Directory of Tauranga Addiction Support Services
The Breakthrough Forum is focused on reducing harm to our people, our whānau and our communities. One of our core objectives is to develop easy pathways for individuals looking for the best help. Below is a list of Tauranga Addiction Support services to help you or your loved one through addiction and substance abuse categorised by location.
Amped4Life
Amped4life helps our communities fight drug and alcohol problems. They work with schools, community groups and work places to help teenagers makes better life choices.
Phone: 021 461 325
Baywide Community Law
BCL gives free legal help to people on low income - including family court and care of children, domestic violence, loss of housing, and harm in the home or community.
Phone: (07) 571 6812
Mental Health & Addiction Service
Mental Health and Addiction Services provide community-focused care, underpinned by recovery and harm reduction models. The services are supported by a 24-hour seven-day a week acute/crisis service and acute admission inpatient services.
Phone: (07) 579 8391
BOP Sexual Health Clinics
Free drop in clinics for sexual health checks, STI (sexually transmitted infections) tests and treatments.
Phone: (07) 579 8157
BOP Therapy Foundation
The Bay of Plenty Therapy Foundation helps people with counselling who cannot normally pay for help.
Phone: (07) 544 8384
Brave Hearts NZ
Brave Hearts is a free support service for people with loved ones in the grips of substance abuse and addiction. They hold group meetings and provide phone support.
Phone: 0508 272 834
Emerge Aotearoa
Emerge Aotearoa works with users and their whānau to reduce the harm caused by drugs. This includes looking at your background and culture, including Maori, Pacific Islands, Asian and European. Help can be with counselling, community support or finding housing.
Phone: (07) 579 9020
Family Link
Family Link Fieldworkers educate support and advocate for Family and Whānau who have a loved one experiencing addiction and/or mental unwellness. They also educate, support and advocate for children and youth from the ages of 7 to 17 who have a parent or sibling experiencing addiction and/or mental unwellness.
Phone: (07) 577 1457
Family Works Northern
Family Works Northern helps build strong families and helps children and their families to learn, grow and thrive. They help with counselling, group programmes and family violence prevention.
Phone: (07) 575 9709
Get Smart Tauranga
Get Smart Tauranga works alongside youth up to the age of 24 keeping them safe from harmful effects of alcohol and drugs. Help is given by free counselling from this Christian group, who also gives out free food and drinks from its Street Help van on Friday and Saturday nights.
Phone: (07) 571 3712 or 0800 571 3712
Grief Support
Grief Support gives counselling and information for everyone experiencing grief and loss including individual, whānau and family sessions.
Phone: (07) 578 4480
Hanmer Clinic Tauranga
Hanmer Clinic helps people that want to stop using alcohol and drugs. Help starts with free counselling for 8-weeks so people can stop using drugs while staying at work. This is followed by regular care groups that help you stay drug free.
Phone: (07) 579 6470 or 0800 842 426
Huria Trust
Huria Trust works in Judea to help youth, family and whānau reduce the harm caused by drugs, and other health problems.
Phone: (07) 578 7838
Junction
Junction gives one-on-one support and group meeting for people with drug problems.
Phone: (07) 543 3010
LINC
LINC helps people with community-based support, education and recovery programmes to help reduce the harm caused by drugs while living in their own home.
Phone: (07) 578 6075
Live For More
Live for More uses surf therapy to reach troubled young men and empower them to turn their lives around. They work with 17-25 year old young men who are caught up in lifestyles of drugs, alcohol, crime, gangs, prison and violence.
Phone: (07) 577 6798
Madison Centre
The Madison Centre is a live-in house that uses a former motel to give people a safe place while they get help from other service providers.
Phone: (07) 577 1791
Maori Women’s Welfare League
The Maori Women’s Welfare League helps families with health, alcohol and drug abuse, violence and working with other agencies to support whānau.
Phone: (07) 571 3746
Ngāi Te Ahi – Ngāti He Hauora
Waipu Hauora works in Maungātapu to help youth, family and whānau reduce the harm caused by drugs, and other health problems.
Phone: (07) 544 8793
Ngāti Kahu Hauora
Helping people understand and treat their drug problem within a kaupapa Maori framework. There is also a GP service and other support through the holistic approach: ki te taha hinengaro, te taha wairua, te taha tinana, te taha whānau me nga uri o te hapu katoa.
