Our six Māori Hauora and cover acute mental health care, community residential and transitional support and in-house health and wellbeing advice
Our Services
Our six Māori Hauora and cover acute mental health care, community residential and transitional support and in-house health and wellbeing advice
Awhi Mai is our community based acute service, provided in collaboration with mental health services at Waikato District Health Board.
We can support up to ten Tū Whānau (residents), who stay for 7–14 days. Entry and exit is in collaboration with the Tū Whānau, their Whānau, and the crisis and home-based treatment services of WDHB.
Tū Whānau benefit from a low stimuli environment, that is kaupapa driven and supports them to get well, and move on with their lives.
Awhi Mai has qualified staff with years of experience, present 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Awhi Whānau can support up to twenty Tū Whānau (residents) in the Waikato and five in Whangārei. Tū Whānau benefit from living in a self-contained one or two-bedroom unit, rent, power and groceries are paid for while Tū Whānau rebuild the skills to live independently. Because our homes are in the community our activities are designed for Tū Whānau to fully participate in their community.
Awhi Whānau has qualified staff with years of experience, present 24 hours a day, seven days a week with an after hours on call phone service.
Entry and Exit are in collaboration with Tū Whānau, Whānau and the Home-base treatment team within the local DHB.
Our respite service in Whangārei provides short term home and supports where you can rest and focus completely on your wellbeing. Supportive staff are on hand to help Tū Whānau get back on their feet.
Entry to this service is facilitated by Northland mental health and addictions services crisis service.
Awhi Atu provides support to those ready to move into independent living situations. The goal of this support is to help people live independently and to stand proud in their own skin, and to flourish.
We can support up to 60 Tū Whānau living in their own homes, 15 in the Waikato or 45 in Whangārei.
Awhi Atu supports people to identify and achieve their goals, with practical daily living, getting involved in their whānau, hapu, iwi, living a healthy life, and finding training or a job. Support levels are tailored to suit. Some people are seen just once a week, other people who need a higher level of support might be seen every day.
Awhi Atu has qualified staff available Monday to Friday between 9am–4.30pm and an after hours phone call service.
Entry is facilitated by the Local mental health team.
Awhi Ora focusses on wellbeing through individualised physical activity counselling and supervised, tailored exercise programmes.
Our Awhi Ora leads support Tū Whānau with weekly sessions to attain the goal they have set in their healthy lifestyles, and relapse prevention plan. The Awhi Ora leads routinely access smoking cessation support and delivery of counselling with or without nicotine replacement therapy. They also offer metabolic monitoring: Monitoring of cardiometabolic indicators (e.g. body mass index, blood pressure, waist circumference and metabolic blood profile)
The Awhi Ora utilizes principles of motivational interviewing to sustain Tū Whānau behaviour change. We are continuing to develop motivational interviewing/behaviour change counselling skills amongst Tū Mahi along with embarking on a journey of understanding the concept of Tihei mauri ora – the role of the ha has in supporting wellbeing.
Entry is via internal referral only.
Supporting the transition of whānau into the community.
The focus will be on the practical things, such as supporting Tū Whānau in reconnecting with whānau, securing
affordable, and safe housing in their community of choice, and building financial sustainability all part of enacting
their good life plan. Time will also be given to connecting with places, spaces and people that will assist this good life
and putting the Tū Whānau’s vision for their wellbeing into action.
Supporting whānau with Tamariki who have behavioural issues or emerging mental health challenges.
Te Whānau Pataka (formerly Rostrevor House) a service arm of Te Awhi Whānau Charitable Trust, serves children, youth and families who are struggling with disruptive behaviour and/or experiencing significant impacts in their life because of moderate or severe mental health.
The Te Whānau Pataka Administrative team is based in Hamilton and provides support for the Hamilton based Whānau Team and the Te Awamutu Southern Waikato Cluster based Team.