Programme Areas

Mental health, Addictions - drug & alcohol, Addictions - other

Programme Type

Peer support (AOD), Community / social support (AOD), Community based support - other, Peer / advocacy / group / family whānau support, Community based support - mental health, Advocacy / group / family whānau support (AOD), Supported employment

Regions

Nelson Marlborough

Age Groups

Adult / Pakeke, Older adult / Kaumātua

Referral Types

Self referral

Referral Process

Nikau Hauora Hub welcomes self-referrals and referrals from health care providers (eg care manager, psychiatrist, GP’s).

Description

Nikau Hauora Hub is a community wellbeing hub. Here, you will find support from COMPASS peer support workers with their own lived experience in mental health and/or addiction challenges.

We provide a weekly activities programme centering around te whare tapa whā and the Five Ways To Wellbeing, nutritional lunches every Monday, Wednesday and Friday as well as advocacy support in the community. 

We aim to work together to achieve the wellbeing of our whānau, utilizing the Intentional Peer Support model and a whānau centred approach. 

Programme Areas

Mental health

Programme Type

Peer / advocacy / group / family whānau support

Regions

Nelson Marlborough

Age Groups

Adult / Pakeke, Older adult / Kaumātua

Referral Types

Self referral

Description

COMPASS provides Advocacy and Peer Support Services for people using or who have used mental health services and require support accessing services in the community.

A COMPASS advocate can help you to:

• Gain and understand information regarding your situation and what to expect from services
• Explore options to assist making choices
• Communicate your needs and wishes
• Have your rights acknowledged and upheld
• Access services to which you are entitled
• Use the complaint procedures
• Feel you are not alone & someone is on your side to support
• Put in place an advanced directive

Peer Support is about people who have recovered from mental distress walking alongside tangata whaiora in their recovery journeys. Peer support offers a fundamentally different model of supporting people to make sense of their experiences. It can provide people with opportunities to find new ways and strategies to respond. Peer support relationships validate the reality of a person's experience outside the context of "illness" or diagnosis. Rather it is built on mutual aid and understanding. The peer support model challenges the "problem" approach and focuses on discovering and creating innovative and alternative resources, solutions and strategies.