Nau mai, haere mai and welcome to Family Success Matters (formerly Family Start Manukau) - we provide home-based support to families who want to give their children a good start at life; to be healthy, safe and able to learn.
Kia ora, Welcome, Talofa, Kia orana, Malo elelei, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Ni sa bula vinaka, Namaste!
Our mission: We support children and whānau with complex needs to have a healthy and safe home, have their everyday needs met, be valued by and engaged with, their community; and achieve their future aspirations.
We provide the Family Start programme which is for high & complex need families who want to give their children a better future. We receive referrals for parents who are pregnant or who have a child under 1 year. We can work intensively long term, till the child starts school. We will accept older toddlers in exceptional circumstances. We provide the Family Start programme for families in the following areas: Botany-Clevedon, Howick, Dannemore, Manurewa, Clendon, East Tāmaki, Flat Bush, Ōtara, Pakuranga, Papatoetoe, Beachlands, Kaiaua, and Franklin.
There are other Family Start programmes in Māngere, Papakura, Auckland City & Waitakere, run by other agencies.
We will also work with high needs fathers who want to change for their family's sake. Fathers for Families programme is available and is home-based and progresses to group work over time.
Family Success Matters employs lead professionals for the Aatea service (formerly Childrens Team). This group provides support to older high needs children.