Gateway Housing Trust

Gateway provides mental health support, housing and youth focused social services. Guided by the believe that everyone has strengths and aspirations, which form the starting point to support people to achieve their own goals within their natural network/s.

The Hapai Te Ora Crisis & Respite

The Hapai Te Ora Crisis and Respite service allows you time out from your normal daily life to rest, reassess and set new goals. Gateway Housing Trust provide a warm comfortable home which is a place for you to rest, recuperate, eat good food and have the freedom to go. GHT have onsite facilities which include Sky TV and free WiFi.

Hapai Te Ora is a place where you can talk and be listened to. You will experience a calm restful environment where you are supported in your mental health recovery journey.

It gives you time to refocus on what is important to you in gaining and maintaining on going mental, physical, spiritual cultural and social wellbeing in your life.

Hapai Te Ora

• Is staffed 24 hours a day by trained peer support workers

• Can cater for up to three residents at a time

• You are welcome to have family friends and support workers visit you

• Food, beverages and linen are all supplied – you need only bring personal clothing and toiletries.

How to access this service

• Referrals to Hapai Te Ora can be made via your Mental Health Case Manager at Witherlea House in Blenheim or Te Whatu Ora in Nelson.

Sustaining Tenancies

This is a FREE prevention service, aimed at supporting people to maintain their tenancies. They work with landlords and tenants to address issues that are putting the tenancy at risk. This service is available in Nelson, Tasman, Greymouth and Hokitika. People can self-refer to this service. See the Housing Referral Form on their site.

Transitional Housing

This is emergency housing of a temporary nature. GHT currently have 11 properties in Nelson and 16 properties in Blenheim. Currently Referrals are only able to be accepted from MSD (Work and Income NZ).