Programme Areas

Addictions - other, Kaupapa Māori

Programme Type

Community based support - gambling, Kaupapa Māori - gambling & other addictions

Regions

Waikato

Age Groups

Child / Tamariki, Youth / Rangatahi, Adult / Pakeke, Older adult / Kaumātua

Referral Types

Self referral, GP, DHB clinical services

Referral Process

Please contact us at Te Kōhao Health for a Free and confidential discussion about how gambling may be affecting you or your family/friends, or if you would like a Public Health worker to provide a presentation or basic screening training.

Description

Do you ever feel unhappy or worried after a session of gambling?

Does gambling sometimes cause you problems?

We offer a FREE Gambling Support Service to families who may be affected by their own or someone else’s gambling behaviours. We provide: 

Clinicians who

• are qualified and experienced
• create brief and full inventions for the individual/family
• deliver counselling and other forms of individual/group therapy 

Public Health Workers who

• deliver presentations within the community to increase gambling awareness
• train other communities to screen for gambling issues
• can develop and implement policies to prevent/reduce gambling harm within organisations
• can support the development of community action initiatives to reduce gambling harm

Programme Areas

Mental health, Addictions - drug & alcohol

Programme Type

Community / social support (AOD), Coexisting problems – mental health & addictions, Community based support - mental health, Advocacy / group / family whānau support (AOD), Training - AOD, 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.