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National Support Office & Management

National Support Office Management Team

 

 
   
 

 

 
Tricia Corin | Specialist Advocate - Financial Support & Benefits


Tricia has extensive knowledge and experience of Work & Income, ACC, IRD and Disabilities Allowance matters and particularly the Unsupported Child Benefit.  She has also raised her grandchild fulltime to adulthood giving her first-hand knowledge and understanding of the challenges and issues they face on their caregiver journey.

As a key member of GRG’s Advocacy and Outreach service team, her role includes advising on income support entitlements, advocating for members and representing them at Benefit Review, Review of Decision hearings and Appeals at the Social Security Status Appeals Authority and in-house training of GRG staff and volunteers.



Phone:             +64 9 418 3753  |  0800 GRANDS (0800 472 637)
9 am to 3 pm (Monday to Friday)
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Christina Howe |  Senior Community Advocate

Christina comes to GRG with 7 years experience as a barrister and solicitor practising in criminal, employment, immigration, property, ACC, and family law.  She was a founding member of the Family Court Navigator service with the Ministry of Justice leading projects such as Enduring Powers Of Attorney (EPOA) workshops, Family Court Open Days, and extensive community education.

Christina’s passion lies in all things family law related and she has a real desire to see change in this space. Of top priority for Christina for GRG members is making easy-to-use toolkits for grandparents going through the Family Court and pushing for a national register for EPOA’s and wills.

Christina has been largely raised by her grandparents and credits them for who she is today. Without their love and support, she says she would not be the person she is now.  In her spare time she has volunteered as Trustee for Single Parent Services and Hamilton Multicultural Services Trust and enjoys spending time with her Nan and playing piano.

Phone:             +64 9 418 3753  |  0800 GRANDS (0800 472 637)
9 am to 2 pm (Monday to Friday)
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Giselle Stalls |  National Support Manager
 

Giselle is a key member of our service delivery team, triaging calls to our 0800 GRANDS helpline, contacts via the website, email and Facebook along with the administration of our National Support Office in Auckland. With a wealth of experience in administrative roles, initially within the airlines and travel industry, followed by digital and print media; more recently she held Welfare Worker and Budget Advisory roles with the Salvation Army Community Ministries. In these roles, Giselle was a key member of their social services team engaged with clients accessing the foodbank, budget advisory service and assistance with home-based social support. She was also engaged in court liaison as a Diversion Supervisor, provided supervised access supervision for children per court orders for supervised contact with parents and planned and organised the running of a number of events for centre clients. She also coordinated the centre’s Christmas gift parcels and food hamper programme for over 850 families. Over the past five years, she has been a stay-at-home parent for their teen-age foster daughter who has Autism. She also volunteers for Age Concern providing companion support to older people in the community. Giselle and her husband have two adult sons and are proud grandparents too.

Phone:             +64 9 418 3753  |  0800 GRANDS (0800 472 637)  
9 am to 2 pm (Monday to Friday)
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Justine Gibb |  Client Services Administrator

Justine (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka, Ngāti Matangirau, Ngāti Porou). She will be the new voice on the phone when you call the GRG National Support Office. Justine’s previous role was as Centre Manager for Christians Against Poverty which she describes as providing a service which is “holistic and very much focused on all aspects of a client’s life, from finance to relationships, health to emotional well-being”. We feel that Justine will have real empathy with our GRG members and welcome her to the GRG team.

Phone:             +64 9 418 3753  |  0800 GRANDS (0800 472 637) 
9 am to 2 pm (Monday to Friday)
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Karla Macdonald |  Communications and Projects Coordinator

Karla has joined our team after returning to Aotearoa after 19 years living overseas. She is responsible for the coordination of our client and stakeholder communications and a growing and diverse range of projects and events to complement our support services and support available for our grandparent and whanau care clients nationwide. Karla is passionate about life, work and helping others - and comes from a background of mining, building, healthcare, retail, and hospitality.  Combining her core and life skills Karla has come full circle with where she started to where she is today.  She is proud of her roots, with her upbringing in the Waikato – where she started voluntary roles in her community at a young age and right through her schooling years.  A highlight for Karla was fulfilling homecare duties as a health care assistant (before, after school and weekends) for her first client at the age of 16.  She furthered her role as a health care assistant until her move to Australia in 1999. Karla is proud to be of Ngāti Māhuta, Ngāti Pou, Ngāti Raukawa.

Phone:             +64 9 418 3753  |  0800 GRANDS (0800 472 637) 
9 am to 2 pm (Monday to Friday)
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About us 

 
Grandparents Raising GrandchildrenTM Trust NZ (GRG) is a registered Charitable Trust operating throughout New Zealand providing support services to grandparents who are raising their grandchildren on a full-time basis. Our vision is for a community where grandparents raising grandchildren are empowered to provide a safe, secure and nurturing home for their grandchildren.

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Te tautoko i nga tupuna, mokopuna me te whanau.
Te awhina ia ratou ki te whakatutuki i nga putanga
pai i roto i to raatau oranga.
Supporting grandparents, grandchildren and whanau
to achieve positive outcomes in their lives.  

 

 

Contact us

Member Support 
Outside Auckland Freephone
0800 472 637      
0800 GRANDS


Auckland Landline or Mobile Phone Callers
(09) 418 3753 
 
 

 
National Support Office
9:00am - 2:00pm
09 418 3753

PO Box 34-892
Birkenhead,
Auckland 0746
New Zealand

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