The Role of the Mental Health Team
The role of the Mental Health Team is to provide organisational support related to the funding and planning of Mental Health services to the Northern Regional District Health Boards (DHBs). Part of this function involves the provision of a mechanism for engaging with one another and with other key stakeholders, to ensure coordination and alignment of planning and funding for mental health services. This is to ensure a regionally consistent approach to planning and development of mental health services.
The brief for the NDSA includes the following:
Specific functions include:
- policy development
- needs assessment
- strategic planning
- annual planning
- budget expenditure and funding plans
- providing a conduit for liaison with priority groups
- regional service development projects
Other sector coordination functions include:
- Development of and facilitation of regional sector forums, including:
- Regional Alcohol and other Drugs (AOD) group
- Regional General Manager and Clinical Directors
- General Managers and PSA organisers and delegates
- Housing sector steering group
- Older adults forum
Our Vision
Northern Region’s Vision for Mental Health
Our long term vision for mental health is of well informed communities, able to protect and preserve the mental health of their residents, able to recognise when help is need and where to go for that help, and able to support people with serious mental health or addiction problems to achieve recovery.
Our vision is of a time when there are no longer health disparities for Maori and Pacific peoples, people who are soci-economically disadvantage, or any other group within our communities.