When Joy first came to Visionwest, she says, “my world collapsed.” She had recently come out of “a very abusive marriage,” was living in Women’s Refuge, grieving the death of her father, and trying to care for her young son, who had been diagnosed with an intellectual...

Last year, Visionwest’s Wellbeing Centre supported client whānau with 5,658 counselling sessions. 864 sessions were also provided to children in six local schools. For the Wellbeing Centre staff, the most rewarding aspects to the past year are the overwhelmingly...

Since November 2019, Faye has been the Mātanga Oranga Whānau specialist at Visionwest; a role that was established to enable Visionwest to provide a programme to whānau in West Auckland that would address the urgent need to support those living with historic and...