The LEAP™ one day training program teaches families and whanau how to better understand and strengthen their relationships with a loved one, and how to assist them in engaging with people who are trying to help them.
SFMI are accredited LEAP™ Trainers, and provide free training to families and whanau around the country. You can register for LEAP™ Training through any Supporting Families in Mental Illness branch.
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In my role as Chair Commissioner for the Mental Health Commission I have been asked by the Minister of Health to lead the development of a new Blueprint for Mental Health and Addiction services.
This work will update the 1998 ‘Blueprint for Mental Health Services in New Zealand: How Things Need to Be’. The original Blueprint document has been guiding mental health and addiction resourcing and service development for the past decade and sector feedback is that it now needs updating to better reflect today’s challenges, evidence and innovation.
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Take It From Us Radio Show - Planet FM (104.6FM). Are families and whanau being overlooked - perhaps even ignored completely - in clinical decisions about loved ones? Hear the view of Supporting Families in Mental Illness on this broadcast. Tuesday 8 November 2011
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