Peer Support
We are a social-work based peer support organisation for people affected by Asperger Syndrome. We provide Peer support, social work services, advocacy, counselling and information; preparation for employment, workplace staff training and mentoring; advocacy in schools, guidance about educational choices, training for professional staff. Pre and post-diagnosis counselling and information about where to go to obtain a diagnosis, and support in attending interviews with Work and Income, your GP and others.
Housing Support: Housing facilitation, saving existing housing, supported group living, and housing for people in recovery from addiction. Community Support: Assist with achievement of life goals, gaining independence in daily living, and managing relationship issues. Service provided in urban and rural districts. Community Integration: Specialist assistance to overcome barriers for those experiencing difficulties moving on from hospital and residential services or requiring complex, individually tailored support to maintain settled community living. Jobconnect: Assists people to move forward with vocational goals, gain and keep employment, and supports people to sustain study and training commitments. Located at 173 Riccarton Road, Christchurch. Activelinks: Support to “get active” through physical activity, sport, recreation or leisure activities. Individual, group or specialised healthy living programmes. Emphasis is on individually tailored nutrition and exercise planning for improved physical wellbeing. Warmline: A telephone peer support service – 0800 899 276. Peer Support: Short-term support that allows people, through shared experience, to explore issues and make positive plans to move forward. Peer support assists people to make sense of their experiences without medicalising them. Community Housing: Specialist registered Community Housing Provider. Available to people over 18 with mental illness or addiction issues who have high housing need in Christchurch. Emergency Housing: Short-term accomodation and support services for single vulnerable people that have an emergency housing need in Christchurch.
A Life Worth Living: The Team at Mind and Body Consultants believe that all people have the potential to have a life worth living. For people with experience of mental illness, we call this recovery. Recovery is not just managing your mental illness; it is actively working towards the life you want. Mind and Body’s Peer Support Services offer you, as a user of mental health services, the opportunity to work with someone who has been through this process. Peer Support Services: Our peer support services will encourage you to take responsibility for your own recovery. You actively promote your wellness by connecting or reconnecting with your family/whanau and friends, jobs, home and community. You decide where you live, how you manage your money and how your spiritual needs are met. A Peer Support Worker can support you to make positive changes in your life by helping you to identify your strengths, set goals and plan the necessary steps to achieve them. All our Peer Support Workers have personal experience of significant mental illness. We know recovery because we live it. This is the basis of the peer support relationship. Peer Zone Facilitators: We deliver Peer Zone workshops in Christchurch.
Providing community support services for the people of Canterbury whose lives are adversely affected by depression, including group support, one to one support, resource information and education courses. Services available for youth and adults who are experiencing depression, as well as family, friends and whanau, who are supporting someone experiencing depression. An open group every Friday in Waltham from 10:00am – 1:00pm. Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00am – 3:00pm (Appointments may be arranged outside of these times if required).
Warmline is a mental health peer support telephone service available throughout the Canterbury and West Coast District Health Board areas. Our telephone peer supporters have all had personal experience of mental illness and/or addiction and provide non-crisis confidential support. To contact the office phone Comcare Peer Services on (03) 379 8412 during normal business hours.
A support agency for male victims/survivors of childhood sexual abuse. We provide phone support, one-on-one peer support, weekly peer support group, support for parents/partners and caregivers.
We provide a variety of services to anyone affected by a loved one’s addiction. This ranges from one on one counselling, support and education through to intensive outpatient programmes. Our staff consists of trained and experienced consumers, providing clients with first hand support and knowledge. We also have an extensive range of books and pamphlets on a wide range of issues for sale. For a full list of our services please refer to our website.
All MHAPS peer workers have personal lived experience of mental health and/or addiction challenges, and of working consciously with these experiences to move towards greater wellbeing. This work is more than just a job to us – it is about transforming our mutual understanding of our experiences, and giving expression to a freer and more dignified way of being in the world. Intentional Peer Support (IPS): IPS is a trauma-informed framework for creating safe yet transformative connections. IPS is founded on a willingness of both people to learn and grow, nobody is the helper and the point in not to “fix” you. We aim to grow a relationship that allows each of us to understand how we came to see things the way we do, and how we might work with our particular circumstances to find new possibilities, greater ease, confidence and fulfilment. We offer IPS for individuals and groups. We work through four tasks: building connection; exploring our own and each other’s worldview; practicing mutuality (two-way relationships); and moving towards what we want in our lives. Peer Advocacy: Peer Advocates are available to anyone experiencing mental distress and/or addiction or dependence issues. Advocates help you to have you voice heard in systems, and can assist you in resolving difficulties. Advocates can help with access to health care, addiction treatment access, complaints, housing issues, dealing with landlords, Work and Income, Oranga Tamariki, and more. Latnam 826 at MHAPS: Welcoming and comfortable weekend activity and social centre for people experiencing mental health and/or addiction challenges, located in the city centre. Awareness: Consumer leadership and participation forum. Learning Exchange: A range of daytime workshops, evening classes, themes evening talks. RecoveryWorks: 11-week programme to assist people with moderate to high anxiety to make positive and sustainable changes away from anxiety and into the life they would like to be leading. Quiet Minds: Weekly radio show on mental health issues. All MHAPS services are confidential and most are free (a small donation may be requested for some courses). We look forward to meeting you!
Narcotics Anonymous is made up of addicts who are trying to help each other recover from using drugs and make positive changes in their lives. Regular meetings are held, call or email us for details.
Provides liaison between primary and secondary care. Assists member general practices to appropriately treat and manage people with moderate to severe mental illness. Provides education and support.