Ashburton/Mid Canterbury

Trevor Wilson Centre
215 Tancred Street
Ashburton
Phone: (03) 308 5868
Fax: (03) 308 0312
Email: MidCant@psusi.org.nz
Regional Manager: Jackie Girvan

Family Works is an approved Child and Family Support Service, offering a unique and integrated service to young people, families, couples and individuals through counselling, social work, mentoring and group learning programmes. We offer you:

• A safe environment
• Confidentiality
• Honesty
• A respectful, non-judgmental attitude
• Sensitivity, warmth, and cultural awareness

You can use our services by:

• Contacting us yourself
• Someone else contacting us on your behalf, eg family member or doctor

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Counselling & Social Work:

Counselling
can help you discover solutions to your problems, helping you to help yourself through listening, learning new skills and working on plans you can put into practice. Our counselling team is experienced in a wide variety of issues and approved for work with the Family Court and by ACC for sexual abuse. Our services are subsidised. We can talk about costs at your first session. We work with children, young people, parents, couples, individuals and families and offer help with:

• behavioural problems
• abuse (sexual, physical, and emotional)
• depression
• grief and loss
• self esteem
• eating disorders
• post traumatic stress disorders
• relationship issues (parents, partners, children, young people, colleagues)
• anger, violence
• anxiety, phobias and panic attacks

Community Family Support
provides support to families in the form of education and life skills, either in your own home or at the Trevor Wilson Centre. Work can be one-on-one or as part of a group, on subjects like overcoming the effects of violence, addressing and resolving family conflict, safety issues for young people, parenting issues, peer pressure, assertiveness, step family issues, bullying.

Group Learning:

Courses we offer include:

• Seasons for growth: a programme for primary age children dealing with grief and loss.
• Single fathers support group: a free support group where fathers parenting alone can share their issues and experiences, and gain encouragement and practical skills.
• Parenting skills groups: These are run in a number of local workplaces and at the Trevor Wilson Centre with small groups of parents, and focus on practical parenting skills. For dates and venues, phone (03) 308 5868, email: MidCant@psusi.org.nz.
  

Family Worker in Schools:

Operating from five Mid Canterbury schools. An experienced social worker works with children and their families to support the child’s education, health and wellbeing.

Parenting:

Parents As First Teachers (PAFT)
Parents are their children's first and most important teachers. PAFT offers support and guidance to parents in this role. A trained Parent Educator provides regular home visits from when the baby is born until the child's third birthday, sharing information, practical ideas and giving guidance as the child grows and develops.

Mentoring:

Our mentoring programme matches adult volunteers with identified young people to provide the support a child needs to grow and mature in a positive way.

For further information about any of our services, phone (03) 308 5868 or email MidCant@psusi.org.nz