Vaka Tautua - Mental Health Support

Mental Health & Addictions Service

Today

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

Description

Vaka Tautua is a charitable organisation, ‘By Pacific, For Pacific’, working hard to improve the health and wellbeing of our Pacific people in New Zealand. We provide community support for older peoples, people living with disability, and those needing support for mental health.

Vaka Tautua works hard to meet the needs of our clients and their fanau in a culturally respectful way, working alongside Pacific clinical services, churches, and communities. Our aim is to foster recovery, resilience, and independence through offering culturally effective support to those with a disability or mental illness.

For more information please view the Vaka Tautua website.

Programmes

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Mental Health Community Support

Programme Areas: Mental health, Pacific Island people
Programme Type: Community based support - mental health, Pacific Island people - mental health
Regions: Central Auckland, West Auckland
Age Groups: Adult / pakeke
Referral Types: DHB clinical services

Description

Vaka Tautua offers a mental health community support service, underpinned by the POPAO model (a Pacific recovery and strength concept) that is pivotal to the recovery of service users by…

Programme Areas: Mental health, Pacific Island people
Programme Type: Peer / advocacy / group / family whānau support, Pacific Island people - mental health
Regions: West Auckland
Age Groups: Adult / pakeke
Referral Types: Self referral, GP, DHB clinical services

Description

Vaka Tautua provides individualised mental health peer support services including:

• Information, navigation and support
• Facilitating access to life / work skills programmes
• Connecting to community resources and services

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Staff

Please view our Vaka Tautua website for information on our people.

Hours

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

Mon – Fri	8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Public Holidays: Closed on all public holidays.

Languages Spoken

Cook Islands Māori, English, Niuean, Samoan, Tongan, Tuvaluan, Fijian

Charges

Our services are funded by the district health boards (DHBs) and are free for people referred to our service either by a DHB service or by their GP (doctor).