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New blueprint for mental health unveiled
14 June 2012
New blueprint for mental health unveiled
The Mental Health Commission is recommending that more people should be able to access mental health and addiction services in the future, and that those who need help should receive it immediately.
The recommendations are among many contained in the Mental Health Commission’s Blueprint II, a vision for how New Zealand can improve the way it supports and helps people with mental health and addiction issues over the coming decade.
Blueprint II has been developed over the past year and includes significant input from across the mental health and addiction community.
Chair Commissioner, Dr Lynne Lane said, “There have been significant improvements in the way we deal with mental health and addiction in the last 10 years. But we know we still have to do much better, particularly for younger people.
“We need to create an environment where all of us involved in mental health and addiction can do more with the funds, workforce, infrastructure and energy we already have. In short, we need to make sure we have a sustainable sector for the future.”
Key recommendations in Blueprint II include:
• Broadening access to support
for more people and responding earlier in the development of
mental health and addiction problems
• Developing more
integrated models of care across a range of services, with a
focus on people keeping well, recovery and remaining
connected to their family/whānau and society
• Putting
people and their families/whānau at the heart of mental
health and addiction services
• Achieving better
outcomes with the same level of resources by making better
use of them
More details (including copies of Blueprint II documents) are available on the Mental Health Commission website www.mhc.govt.nz.
About The Mental Health Commission
• Our vision: the best mental
health and wellbeing for all.
• The Mental Health
Commission’s purpose is to contribute to mental health and
wellbeing for all New Zealanders. It aims to improve mental
health and addiction services and to influence society’s
overall response to mental health issues.
• The
Commission works to achieve this vision by serving as an
independent monitor and advocate for people with experience
of mental distress and/or addiction, and for their families,
whānau.
• Over the past decade the Commission’s
vision and leadership has contributed to internationally
recognised gains in New Zealand’s mental health and
addiction sector.
About Blueprint Ii
• The
Mental Health Commission’s original 1998 Blueprint guided
mental health and addiction resourcing and service
development for over a decade, playing a crucial role in
increasing investment in specialist services, with a focus
on recovery.
• Many aspects of the original Blueprint
are now out of date and a review and renewal are
required.
• Blueprint II updates the direction set in
the first Blueprint to meet the contemporary challenges of
the impact of mental health and addiction issues on society
as a whole, and supporting an ageing and increasingly
diverse population with limited resources.
Blueprint II documents can be found on the Mental Health Commission website www.mhc.govt.nz at: http://www.mhc.govt.nz/blueprint-ii-0
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