South Waikato Pacific Islands Community Services
Welcome to South Waikato Pacific Islands Community Services Inc (SWPICS). We are a member of Aere Tai, based in Tokoroa, South Waikato.
Established by the local Cook Islands community in 1991, we deliver a range of community health, social and Whanau Ora services to the people of Tokoroa.
Our Services
Primary Community Nursing / Outreach Health
Breastfeeding peer counselling programmes
Breast screening support
Cervical screening
Chronic disease management
Community nursing centre
Home based support
Health promotion programmes – adults
Health promotion programmes – children
Mobile nursing
Outreach immunisation
Pregnancy and parenting programmes
Sexual & reproductive health
Smoking cessation
Well child
Social Services
Whanau Ora Services
Key Personnel
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Akarere Henry
Chief Executive
Latest News
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A Welcome Away from Home
John and Tutai Ngatikaura’s Tokoroa home might be small, but their welcome is warm and plentiful whenever SWPICS community nurse Kerry Stowers calls by to perform her regular home-based medical check-ups on the pair. Read More
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Papa Andrew's Appreciation
Papa Andrew recalls arriving from the Cook Islands in the late 1950s to work at the Kinleith paper mill when Tokoroa was barely a town. Read More