Health Pasifika | MHAIDS

Mental Health Service, Pacific People

Today

Closed today.

Description

We are a specialist Pasifika community mental health team providing services for Pasifika communities in Wellington, Porirua and Kāpiti.

We provide services for:

children and young people (0 to 19 years)
adults (19 to 65 years old).

We can help you at our centre in Porirua, in your home or arrange to meet elsewhere.

Staff

We have a team of professional, qualified and trained staff that includes:

Pasifika cultural advisor/matua
Consultant psychiatrists
Pasifika adult and child/adolescent clinicians
Pasifika administrator
Child, adolescent and family clinical psychologist

Fees and Charges Categorisation

Free

Fees and Charges Description

To find out if you are eligible for healthcare funding, please see the Mental Health, Addictions and Intellectual Disability Service website

Hours

Closed today.

Mon – Fri	8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

We have adult clinic days on Tuesdays & Thursday from 9am to 4.30pm.

Public Holidays: Closed Wellington Anniversary (19 Jan), Waitangi Day (6 Feb), Good Friday (3 Apr), Easter Sunday (5 Apr), Easter Monday (6 Apr), ANZAC Day (observed) (27 Apr), King's Birthday (1 Jun), Matariki (10 Jul), Labour Day (26 Oct).
Christmas: Open 22 Dec — 24 Dec. Closed 25 Dec — 28 Dec. Open 29 Dec — 31 Dec. Closed 1 Jan — 4 Jan. Open 5 Jan — 9 Jan.

Languages Spoken

Samoan, Tokelauan, Niuean, English

Programmes

Health Pasifika

We provide services for children and young people (0 to 19 years) and adults (19 to 65 years old) in the Pasifika communities in Wellington, Porirua and Kāpiti who have moderate to severe behaviour or psychological difficulties. We can help you at our centre in Porirua, in your home or arrange to meet elsewhere. Our services include: clinical and cultural assessment and treatment planning mobile care coordination and management consultation, liaison and other work with community, inpatient and specialty mental health services/teams and other Pasifika health providers mental health information community services information.

Programme Areas: Mental health, Pasifika
Programme Type: Counselling and support, Mental health assessment and treatment, Pasifika mental health
Regions: Wellington
Age Groups: Child / Tamariki, Youth / Rangatahi, Adult / Pakeke, Older adult / Kaumātua
Referral Types: Self referral, GP, DHB clinical services, Corrections

Referral Process

You can be referred by your GP, family member, friend, parents or teacher (in the case of children and young people), Oranga Tamariki or other professional social or mental health services in the community.

You can also contact the team directly and ask to be referred.

You are welcome to have your ngutuare tangata/aiga/ kaiga/kainga/magafaoa/family, other support people or an advocate with you when you use our services.

Description

We can help you at our centre in Porirua, in your home or arrange to meet elsewhere.

Our services include:

clinical and cultural assessment and treatment planning
mobile care coordination and management
consultation, liaison and other work with community, inpatient and specialty mental health services/teams and other Pasifika health providers
mental health information
community services information.