Network North | Welcome

Welcome to the Network North website for the Northern Region Mental Health and Addiction Services. The Northern Region has developed a collaborative and inclusive way of working together through well established networks. The networks assist people who are interested in informing and influencing funding and planning decisions in the Northern Region of Aotearoa, New Zealand to have their say.

There are a number of stakeholder forums that contribute to decision making. The regional forum that all others feed into is Network North Coalition

All mental health policies are anchored by four guiding principles:

Access: The right to obtain treatment should depend on need for services, not ability to pay or geographic location.

Equity: Mental health care resources should be distributed fairly across the population at large.

Effectiveness: Mental health services should do what they are intended to do: improve health status.

Efficiency: resources should be distributed in such a way as to maximize health gains to society.

From World Health Organisation ( www.who.int/mentalhealth )

Our long term vision for mental health and addiction

is a community that empowers us to live enriched lives where all people with the experience of mental illness or addiction in the northern region have personal power, easily accessible quality services that support us to lead our own recovery, and a valued place in our families/whanau and in our community.

A Northern Region that consists of enlightened communities who foster an environment that promotes the mental health of all. The community will support people with serious mental illness and/or addiction problems and their families/whanau to achieve a life worth living by ensuring ready access to effective and appropriate clinical and support services.