He Tipuana Nga Kakano Meeting Schedule for 2012
| Meeting Date | Venue | Agenda | Minutes |
| 14 February | Best Western Braeside, Rotorua | February | February |
| 08 May | Best Western Braeside, Rotorua | February | February |
The August and November meeting dates will be confirmed after the February meeting.
He Tipuana Nga Kakano Meeting Schedule for 2011
L-R Front) Ngaire, Belinda, Noeline, Nic, Natasha & David
L-R Back) Don, Kathleen, Julie, Kelly, Lisa, Judith & Chris
| Meeting Date | Agenda | Minutes |
| 17 February | Feb Agenda | Feb Minutes |
| 24 May | CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
| 23 August - Day 1 Swap-shop Day | CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
| 24 August - Day 2 Strategic Planning | Aug Agenda | Aug Minutes |
| 15 November | Nov Agenda | Nov Draft Minutes |
The meetings for May and November will be held at the Best Western Braeside in Rotorua and the
venue August meetings will be confirmed soon.
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15 November - Last Meeting for 2011
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Strategic Planning Day - 24 August
It was great to have the group back together representing our Midland Consumers and it was also awesome to see some new faces join the group from Progress to Health who had an input to the day.
Group one: With their thinking caps on Group two: Having robust discussions
Group three: Sharing their ideas
Last minute changes were made to the agenda due to facilitator travel however we were able to bring the group together to give feeback from a consumer's perspectives around the ADA act and also the Mental Health Service Development Plan. We also looked at the current "vision logo" for Midland MH&A to redesign the look of the logo incorporating the Midland mission statement. Keep posted as we hope to have a draft of everyone's ideas put into one.
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Meeting Held on 17 February
The first meeting with fresh minds ready to soldier on for 2011. It was great to see everyone ethusiatic and ready to grasp what is in store for this new year.
Tairawhiti - Lisa, Jude & Chris Taranaki - Don & Nic
Waikato - Natasha, Julie & Kelly BOP - Kathleen Lakes - David & Noeline
He Tipuana Nga Kakano Meeting Schedule for 2010
All meetings will be held at the Best Western Braeside Motel, 4 Barnard Road, Rotorua
| Meeting Date | Agenda | Minutes |
| 29 January 2010 | January Agenda | January Minutes |
| 27 April 2010 | April Agenda | April Minutes |
| 21 July 2010 - Day 1 Strategic Planning | Day 1 Agenda | Day 1 Minutes |
| 22 July 2010 - Day 2 Strategic Planning | Day 2 Agenda | Day 2 Minutes |
| 27 October 2010 | October Agenda | October Minutes |
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He Tipuana Nga Kakano Strategic Planning Days
DAY 1 - 21 July 2010
The Midland Consumer Advisory Group He Tipuana Nga Kakano invited the wider sector to enrol in Day 1 of the strategic planning days which was themed "Whakapiri - Working Towards Wellbeing" held at the Best Western Braeside in Rotorua. Co-faciltated by Nic Magrath & Eseta Nonu-Reid they welcomed 30+ attendees who participated in the days events.
Guest speakers & The Presentations
* Sue Rostron - National Audit Tool Workshop (available soon)
Sue currently works as Information Lead-Service User with the Delivery team at Te Pou. In this role she promotes collaborative use of mental health information between clinicians and other MH staff, service users and family/ whanau.
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* Peter Burns & Vanessa Cooper - Consumer Advisor Roles and Draft Work Plan
Vanessa Cooper
Vanessa came to the Commission after working for the Mental Health Foundation on the Like Minds, Like Mine programme in the Auckland region, with a focus on developing greater understanding on how discrimination impedes recovery both within services and in the wider community. Previous to this Vanessa worked in the area of supported employment and community-based recovery. She has completed a Master's Degree in Health Sciences (mental health), focusing her research on employment discrimination and the factors that contribute to mentally healthy workplaces.
Vanessa is passionate about equity, social inclusion and human rights. Further, her interest is in how policy and research are implemented into practice and change in the real world. Vanessa advocates for greater consumer leadership, countering stereotypes, and holds the belief that access to quality information and education are the cornerstones to empowering anyone who may experience mental health challenges.
Paul Burns - AOD Consumer Advisor, Mental Health Commission
Prior to working for the Mental Health Commission, Paul has worked in the Mental Health, Disability and AOD sectors in a variety of roles, ranging from support work to Branch Management positions. Throughout all these roles Paul has been very active in AOD consumer networks and is currently on the Matua Raki AOD Leadership Group and is a member of the Aotearoa Alcohol and Other Drug Consumer Network. Paul is also currently a part time Trainer for Blueprint helping to facilitate the MH101 programme.
Paul is passionate about the AOD sector and especially from a Consumer perspective. This is due primarily to his own experience of the use and misuse of Alcohol and Other Drugs, his experience of receiving AOD services and the stigma that he has been the recipient of during his personal and ongoing journey of recovery.
Paul’s aim in life therefore, is to try and ensure that those whom seek help for addiction related matters are treated respectfully and in a positive, personalised and holistic manner, conducive to their own journey of addiction and/or recovery. Paul also believes that Consumer input into legislation, policy, treatment and planning of the AOD sector has historically and will in the future, always add value and maximise positive outcomes for those people seeking help. Paul respects an individual’s path to recovery, believing that no two people are the same and different models work for different folks.
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* Luis Villa - Primary Health Expressions of Interest
Dr. Luis Villa, Spanish Public Health Physician, married with 2 kids (9 & 7) work mainly in international health in Africa and Latin America for organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organisation. Since November 2009 I am at Pinnacle as one of the General Manager heading the “Communites Team” which responsibilities are: mental health, maori health, health promotion and population health (mainly research and evaluation).
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* Rhonda Robertson - Addiction Consumer Network & Matua Raki Developments
Rhonda has worked in the health a disability sector for over two decades, initially working in the area of intellectual disability. This marked the beginning of both a career and education pathway into the wider health and disability sector.
Rhonda first became involved in consumer issues in 1994 in Christchurch and whilst located within alcohol and other drugs, developed links with mental health and particularly service users, and remember the very first person to be employed into a consumer advisor role in mental health services, by what is now the Canterbury DHB. The involvement in consumer issues underpinned Rhonda’s decision to complete her BA majoring in Sociology and Political Science.
While continuing to be involved in consumer issues in a voluntary capacity, Rhonda was first appointed to a consumer role AOD Consumer Advisor in 2003, this which was a regional role and located in Christchurch. In 2005, Rhonda moved to Tauranga to take up the AOD Consumer Advisor at the Bay of Plenty DHB. In 2008 Rhonda took up the Consumer Project Manager at the national addiction workforce programme – Matua Raki.
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* Roz Sorensen - National Audit Tool Consultation Workshop
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Day 1 Workshop Photos
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DAY 2 - 22 July 2010
With everyones brains racking at the previous days gathering this enabled the Midland Consumer representatives to reflect on important aspects and identify 4 action points for this forum to carry out for 2010/2011.
The objectives that were identified are:
1. Greater collaboration between Primary Mental Health and Consumers through inclusion in the development and implementation of the Midland PHO initiative and other new projects – consumer representation and consultation
2. Develop and maintain a closer working relationship with the Mental Health Commission through active involvement in projects, AOD Leadership and other groups, and with MHC attendance at Midland Regional Forums
3. Participation in the development of the standardized national audit tool
4. Stocktake of Midland youth services
Evaluations
Participants were asked to complete the evaluations - please click here to view