"Every woman's success should be an inspiration to another. We're strongest when we cheer each other on”. Serena Williams

International Women’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate the wonderful wāhine in our lives. A mother, daughter, grandmother, workmate, or friend who has inspired or helped you; a day to reflect on the influential ways they have made a difference in who you are.

The new year offers a fresh start, and what better way to kick off 2024 than to take a look at communication and how to master it in the digital age. With the overuse of screens in the school holidays and juggling the balance between online and in-person, it’s important now more than ever to set some guidelines and coping strategies for how best to communicate in a digital era.

The Kindred Family Services Board is proud to present the Annual Report 2022-2023 and invites you to click the image below to learn more about the incredible impact the organisation has had in the last year.

All our lives have changed. Extreme weather, isolation, and rising living costs are just some of the challenges families have been facing. That’s why Kindred Family Services invites you to come to Muriwai Beach on Sunday 8 October to join in some fun outdoor activities and help us raise $50,000 so we can help families.

We are excited to be offering ‘Parenting Adolescents’, a FREE 5-week course focused on providing parents with tools and strategies to improve their relationship with their teenager.

Us parents were mostly raised with certain expectations and beliefs about how boys and girls should behave. However, nowadays gender is becoming more fluid and less rigid, particularly for young people. Here is a step-by-step resource by kahukura for parents who haven’t yet connected with the rainbow world.

For the past few years, being a parent has been tough for a lot of families. COVID, the cost of living, rapid development, and natural disasters have left many of us feeling overwhelmed. With these pressures in mind, Kindred Family Services teamed up with The Parenting Place to create a unique workshop named ‘Parenting Through Challenging Times’, specifically tailored to address the challenges faced by parents in North-West Rodney.

Mental health professionals love to talk about resilience, but just like the terms ‘stress’ and ‘wellbeing’, the term ‘resilience’ is a suitcase that needs to be unpacked. Here we take a deeper look at what resilience is, why it’s important, and how we can get more of it for ourselves and our families.

We were thrilled to see hundreds of happy smiles in Helensville at our recent Children’s Day Family Fun Day event. Around 450 children, and over 900 people in total, came together on this special day for celebrating tamariki and spending time together as a family.

As parents or caregivers you will know your kids best, and what works for them. Following are some simple do’s and don’ts to guide you support a distressed child. They have been developed out of research following the Canterbury Earthquakes and other significant adverse events.

Here are some simple guidelines for minimizing short and long-term psychological distress following a traumatic event. These were developed out of research following the Canterbury earthquakes.

Quality time is widely recognised as being one of the top 5 love languages, and is essential for encouraging self-esteem, trust, resilience, and healthy emotional development in children. Below are just some of the lasting benefits of spending quality time with tamariki.

On the morning of Sunday 20th November, more than 220 people from all over North-West Rodney came together to walk, run and play, at the annual Turning The Tide Event at Muriwai to raise funds and awareness for the wellbeing of our children & young people.

The Kindred Family Services Board is proud to present the Annual Report 2021-2022 and invites you to click the image below to learn more about the incredible impact the organisation has had in the last year.

At this year’s Turning The Tide walk there will be prizes and status for the biggest, fastest (over 17km), and most colorful teams on the day. Here is a register of all team entries.

Each year we use this event to raise money for the most pressing social issue in our community at that time. This year, the pressure is on services that support the wellbeing and mental health of our tamariki (children) and rangatahi (youth).

We are very excited about Te Aorerekura, which represents a massive, multi-agency commitment to eliminating family and sexual violence in Aotearoa.

Holistic wellbeing (waiora or hauora), are buzz word in the health sector, social services, and in the media, but what does it actually mean?

Over the past 12 months, we've had the privilege of spending 345 hours working alongside some of our most at risk local children and youth. These brave and wonderful young people achieved 190 of the 274 goals they have set for themselves, which is an incredible achievement we thought worth sharing.

When our children cry, it can feel both overwhelming and stressful. However, did you know that crying can actually promote positive child development? Here’s 3 reasons why it is beneficial for children to have a good cry.