Support providers
Work & Income:
Child Disability Allowance
Community
Services Card
Child Disability Allowance is a fortnightly payment made to the main carer of a child or young person with a serious disability. It is paid in recognition of the extra care and attention needed for that child.
The Community Services Card can help you and your family with the costs of health care. This means you could pay less on some health services and prescriptions. Always carry your card with you to make it easy to get the benefits.
IHC:
Programmes
Supported Accommodation
IHC run a variety of day programmes or can provide information on suitable programmes. They can also assist with employment options if that was required.
The IHC also provide supported accommodation for individuals with disabilities.
Life Links
Life Links recognises that family/whānau and carers play a central role in the lives of people with disabilities and that accessing support at an early stage is essential for maintaining wellbeing. Ask your outcome coordinator about services, supports and agencies that provide families/whānau/carers with support, information, advice and social networks.
Enabling
Good Lives (EGL)
A recently new approach to supporting those with disabilities to offer greater choices and control over the support people receive so they can plan for the lives they want.
Hapai Foundation
Personalised, holistic support for people with intellectual disabilities.
Hapai Access Card – valuable for everyday use – a recently introduced nationwide card providing disabled customers with a mechanism to alert retail staff/businesses to the barriers they may face when purchasing a product or experiencing a service. Applications can be made on line.
Supported Accommodation:
Brackenridge
Support provided for people to live in a range of homes in suburbs across Christchurch, providing compatible and respectful environments in places the people recognise as their home. Advocacy, community venture and social opportunities are also offered.
Hohepa Canterbury
Disability support and service provider offering diverse living options, learning & activity programmes, community participation, and therapies.
CCS
Disability
Action
CSC Disability Action have been working alongside disabled people since 1935 and are now at the forefront of service provision, advocacy and information sharing in the disability sector. They partner with disabled people, their families and whānau to enable them to have choice and control in their lives. Their vision means that every disabled person will be included and participates in the life of their family and community.
Parent to Parent
Often raising a child with a disability is an experience that isn’t planned, and Parent to Parent know it can be a challenging journey. They can inform, educate, inspire and support you as you navigate your way through your family’s experience with disability. Their services are free and confidential.
Upside
Downs
Trust
A little about the Upside Downs Trust:
Purpose: We believe that every child with Down syndrome should have the tools to develop their communication, confidence and independence, and the right to participate fully in society.
Mission: We’re empowering kids with Down syndrome to talk, read and write by helping fund speech language therapy
Vision: Giving a voice to kids with Down syndrome
Aspire Canterbury
Aspire Canterbury has been an integral part of the Christchurch disability and elderly community since 1982. They enhance the lives of disabled people, and people with impairments by enabling community participation and maximum independence. They do this by connecting you to the right resources and reducing everyday barriers, by being a trusted source of information, providing mobility products and associated services, and enabling people with impairments to achieve their best life
Horizons Trust
The Horizon Trust provides flexible day support for people with intellectual disabilities. Which enables adults of all ages to develop confidence, build relationships, and learn life skills through a range of diverse activities, in a fun, safe, caring, and supportive environment.
Skillwise
Skillwise facilitate options for people in training, the arts, volunteering, employment and recreation. And encourage anyone with an intellectual disability between the age of 16-64 years to join in. They also encourage friends and whanau to participate in much of what they do.
AJ
Options
Trust
AJ’s provide support to adults with an intellectual disability. AJ’s mission statement is “A quality lifestyle through meaningful activities and community involvement.” AJ’s support each individual to achieve the goals they have identified through the AJ’s My Goals procedure.
Learn Active
Learn Active provides outdoor education opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities, 15 years old and above.
Their mission is to enable people with intellectual disabilities to explore and have fun in the outdoors while creating and achieving their goals, learning new skills & building friendships.
Delta Community Trust
Friendship Link Programme – for people with intellectual disability to encourage participation and personal growth.