Taking a \u201cnon-clinical approach\u201d, the 24\/7 staffed facility will offer domestic support, which includes a bed, food and a \u201cwh\u0101nau plan\u201d.<\/p>\n
Residents will spend up to 12 weeks at the facility before transitioning into rehab.<\/p>\n
They then re-enter the facility after rehab to help with reintegration.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is quite a unique pilot that Tair\u0101whiti is testing,\u201d Whaitiri said.<\/p>\n
The facility was not a rehab nor a detox centre, but would help to bridge the gap between \u201cacute to rehab\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n
Whaitiri said there was no \u201caccredited\u201d rehabilitation centre in Gisborne. Those who wanted rehab had to go out of town to places like Auckland or Rotorua.<\/p>\n
If people were acutely addicted, the only option was the hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen once they get released from the hospital, there\u2019s no one picking them up … to go into rehab.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they\u2019re lucky to get into formal recovery rehab places, then it\u2019s when they come out – there\u2019s nothing to capture them, to keep them drug-free,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe call it a safe space – for them to then contemplate developing their plans to commit to going to rehab, and then coming back after rehab, reintegrating them back into their community and into their wh\u0101nau.\u201d<\/p>\n
It would be \u201cwh\u0101nau and community-led … all the clinical support that this individual will need does happen, but it doesn\u2019t happen in the whare,\u201d Whaitiri said.<\/p>\n
People would be referred to the facility from existing addiction service providers.<\/p>\n
Clinical assessments would be completed by providers and clinicians off-site, and the facility would also assess with the individual and the family to ensure they were ready to commit to rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
Once in the facility, they would continue to complete their day-to-day programmes with their providers, which could include going to counselling, and they might also continue to go to work.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019ll obviously be waiting for beds to free up in the rehabs, so every day will be different depending on the wh\u0101nau plan … and what the providers can do.\u201d<\/p>\n
A \u201cunique\u201d aspect of the project was that they would not just work with the addict, but their wh\u0101nau as well.<\/p>\n
At this stage they were looking for a semi-rural property a short distance from Gisborne.<\/p>\n
Two staff would be working at any one time, both trained in de-escalation and safety issues, and with experience in the social sector.<\/p>\n
The region had received $2 million in Government funding for addiction services, spread between addiction service providers and Te Whare Whakawatea.<\/p>\n
Whaitiri said the pilot had 12 months of funding and they wanted to ensure the programme\u2019s success.<\/p>\n
In the short time they had to kick the pilot off they had to get people on their recovery journey through the door to test whether the facility and approach worked.<\/p>\n
\u201cGot to make sure that they\u2019re fit – they\u2019re not a threat to themselves or others in the house, they\u2019re not going to be a threat to the staff and they\u2019re serious about the rehab journey,\u201d Whaitiri said.<\/p>\n
Te Whare Whakawatea would also enable existing providers to come together and understand the various roles across the recovery journey.<\/p>\n
If successful, it could lead to ongoing funding and a regional rehabilitation centre, Whaitiri said.<\/p>\n
Brown said the concept had to be tested to see whether the thinking and feedback they had received from those with lived experience would impact recovery journeys.<\/p>\n
One of the \u201cbiggest factors\u201d discovered in data and evidence was when people returned from rehab, most relapsed as their environment remained unchanged.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo how do you reintegrate them into that space and work with all their peers and family?\u201d<\/p>\n
They had connected with Turanga Health as a potential provider for the facility, as Maanaki Tairawhiti was not a service provider.<\/p>\n
Data would be captured throughout the pilot to measure success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taking a \u201cnon-clinical approach\u201d, the 24\/7 staffed facility will offer domestic support, which includes a bed, food and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[579,682,71,12506,5838,1868,3180,117,111,43,139,69,384,26346,59780,1881,381,19098,392,8690,200057,67016],"class_list":{"0":"post-385721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-addiction","9":"tag-being","10":"tag-from","11":"tag-gisborne","12":"tag-help","13":"tag-meth","14":"tag-near","15":"tag-new","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-people","21":"tag-planned","22":"tag-recover","23":"tag-recovery","24":"tag-region","25":"tag-safe","26":"tag-space","27":"tag-te","28":"tag-whakawatea","29":"tag-whare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}