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Filename: MI_CRIME_AND_JUSTICE_SYSTEM.DOC
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Covering service user participation in the mental health sector, this paper provides a framework for thinking about service user participation and discussing it. It provides service users with information on the scope of participation and their right to participate, as well as being useful to policy organisations, funders and providers. 51 pages.
Filename: SU_PARTICIPATION_PAPER_MAY_.PDF
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The report of the University of Waikato Mental Health Narratives Project, Kia Mauri Tau! describes the project and its philosophy (RECOVER + HEART) as pertains to mental ill health. The stories of 11 Maori women, 10 Maori men, 10 non-Maori women and 9 non-Maori men are presented in this narrative study that follows their journeys through mental illness, recovery and into life after mental ill health. All 40 participants had once suffered from a disabling mental health problem and considered they had recovered; none had made use of mental health services during the last two years and they were no longer using psychiatric medication. Cultural, personal and stigma issues are discussed in relation to the recovery process. 112 pages.
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Sensational media reporting about mental illness and violence is felt to be the greatest obstacle to reducing stigma and discrimination. This fact sheet aims to combat this habit of linking murders to mental illness by summarising the international research and reiterating known New Zealand facts about homicide in general. 4 pages.
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The fact is, most people with mental illness are no more likely than anyone else to commit a violent crime. Research details are summarised here, along with quoted expert views and conclusions. 2 pages.
Filename: MI_AND_VIOLENT_CRIME_FS.PDF
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Written by a Samoan journalist with mental illness, this paper is based on his and other Samoan, Cook Islands Maori, and one Tahitian persons experiences of what has helped and hindered their recovery as Pacific peoples using New Zealand mental health services. Six of the eight interviewees are New Zealand-born, and ages range from mid 20s to mid 40s.The Appendix discusses recovery from a Pacific perspective. 40 pages.
Filename: TONGAN_REC.PDF
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These employment checklists are designed to help agencies ensure that people experiencing mental illness are provided with adequate medical, rehabilitative, vocational, social and financial supports, motivation and encouragement, as well as access to jobs to enable them to establish and maintain meaningful paid employment. 6 pages.
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These housing checklists are designed to help agencies ensure that people experiencing mental illness establish and/or maintain secure, affordable and safe housing appropriate to their preferences and health needs, social needs, work and family responsibilities. 6 pages.
Filename: HOUSING_CHECKLIST.PDF
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This paper is about the recovery experience of four families with a son, daughter or sibling who has been diagnosed with an ongoing mental illness. The paper focuses entirely on the families experiences and all the quotes are their words. Recovery is a process and an attitude, not a place... Recovery is about getting there. 36 pages.
Filename: RECOVERY_FAMILY.PDF
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Written by a Samoan journalist with mental illness, this paper is based on his and other Samoan, Cook Islands Maori, and one Tahitian persons experiences of what has helped and hindered their recovery as Pacific peoples using New Zealand mental health services. Six of the eight interviewees are New Zealand-born, and ages range from mid 20s to mid 40s.The Appendix discusses recovery from a Pacific perspective. 32 pages.
Filename: RECOVERY_PACIFIC.PDF
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