Phone: (07) 576 0160 or 0800 760160
Ngāti Ranginui Iwi
Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ranginui Iwi offers a range of free integrated services, to support whānau and individuals transitioning from a state of Tapu to Noa while providing trauma informed therapeutic or educational services that are responsive to the needs of whānau.
Email: info@ranginui.co.nz
Phone: 0800 494 6262
Pirirakau Hauora Charitable Trust
Pirirakau Hauora works with a network of local health providers to support you with drug and other health problems. This includes helping children, teenagers and adults who are being harmed by the use of drugs in their community.
Phone: (07) 552 4573
Rau o te Huia
Rau O Te Huia operates a 10 bed live in care house for tangata whaiora in a kaupapa Maori environment. They provide you with full time or part time care to help reduce the harm caused by drugs.
Phone: (07) 571 5136
SociaLink Tauranga Moana
SociaLink works to connect and support social service agencies focused on improving our community in the Western Bay of Plenty.
Phone: (07) 578 6664
Sorted – Youth Alcohol & Drugs Service
Sorted is a confidential service that helps youth looking for information and help on alcohol and drugs. Youth, parents or whānau can call Sorted to talk confidentially about their drug or alcohol. You can also meet with a Sorted worker to talk about drug use and how to make changes.
Phone: (07) 557 5052 or 0800 229 7678
Stepping Stones Ministries
Stepping Stone Ministries offers a faith-based live in programme that helps men 18 and over to reduce the harm from drugs. People will live at their Koinonia Lodge for a year or more.
Phone: (07) 281 1196
Strengthening Families
Strengthening Families work with government and other community groups so everyone can agree on a plan to move forward. Help can come from budget advisors, truancy officers, social workers, medical specialist, counsellors, and others.
Phone: 022 077 5514 or 0800 322 487
Tauranga Budget Advisory Service
The Budget Advisory Service offers free help on how to manage your money and get your finances back under control.
Phone: (07) 578 0969
Tauranga Community Housing Trust
Tauranga Community Housing Trusts helps people and their family find safe and affordable housing in the Bay of Plenty.
Phone: (07) 571 5390
Tauranga Foodbank
Foodbank gives food parcels to families and people in need in the Tauranga region.
Phone: (07) 578 9888
Tauranga Western Bay Safer Communities
Safer Communities is a community programme that supports social agencies so people live free of drug-related harm.
Phone: (07) 577 7000
Tauranga Youth Development Team
The Tauranga Youth Development Team works with youth agencies to help youth in our region.
Phone: 027 333 6963
Te Manu Toroa Mental Health & Addiction Services
Helping parents and whānau concerned about their tamariki or rangatahi and need help to deal with drug issues.Working with agencies that provide a holistic service that includes whānau and collective ways of improving situations.
Phone: (07) 577 4911
Te Puna Hauora ki Uta ki Tai
At Te Puna Hauora helps tamariki, rangatahi, adults and whānau with alcohol and drug interventions within a kaupapa Maori framework.
Phone: (07) 571 8024 or 0800 800 508
Te Rūnanga O Ngāi Te Rangi Iwi Trust
Ngāi Te Rangi offer a number of services including CAYAD, a community action approach to engage communities in addressing conditions and environments in which young people live that increase the risk of harmful use of alcohol and drugs. Mauri Tau, an alcohol/drugs programme targeting 10-26 year olds and their whānau to help reduce the harm of drugs. And HBU, a free mobile health clinic that comes to your community.
Phone: (07) 575 3765
Te Tomika Trust
Te Tomika Trust helps people, their family and whānau with drug and alcohol problems using a kaupapa Māori framework.
Phone: (07) 578 9733
Te Tuingā Whānau
Te Tuingā Whānau works in Tauranga to help youth, family and whānau reduce the harm caused by drugs, and other health problems.
Phone: (07) 571 0875
The Salvation Army
Whether you’re considering getting help for yourself or a friend or relative, the Salvation Army Bridge will help you with alcohol or drug use and help you find ways to get things under control.
Phone: (07) 578 9329 or 0800 53 0000
Turning Point Trust
Turning Point Trust runs a range of day activities for adults so they can build on their strengths and interests, as well as support for finding jobs and building careers.
Phone: (07) 578 6934
Whaiorangā Trust
At Whaiorangā Trust they help with alcohol and drug interventions with a primary focus is the wellbeing of whānau, hapu and iwi.
Phone: (07) 544 9981
Youth Horizons
Youth Horizons supports children, young people and their families and whānau with challenging conduct and addiction problems. This includes foster housing in a family and whānau setting.
Phone: (07) 575 2639