Services
Out of Gate (OOG) Prison Release Support Services
Central Waikato and Bay of Plenty
Key areas of support provided on release
- Assistance to source accommodation
- Employment/Training Focus
- Oranga Health and Wellbeing
- Skills for life – coaching
- Family/Whānau support to reconnect
- Open to short serving prisoners
- Whanau and community support
Remand Reintegration Workshops
Waikeria and Springhill Prisons
Workshops to support
- Communication Skills
- Orders and legal aid
- Goal setting
- Problem solving
- My behaviour and impacts on others
- Money choices
- Facing addiction
- Options to engage with reintegration service on release
Intensive Residential Support Service
West Auckland
- Transitional accommodation
- 24 hour support
- 12 month reintegration programme
- Residents are keen to affect change for themselves
- Particular focus on learning to manage health/mental health issues for a more sustainable future
- Close working with probation to manage special conditions
Employment and Accommodation Service (EAS)
Auckland
- 12 week reintegration programme
- Transitional Accommodation
- Employment/Education/Training support
- Oranga health & wellbeing support
- Work & Income support
- Support with driving licences, Photo ID, bank accounts, birth certificates
- Whānau liaison
- Community referrals
Employment and Accommodation Service (EAS)
Waikato & Bay of Plenty
- 6 – 12 month reintegration programme
- Focus on employment and long term accommodation
- Transitional accommodation provided
- Additional life skills supports
- Support to re-engage with whānau
- Signposting to community health/wellness services
- Open to men on short or long sentences