Connect with support services outside the school
Help students navigate the world outside school by connecting them with services that offer the right support for each individual.
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Identify available support
Identify available support
If you are looking for support because you or someone you care for has a disability … A good place to start is to get on the phone to one of our Needs Assessment Service Coordinator (NASC) organisations.
Locate tertiary student disability services
Locate tertiary student disability services
Source: Student Disability Services at the University of Auckland
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Access disability support services at tertiary institutions
Access disability support services at tertiary institutions
Many tertiary education providers have services specifically designed to support students.
If possible, visit the service and meet face-to-face with a member of the team.
University services for learning support:
- Otago University – Disability information and support
- Victoria University – Disability services
- Waikato University – Disability support services
- Auckland University – Student disability services
- Canterbury University – Student Accessibility Service
- Massey University – Support for students registered with disability services
- Auckland University of Technology – Disability Student Support: supporting students with an impairment
- Te Pūkenga – Disabled learners
Use employment services
Use employment services
- Workbridge – Provides a range of free employment support services for both job seekers and employers, individually tailored to suit every individual’s needs.
- Direct career service – Free career, education or training advice from a career expert in your region. Provided through the Ministry of Social Development.
- Supported employment services – New Zealand Down Syndrome Association NZSDA website has a list of services that provide employment opportunities for people with Down syndrome and other disabilities.
- Work and Income Employment service for secondary school students with a disability or health condition – This pilot service helps the students, their family or whānau, and school plan for their future and explore job and career opportunities.
- Emerge Aotearoa Employment Support – Emerge Aotearoa's Flexible Disability Support Service, helps young people to build a support network around the goals they want to achieve, like education or employment options.
- Workwise Employment Agency – Workwise are committed to helping people facing personal or health challenges to find the right role to suit their skills and dreams – and help them to keep it.
- YES Disability Resource Centre – This NGO is working to ensure young people with disabilities and learning differences are well represented in governance, planning and employment.
- Employment Tertiary Internship Programme – Through a paid internship programme, Be.Lab help create career pathways, develop skills and provide mentoring and guidance for tertiary students with disability or access needs.
- Employment New Start Programme – 'New start' is a paid work experience programme run by Be.Lab. It's for New Zealanders living with disability or access needs aged 16 and over.
Useful resources
Useful resources
Enabling Good Lives
Promotes an approach that supports disabled people to have greater choice and control over the support they receive, so that they can plan for the lives they want. The organisation also provides services in some parts of New Zealand.
Publisher: Enabling Good Lives
Your guide to disability support services
A directory of general information, services and community support available for people who have a disability and their families. In English, Samoan, Tongan, Cook Island Māori, Fijian, Niuean and Tokelauan.
Publisher: Le Va
List of supported employment services
List of services that provide employment opportunities for people with Down syndrome and other disabilities.
Publisher: New Zealand Down Syndrome Association
Whāia Te Ao Mārama 2018 to 2022: The Māori Disability Action Plan
This action plan establishes priority areas of action to enable Māori disabled to achieve their aspirations and to reduce barriers that may impede them reaching their goals.
Publisher: Ministry of Health | Manatū Hauora
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