Noho Āhuru - Healthy Homes

Public Service, Community

Today

Open today 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM.

Description

Noho Ᾱhuru – Healthy Homes is a free service which aims to support low income families to have warmer, drier and healthier homes. We deliver our interventions through a mixture of social work and interagency collaboration.

Once a referral for whanau is received and accepted, initial contact is made by a member of our Social work team. They will make an appointment to do a home assessment with the family.

We may be able to assist with the following interventions:

Interventions are determined during the assessment in agreement with whanau.
These interventions can include:

Education on keeping houses warm and dry

Social Work

Insulation

Ventilation

Curtains

Carpets

Heating

Bedding

Budgeting Services

Full and Correct Entitlement Assessments (FACE)

Support with Social Housing Applications

Minor repairs

Broken Windows
Window Latches
Draught Stopping
Installation of Smoke Alarms

How do I access this service?

Referral Expectations

Whanau that fit the criteria are eligible for our healthy homes service. Referrals can come from health professionals or whanau can self-refer. We are happy to take calls regarding eligibility.

Referral Forms can be downloaded here.

We also provide referral training for Health and Social work agencies who would like to refer whanau they work with.

Target Populations:

Children 0-14yrs old
Adult (receiving Bicillin Injections)
Pregnant/new mothers and newborn babies

How do I access this service?

Complete and send in a Noho Āhuru referral
Contact us via phone or email
Want us to call you? Free text our number to 798

Charges

Free

Hours

Open today 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM.

Mon – Fri	8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Document Downloads

Noho Āhuru – Healthy Homes Brochure (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Noho Āhuru – Healthy Homes Referral Form (DOCX, 159.6 KB)
Newsletter June 2019 Issue (PDF, 651.7 KB)
Newsletter September 2018 Issue (PDF, 751 KB)

Other

Curtain Donations Wanted to help families in need:

Full-length, lined curtains are vital for creating a warm home and on behalf of the Curtain Banks, we would like to ask for donated second hand curtains for the families we see.

The Curtain Bank will clean and line curtains if necessary and Habitat for Humanity will help to install these. Please see below for curtain drop off points:

Ecomatters: 1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Monday to Friday 10am - 4pm, Saturday 10am – 1pm
Vision West: 97 Glendale Rd, Glen Eden, Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm
Kaipatiki Centre: 17 Lauderdale Rd, Birkdale, anytime (the collection bins are outside)
Greenstar Energy Solutions: 26 Grayson Ave, Papatoetoe, Monday to Friday 10am – 3pm
Habitat for Humanity: 8 Ormiston Rd, Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm, Saturday 9am - 3pm

South Auckland Families:

Families living in South Auckland are seen by our sister Initiative at National Hauora Coalition, AWHI. We are happy to pass you onto them or you can contact them directly here.