Community Youth Support Service

The Community Youth Support Service is for young people between the ages of 10 and 18. This is a similar service to the adult community support service, but more tailored to young people's specific needs.

Community Youth Service features

• focuses on young people's strengths.
• focuses on what is 'right' about the young person as opposed to what is 'wrong'.
• encourages and supports young people to identify and achieve their personal goals and aspirations.
• recognises the importance of family, whanau and caregivers in the young persons recovery.

Strengths Assessment

At the core of our work is the Strengths Assessment. This helps the individual:

• focus on their their personal strengths and resources.
• identify any differences between future perceptions of how they would like their life to be and how it currently is.
• identify barriers to realising that vision of their future by acknowledging their aspirations, learning effective problem solving skills and setting measurable goals to achieve the outcomes they desire.

Education

We offer education for young people and the families, whanau, caregivers and friends around

• stress management
• disorder education
• communication skills
• problem solving skills
• medication

Wellness and Recovery

Developing a Wellness Action Recovery Plan is a tool that we use which helps youth to identify what is helpful/unhelpful in maintaining their wellness, and what is helpful/unhelpful in their recovery process.

All referrals to our service must come through Te Roopu Kimiora who can be contacted on (09) 4304101 ext 8320.

 

Please contact us with any queries.