Great Families Charitable Trust is an organisation that strives to empower immigrants with knowledge and skills so they can make good, conscious decisions on how to support themselves and their families’ success in New Zealand, to settle, integrate and contribute.
Great Families endeavours to build a network and plan that can support immigrant families in understanding how to navigate New Zealand.
We are creating a new model called "Collective Empowerment Model, for supporting parents and children with the idea that empowering parents with the right information about the community with special attention to their children’s learning will create better outcomes for the family：reducing stress, mental illness and improving family relationships and children’s success in school and in the future.
We have been designing and developing a series of courses and activities to make the dreams a reality.
We provide immigrants parents with:
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Immigrant Resilience Courses, including Parenting courses for all age groups;
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Hot tip events
Must-knows of New Zealand education, schooling, and parenting tips
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Family coaching
Help parents find solutions for dilemmas, and improve skills
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We-chat immigrant resilience course
Dialogue and interaction with counsellors and psychologist to provide Chinese families with information and strategies to cope with pressures.
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Badminton club
Provide Asian immigrant parents with opportunities to get active, socialize and exchange information, to avoid isolation and loneliness.
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Other local activities for integration
We provide children with:
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Multi-sport training and activities;
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School holiday programmes
Provide Asian children with opportunities to try different sports and arts, socialize, keep them active during school holidays when they may spend too much time in front of screen
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Growing Strong Kids programme for 5 – 18 year old – focusing on four areas of education: Health and Nutrition, Science Education, Gardening, Personal and Social Development. The content is presented in terms of daily-life skills that enable each child to easily build a foundation for a well-rounded life.
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We provide schools with:
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Dialogue between principles/teachers and parents - survey based, to get better understanding about NZ education systems and expectation about schools and families, together parents and teachers are in a team to nurture our children. We are going to bring up topics and host forums/talks between schools and parents, and reflect sounds from both sides.
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Bridging kindergarten with families – survey based, to find the gaps between kindergarten and families with diversified cultures, bridge the gap by gathering teachers and parents together to form a solid alliance for early childhood education.
Our founders
The Great Families Charitable Trust was founded by Xiaobo Leng and her team after years of tutoring experience with children and parents, and facilitating experience with Toolbox Parenting groups, who realized that great family relationship is the foundation of a happy family, which nourishes great kids. To build a great family relationship can sometimes be a life-long learning and practice. Tears and tortures, mistakes and broken relationships which bring deep harm to children and families could be avoided if equipped with the right knowledge and skills. They are dedicated to explore better ways helping families to grow and thrive.
© 2019 The Great Families Charitable Trust
Charity registration: CC54265