Disability and Illness Support Websites

Look through this range of categories to see what may best support your situaiton. See also our extensive children and young people's web site listings on this topic.

General

• Everbody - NZ health & disability community and an excellent range of support group listings

• Enable NZ - working to assist disabled people, families/whanau/hapu, employers, health professionals and disability support organisations

• Carers NZ - info and support for carers

• Auckland's Starship Children's Health - including child health info

• Parent to Parent NZ - offering support and networking for parents across NZ whose children face disability or health issues, as well as sibling support

• NZORD - NZ Organisation for Rare Disorders - provides NZ's central starting point for info about rare diseases, with an outstanding network listing of support groups nationwide 

• Support for those bereaved by the death of a child or teen from an inherited, usually undiagnosed, cardiac condition 

• Disability Information Service NZ

Helpful Medical Information for Kids and Adults

• Medical information for kids about all kinds of health issues
• Helpful medical information for adults

Parenting Through Serious Illness

• Discussing Serious Illness with Children (USA)
• Hospital and Emergency Room Visits: Tips for Preparing Children (USA)

Parenting a Child with a Disability or Serious Health Condition

• Parenting a Child with Special Needs brings manys forms of Challenge

• Tools for parents of children with disabilities and special needs - info about handling life-long grief and feelings of loss

• Autism Spectrum Disorders:Primer for Parents and Educators

Cancer

• New Zealand Cancer Society - helpful info and support

• Breast Cancer Support

• Sweet Louise

• The Leukaemia & Blood Foundation (LBF)

• Child Cancer Foundation - supporting children, teens and their families living with cancer in NZ

• Canteen - support to young cancer patients, their families and friends 

• Now What - support site for young cancer patients by australia's Canteen

• Real Time This is a place where young adults dealing with cancer can connect through a web-based peer support community.

Mental Health

• Depression helpline – free phone support

• Adult depression

•  Youth depression (the lowdown)

•  Out of the Blue/Kia Marama

•  Headspace
  

• Phobic Trust of New Zealand

• NZ Mental Health Foundation - offers mental health information and support resources

• SF Auckland supports families impacted by mental illness                              

• Not My Kid - for parents about a variety of mental health issues in kids and teens

• Stress in Children and Adolescents: Tips for Parents (USA)                         & nbsp;                       &n bsp;                  

Addictions

Alcohol Drug Association New Zealand (ADANZ) - Alcohol Drug Helpline

See also website links for children and youth

Support for other Specific Illness, Condition or Disability

• True Colours - a Hamilton (NZ) based trust for children and young people living with chronic, serious or life threatening illness, and their families.

• Heart Children NZ (now known as @Heart)

• Autism NZ

• Kidney Kids NZ

• Muscular Dystrophy NZ

• Diabetes NZ

• Diabetes Youth NZ

• Stroke Foundation NZ

• Asthma  NZ

• Alzheimer's NZ

• CCS NZ

• IHC NZ

• Heart Foundation NZ

• Arthritis NZ