SUPPORT GROUPS

To list your support group / organisation please email admin@whakatane.info  

or call our office 07 307 8616

Alcohol & Drug Services
Tel 0800 774 545

Alzheimers Support Group
tel 07 308 0525

Arthritis NZ
Tel 07 307 8015

Assn for loss & grief
tel 07 307 8061

Barnados
Daycare tel 07 308 7653
Support tel 07 308 2039

Bereaved Parents support group
tel 07 322 2084 or 07 322 2145

Bethel House
tel 07 307 0805

Breast Cancer Support
tel 07 306 0898

Budget Advisory
tel 07 307 1390

Cardiac Support Group
tel 07 307 1325 or 07 323 7852

Citizens Advice Bureau
tel 07 308 5609

Computers - Senior Net Whakatane Inc
tel 07 307 2688
sn1whakatane@yahoo.co.nz

Department of Child, Youth and Family
tel 0508 326 459

Disabilities Resource Centre
tel 07 307 1447
www.drct.co.nz

EBOP Riding for the Disabled Whakatane  
Physical Address: Awatapu Drive  
Postal Address: P O Box 2123  
Telephone: 07 308 6963
Facsimile: 07 308 9502 

East Bay Victim Support
tel 07 308 2330
Free Ph 0800 842 846
web www.victimsupport.org.nz

EBOP Infertility Support Group
tel 07 307 1205

Eastbay REAP (Rural Education Activities Programme)
tel 07 308 4098
fax 07 308 4613
email ceo@eastbayreap.org.nz
web www.eastbayreap.org.nz

Green screenings show on the first Tuesday of each month from 7 - 9pm in association with East Bay Reap and EBOP.
For more information contact Louise 308 4098
or email louises@eastbayreap.org.nz

Eastbay Time Bank
Time Banking is a system where people swap their time and skills with other people.  For every hour a person spends doing something for another timebanker, they earn a credit which can then be “spent” on having someone do something for them.
Tel 07 308 0198
Email eastbaytimebank@gmail.com
Web www.eastbaytimebank.org.nz

Family Start
tel 07 307 1472

Fathers and Sons
Developed especially for fathers and sons to encourage and inspire men across the Eastern Bay of Plenty as they raise their sons to become great men.
www.fathersandsons.org.nz

Foster parents support group
Meets first Tuesday of each month 11am at REAP
tel 07 307 8650

G.A.I.N Parent/Teenager Programme
tel 07 308 9295 or 07 304 9561 or 07 315 7516

Growing through Grief for Children
tel 0800 329 227 or 07 307 2373

Hearing Therapist Services
tel 07  307 1447

Hepatitis Foundation
tel 07 307 1259

Homebirth Whakatane
Email whakatanehomebirth@gmail.com
For more details contact us or see our Facebook page

Home Care Whakatane
tel 07 308 5839

Hospice EBOP
tel 07 307 2244
www.hospiceebop.org.nz

Justice of the Peace
John Murphy - tel 07 308 7673 
Lynley Bedingham - tel 07 308 5078

La Leche League
tel 07 312 4729 or 07 308 0288

Living with Cancer Resource Centre
tel 07 307 2244

Mental Health & Mental Health Crisis Services
tel 0800 774 545

Ngati Awa Social and Health Service Trust
tel 07 307 1472
www.nash.org.nz

Natural Fertility NZ
tel 0800 178 637

New Comers Group -

C/- Whakatane Citizens Advice Bureau,

 Tel 07 307 0138 or 07 308 5609
Email: whakatane@newcomers.co.nz
web:  http://whakatane.newcomers.co.nz/

Open Home Foundation
christian child/family support
tel 07 308 7588

Ostomy Society EBOP
tel 07 322 2305 or 07 323 6828 or 07 308 5304

Whakatane Parents Centre
PO Box 645
Whakatane 3158
Tel 07 307 1220
Email:  whakatane@parentscentre.org.nz

Parkinsons Support Group
tel 07 308 0322
Email tauranga@parkinsons.org.nz

PARS - Whakatane Prisoner Aid and Rehabilitation Society
tel 07 5782234 - 0800 002587

Plunket Whakatane
tel 07 308 8454

Post Polio Support Group
tel 07 308 4410 or 07 315 6143 or 07 323 8935

Pohutukawa Day Programme
tel 07 308 0055

Psychiatric Suport Centre
tel 07 307 1179

Relationship Services
tel 07 307 2655

Royal Foundation for the Blind
tel 0800 243 333

SANDS - Stillbirth & Newborn Death Support
tel 07 312 5022
email sandswhakatane@hotmail.co.nz
web www.sands.org.nz

SPCA
tel Whakatane 07 308 4608 or Kawerau 07 323 4032

SPELD Eastern Bay Of Plenty
We provide support for families and  access to  assessment and tutoring for children with learning disabilities such as Dyslexia.
Tel 07 304 9705
Freephone 0800 SPELDNZ  ( 0800 7735369)
Website: www.speld.org.nz

STD Clinic
Located at the Whakatane Hospital ervery Wednesday 2-5pm

St John Ambulance
tel 07 308 6111

St Vincent De Paul
tel 07 307 0506 or 07 308 7057 or 07 312 5505

Support Net:Kupenga HAO ITE ORA
tel 07 307 8986 ah emergency 0800 262 477

Suporting Families in Mental Health
tel 07 308 9430 or 027 290 2397

Womens Refuge
tel 07 308 5531