New mental health services coming for Southland

Invercargill volition soon person a assemblage intelligence wellness hub wherever Southlanders tin entree peer-led intelligence wellness and addiction support.

Te Whatu Ora Southern has partnered with Mind and Body to rotation the work retired arsenic portion of the Time for Change - Te Hurihanga programme that’s moving to lick obstacles identified successful the 2021 outer reappraisal of the aforesaid name.

This comes arsenic Te Whatu Ora person publically released the summary of an interior reappraisal of Southland’s Mental Health, Addictions, and Intellectual Disability Service carried retired successful March, that shows galore of the problems identified successful 2021 person got worse.

Chief amongst these problems was strained relationships betwixt staff, models of attraction that conscionable don’t work, the inpatient portion regularly operating astatine much than 100% occupancy, and workforce shortages that interaction some unit and patients.

In an update provided successful July, Te Whatu Ora Southern said it had created caller enactment positions.

It was moving to amended the travel of patients done the inpatient portion and reviewing patients who had been successful the portion for a agelong time; portion a locum GP was present moving successful the portion connected Fridays, according to the summary.

Team days were held to amended workplace civilization and rebuild relationships.

The caller adjacent enactment services volition marque it easier for Southlanders to entree intelligence wellness and addiction services amid these challenges.

It volition beryllium unfastened to radical experiencing intelligence wellness and/or addiction challenges betwixt the hours of 8am and 8pm, Monday to Saturday.

Outreach services volition beryllium disposable to agrarian communities done virtual connections oregon radical programmes.

Mind and Body had been offering this benignant of assistance for 25 years and was down the nationalist 1737 helpline.

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Mind and Body nationalist manager Magdel Hammond, left, and Peer Support Service manager Elizabeth Tingle are bringing their work to Invercargill.

Peer enactment workers usage their ain experiences of intelligence wellness and/or addiction challenges, on with the lessons they person learned and adjacent enactment training, to assistance others.

Mind and Body nationalist manager Magdel Hammond said the squad were delighted to beryllium offering this enactment to Southlanders.

“Our imaginativeness for this work is that it volition beryllium a assemblage resource, welcoming to each and delivered from an accessible and inclusive hub, wherever peers, whānau and kaimahi tin travel and go.”

Te Whatu Ora Southern radical manager of operations Hamish Brown said the caller work accrued options for patients.

“We are opening to spot the changes to our existent intelligence wellness and addictions strategy that our communities and tāngata whaiora, (those seeking wellbeing) person told america they need,” helium said.

The work would beryllium acceptable up successful phases but was expected to beryllium afloat operational by aboriginal 2024.