HIPPY
Home Interaction Programme for Parents and Youngsters
HIPPY is a home-based programme that trains parents to help their four- and five-year-old children with their learning, creating experiences that lay the foundation for success in school and later life. The programme was designed specifically for those parents who may not feel comfortable in their own abilities to teach their children.
MATES ™
Mentoring & Tutoring Education Scheme
MATES provides selected school students who have the potential to achieve, but are at risk of underachievement, with a friendly university mentor/tutor, to raise levels of aspiration and achievement, and to provide the listening ear young people need.
Family Service Centres
Family Service Centres are one-stop-shops for families in low-income communities. Their core services can include pre-school centres, child and family services, Plunket and HIPPY. A variety of other services are offered, according to the individual centre. These may include Social Workers in Schools, parenting education and other educational opportunities for adults and children.
Dame Lesley on Q+A’s panel
CEO of Great Potentials, Dame Lesley Max, joined Paul Holmes and the Q+A’s panel on Sunday, 15th August 2010. Watch the full programme here from TVNZ On Demand.
One-stop shop to help families struggling to raise themselves up
Photo / Dean Purcell
Crystal Woollen, found her life changed forever after she became involved at the whanau centre in Papakura. Read the New Zealand Herald article by Simon Collins here