Resources

• Healthy Housing: Pest control brochure
• Healthy Housing: Heating brochure

Key Tips for a Warmer, Drier Home

• Video clips (there are nine clips for each language)
  • English
  • Māori
  • Samoan
  • Tongan
• Key tips for a warmer, drier home flyer
• Keeping your home warm and dry this winter poster
• Other Health Promotion Agency (HPA) campaign resources

Useful links

Curtain Banks

• Curtain bank - Lower Hutt (Earthlink)
• Curtain bank - Wellington (Sustainability Trust)

Insulation

• Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) Insulation information
• Warm Up NZ: Healthy Homes information  
  (includes eligibility for funding, and local providers)

Finding a GP

• Hutt Valley
• Wellington (including Porirua and Kapiti Coast)
• Wairarapa

Health

• Asthma Society

Heating

• Fire Safety - NZ Fire Service
• Unflued gas heaters - Ministry of Health

Parenting support

• The Parenting Place
• Incredible Years
• Parent to Parent
• Support in the Hutt Valley
• Positive Parenting Programme, Porirua

Family violence support

• Women's Refuge
• Are you OK?

Smoking cessation

• Quitline
• Kokiri Marae - Stop Smoking Service

Looking for a midwife

• Wellington (including Porirua and Kapiti)
• Hutt Valley
• Wairarapa

Tenancy support

• Tenancy Services
• Housing New Zealand
• Housing New Zealand resources
• Residential Tenancy Act
• Ministry of Social Development
• Ministry of Social Development (MSD) housing

Budgeting and food access

• Sorted
• NZ Federation of Family Budgeting Services
• Citizens Advice Bureau
• Fruit and Vego Co-ops

Wellington

• Agape: Phone 477 3000
  Free service working across the greater Wellington region
• New Zealand Federation of family budgeting services: Phone 471 1420
  Level 3, Anvil House, 138-140 Wakefield Street, Wellington
• Citizens Advice Bureau: Phone 472 2466 or email: wellingtoncentral@cab.org.nz
  Mezzanine Floor Central Library, 65 Victoria Street, Wellington
• Salvation Army Hope Centre: Phone 389 0594
  22-26 Riddiford Street, Newtown
• The Society of St Vincent De Paul: Phone 389 7122
  207 Riddiford Road, Newtown
• Wellington City Mission: Phone 245 0829 or email:olivia@wgtncitymission.org.nz

Porirua

• Agape: Phone 477 3000
  Free service working across the greater Wellington region
• Citizens Advice Bureau: Phone 237 8846 or email: cab.porirua@xtra.co.nz
  2nd Floor Pember House, 16 Hagley Street
• Salvation Army Porirua (food bank and budgeting advice): Phone 235 6266 or email porirua_cfs@nzf.salvationarmy.org
  Corner of Warspite Ave and Fantame Street, Cannons Creek
• Salvation Army Tawa: Phone 232 8023
  177 Main Road, Tawa
• The Society of St Vincent De Paul: Phone 237 5968
  18 Mungavin Ave, Porirua
• Wesley Wellington Mission Porirua (food parcels on set days of the week): Phone 237 7923
  206 Mungavin Ave, Cannons Creek, Porirua
• Taeaomanino Trust (social provider for Pacific families within the Porirua region, wide range of services depending on families needs.Waiora Villa 2, Lower Main Drive, HassellRoad, Porirua Hospital grounds): Phone 237 6062 or freephone 0800 345 345
• Wise Money Plan - Lafaele Vaeluaga: Phone 238 2454 or 027 454 6949 or 0800 4 PULSE (0800 4 78573) or email info@pasefikapulse.co.nz

Kapiti

• Kapiti Family Budgeting Service: Phone 902 7027 or 902 7029 or email kfbs@paradise.net.nz
  First Floor, Coastlands Shopping town, Paraparaumu
• Kapiti Community foodbank (open Monday-Friday 10am-12noon):
  10 Magrath Avenue, Paraparaumu Beach
• Otaki Family Budgeting Services (open Tues-Thurs 0900-1300hrs): Email otakifamilybudget8@yahoo.co.nz
  5 Main Street, Otaki
• Kapiti Birthright (available to support single parents in the Kapiti region): Phone 904 0659 or e-mail birthright.kapiti@clear.net.nz
• Saint Vincent’s De Paul: Phone 902 5815 or 298 1907
  29 Parata Street, Waikanae
• Citizens Advice Bureau: Phone 298 4944 or email kapiti@cab.org.nz
  Coastlands, Paraparaumu
  Website: http://www.cab.org.nz/acabnearyou/kapiti/Pages/home.aspx

Upper Hutt

• Upper Hutt Budgeting Services: Phone 528 6998
  Bradley Lane (Wilson street end), appointments need to be made in advance.
• Citizens Advice Bureau: Phone 528 9040
• Agape (Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt): Phone 477 3000
• Christian Budgeting New Zealand: Phone 528 3454
  Upper Hutt Baptist Church, 1 Milton Street, Trentham, Upper Hutt
  Website: www.cbnz.org.nz/budgeting-in-nz/
• Upper Hutt Salvation Army (foodbank and budgeting advice): Phone 528 6745
  695 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt
• Upper Hutt Food Bank: Phone 528 9057
  19 Logan Street, Upper Hutt; 9am–12pm Monday and Wednesday, 10am–3pm Friday. Closed on public holidays. People must bring proof of address. After receiving four parcels people will be sent to receive budget advice.

Information

• Housing New Zealand Warm and Dry programme information
• Paper Walls: The law is meant to keep rental housing healthy. A report by the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch. 2013.
• Stocktake of healthy housing interventions in the greater Wellington region (2013) - RPH
• Smoke alarms - New Zealand Fire Service

Organisations

• He Kainga Oranga
• Sustainability Trust
• Tu Kotahi Maori Asthma Trust
• Eco Design Advisor