3DHB - Health Pasifika

Mental Health & Addictions Service

Today

Open today 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.

Description

Formerly 3DHB - Health Pasifika

We are a specialist Pasifika community mental health team providing services for Pasifika communities in Wellington, Porirua and Kāpiti.

Staff

We have a team of professional, qualified and trained staff that includes:

Pasifika cultural advisor/matua
Consultant psychiatrists
Pasifika adult and child/adolescent clinicians
Pasifika administrator
Child, adolescent and family clinical psychologist

Fees and Charges Categorisation

Free

Fees and Charges Description

To find out if you are eligible for healthcare funding, please see the Mental Health, Addictions and Intellectual Disability Service website

Hours

Open today 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.

Mon – Fri	8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

We have adult clinic days on Tuesdays & Thursday from 9am to 4.30pm.

Public Holidays: Closed ANZAC Day (25 Apr), King's Birthday (3 Jun), Matariki (28 Jun), Labour Day (28 Oct), Wellington Anniversary (20 Jan), Waitangi Day (6 Feb), Good Friday (18 Apr), Easter Sunday (20 Apr), Easter Monday (21 Apr).

Languages Spoken

Samoan, Tokelauan, Niuean, English

Programmes

Health Pasifika

We provide services for children and young people (0 to 19 years) and adults (19 to 65 years old) in the Pasifika communities in Wellington, Porirua and Kāpiti who have moderate to severe behaviour or psychological difficulties. We can help you at our centre in Porirua, in your home or arrange to meet elsewhere. Our services include: clinical and cultural assessment and treatment planning mobile care coordination and management consultation, liaison and other work with community, inpatient and specialty mental health services/teams and other Pasifika health providers mental health information community services information.

Programme Areas: Mental health
Programme Type: Community based support - mental health
Regions: Wellington
Age Groups: Child / Tamariki, Youth / Rangatahi, Adult / Pakeke, Older adult / Kaumātua
Referral Types: Self referral, GP, DHB clinical services, Corrections

Referral Process

You can be referred by your GP, family member, friend, parents or teacher (in the case of children and young people), Oranga Tamariki or other professional social or mental health services in the community.

You can also contact the team directly and ask to be referred.

You are welcome to have your ngutuare tangata/aiga/ kaiga/kainga/magafaoa/family, other support people or an advocate with you when you use our services.

Description

We can help you at our centre in Porirua, in your home or arrange to meet elsewhere.

Our services include:

clinical and cultural assessment and treatment planning
mobile care coordination and management
consultation, liaison and other work with community, inpatient and specialty mental health services/teams and other Pasifika health providers
mental health information
community services information.