Adult Community Support & Peer Support

Programme Areas

Mental health

Programme Type

Community based support - mental health

Regions

Dunedin - South Otago

Age Groups

Adult / Pakeke

Referral Types

Self referral, GP, DHB clinical services

Referral Process

To access CBCT Adult Community Support you can be referred by your GP, a NASC provider, specialist service, whānau.  You can also self refer to this service.

Description

CBCT offers an adult community support service to individuals over the age of 18 who are experiencing mental health issues.

Support Workers work alongside service users to assist them in achieving their goals, including things such as:

• Managing wellness by understanding the signs and symptoms experienced when becoming unwell or distressed.
• Sharing information about services and resources available.
• Identifying and getting involved with activities that are meaningful.
• Learning new coping skills.
• Helping with planning, daily living skills and goals.
• Providing support to access and attend appointments.

Peer Support

CBCT has peer support workers who are available to provide peer support to adult service users.
Peer support workers have their own experience of mental distress and they work as peers alongside the service user – not as experts.
Peer support workers form relationships with service users and their work focuses on the relationship between the two people. Both people can give help and support to each other, share their knowledge and beliefs and experience different ways of relating to other people.
The peer support service at CBCT is based on an international model called Intentional Peer Support (IPS) and all CBCT peer support workers are fully trained in this model.