Whāriki member Hine Moeke-Murray is Chief Executive at Te Waharoa, where in a ground-breaking initiative run by Te Kupenga Net Trust and Hauora Tairāwhiti, indigenous mātauranga is reframing conversations with whānau experiencing distress. Following a Te Ao Māori methodology, the team includes counsellors, clinicians and artists working with whānau as part of a multidisciplinary team

If you have a special interest in the continuous improvement of Aotearoa’s child and youth mental health services and would like to contribute to the design of the waiting times indicator for the KPI Programme Child and Youth stream, register today to share your perspectives and experiences.  This hui will be held via Zoom on Thursday 10 June

Laura Tongalea, Pasifika Clinical Practice Lead and Roz Sorensen, Service Improvement and Development Lead at Odyssey will share how the Ala Mai Pasifika holistic wellbeing programme is supporting substance use behaviour change for Pacific peoples in a variety of settings at Odyssey. Register now to attend this virtual event on Thursday 10 June.

Find out what you need to know about COVID-19 vaccination for people with mental health and addiction issues with Dr Edwin Reynolds, medical adviser to the immunisation advisory centre and senior medical officer at Auckland Regional Public Health Service, who will discuss the vaccination programme with Taimi Allan, CEO at Changing Minds, the lived experience

The KPI Programme Child and Youth stream benchmarking forum will be happening via Zoom on Thursday 15 July from 9:30am to 12pm.  The theme of the forum is ‘Access and Choice’ and will explore a DHB continuous improvement project to improve their waiting times and include the voices of rangatahi and their perspectives on what

In Ōtautahi Christchurch He Waka Tapu, Odyssey, the City Mission, Nova Trust, Familial Trust, Salvation Army, and Canterbury DHB have created a one-stop-shop model of care to support easier access to addiction services. With immediate screening and referral, people are linked with a peer support guide and offered immediate entry to open support groups. Tracey

The KPI Programme Adult stream benchmarking forum will be happening via Zoom on Thursday 29 July from 9.30am to 12pm.  The theme of the forum is ‘Connected care’ and will explore a DHB case study on implementing virtual engagement into clinical practice. Putting people at the centre, the forum will include the perspectives of tāngata whai ora on experiences of

Topic: Learning how to interpret data dashboards In this benchmarking breakout participants will have the opportunity to experiment with the KPI Programme's data dashboards and learn how to ask questions and make informed interpretations of the data. To register for this benchmarking breakout please click here.  What is a benchmarking breakout? The purpose of benchmarking

In August the KPI Programme is starting engagement with the mental health and addiction sector to review and co-develop the technical definitions for the seclusion indicator. The seclusion indicator will be for all Programme streams and therefore several consultation hui will be facilitated to ensure the new seclusion data dashboard visualisation tools meet the needs

In August the KPI Programme is starting engagement with the mental health and addiction sector to review and co-develop the technical definitions for the seclusion indicator. The seclusion indicator will be for all Programme streams and therefore several consultation hui will be facilitated to ensure the new seclusion data dashboard visualisation tools meet the needs

Please join with the Whāriki community at our next he aka hui to hear from about the amazing mahi led by the lived experience team at Odyssey. Innovative lived support and peer expertise, 26th August 2021, 1 - 2pm: Peer support teams from Odyssey Auckland are using innovative approaches in environments that can be challenging

Topic: Learning how to use and interpret the wait times data dashboards What is a benchmarking breakout? The purpose of benchmarking breakouts is for attendees to connect around topical sector issues and use the data dashboard indicators to explore and ask questions about what the current data is saying to uncover insights and learnings that