About Us

Nurture Taranaki helps prepare and upskill first time parents. We provide specific parenting education, empowerment and support to help create an optimum home environment for baby.

Nurture Taranaki is offered to first time pregnant women, where social and family circumstances challenge the health and well-being of the child, or extra support and guidance is sought..

The service provided is free, long term and home based, which promotes healthy child development within a nurturing family environment.

Families participate on a voluntary basis and are provided with specific guidance and education by professionally qualified and well-supervised Parenting Coach / Kaiawhina.

What We Do

We help boost parents confidence at the very beginning of their parenting journey

Enhance Family well-being
Promote physical, social and emotional well-being of infants and children
Teach healthy child development and build strong attachments
Monitor child and home safety
Provide parenting Education
Encourage participation in Early Childhood
Initiate participation in Local Parenting Groups
Offer suggestions for local family activities
Provide support through crisis
Strengthening family supports
Teach healthy food options
Link engagement with household budgeting advice
Support the transition to return to work
Boost parent confidence
Offer support with sleeping and eating routines

Monitor & refer for ...

Smoke free home envrionment/ Smoke cessation...
Maternal/Paternal depression mental health
Advocacy, home skills
Relationship issues
Family violence
Addictions

How We Do It

Nurture Taranaki is a weekly home visiting support service for families who are expecting their first baby.

Families living in the Central and North Taranaki area are eligible for this long term home-visiting service. We can work alongside you and your family until your child goes to school.

Together we make a plan and work to achieve it.

WHAT WE DO

Criteria

Eligibility for this programme is for first time pregnancies and any of the following:

Teenage pregnancy
Limited support
Minimal antenatal care
Economic disadvantage
Lack of essential resources
Compromised social skills
Little or no formal educational qualifications
Limited experience or skills in parenting
Mental health eg: depression, anxiety, undiagnosed concerns
Involvement in the Criminal Justice System
Addictions - drug, alcohol, gambling
Relationship problems - family violence, conflict, lack of support

Any queries regarding this programme can be made by contacting:

Emma Kalin – 027 5551763

e-mail: emma.kalin@tepunatrust.org.nz

Snr Constable Paul Lampe - 027 260 8851

e-mail: Paul.lampe@tepunatrust.org.nz

Parenting Education

Parenting education is a core component of the programme and flows from the beginning of our visits through to when the child goes to school. We use programmes that have been successful internationally and are widely researched.

PIPE (Partners in Parenting Education) is a research informed curriculum. It is based on neuroscience & the importance of the first 1000 days of a Childs life.

This programme captures the imagination of new parents and inspires them to LOVE LISTEN & PLAY with their babies for optimum lifelong outcomes.