Team Leader Peer Support Specialist Service

This service has workers with their own lived experience in Addiction & Mental health. We engage with Tangata Whai Ora building trust and rapport through awhi and manaakitanga. We assist people to become motivated. We help people to grow strength by sharing and validating journeys of recovery and wellbeing when engaging with peers. By sharing experiences, identifying directly with struggles and achievements. Learning and growing together, finding purpose in each other’s journey through mutuality.

Arataki Peer Support Specialists all have lived experience with mental health and or addictions.

Peer Support Specialists Walk alongside you to learn what helps you stay on a path of recovery, hope and wellbeing.

Peer Support Specialists use core values to guide their mahi.

• Mutuality
• Experiential Knowledge
• Self Determination
• Participation
• Equity
• Hope and Recovery

Programme Areas: Mental health, Addictions – drug & alcohol

Programme Type: Peer support (AOD), Peer / advocacy / group / family whānau support, Training – mental health

Regions: Northland

Age Groups: Adult / Pakeke

Referral Types: GP, DHB clinical services

Referral Process: Peer Support Specialists are available through your community mental health nurse.

Office
73 Water Street,
Avenues
Whangarei 0110

Dargaville Hospital
77 Awakino Road
Dargaville 0310

9 Dickeson Street
Kaikohe 0405

Phone 09 430 3044
Email [email protected]