Children and young people are happy and healthy
Budget 2019 provided funding to expand this intensive outreach service for parents and parents-to-be, and caregivers who are experiencing problems with alcohol and other drugs, and who are poorly connected to health and social support services.
The service will now be available in Whanganui and the Bay of Plenty expanding on services already available in Waitematā, Tairāwhiti, Northland and Hawke’s Bay.
The Waitematā service typically works with about 250 women and their whānau per year, and the other three existing sites each typically work with about 100 women and their whānau per year.