Supported Living

Access Community Health has been keeping people healthy and safe in their homes since 1927. Our nationwide team of Nurses and Support workers visit people in their own homes to provide nursing, personal care, rehabilitation and household assistance. Access believes that health involves a the whole person.  We develop your support services in partnership with you and your whanau. 

Access Community Health provides Host services to Persons with Individualised Funding (IF) packages enabling People to live their best life in the way they choose. 

We provide a variety of services, Personal Care, Home help and companionship, Overnight and 24 hour support, Post operative rehabilitation, Serious injury care

Our services cover everything from keeping active, to providing companionship, to help with household tasks, meal preparations , outings and personal carers . 

SUPPORTED LIVING IS tailored to suit whatever stage you are at in life. Our support could involve:

Assistance to plan and carry out the move into your own home.

Employing support workers to provide support so you can better tackle day-to-day living or get more involved in your community.

Supporting you with key life transitions such as moving into further education, getting ‘work ready’ or building on the things you enjoy doing.

Community Connections offers Supported Living, Te Pou Hononga (24/7) and Te Rito o Rehua (personal care) which offers support for people to live the lives they choose in their own homes and communities.

Hearth Trust is a charitable trust established by a couple of families - It provides a home for a small number of intellectually disabled people using individualised funding for support. We are happy to share our experience with families who may be interested in exploring options for establishing a home for their disabled family member outside of the traditional residential model.

In addition to providing a home, we facilitate gardening, art and music workshops/activities on our property for small groups of people with intellectual disabilities who live off site.

Hohepa is a community based facility set on a 5-hectare pocket of land at the edge of Paraparaumu, for people with intellectual disabilities. Our principles are based on a holistic view of the human being which were developed by Rudolf Steiner. Supportive Communities inspired by anthroposophy which celebrate the diverse ways of being human. 

L’Arche Kāpiti has three homes in which people with intellectual disabilities (“Core Members”) and those who assist them (“Assistants”) share daily life together. Our homes are Rangimarie, meaning “peace,” Waiata, meaning “song,” and Arawhata meaning “bridge” in te Reo Maori. Our homes look and feel like typical family homes, with all of the joys, struggles, and routines associated with regular family life. Preparing and sharing meals, planning trips, doing chores, going for walks, having cuppas, and praying together are some of the rhythms of daily life. Welcome is an important value in L’Arche and families and friends often come by for a meal, birthday parties, and other celebrations. Two of our homes are side by side and one is just around the block which creates plenty of opportunity for visits back and forth and shared meals.

We provide help for adults, who are living in the community and who have mental illness (community support) or an intellectual disability (supported independent living). We support people to reach their goals, whether that is learning a new daily living skill, tapping into social networks in the community, assisting with housing, or exploring work or study options. People set the goal – we are there to help.

We also offer specialist Pasifika community support in Wellington.

Spectrum Care is an independent charitable trust that provides support for children, young adults and adults with disabilities and their whanau. These include day, residential and respite services along with a school holiday programme.  We believe in providing person centered services and support options that focus on individual needs.