Today first
Home is today’s tiny steps — not a cluttered dashboard of scores.
About Us
A nurturing, playful companion for everyday resilience — free for whānau in Aotearoa.
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Your family's best start in everyday life
Tiny Steps is the Resilience Programme app from Vector Group Charitable Trust. We help caregivers answer one question: what can we do together today?
- ✓Five soft ideas each day — never an endless list
- ✓Whānau co-play from pregnancy through early childhood
- ✓Quiet resilience pillars woven into the fun
- ✓Free access with NZ health signposting when needed
For every whānau, every ordinary day — real togetherness
We are not a kindergarten timetable. Tiny Steps fits around naptimes, work shifts, and messy kitchens. Open it when you can. Close it when you’ve done enough.
Always available
- Morning
- Glance at Today’s five ideas
- Anytime
- One short activity together
- Evening
- Optional memory or share card
- Missed a day
- Nothing is overdue — ever
Design principles we hold to
Quiet resilience is product behaviour — not a muted colour palette.
Together, not solo
Copy and activities assume whānau co-play, not child homework.
Quiet resilience
Pillars tag activities; we never lecture “this builds resilience”.
No guilt economy
No streaks. No overdue. Miss a day and nothing breaks.
How Tiny Steps came to be
Trust
Vector Group Charitable Trust
Tiny Steps sits inside a charity programme for families across Aotearoa — not a startup paywall.
Brief
Resilience, quietly
The brief: help whānau grow quiet resilience through everyday action — never clinical scores.
Build
An app that feels kind
We designed for busy caregivers: five ideas a day, shareable cards, NZ signposting.
Now
Free for every whānau
Always free. Demo on this device, or an account to keep memories across phones.
What’s inside Tiny Steps
Four pillars of the everyday experience
Today mode
- •Five gentle ideas
- •Works offline after install
- •No curriculum pressure
Activities
- •Household materials
- •Clear steps + safety notes
- •Conversation starters
Memories
- •Optional journal notes
- •Family photos
- •Nothing is overdue
Support
- •NZ resource articles
- •Plunket / Healthline signposts
- •Share without accounts
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Daily ideas
0
Scores or streaks
NZ
Signposting built in
100%
Free for whānau
Why Tiny Steps
Our core values
Colourful and playful on the outside. Kind and quiet on the inside.
Service reviews
What families say
Early feedback from caregivers using Tiny Steps as a daily companion — not a performance tracker.
“We don’t finish every idea — and that’s fine. Today feels possible again.”
“Grandad opens a shared activity without signing up. That’s huge for us.”
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Built by Vector Group Charitable Trust for whānau across Aotearoa.