PARS is one of New Zealand’s longest standing charities, founded in Dunedin in 1877. We are an incorporated society and registered charity.
We strive to provide support services that meet the reintegration needs of our clients, while also offering our staff a positive and challenging work environment.
PARS Otago exists to offer meaningful and effective reintegration support to people who are or have been in the criminal justice system – particularly men and women who have served an extended prison sentence.
All released prisoners will be treated with respect and dignity, and provided with the same opportunities as others.
PARS Otago works to reduce offending by providing support and reintegration services to offenders and their families.
We work to ensure all released offenders and their whanau in Otago are supported to reintegrate well.
Many of the people PARS help have a long back-story, with varying degrees of support, and varying personal circumstances.
Our clients frequently struggle to successfully reintegrate into their whanau and the larger community, after spending time in prison.
These struggles are often due to mental health issues, drug and alcohol use, post-traumatic stress disorder, and poor family circumstances.
This is where PARS comes in – we offer a support service to ex-prisoners so that they can successfully reintegrate into their community.
We engage respectfully and take care to uphold the dignity of others.
We uphold the dignity and self-esteem of others around us.
Unity, a common purpose. We work as a team to achieve our mission.
We respect the spiritual, physical and mental health of all people.
We work to build positive and productive relationships with others.
Guardian, being responsible for. We work ethically and with integrity.
We are contracted to the Department of Corrections to provide reintegration support to clients referred to us by NZ social services.
Our clients have usually spent two or more years in prison and need support to re-join their community.
You can donate good quality household items such as bedding for our clients to use.
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