Tairāwhiti Psychosocial and Mental Wellbeing Directory |
||||
Agency |
Key contact |
Contact number |
|
Services provided |
| Gisborne District Council | Penny Shaw |
06 867 2049 0800 653800 |
Email: service@gdc.govt.nz Website: www.gdc.govt.nz Facebook: @GisborneDC |
Your enquiry will be directed to an appropriate channel to be addressed and actioned. Visit Gisborne District Council's COVID-19 page to find out more about the support services offered. |
| Te Runanga O Turanganui a Kiwa | Athena Emmerson-Kapa | 06 867 8109 | athena.emmerson-kapa@trotak.iwi.nz | This agency provides operational oversight for the iwi-led COVID-19 response. |
| Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou | Iwi-led Help Response: Anne Huriwai |
06 867 9960 021 835 610 |
Ahuriwai@tronp.org.nz | Provides iwi-led community support. If you live in Gisborne, you can call free between the hours of 8 am - 3 pm, on 0800 676 768 (0800 NPOROU). If you are living closer to Ruatoria, call the Ruatoria number free on 0800 833 502. |
| Victim Support | Vicki Crosswell | 06 869 0259 | vicki.crosswell@victimsupport.org.nz | Provides support to victims and their whānau of serious crime and trauma |
| Age Concern | Francis Toroa |
027 221 6895 06 867 6533 |
francestac.tai@xtra.co.nz | Provides support and intervention for victims of elder abuse. Please call in the first instance. Face to face support can be provided for serious cases. |
| Gisborne Women's Refuge | Philipa Davis | 022 043 4289 (Monday-Friday) A crisis helpline is available after hours: (06) 867 9427 |
gisrefuge@orcon.net.nz | Provides a Safe House for women who are experiencing domestic violence. Get in touch via phone or email for support. |
| Alzheimers Gisborne | Cheryl Morley | cheryl.gisalzheimers@gmail.com | Provides support for those diagnosed with dementia and their families/whānau. | |
| Tauawhi Men's Centre and Family Works |
Tim Marshall - Tauawhi Bruce McFadyen - Family Works |
027 558 6362
027 599 9348 |
|
Please get in touch with one of our key contacts if you need urgent support. A phone counselling service is available if required. |
| Māori Women's Welfare League | Tomairangi Chaffey-Aupouri | 022 430 0329 | Tomairangi.Chaffey-Aupouri@tdh.org.nz | This service is currently working alongside Gizzy Kai Rescue to deliver food parcels to communities along the coast, and ensuring Māori women and their whānau are safe. |
| Te Hapara Family Services | Katarina Rakuraku | 021 814 780 | katarina.rakuraku@acw.org.nz | This service provides counselling, social work, grief and loss programmes and whānau support. Support via phone and video call is currently available. Face to face appointments can also be scheduled where required. |
| Community Mental Health and Addictions Service | Cilla Allen | 0800 999 014 | cmhrec@tdh.org.nz | Provides support around symptom monitoring, managing medication and prescriptions, assessment, treatment and therapy. Phone and video consultations are currently available |
| Te Whare Oranga (Adult Community Mental Health & Addictions) |
Reception: Freephone: |
This service receives referrals from the hospital services and specialised mental health support and for addiction support. New referrals continue to be accepted during business hours. Referrals from anywhere are accepted, including self-referrals. | ||
| Te Whare o Te Rito (ICAMHS) | 06 869 0541 | MentalHealth.TriageAdmin@tdh.org.nz | The team offers support to infants, young children, and adolescents to improve emotional, psychological and mental health. This service is open every weekday until 10 pm, and between 5 pm -10 pm weekends. | |
| Te Whare o Te Rito hub |
Crisis Phone: |
MentalHealth.TriageAdmin@tdh.org.nz | Te Rito team members are available via phone for crisis support if required. | |
| Te Whare Awhiora (Ward 11, Gisborne Hospital) | Phone: 06869 0500 to get through to the Hospital Switchboard | Admissions and discharges are continuing. | ||
| Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) | Gisborne Hospital: 06 869 0500 & ask for MHSOP |
Provides community assessment of those over the age of 65 with age-related mental health concerns. | ||
| He Waharoa | Hine Haig |
(06) 868 3550 or 022 319 9622 |
23 Peel Street, Gisborne |
A joint venture between Hauora Tairāwhiti and Te Kupenga Net Trust which provides a simple pathway to mental health and addiction services for whānau in distress. He Waharoa brings together a range of providers (Mataora, GPs, community groups and mental health professionals) committed to doing things differently by adding the principles of relationships and community to western psychiatric approaches. It is about applying indigenous matauranga (knowledge/understanding) to reframe the way a person's experience is discussed and to find a pathway forward when experiencing distress. |
