Growing Through Grief – Te Puke

Growing Through Grief – Te Puke

Growing Through Grief is a social service of the Anglican Diocese of Waiapu, providing programmes in the areas of change, loss, and grief.

Our educational programmes provide a chance to explore the effects of change, loss and grief on all aspects of a person – emotional, social, cognitive and spiritual.

Participants learn new ways to adjust and build resilience and wellbeing.

We promote grief education as a key in improving mental health.

Children/Young People Programmes:

Run termly, once a week for 1 hour, for 8 or 9 weeks.

These are run either in some schools or in after-school locations.

Adult Programmes:

Exploring the Seasons of Grief

Run at various times of the year, 4 sessions, 2.5 hours per session.

Parent/Whānau Workshops:

Supporting your child following the death of someone they love

Supporting our child following a separation or divorce

Run at various times in the year, 1-2 sessions, 2.5 hours per session.

Professional Development Seminar:

Understanding Change, Loss, and Grief

Run at various times in the year, 3.5-hour seminar.

Life Threatening Illness (LTI) program:

A four-session peer support program for children and young people who are living in a family of someone who is unwell.

Run at various times either in school or afterschool locations.

All programmes/workshops/seminars have an enrolment process.

Locations: Tauranga, Te Puke, Ōpōtiki, Whakatāne, Rotorua, Taupō, Tairāwhiti, Hawkes’s Bay, Central Hawke’s Bay, Tararua.

Volunteering Opportunities:

Training is offered to suitable people who may like to become volunteer facilitators.

Services

Family services
Early Childhood Services
Grief services
Older people’s programmes
After school programmes
Counselling
Social Work

Services

Family services
Early Childhood Services
Grief services
Older people’s programmes
After school programmes
Counselling
Social Work