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Options in Community Living

Person Centred Practice

is the cornerstone of all our support services and this involves an ongoing process of listening, thinking together with you and your family, coaching, sharing ideas and seeking feedback to ensure we’re always supporting you toward your personal goals, as they evolve and change.

Welcome to Options

We Offer:

Individual planned support to live in your own home
Support to students to think and plan for life after school
Coaching to make life changes
support to get involved in community activities, organisations, events and develop new social connections.
Assistance to obtain and retain employment
Assistance to develop self-employment initiatives and micro business.

We are part of the Enabling Good Lives System Transformation and work with Mana Whaikaha in the midcentral region. Options is available in Manawatu, Horowhenua, Kapiti, Wellington, Wairarapa, Hawkes’ Bay, Nelson and Marlborough.

Helen Sanderson Associates is a social enterprise that works internationally to embed person-centred practices into the heart of organisations and communities. Passionate about social change and transforming the way people support and work with each other.

We are an international training, development and consultancy team - we work with you to adopt person-centred practices to achieve better lives for people, teams, organisations and communities.

Progress For Providers: Read more

For more information about HSA: www.helensandersonassociates.co.nz

We look forward to learning together as people take the lead in their own lives, creating new opportunities to participate in community life as they choose.

We are committed to person-centred practice and making the most of community support and the relationships in a person’s life.

We support people to take control of and direct their own lives and the resources that support them.

Our Vision Inclusive Communities

Our Mission: To walk alongside people, creating new opportunities.

We approach our work with understanding and empathy, walking alongside people as they develop and grow. We call our approach Te Kauri.