Phone (09) 523 2790
Fax (09) 523 2149
Mobile 027 700 1556
Email junior.tia@ember.org.nz
Hunters Plaza (next to Woolworths), 217 Great South Road
Papatoetoe
Auckland 2025
P.O. Box 22424,
Ōtāhuhu 1062,
Auckland, New Zealand
Te Piringa Āhuru Peer Support Hub is a welcoming community space where people can pause, feel safe, and connect during challenging times related to mental health or addiction. It offers peer-led support grounded in lived experience, connection, and shared understanding.
Located next to Woolworths at Hunters Plaza in Papatoetoe, the hub is open 10am to 8pm, seven days a week (except public holidays and when the mall is closed). No referral or appointment is needed — people are welcome to walk in.
Support is provided by trained Peer Support Workers who bring lived experience and professional peer training. They listen, walk alongside, and support people and whānau to build on strengths and consider what feels helpful next.
Te Piringa Āhuru is operated by Ember Korowai Takitini and powered by DRIVE Consumer Direction Counties Manukau.
All kaimahi at Te Piringa Āhuru are trained Peer Support Workers with lived experience of mental health challenges and/or addiction. They bring both formal peer support training and personal understanding to their roles.
Because they have walked their own journeys, they offer support grounded in empathy, respect, and shared understanding - walking alongside people rather than directing or diagnosing.
Free
10:00 AM to 8:00 PM.
| Mon – Sun | 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM |
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Te Piringa Āhuru Peer Support Hub offers a relaxed, welcoming community space where people can connect and find support during challenging times related to mental health or addiction. Led by trained Peer Support Workers with lived experience, the hub provides peer-led support grounded in shared understanding. Peer workers listen, walk alongside, and support people and whānau to build on strengths and explore what might feel helpful next - including linking with community supports if that is wanted. This is a lived experience–led, accessible space where people can pause, feel heard, and reconnect with their own capacity and choice.
Alcohol or drug addiction, Family / whānau support, Mental health
Advocacy (mental health), Family / whānau support (addiction), Family / whānau support (mental health), Peer support (alcohol or drug), Peer support (mental health)
South Auckland
Adult / Pakeke
Self referral
Te Piringa Āhuru Peer Support Hub offers a relaxed, welcoming community space where people can connect and find support during challenging times related to mental health or addiction.
Led by trained Peer Support Workers with lived experience, the hub provides peer-led support grounded in shared understanding. Peer workers listen, walk alongside, and support people and whānau to build on strengths and explore what might feel helpful next - including linking with community supports if that is wanted.
This is a lived experience–led, accessible space where people can pause, feel heard, and reconnect with their own capacity and choice.
Flyer promoting Te Piringa Āhuru as a short-stay, daytime peer support space at Hunters Plaza, Papatoetoe. It invites people looking for a safe place to talk about their mental health or addiction and explains that trained Peer Support Workers with lived experience are there to listen and walk alongside them. Open 10am–8pm, seven days a week (except public holidays and when the mall is closed).
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Mobility parking space, Quiet, low sensory environment, Wheelchair access, Wheelchair accessible toilet
From Manukau (via State Highway 1 North)
• Take SH1 North toward Auckland
• Take Exit 443 (East Tāmaki / Papatoetoe)
• Turn left onto East Tāmaki Road
• Continue straight, then turn left at the end of the road onto Great South Road
• Take the first right onto Kolmar Road
• Turn left onto Bisley Street
• Follow the road to the end — the Hunters Plaza underground car park entrance is ahead
• Enter the car park, turn left, and park near the escalators closest to the end of the car park (near Woolworths)
From Auckland City (via State Highway 1 South)
• Take SH1 South toward Manukau
• Take Exit 443 (East Tāmaki / Papatoetoe)
• Turn right onto East Tāmaki Road
• Continue straight, then turn left at the end of the road onto Great South Road
• Take the first left onto Kolmar Road
• Turn left onto Bisley Street
• Follow the road to the end — the Hunters Plaza underground car park entrance is ahead
• Enter the car park, turn left, and park near the escalators closest to the end of the car park (near Woolworths)
There are two bus stops located directly outside Hunters Plaza. Enter stop numbers 6013 or 6014 into Auckland Transport’s journey planner to view routes and times for the 33 bus service.
The 33 bus travels between Papakura Train Station and Ōtāhuhu Train Station, stopping at Hunters Plaza.
Plan your journey with Auckland Transport: https://at.govt.nz/bus-train-ferry/journey-planner
Hunters Plaza offers free customer parking on site. For the easiest access to Te Piringa Āhuru, follow the parking signs for Woolworths and park near the escalators inside the mall.
Accessible parking spaces are available close to the main entrances.
https://www.healthpoint.co.nz/mental-health-addictions/mental-health/te-piringa-ahuru-peer-support-hub/