This service aims to provide qualified mental health staff within the primary care setting who can support, deliver, educate, and coordinate mental health & addiction services in primary care. The goals of the service are: To ensure that people living with mild to moderate mental health & addiction issues in the community are supported, and are linked to the appropriate health services; To work with people with mild to moderate mental health & addiction issues, who without support might require secondary mental health services; Applying evidence based mental health practice; Up skill health professionals within primary care teams so that they work consistently in terms of the ways they screen and assess people for mental health & addiction problems and that they have knowledge of available mental health & addiction services at all levels of care, and Improve understanding within the PHO’s enrolled population by raising the community’s general level of understanding about mental health & addiction issues.
This service aims to provide qualified mental health staff within the primary care setting who can support, deliver, educate, and coordinate mental health & addiction services in primary care. The goals of the service are: To ensure that people living with mild to moderate mental health & addiction issues in the community are supported, and are linked to the appropriate health services; To work with people with mild to moderate mental health & addiction issues, who without support might require secondary mental health services; Applying evidence based mental health practice; Up skill health professionals within primary care teams so that they work consistently in terms of the ways they screen and assess people for mental health & addiction problems and that they have knowledge of available mental health & addiction services at all levels of care, and Improve understanding within the PHO’s enrolled population by raising the community’s general level of understanding about mental health & addiction issues.
- Programme Areas
Addictions - drug & alcohol, Mental health
- Programme Type
Advocacy / group / family whānau support (AOD), Alcohol or drug counselling and support, Coexisting problems – mental health & addictions, Counselling and support, Workforce training - alcohol or drug addiction, Workforce training - mental health
- Regions
Waikato
- Age Groups
Adult / Pakeke
- Referral Types
Self referral, GP, DHB clinical services
Referral Process
Phone: 0800 4 TEKŌHAO (8356426) and ask for the Primary Mental Health Team
Description
This service aims to provide qualified mental health staff within the primary care setting who can support, deliver, educate, and coordinate mental health & addiction services in primary care.
The goals of the service are:
- To ensure that people living with mild to moderate mental health & addiction issues in the community are supported, and are linked to the appropriate health services;
- To work with people with mild to moderate mental health & addiction issues, who without support might require secondary mental health services;
- Applying evidence based mental health practice;
- Up skill health professionals within primary care teams so that they work consistently in terms of the ways they screen and assess people for mental health & addiction problems and that they have knowledge of available mental health & addiction services at all levels of care, and
- Improve understanding within the PHO’s enrolled population by raising the community’s general level of understanding about mental health & addiction issues.