A new service centre at Te Puke celebrated its new beginning with an Open Day on Wednesday 1 July. The new site is home to eleven probation officers and two senior community work supervisors.
An invitation was extended to key people in the local community, including service providers and community work sponsors. More than 40 people attended the celebration.
Service Manager Julie Sach says, “The open day gave us a great opportunity to invite our key stakeholders, such as the alcohol and drug treatment providers, iwi groups and Police. Staff were available to meet and greet members of our community and to give presentations about the work CPPS does.”
Community work now operates directly from Te Puke. With a muster of more than 100 offenders, the time was ripe for Te Puke to get its own service centre.
The community work supervisors from here take work parties out to projects on the eastern side of Tauranga – Papamoa and Te Puke.
“With the growth in the region it made sense to have a centre based in this area,” says Julie. “So we jumped at the opportunity when the group sharing the building with the probation officers announced that it was moving out,” says Service Manager Julie Sach.
Te Puke Service Centre
10 King Street
PO Box 765
Te Puke 3153
(07) 573 0630.
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