Are you supporting a whānau member experiencing mental health challenges?
We provide mental health support for families and can help you.
Formerly Supporting Families NZ, we’re Yellow Brick Road; a national organisation that provides mental health support for families who have a loved one experiencing mental health challenges.
After 40 years of experience working with people around New Zealand, we know that if the family of a loved one experiencing mental distress are correctly supported and empowered, the path they walk leads to increased wellbeing for the whole whānau.
We will walk alongside any family in New Zealand who needs support, knowledge, advocacy and empowerment as they journey towards mental wellbeing.
If you are concerned about a family member experiencing mental health challenges, we can help you.
Find mental health support for families in your area
How we are making a difference
Our purpose is to inspire and equip whānau to restore themselves, by supporting their journeys from a place of distress to one of mental wellbeing.
We’re not just in the business of building resilience. We actively walk alongside the people we support, through all their challenges till the wellbeing of their whānau is restored.
We make a difference by providing support, information, education and advocacy services, including:
- 1-on-1 and group support sessions
- Innovative mental health and wellbeing programmes for adults, tamariki and rangatahi.
- Advocacy, for when whānau find it difficult to access the services they need.
- Family peer support groups
- Suicidal distress & postvention support
Every dollar helps New Zealand families thrive
Make a difference today and help whānau get the mental health support they need.
Read the latest from Yellow Brick Road
COVID-19 Update
Auckland has moved into Alert Level 3 from 6am Sunday 28th of February for seven days. Our staff at Yellow Brick Road will continue to provide support and will be working from home. The rest of our team members will be following the Governments guidance for working at...
Farewell to Platform’s Long Standing CEO Marion Blake
CEO of Platform Trust, Marion Blake has led Platform from strength to strength over the last twenty years and leaves an outstanding legacy of service in the mental health and addiction sector. In recognition of her outstanding contribution to the sector, Marion...
New appointments for the Yellow Brick Road National Board
We are pleased to announce Kate Yesberg as our new Chair (previously Deputy Chair). We would like to extend a big thankyou to our outgoing Chairman Dick Brown. Dick has been involved with Supporting Families for 21 years; serving as president of our Nelson committee...
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