Recovery and peer support
Broader support towards recovery eg, housing, employment, wellbeing, or one to one support from someone with lived experience.
MHAPS: Mental Health Advocacy and Peer Support
A peer-led, Christchurch-based charitable trust working in mental health and addictions.
A peer-led, Christchurch-based charitable trust working in the area of mental health and addictions. MHAPS provide a variety of services easily available to people experiencing mental distress/mental illness and addictions including peer support and advocacy, recovery and wellbeing programs, workshops and group support. All services are free of charge and no referral is required.
Region
Canterbury
Contact Information
Phone: 03 365 9479
Email: reception@mhaps.org.nz
Address: 357 Madras Street (beside the Heart Foundation), Christchurch 8013
Website: https://mhaps.org.nz/
Mind and Body
Mental health peer support, education, and independent advocacy
Mind and Body is a for-peer-by-peer organisation and all staff have lived experience of mental distress or addiction, providing an empathy and understanding of what people may be experiencing. The guiding principle of all their services is that every person is capable of flourishing in life.
Our areas of expertise are mental health peer support; initiatives involving social inclusion and de-stigmatisation; mental health education programmes and independent peer advocacy for people with mental health issues and addictions.
Region
Auckland
Contact Information
Email: admin@mindandbody.co.nz
Website: https://emergeaotearoa.org.nz/our-services/peer-support/peer-services/
Mind and Body – Canterbury
A peer support programme for people in mental distress and those with addiction struggles.
Mind and Body works across the mental health and addiction sector. It runs a consumer-led peer support service, providing individual, one-to-one and group peer support.
It also provides education, training and workshops in mental health and addiction, including the Certificate in Peer Support.
Region
Canterbury
Contact Information
Christchurch Peer Support Service
Phone: 03 377 1818
Email: carla@mindandbody.co.nz
Website: https://emergeaotearoa.org.nz/our-services/peer-support/peer-services/
MIX - Connecting, Creating, Living
Art and wellbeing programs for people experiencing mental health challenges.
MIX is a mental health community day service offering programmes in Art and Wellbeing for people (18yrs +). Operating 5 days a week in a number of locations in the Hutt Valley. We work so that individuals have an understanding of their holistic health, using the Te whare tapa whā at MIX. We work to ensure our programmes embrace our Taha tinana (physical health), Taha wairua (spiritual health), Taha whānau (family health) and Taha hinengaro (mental health).
We exist so that those who experience mental health challenges can:
- Connect to form shared communities.
- Create opportunities for growth in wellbeing and art.
- Live life through the 5 Ways to Wellbeing.
Region
Wellington
Contact Information
Phone: (04) 569 3162
Website: https://mix.org.nz/
Oasis Network Inc
Peer support, advocacy and information for people who identify as having experience of mental distress, illness or addiction.
Peer support, advocacy and information for people who live and work in the Hutt Valley or the Wairarapa who self-identify as having experience of mental distress, illness and/or addiction.
Region
Wellington
Contact Information
Email: admin@oasisnetwork.org.nz
Website: https://www.oasisnetwork.org.nz/services
Otago Mental Health Support Trust
Support for adults with experience of mental distress, particularly bipolar disorder.
A service that provides support for adults with experience of mental distress. We offer peer support, advocacy, education and information.
Region
Otago
Contact Information
Phone: 0800 364 462
Email: info@omhst.org.nz
Website: https://www.omhst.org.nz/
PACT
Support services for people recovering from mental illness.
Support services for people recovering from mental illness, including day centres, supported accommodation, respite, peer support and advocacy.
Region
Southland
Contact Information
Phone: (03) 477 4312
Website: https://pactgroup.co.nz/consumer-advisors-and-peer-support/
Progress to Health
A community-based mental organisation providing individualised and group activities that enhance wellbeing.
Progress to Health is a community-based organisation building communities without barriers by creating opportunities for living a full life. We positively influence the wellbeing of people through personalised support. We specialise in mental wellbeing but if you living in the Waikato or Taupo rohe, we can support you with other long-term health conditions or disabilities.
Region
Waikato
Contact Information
Phone: (07) 838 0302
Email: admin@progresstohealth.org.nz
Website: https://www.progresstohealth.org.nz/
Progress to Health Taranaki
A community-based mental organisation providing individualised and group activities that enhance wellbeing.
Progress to Health is a community-based organisation building communities without barriers by creating opportunities for living a full life. We positively influence the wellbeing of people through personalised support. We specialise in mental wellbeing but if you living in the Waikato or Taupo rohe, we can support you with other long-term health conditions or disabilities.
Region
Taranaki
Contact Information
Phone: (07) 838 0302
Website: https://www.progresstohealth.org.nz/
Step Ahead Trust
Activity-based programs to to enable people to live well in their community.
Step Ahead Trust provides social, educational, recreational and prevocational rehabilitation through activity-based programmes. Their aim is to enable people to live well in their community.
Region
Canterbury
Contact Information
Email: info@stepahead.org.nz
Phone: 0800 688 732
Website: https://stepahead.org.nz/
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