Support is provided by putting parents in contact with volunteer Support Parents with a similar personal experience, including national or international matches for rare conditions.  We also provide written information on more than 3600 different conditions, seminars and training workshops, sibling support programmes and Advocacy.

Parent to Parent New Zealand delivers a programme, which supports the specific needs of siblings who have brothers and sisters with special needs. The aim of Parent to Parent’s SibSupportN.Z. programme is to provide children with an experience that will assist them to cope with the challenges and stresses of living with a brother or sister who has a disability. Siblings develop their own support network, through sharing and making friends with others who understand.

Altogether Autism Is a service provided through Parent to Parent and is for people with ASD, their families,whanau and the wider NZ community.  We have a team of advisors and volunteer support parents who provide information and advice.  We also provide evidence based information and clinical advice through a clinical psychologist and team of experts and maintains a database of service providers to help you link with services and information.

For more information please contact Leah Petersen, ASD Advisor at the address below or email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

National Office 0800 273 463 ( 0800 ASD INFO)
Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Website http://www.altogetherautism.org.nz

Read our latest newsletter here: Parent to Parent Northland Summer 2011 Newsletter.pdf

Key Contact

Carole Powell

Regional Coordinator Northland

Kia ora, greetings, my name is Carole Powell and I am the Northland Regional Coordinator for Parent to Parent NZ.  Every week my job brings me into contact with so many awesome people I feel really blessed to be doing what I’m doing.

Before coming to Parent to Parent I was part of the team at Barnardos in Whangarei, and before that I was living in Nottingham UK where I spent many years working with children and their parents. 

Whangarei is now my home and I live here with my husband, my dog Barney and my cat Toby.  I have two sons and a daughter-in -law and between them they make my life very busy and very happy.

437 3337
northland@parent2parent.org.nz