Contact Details

GREAT POTENTIALS FOUNDATION OFFICE

Physical Address: Building 5, Level 6; 666 Great South Road, Penrose, Auckland 1061

Postal Address: PO Box 11283, Ellerslie, Auckland 1542
Phone: (09) 377 5384

Email: [email protected]

Parking Advice: Casual Pay-by-Plate parking is available in Wilson carpark on site. Use machines located in carpark or download the ParkMate app.

FAMILY SERVICE CENTRES

Family Service Centres Manager: Deepika Sarmah

Email: [email protected]

Papakura Family Service Centre & Early Learning Centre

Centre Address: 14 Maurice Street, Papakura, Auckland

Postal Address: PO BOX 72499, Papakura

Phone: 09 299 6610

Takanini Family Service Centre & Licensed Playgroup

Address: 8 Oakleigh Avenue, Takanini

Phone: 09 974 4719

Papakura Family Service Centre

Papakura Early Learning Centre

Takanini Family Service Centre

Family Service Centres Team

MATES PROGRAMME

MATES PROGRAMME MANAGER: CONNOR BOURNE

Email: [email protected]

MATES EPSOM CAMPUS OFFICE

Room 203, Building Block B

Epsom Campus, University of Auckland

74 Epsom Avenue, Auckland 1023

MATES Programme

MATES Team

Become a mentor

HIPPY New Zealand

HIPPY (NZ) National Director: Mark Veale

Email: [email protected]

HIPPY Programme

HIPPY Sites Directory

Latest

Marissa's Story: "HIPPY gave me confidence"

Marissa was 18 when she had her first baby. Shy and lacking confidence, she thought her working life was over. Until she started her son on the HIPPY programme and her confidence began to grow...
Garden Vision: ‘Growing for Good’ at ELC

Papakura Early Learning Centre’s Team Leader has a vision for transforming the centre's unused outdoor spaces into an edible garden, with a worm farm, composting and recycling system to teach the children sustainability...
Creating Connections in Kaikohe - with DIY Deodorant

Group meetings – or ‘whānau hui’ – are an important part of HIPPY, helping build connections and combat isolation. Kaikohe Coordinator, Emily Rogers, recently took her HIPPY whānau to a local drop-in centre/pregnancy hub and did a very cool enrichment activity making DIY deodorant...
Our Learning Plan

Our Early Learning Centre offers a curriculum based on Te Whariki. Each child is welcomed for who they are. Our staff are skilful at settling and working alongside children, following their play ideas. Whānau experience respectful relationships with kind and caring teachers who value their children.

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Making Ice Cream, Shaping Lives

Through play children solve problems, test out ideas and explore their imaginations. HIPPY helps parents create a fun learning environment at home where creativity is unleashed, bodies get moving and children develop a life-long love of learning...
HIPPY Programme

HIPPY is a home-based Early Learning programme that helps parents from disadvantaged communities lay the foundation for their children’s success in school and later life...
Garden Vision: ‘Growing for Good’ at ELC

Papakura Early Learning Centre’s Team Leader has a vision for transforming the centre's unused outdoor spaces into an edible garden, with a worm farm, composting and recycling system to teach the children sustainability...
Auckland is at Level 3 again

The Government has just announced our third Covid lockdown here in Auckland - initially for three days. We will keep the website updated, along with our Facebook pages. Our Auckland sites are closed but our staff are working from home to continue to support our families and programmes.
Making a Difference: Girl With Cake Project

Maiyah, a former "HIPPY child", is an 8-year-old girl from Hornby in Christchurch. Since she was five years old, Maiyah has been baking and selling cupcakes to raise money to help the homeless in her city. She’s just a young girl, but she’s making a huge difference...
Family Service Centres

Our Family Service Centres assist the community with housing, food, health care, employment support and wellbeing services as well as offering early learning services, parenting programmes, playgroups, social workers in schools, counselling and more...
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We Are Open (again) at Level 2

The Government has announced that Auckland is moving to Alert Level 2 from 6am Sunday. This means that from Monday 8 March our office, Takanini Family Service Centre, Papakura Family Service Centre and Papakura Early Learning Centre will be open as normal, with Level 2 protocols in place.
SWiS: Speaking the Lingo in Papakura Schools

Papakura Family Service Centre's enthusiastic Social Workers in Schools (SWiS) team work in five Papakura schools, offering support and assistance to the schools’ children and families who are increasingly facing significant challenges in this community.