Palmerston North Ph: 06 355 8561
Levin Ph: 06 368 6116
Dannevirke Ph: 06 374 8797

Manawatu SF Objectives

Information and Publicity

  • Work with other central region agencies (through the national body if possible) to re-brand Schizophrenia Fellowship and promote the new face of the organisation (2007-2010).
  • Develop a comprehensive database and information gathering and outcomes-based system of measurement in order to track, record and monitor the organisation\\\'s performance. (2008-2009)
  • Develop, organise and publish a body of knowledge around the family-based recovery framework in mental health. (2008)
  • Be the prominent trainer and educational provider regionally for those learning about the family-based recovery framework in mental health. (2010)
  • Develop a digital strategy (including an MSF website) to provide information, video-based mental health recovery and support to mental health consumers. (2008-2009)
  • Information and Publicity

Staff Development

  • Identify key attributes that make MSF staff specialists, and provide opportunities for staff to be engaged in organisational development. (2007-ongoing)
  • Identify and source all training and educational programmes that will add value to the MSF method for staff members. (2007-ongoing)
  • Produce a graduated salary increase system based on levels of specialisation. (2007-ongoing)
  • Culture and Demographics

Culture and Demographics

  • Employ, target or train fieldworkers and board members who are specialised in Asian, Pacific, Maori and elderly mental health issues or have standing in their ethnic communities and ensure the adaptation of their knowledge to the MSF methodology. (2008-2015)
  • Stay abreast of all demographic and cultural shifts or trends that affect the Mid Central Health Region. (2007-ongoing)

Resources and Funding

  • Gather and process all funding information across a wide range of funding sources. (2007-ongoing)
  • Contract out expertise and training to Central Government Agencies and NGO's in the field of holistic, family-based mental health recovery framework. (2015-2020)

Mental Health Support

  • Target depression and other growth areas in mental health. (2007-2010)
  • Target families for early intervention and prevention through supporting them to recognise early signs and indirect contributors to mental illness. (2007)

 Governance

  • Ensure consumer, Iwi/Maori, specialist staff and family participation in governance and management structures. (ongoing)
  • Investigate the need for governance structures to adapt to changing strategic direction of MSF. (ongoing)

Stakeholders

  • Target stakeholders that will contribute to MSF developing knowledge and experience in growth areas. (2008)
  • Ensure alignment with Central Government Strategies and develop influence over Mid Central Health future direction in mental health. (ongoing)
  • Work with stakeholders to facilitate recovery through paid employment, education, vocational services and accommodation outcomes for mental health consumers and their families.

Glossary of Terms

  • adapter This is an organisation that finds its strategic advantage in its flexibility and its ability to meld quickly into changing circumstances. These organisations often adapt to the strategies set out by other organisations.
  • family Family is not limited to relationships based on blood ties, and may include: relatives, partners, iwi, hapu, the mental health consumer, friends and others in a support network and other non-relatives including flatmates, clergy, workmates, school friends and others who care about and support the person experiencing a mental illness.
  • family-based recovery practice The family-based recovery is the set of procedures, practices and styles that MSF employs to enable recovery. The family/whanau provides the support and is facilitated by MSF to become intimately involved in the recovery of their family member through fostering encouragement and understanding in the family/whanau.
  • holistic Holistic refers in this sense to the surrounding environment and all possible external factors that influence an individual's recovery.
  • recovery Recovery is not producing the absence of mental illness. Recovery is based upon empowering the mental health consumer to deal with their illness through the support and empowerment of their family/whanau. In this sense, recovery is about breaking down barriers to well being.
  • shaper This is an organisation that is in the position to actually alter the dynamics of the market or area in which it functions. These are generally powerful organisations, though other smaller organisations still have a part to play in shaping an environment.

Palmerston North Ph: 06 355 8561   |   Levin Ph: 06 368 6116   |   Dannevirke Ph: 06 374 8797

Contact Details

Palmerston North

163 Broadway Ave

PO Box 5010
Palmerston North

Phone 06 355 8561/2

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