Heartlands strives to provide access to governmental organisations in rural and isolated communities, It is a community hub that offers a wide range of information and free services. The Westport office can support you with:
Services:
- Printing
- Scanning
- Computers
- Phone
- Food parcels
- Inland Revenue (IR) forms
- Work and Income forms
- Referrals
Services available by appointment:
- Budgeting
- Inland Revenue (IR)
- Workbridge
- Te ara mahi
- Emerge
For more information about services available at your local service centre, please contact your local Heartlands Coordinator
Additional services and information:
- PACT services
- Mental health support
- Youth and child support
- Vocational services
- Recovery and outreach
- Drug addiction support
Potentially Available across all Heartlands Offices:
- Email and phone facilities
- Providing access to government forms
- Access to technology (print-photocopy-scan)
- Access to government and non-government service websites
- Access to face-to-face or virtual appointments with government and community services
- Assistance to make government appointments or direct you to services that you need
Government Organisations:
- Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC)
- Department of Corrections
- Department of Conservation (DOC)
- Department of Internal Affairs (DIA)
- Inland Revenue (IR)
- Kāinga Ora
- Local Council
- Māori Land Court
- Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP)
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
- Ministry of Disabled People
- Ministry of Education (MOE)
- Ministry of Health (MOH)
- Ministry of Social Development (MSD)
- Ministry of Justice (MOJ)
- New Zealand Police
- NZ Transport (NZTA)
- Oranga Tamariki (OT)
- Te Puni Kōkiri (TPK)
- Tertiary Education Commission (TEC)
Community Services:
- Addiction and mental health services
- Aged care and other support services for seniors
- Banking, financial and budgeting services
- Community and charitable groups (including Community Law, Justice of Peace)
- Disability services
- District and regional council
- Education support
- Employment services
- Faith based institutions and services
- Family violence services
- Food banks and other food support groups
- Health Professionals, Community Information Forums and Governance/Advisory Teams
- Kaupapa Māori service providers
- Language lessons, translation services, or programmes
- Legal services
- LGBTQI+ groups
- Local churches
- Marae and rūnanga
- Other connector services (e.g., Community Connectors or Citizens Advice Bureau).
- Pacific peoples groups
- Schools, early childhood centres
- Transport and driving licence services (including AA)
- Youth, family, and community social services
