Stand Children's Services

Stand Children's Services is a charity that provides specialist home and school based social work services including therapeutic care and education to New Zealand's most vulnerable children aged 5 to 12. Stands mission is to transform the lives of children and young people who are at significant risk of harm to their well-being as a consequence of... the environment in which they are being raised and their own complex needs. For each child, they seek to develop their capacity to live in healthy, hopeful relationships with others. On this depends all of the other necessary outcomes which contribute to their ability to enjoy life and reach their potential. Stands success in working with children is based on their deep commitment to being child centered, family respectful, trauma aware, solution focused and culturally competent in all that they do. Many of the children referred to Stand will not successfully recover without a planned and consistent therapeutic environment. The children need to experience profound healing relationships and see that everyone is working together to get to the bottom of their difficulties in the context of everyday life, school, and community. Stands Children's Villages provide this transformative experience. Stand recognizes that a child's home and family, school and teachers, neighborhood and friends all play a critical role in a child's world and that each system requires attention to improving a child's quality of life. Today Stand provides an effective wraparound service by brokering and coordinating services with many agencies and providers across New Zealand. Formerly Te Puna Whaiora Children's Health Camps, the organization changed its name in April 2013 to Stand Children's Services to shine a light on the issues faced by vulnerable children in New Zealand. The charity has helped more than 270,000 children since its inception in 1919.Read More