Te Kōhao Health - Mental Health & Addictions Services

Primary Mental Health Service

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.