CareNZ offers the following services in Counties Manukau.They can also support friends and family if the person experiencing drug harm is engaged with the service.
- Peer Support: Peer Support Workers have personally experienced issues with alcohol and drug use in the past. They use their recovery experience and knowledge to help other people by providing peer support and recovery coaching.
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Counselling: They provide one-to-one support and counselling for up to 12 sessions. During these sessions, they will work with you to identify the underlying issues that might play a role in your alcohol and drug use and help you develop life skills to make long-term changes.
One-to-one sessions are also available to reinforce learnings from group work programmes, and to develop individual relapse prevention plans.
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Recovery Groups: For everyone who has stopped using alcohol or drugs, they offer abstinence based recovery support groups. Sharing experiences and hearing other people’s stories can be beneficial for maintaining abstinence.
They also offer recovery support for those who have ceased using their drug of choice but may be at a different stage of change in relation to their other drug use.
- Education: WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) Groups. These are a great recovery tool as well as being the prerequisite for the Peer Employment Training delivered at Ember Korowai Takitini..
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The Driving Forwards Programme is a group work programme for recidivist drink drivers. Participants are usually referred by the justice system.
The programme focuses on motivating recidivist drink drivers to change their behaviour and provide strategies to do this. The course include a combination of alcohol education, information on safer driving, victim awareness and managing high risk situations.
- NZTA Assessment:
Our Driving Forwards Programme is a group work programme for recidivist drink drivers. Participants are usually referred by the justice system.
The programme focuses on motivating recidivist drink drivers to change their behaviour and provide strategies to do this. The course include a combination of alcohol education, information on safer driving, victim awareness and managing high risk situations.