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Nikau Hauora Hub

Mental Health Service, Addiction, Problem gambling

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Description

Nikau Hauora Hub is a community wellbeing hub. 

Ages

Adult / Pakeke, Older adult / Kaumātua

Hours

Mon 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Tue – Fri 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM

Public Holidays: Closed Nelson Anniversary (3 Feb), Waitangi Day (6 Feb), Good Friday (18 Apr), Easter Sunday (20 Apr), Easter Monday (21 Apr), ANZAC Day (25 Apr), King's Birthday (2 Jun), Matariki (20 Jun), Labour Day (27 Oct).
Christmas: Open 23 Dec — 24 Dec. Closed 25 Dec — 26 Dec. Open 27 Dec. Closed 28 Dec — 29 Dec. Open 30 Dec — 31 Dec. Closed 1 Jan — 2 Jan. Open 3 Jan. Closed 4 Jan — 5 Jan. Open 6 Jan — 10 Jan.

Languages Spoken

English

Programmes

Nikau Hauora Hub

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, 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. 

COMPASS Peer Support & Advocacy

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.

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.

Additional Details

Face to face / Kanohi ki te Kanohi

Contact Details

88 Selwyn Place, Nelson

Nelson Marlborough

88 Selwyn Place
Nelson 7010

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88 Selwyn Place
Nelson 7010

This page was last updated at 9:04AM on August 22, 2024. This information is reviewed and edited by Nikau Hauora Hub.