ComCareTrust
Audit today at Comcare Trust before introducing the Recovery Model to see how many changes will have to made to fit the new method.
I have been involved with them for many years as a consumer and advisor.
Despite a lot of effort by NGOs like Like Minds to reduce the stigma of mental illness with people like All Black John Kirwan fronting advertising campaigns, there is still serious underfunding in the Public Health Sector for outpatient care.
It is left to NGOs like ComCare to provide for patients after they are released from the hospital or outpatients services. Not surprisingly their services have expanded greatly in the last few years to cover for the Public Health Services lack... Especially for the long term residential patients who are now being "Released into the Community". The Warmline is one of those things. It provides telephone counselling by Peer Supporters for those who need it and frees up the Emergency Services for the more difficult cases.
Comcare Trust provides community services for adults with a diagnosed mental illness in Canterbury. These include housing services (finding flats, emergency housing, assistance in retaining existing housing), Community Support Services (short term or long term depending on need), Community Integration Service, the JobConnect supported employment service, the ActiveLinks recreation service and the Warmline telephone peer support service.
Like a lot of places in New Zealand, the Cabbage Tree is incorporated into their logo.
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I'm not usually so forthcoming or serious, but Acronymphomania inspired with his recent Blip
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