Lighthouse (Auckland catchment)
Established in 2007 as a Joint Venture with Youthlink Family Trust, this programme provides two intensively supervised, non-secure reception centre facilities, one each for boys and girls primarily aged 14 – 16 years of age. Young people are referred to the Lighthouse as an alternative to using police secure facilities or unplanned, inappropriate placements. Intensive social work and cultural support are provided with a view to ensuring the young people move to secure family/whanau placements as soon as possible rather than into the care system.

Ka Awatea – Transition from Care to Independence (Auckland catchment)
Established in 2003, Ka Awatea provides support to young people with Severe Conduct Disorder (SCD) aged 15 – 20 as they transition from living in care to living independently. It utilises wraparound 1:1 service provided by Kai Atawhai (Personal Advisors) who assist the young people in practising basic independent living skills.  Kai Atawhai work from a strengths based perspective and model positive social behaviours, advocacy and non judgemental communication as they work with the young people who voluntarily participate.  Engagement with the young people is often over the course of several years during which they may have a range of varying goals including driving legally, sustainable housing, training, researching whakapapa, re-connecting with whanau, parenting and developing basic skills of self care.
Dingwall Trust established Launch, a complimentary service to Ka Awatea at the same time and both organisations have worked closely together throughout the pilot and subsequent permanent service. An MOU is in place and the teams have undertaken regular training and upskilling together. Launch has worked with the less complex young people who have also needed to transition to independence.

Waitakere Youth Transition Service (West Auckland catchment)
Opened in 2005, this service aims to ensure all Waitakere school leavers have access to training, further education, employment or other activities that will contribute to their economic independence and wellbeing. Both Maori and Pasefika staff work within strong cultural contexts. In addition the service provides intensive customized support that utilises and draws on whanau resources and strengths. It empowers young people who have multiple risk factors and require additional assistance to successfully transition into productive activity and be integrated into their community and back with their whanau.

Nga Kaiwhakatere Programme

Residential Therapeutic Home (Auckland catchment)
This home provides residential Therapeutic care for those in CYF care who have been diagnosed with Severe Conduct Disorder aged 11 – 16. The home, with experienced and dedicated staff, provides a high level of support and guidance in a structured environment with individualised behavioural management plans.  The service provides young people with specialised treatment in a whanau oriented environment with the goal being to return them to their own whanau. 

Functional Family Therapy (Auckland, catchment. Note FFT programmes are also operated in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty)
Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is an evidence based model for working with young people and their family/whanau. It operates within the family home for 2 – 5 months, supporting the whanau/family to communicate and function effectively.  FFT focuses on whanau strengths so the whanau is able to re-frame and build new ways for managing challenges together and then take those skills into their broader communities, schools and work environments. One of the key goals of FFT is to ensure the child stays within the family home.  It empowers whanau to resolve issues on their own and to recognise their own strengths and achievements.

Multi-dimensional Treatment Fostercare (Auckland catchment)
Multi-dimensional Treatment Fostercare (MTFC) is delivered by MTFC trained Caregivers in the caregivers’ own homes for 3 – 6 months.  They work closely with Young Person and Family/Whanau Therapists, skills trainers and cultural advisors utilising educational and activity based programmes. MTFC is evidence based and works with young people aged 12 – 17 in CYF care who have a history of youth offending and other externalising, Severe Conduct Disorder related problems.  Work is commenced simultaneously with the young persons’ whanau who are engaged at the earliest opportunity.  The ultimate goal is to reintegrate the young people with their natural family/whanau having empowered them with tools and skills that support them as parents and within their communities.

Multi-Systemic Therapy (Auckland)
Multi Systemic Therapy (MST) is a short-term (5 month average) intensive, community-based programme aiming to help parents understand and support their child to overcome behavioural problems. This includes improving school attendance and reducing contact with antisocial peers. MST clinicians work with families/whanau in their own home and community addressing barriers to effective parenting. It is a crisis-responsive service operating 24x7.

Specialist Caregiver Programme (National Catchment)
Established in 2004, the Specialist Caregiver Programme provides young people with extreme behavioural problems the opportunity to live in a community family/whanau setting, with specialist caregivers supported by intensive clinical and social work services. Individual programmes are created with the treatment and activities required to address needs and risks, while supporting strengths and culture of the child and family/whanau. The aim is for the young person to return to their family/whanau. 

High & Complex Needs (National catchment): 
High & Complex Needs (HCN) care is designed on an individual, as needed, basis for young people with extremely complex needs for whom no other service works. It is a collaborative model wherein a range of service providers work together supporting the young person and their family/whanau where possible.

Waikato Region

Hamilton House (National Catchment):
Established in 2001, this Specialist Family Home caters for young people with significant emotional and behavioural difficulties which have resulted in them being placed in a therapeutic care environment. The home functions as a family home providing a whanau environment.  The house parents act in parental roles for the young people’s time in the home. They facilitate access with the young people’s whanau and develop goals for successfully transitioning them back to whanau and their communities.

Planned & Emergency Respite Fostercare (Waikato District Health Board Catchment):
Planned and Crisis respite services provide for those at risk of admission to an inpatient mental health acute unit, with a view of reducing harm caused by inpatient admissions and supporting the preservation of natural families/whanau.  The Planned and Emergency Respite service is short to medium term Fostercare for children and youths at risk and requiring out of home, family/whanau styled placements. If possible caregivers will be recruited from within the young person’s whanau and supported to provide care.

Intensive Clinical Service (Waikato Catchment):
Intensive Clinical Services (ICS) utilises Functional Family Therapy to work in communities with young people, and their family/whanau, who have significant behavioural challenges and/or a mental health diagnoses.  Natural family/whanau preservation is a key goal of this service which takes place within the family/whanau home and community.

Bay of Plenty Region

Respite Care (Tauranga):
Established in 2007, this service provides Crisis and Planned respite care for those children and young people at risk of admission to an inpatient mental health acute unit, with a view of reducing harm caused by inpatient admissions and supporting the preservation of natural families.

Intensive Clinical Service (Bay or Plenty Catchment):
Intensive Clinical Services (ICS) utilises Functional Family Therapy to work in communities with young people, and their family/whanau, who have significant behavioural challenges and/or a mental health diagnoses.  Natural family/whanau preservation is a key goal of this service which takes place within the family/whanau home and community.

Specialist Care Programme (National Catchment)
The Youth Horizons Bay of Plenty service operates treatment foster care beds as an extension of the Auckland-based Nga Kaiwhakatere programme (see above) service.