Te Tahuhu - Improving Mental Health 2005 - 2015

2nd Mental Health Plan

Te Tahuhu introduces the following ten leading challenges:

Promotion and prevention

Promote mental health and wellbeing and prevent mental illness and addiction

Building mental health services

Build and broaden the range and choice of services and supports, which are funded for people who are severely affected by mental illness

Responsiveness

Build responsive services for people who are severely affected by mental illness and/or addiction

Workforce and culture for recovery

Build a mental health and addiction workforce -- and foster a culture amongst providers -- that supports recovery, is person centred, culturally capable, and delivers an ongoing commitment to assure and improve the quality of services for people

Māori mental health

Continue to broaden the range, quality and choice of mental health and addiction services for Māori

Primary health care

Build and strengthen the capability of the primary health care sector to promote mental health and wellbeing and to respond to the needs of people with mental illness and addiction

Addiction

Improve the availability of and access to quality addiction services, and strengthen the alignment between addiction services and services for people with mental illness

Funding mechanisms for recovery

Develop and implement funding mechanisms for mental health and addiction that support recovery, advance best practice and enable collaboration

Transparency and trust

Strengthen trust in services and accountability and information systems

Working together

Strengthen cross-agency working together