinical supervision for counsellors and those working as care professionals.

• Visionwest Home Healthcare’s trained Support Workers provide over 1.3 million hours of personalised in-home care to over 7,000 client whānau every year.

• Visionwest’s Education and Training Centre provides a range of mentoring, training, and pre-employment programmes for young people. Huia Mai delivers the Pae Aronui training programme for rangatahi Māori.

• Proactive Kaupapa Māori development within Visionwest.
• Several Māori-focused programmes including Mātanga Oranga (Māori-informed trauma support) and Pae Aronui (rangatahi training programme)