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