Welcome to the New Zealand Federation of Vocational and Support Services (VASS)

We are a federation of 70 community organisations that support disabled people by helping them identify and fulfil their personal goals and aspirations, find work and participate in their communities.

Our goal is to ensure disabled people are working, participating and fulfilling their aspirations in inclusive communities.

We provide the following services for our members to help them achieve this:

• Provide opportunities for peer support through meetings, seminars and a peer mentoring programme
• Provide members with a joint voice to Government and fund holders
• Provide members with information through our popular newsletter, Wellington Update, as well as providing information about government policy, current research and issues

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Happy New Year from VASS

The team at VASS would like to wish everyone a very happy New Year. Make sure you keep an eye on this website to discover all that will be happening at VASS in 2012.

Join Us On Facebook

We have recently set up a facebook page. We would love for you to join us on facebook. Please click here to have a look at our page. This page is very new but we hope that it will become a useful tool that will provide you with relevant information and encourage discussion.

VASS Events in March

For a list of forums that VASS is hosting in March 2012 please click here

Our Beautiful Images

The gorgeous images at the top of our website are entitled 'triple dip' and were created by Tasha Apaapa, Carla Spain, Suzanne Robertson, Gina Matthews and Joy Chapman from the Arts and Crafts Units, Avalon Training Centre in Te Puna. Their tutor was Ursula Macfarlane.