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Working with people with co-existing addiction and mental health problems (CEP) is one of the biggest challenges facing addiction and mental health treatment services in New Zealand. CEP is common rather than exceptional and people with CEP often fall between the gaps of addiction and mental health services, with the outcome being ineffective treatment, or no treatment at all, and increasing miscommunication between agencies.
The CEP project aims to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the way addiction and mental health treatment services respond to people with CEP. The Ministry of Health is taking the lead and is supported by Matua Raki.
The Ministry of Health has published two documents: ‘Service Delivery for People with Co-existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems – Integrated Solutions’ (MoH 2010), and ‘Te Ariari o te Oranga: The Assessment and Management of People with Co-existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems’ (Todd, F.C. 2010). The first is about systems and service development and the second provides detailed clinical guidance to services and health professionals.
The following are planned:
- The Ministry of Health and Matua Raki CEP presentation at Building Bridges Conference in Wellington 16 April
- The Ministry of Health and Matua Raki CEP workshops in Wellington 4 May, Palmerston North 18 May, and Napier 19 May for Funders, Planners, Mental Health and Addiction Service Clinical Leaders and Managers from the DHB and NGO sectors. Core questions will be:
How has CEP been identified in past and current DAPS?
Business Plans: How are you currently configured to address CEP?
- Workforce capacity to address CEP –
As routine core business
- Specialist business for complex CEP presentations
- The Ministry of Health and Matua Raki will provide CEP sessions at the Te Pou Central Region Co-existing Problems Forum Palmerston North 27 April and Central Region Addictions Network Forum at Palmerston North 13 May
- Te Pou will provide Tools ‘N’ Techniques training to clinical leaders, service managers and NGO board/trust members
- Clinical guidance workshops for practitioners will be provided at a later date.
Workshops will be progressively offered in other Regions over coming months.
The training framework and the two Ministry of Health documents can be found at: www.matuaraki.org.nz.
For more information, contact National Project Managers
Susan Scofield
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027 447 7665
and Helen Warren
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or Project Coordinator Dianne Hendey phone 04 499 9340 ext 910.
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