Regional Family/Whanau Forum
A Regional Family Voice influencing decisions in mental health and addiction services that lead to excellence for all
This forum was started in 2004 for family/whanau members who are involved in the mental health and addiction services through their support of someone who experiences mental illness.
The core principles that the forum operates from are:
- promoting respect for family voice and viewpoint
- developing healthy partnerships between people with experience of mental illness, their families/whanau and the mental health and addiction services
- promoting family inclusion/ involvement
- Influencing systemic change
- Regional high quality consistency enabling services to deliver appropriate local solutions
- transparency of decision making and process
- Equitable access regardless of age, ethnicity or geographical location
- acknowledgement that families/whanau from all cultures and backgrounds want recovery focused services for their loved ones
The forum exists
- To provide a collective voice for family/whanau issues to be raised at the top levels of decision making in mental health
- To ensure that improvement and change for families/whanau happens in a consistent way across the region
- To provide a central place where families/whanau across the Northern Region can be informed of new developments
Membership
It is attended by family/whanau, some of whom attend in a voluntary capacity and others in a paid capacity as family advisors or family support workers across the Northern Region.
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