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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) Email Tricia Corin |
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Christina Howe | Senior Community Advocate 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. |
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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. 9 am to 2 pm (Monday to Friday) Email Giselle |
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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) Email Justine |
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Karla Macdonald | Communications and Projects Coordinator |