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Able Minds
Mental Health & Addictions Service
Programmes
Children Understanding Mental Illness & Addiction (CUMIA)
- Programme Areas
Mental health
- Programme Type
Peer / advocacy / group / family whānau support
- Regions
Waitaki, Southland, Central Lakes, Dunedin - South Otago
- Age Groups
Child / Tamariki
- Referral Types
Self referral, GP, DHB clinical services, Corrections
Referral Process
For more information, please contact the location nearest you or see our website.
Description
CUMIA is designed for school aged children who have a family member that is affected by mental distress or addiction. This programme can be undertaken in a peer support based group or with 1:1 support and is designed to impart tools, tactics and strategies to accept the challenges associated with mental distress and live well. With respect to the CUMIA programme, one child reported in a recent evaluation that “the thing he learnt the most was that his mother’s illness was not his fault”. There is often blame associated with mental distress and addiction. Able Minds’ intervention allows children to be children. CUMIA is an age related group/individual programme that will educate children about mental illness/addiction and support them to develop skills which enables then to understand the impact in their family/whānau environment (CUMIA is not intended for children suffering from mental illness themselves).
Contact Details
34 Prince Albert Road, Saint Kilda, Dunedin
Dunedin - South Otago
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Phone
0800 494 262
Email
Website
28 Ashworth Street, Alexandra
Central Lakes
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Phone
(03) 448 9303
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Mobile
0800 494 262
Email
Website
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This page was last updated at 9:52AM on February 22, 2024. This information is reviewed and edited by Able Minds.