Explore

Explore is a New Zealand provider of specialist disability and mental health services, supporting people to live their best lives and achieve positive change. Since 2004, the organisation has worked in partnership with the people it supports and their whānau, offering tailored, practical assistance in a respectful, inclusive and non-judgmental environment. Its services include autism support for parents, caregivers and whānau; positive behaviour support for people with disabilities or autism and those who support them; and community disability services such as employment assistance, Very High Needs support and transitions from school.

Explore also provides confidential, personalised community mental health support, Deaf support, and help with individualised disability funding to give people greater choice and control. Through Seating To Go, it offers wheelchair assessments and training, equipment repairs, servicing and modifications. Explore emphasises holistic wellbeing and culturally responsive practice, guided by values of care, hope, commitment and trust, and works to strengthen its specialists’ knowledge and confidence in working with Māori