| Supergrans Tairāwhiti | Linda Coulston |
06 868 3571 or 027 214 2028 |
Supergrans is a registered foodbank in Gisborne. They can deliver food parcels to the doorsteps of people that are quarantining. If a support person can pick up the parcel this is fine too. Foodbank Open 5 days a week a 9am to 2pm. Linda is available to assist outside of these hours at short notice Supergrans is moving to new premises in Pitt Street where there is an up-to-date extensive commercial kitchen to be used to make meals for people that are incapacitated. Use this referral form: https://www.cognitoforms.com/SuperGransSocialWorker/referralform Supergrans area a Level 2 provider for MSD. Be assured that all our referrals are held in the strictest of confidence and completely confidential. |
|
| Mates in Tairāwhiti | Bridgette Penny | bridgette.penny@gmail.com |
Focussed on looking after the mental health of the people in the Tairāwhiti, particularly when at work. This service is also focussed on workplace suicide prevention. |
|
|
Pacific Island Community Trust |
Ala (Alaimaluloa) Toeluu'-Tamihere |
027 378 8702 |
Provides support to vulnerable Pasifika communities |
|
|
The Salvation Army |
Captain Kevin Waugh |
06 868 9468 027 303 1391 |
Services provided include food parcels, budgeting, spiritual needs. |
|
|
COVID-19 Guidelines |
|
|
Visit www.covid19.govt.nz for information and updates about COVID-19. |
|
|
Red Cross |
Heather Ratahi |
06 867 6616 027 705 1157 |
Red Cross provides emergency supplies and psychosocial first aid to people who have experienced a traumatic event. |
|
|
Anglican care - Waiapu |
Jade Holland (General Manager) |
021 911 610 |
Anglican Care Waiapu (ACW) is the social services arm of the Anglican Diocese of Waiapu. Region-wide phone-based counselling and support to isolated elderly or others are available. A service called Growing Through Grief is available which offers programmes for grief, loss, and change. |
|
|
Te Puni Kokiri |
Kemara Keelan |
0800 875 447 |
Te Puni Kōkiri is working with iwi, hapū and whānau Māori to assist you through the COVID-19 emergency. The majority of our kaimahi are now working remotely, so please email or phone our team to see how they can support you. |
|
|
Ministry of Social Development |
Lynn Campbell Cheryl Nicholls |
0800 358 5453 |
cheryl.nicholls001@msd.govt.nz
|
|
|
Getting Through Together - Health Navigator |
|
|
|
For tips on how to look after your physical and mental wellbeing if you are spending more time at home due to COVID-19, visit: www.healthnavigator.org.nz/health-a-z/c/covid-19-mental-health/ |
|
All right? |
|
|
Visit the website: www.allright.org.nz/campaigns/getting-through-together for tips on how to manage mental stress and look after your wellbeing in the wake of COVID-19. |
|
|
Ministry of Health |
|
|
|
The Ministry of Health has a range of resources to help you manage your wellbeing during COVID-19. Visit the Ministry of Health website: https://www.health.govt.nz/ to find out more. |
|
Geneva Healthcare-Wellness and Rehabilitation |
Ashleigh Blair and Gwen Hinga |
021 246 0075 06 280 5326 0800 436 382 |
Provides services supporting people to live at home, enjoy what their community has to offer, and continue their employment whatever their illness, injury or disability. This includes rehabilitation services, from assessment to treatment and intervention. The individuals and whanau who we work alongside in Tairawhiti are largely ACC funded although we do work with other funders such as Veterans Affairs, and the High and Complex Needs Team. |
|
|
Pinnacle Midland Health |
Tania Morgan |
021 021 66514 06 863 2661 |
Pinnacle Midlands Health Network is a primary mental health service that offers support in the areas of non-acute specialist mental health community support, primary care psychiatry advice, mental health extended GP consultations and integrated transition from secondary to primary care. |
|
|
Tairāwhiti Watene Māori |
Bub Apelu Tairāwhiti Regional Chair Annie Karaka Mangatu Ella Manuel Uawa Niki Hitaua Whanau a Iwi Susie Te Rauna Ruatoria Paul Ratapu Mahia Ngarau Wharepapa (Courts) Manu Paenga – Māori wardens project, |
021 075 3584
|
Operational oversight for Tairāwhiti Watene Maori Covid19. Watene Māori do not supply food packs or essential health products. They provide assistance with: |
|
3199622