Greymouth Community Link
Our location
Street address:
112-116 Mackay Street
Greymouth 7840
Postal address:
Private Bag 601
Greymouth 7840
Fax: 03 768 6443
Directions: Central shopping area 500 metres west of the railway station. Disabled parking is available, adjacent to the building.
Our services
The Greymouth Community Link is both a place and a way of working. The site is designed to be a practical resource for the community, but it is the way of working that is most important.
Greymouth Community Link accommodates the local office of Work and Income, a range of government and non-governmental organisations who are present on a part or full time basis and a community meeting room. It is one of a network of similar sites around New Zealand.
Community Link is also a way of working that extends beyond the physical site, to encompass a broad network of social service agencies that are committed to working collaboratively in the interests of their clients and the Coast community. Community Link is about these agencies working together to affect positive change in the lives of people, their families and their communities.
The approach taken through Community Link enables agencies to work together to provide joint solutions. This means that where a person has multiple needs, agencies no longer deal with their facet of a person’s situation in isolation.
The Greymouth Community Link advisory group, made up of government and non government agency representatives oversees the running and direction of the Link and they are always happy to meet other organisations who are keen to be involved in collaborative work or in becoming a Community Link partner.
Our partners
Greymouth Community Link partners include:
- Child Youth and Family - provides support and protection for children, young people and their families
- Disability Resource Service West Coast – provides disability information and advice, promotes disability awareness and sells and hires adaptive equipment
- Family Start – provides intensive support to vulnerable whanau/families with young children
- Focus Trust - provides budget advice, assistance and advice for youth and support for families from parenting advice to more complex needs
- Housing New Zealand Corporation - provides housing, home ownership loans and education for those on lower incomes
- Home Builders – provides services to improve the health, wellbeing and education of children, young people and families
- Inland Revenue Department - provides information about Working for Families Tax Credit and Child Support
- Rata Te Awhina Trust - delivers free home-based health and social services to all people from Karamea to Haast. This is the only Maori provider on the West Coast
- WestREAP - provides lifelong learning through supplementary and complementary educational services from early childhood to seniors
- Work and Income - provides help to get a job and income support
- Workbridge - provides a professional employment service for people with disabilities, injury or illness
All of these agencies will still be delivering services through their usual offices and may also be regular visitors to Community Link.
