Advertisement Hotline for immediate help Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki launched an Immediate Response IMMEDIATE RESPONSE freephone hotline this month, offering help to those suffering mental distress. HOTLINE The hotline comes hot on the heels of the launch of Te Küwatawata ki Hauraki - a mental health immediate response service, which uses an indigenous- style proven framework to ensure those in distress receive support and treatment when they need it. for whänau suffering 8.30-4.30 mental distress PEN Mon-Fri: Dr Diana and Mark Kopua Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki Immediate Response Hotline offers an inclusive service with a holistic Mori approach that values everyone and drives systemie changes on how to work with whänau suffering mental distress. The Immediate Response hotline ensures those in mental distress receive support and treatment as and when they need it. Te Küwatawata ki Hauraki is spearheaded by Te Whare Wänanga o Te Kurahuna training service providers Dr Mahi a Atua Diana Kopua, independent psychiatrist and former head of psychiatry at Gisborne DHB, alongside her husband, tohunga and T Moko practitioner Mark . Mahi a Atua is a Mãori therapeutic intervention that uses prkau (retelling and sharing of stories) of atua (ancestral The couple has been contracted to create Te Küwatawata Mãori gods) allowing Mäori to not only ki Hauraki within Te Korowai using their Mahi a Atua framework and Måori service design to improve how to work with whänau suffering mental distress. access their cultural heritage, but to better examine and align their feelings and actions against the attributes, trials and tribulations of their taonga If you, or whänau are suffering mental distress, please contact FREEPHONE Dr Kopua says the phoneline is an inclusive service with a holistic Màori approach that drives systemic changes to work with whänau in distress. our FREE Hotline for 0508 111 555 (ancestors). Immediate support Prkau narratives can raise all sorts and treatment. www.korowai.co.nz of issues such as generational conflict, whänau struggles, gender adversity, incest, bullying, withdrawal and depression and while some messages within the pùråkau may not always be immediately obvious, the storytelling approach often helps whänau find solutions to problems and situations within their own lives in ways that are not always rationalised cognitively. "Even if that is just a phone call - we will work hard to get you seen as soon as you believe you need to be seen by a team of people who will be operating from a Mahi a Atua framework," she says. Whnau Health Centres Dr Kopua says the Mahi a Atua approach supports the fact that one size does not fit all. The approach values whänau being able to choose the wänanga (forum) that suits them best - be it by phone, in person, on their own, with whänau - however and whenever they like. For more information: go to www.korowai.co.nz/news Open: Mon-Fri: 8.30-5pm FREEPHONE Thames: 07 868 o033 Te Aroha: 07 884 9208 Paeroa: 07 862 9284 Coromandel: 07 866 8084 www.korowai.co.nz 0508 835 676 Te Korowai Hauors o Hauraki Advertisement Hotline for immediate help Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki launched an Immediate Response IMMEDIATE RESPONSE freephone hotline this month, offering help to those suffering mental distress. HOTLINE The hotline comes hot on the heels of the launch of Te Küwatawata ki Hauraki - a mental health immediate response service, which uses an indigenous- style proven framework to ensure those in distress receive support and treatment when they need it. for whänau suffering 8.30-4.30 mental distress PEN Mon-Fri: Dr Diana and Mark Kopua Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki Immediate Response Hotline offers an inclusive service with a holistic Mori approach that values everyone and drives systemie changes on how to work with whänau suffering mental distress. The Immediate Response hotline ensures those in mental distress receive support and treatment as and when they need it. Te Küwatawata ki Hauraki is spearheaded by Te Whare Wänanga o Te Kurahuna training service providers Dr Mahi a Atua Diana Kopua, independent psychiatrist and former head of psychiatry at Gisborne DHB, alongside her husband, tohunga and T Moko practitioner Mark . Mahi a Atua is a Mãori therapeutic intervention that uses prkau (retelling and sharing of stories) of atua (ancestral The couple has been contracted to create Te Küwatawata Mãori gods) allowing Mäori to not only ki Hauraki within Te Korowai using their Mahi a Atua framework and Måori service design to improve how to work with whänau suffering mental distress. access their cultural heritage, but to better examine and align their feelings and actions against the attributes, trials and tribulations of their taonga If you, or whänau are suffering mental distress, please contact FREEPHONE Dr Kopua says the phoneline is an inclusive service with a holistic Màori approach that drives systemic changes to work with whänau in distress. our FREE Hotline for 0508 111 555 (ancestors). Immediate support Prkau narratives can raise all sorts and treatment. www.korowai.co.nz of issues such as generational conflict, whänau struggles, gender adversity, incest, bullying, withdrawal and depression and while some messages within the pùråkau may not always be immediately obvious, the storytelling approach often helps whänau find solutions to problems and situations within their own lives in ways that are not always rationalised cognitively. "Even if that is just a phone call - we will work hard to get you seen as soon as you believe you need to be seen by a team of people who will be operating from a Mahi a Atua framework," she says. Whnau Health Centres Dr Kopua says the Mahi a Atua approach supports the fact that one size does not fit all. The approach values whänau being able to choose the wänanga (forum) that suits them best - be it by phone, in person, on their own, with whänau - however and whenever they like. For more information: go to www.korowai.co.nz/news Open: Mon-Fri: 8.30-5pm FREEPHONE Thames: 07 868 o033 Te Aroha: 07 884 9208 Paeroa: 07 862 9284 Coromandel: 07 866 8084 www.korowai.co.nz 0508 835 676 Te Korowai Hauors o Hauraki