Community Link

Our Strategy

Our location

Street address:
646 Pollen Street
Thames

Postal address:
PO Box 4
Thames 3540

Fax: 03 307 1275

Directions: Next to the Golden Dragon Restaurant. Free 2 hour parking is available on Pollen Street.

Our services

Thames Community link is about working together with a commonality of values and beliefs, for the benefit of the people in our community. People in our communities will benefit from having improved access to support and help that will assist them to achieve their goals.

The Thames Community Link provides services to communities within the Coromandel Peninsula and is aligned in partnership to two Heartland Services (Coromandel and Whitianga).

A local management group made up of government and non-government agency representatives has been established to ensure that the community are involved in the development of our programmes, services and client practices.

Our partners

Thames Community Link partners include:

• Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) – provides no–fault personal injury insurance cover 
• Thames Advocacy Service – provides advocacy services for ACC clients
• British United Provident Association (BUPA) – provides specialised services to older people (medical alarms, retirement villages)
• Child Abuse Prevention Services (CAPS) – partners with families to overcome problems
• Careers NZ – provides help in making decisions about work and training 
• Child, Youth and Family – provides support and protection for children, young people and their families 
• Community Living Trust - provides support for people with intellectual disabilities and families/whanau, to lead quality lives in the community
• Community Mental Health – provides mental health and addiction services. Self and agency referrals are accepted.
• Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS) - provides grants to non-profit community-owned and community-driven organisations
• Community Waikato - strengthens the capacity of organisations within the tangata whenua community and voluntary sector
• Coromandel Independent Living Trust – provides Heartlands Service offering broad-based community services for the upper Coromandel peninsula
• Employment Choices – provides job search and employment placement services
• Family and Community Services – co-ordinates government and non-government activity to support families and communities to be safe and successful
• Family Start – provides intensive support to vulnerable whanau/families with young children
• Hauraki Enterprise Agency - promotes enterprise initiatives within the Hauraki, Thames Valley and Coromandel region
• Hauraki Family Violence Intervention Network (HFVIN) - a forum where a range of government and community organisations meet to direct a local joined-up response to family/whānau violence
• Hauraki Safety Network - manages youth groups aimed at breaking the cycle of family violence for youth at risk and counselling for men, youth and couples
• Health and Disability Advocacy Service - provides a consumer advocacy service for all users of health and disability services
• Housing New Zealand Corporation – provides housing, home ownership loans and education for those on lower incomes 
• Inland Revenue Department - provides information about Working for Families Tax Credit and Child Support
• Jigsaw – a not-for-profit organisation focused on the well-being of all New Zealand children and their families
• Literacy Aotearoa Hauraki - provides adult students with basic literacy and numeracy help
• Ministry of Youth Development (MYD) - promotes the interests of young people aged 12 to 24 years
• Ngati Maru - is the mandated representative body for the Ngāti Maru iwi
• NZ Police (Thames) – provides support for community safety
• Te Runanga O Ngati Puu Inc – works with local communities supporting kaumatua, rangatahi, and environmental and cultural issues
• Progress to Health - provides recovery and advocacy education courses and peer support forums to people who experience mental illness
• Psychodynamix - offers a full range of psychological rehabilitation services and career development
• Restorative Justice Services Hauraki - is a voluntary process in which those affected by wrongdoing are brought together to hear each other and acknowledge the harm done, to identify needs and obligations, and to decide how to deal with these
• Safer Community Council – provides a Strengthening Families Coordinator who will increase knowledge and assist clients with the Strengthening Families process 
• Senior Services – supports older people through provision of financial assistance and connection to services, support and opportunities
• Stepping Out Hauraki Inc - provides support, advocacy and meaningful activities for people living with mental illness in the Hauraki region
• Strengthening Families - is a community-based initiative that helps families / whānau in Aotearoa New Zealand get access to the services they need
• Te Korowai Hauora O Hauraki - Te Korowai serves all people within our rohe under a Kaupapa Maori philosophy in the business of wellness management and support. Lead manager of Hauraki Primary Health Organisation
• Thames Baptist Ministries - provides many services to marginalised and needy families
• Thames Beneficiary Advocacy Service (Waiotahi Trust) - works with Work and Income to help people access benefit entitlements
• Thames Budget Service - provides a professional and committed financial information and management service to anyone who needs help
• Thames Coromandel District Council - Local Government body
• Thames Hospital - is a secondary hospital, with a consultant service in the emergency department, general medicine, general surgery, assessment and rehabilitation, primary birthing services by lead maternity carers
• Valley Education and Training Enterprises Ltd (VETEL) – provides adult education training
• Whitianga Community Services Trust – provides Heartlands Service - A one-stop social services centre meeting the needs of the community in a caring and confidential environment, by empowering the clients to become self-reliant
• Wintec@Thames – provides adult education
• Women’s Loan Fund Thames – provides financial support that will help bring about new possibilities for women in the community
• 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 
• Workwise - supports people with experience of mental illness to choose, get, and keep jobs