Mental Health Consultation
The Ministry of Health is seeking your comments on its consultation document "Building on Strengths: A Springboard for Action" (the consultation document is also supplemented by a more detailed publication called "Building on Strengths: A Guide for Action"). The overall idea is to "build on current knowledge of preventive approaches and to enhance mental wellbeing by improving social, economic, cultural, political and physical environments in which we live". It advocates putting energy and resources into keeping people well and creating environments for them to reach their potential.
Building on Strengths proposes an overall approach - a national direction for mental health promotion over the next 5 years. It also puts forward some suggested action - by no means exhaustive - but examples of what might work.
From this feedback, the Ministry of Health will produce a strategy for mental health promotion, which will guide the sector for the next five years. What the Ministry hopes to end up with is a document that will educate NZ about mental health promotion - what it means and what can be done by different players. They also wish to produce a resource to guide policy makers, District Health Boards, service providers, government agencies and others.
Submissions close 30 August 2001. The submission booklet includes all the questions the Ministry is seeking comment on, with space given to provide answers. There are two ways of accessing the submission booklet electronically: You can download a PDF version of the submission booklet, print it out, make your comments on the hard copy and send it back to the Ministry of Health. Or, you can also make an on-line submission. If you prefer not to use the submission booklet at all, you can send your comments in an email to martine_o'shea@moh.govt.nz, or write to Martine O'Shea, Ministry of Health, PO Box 5849, Dunedin, fax (03) 474 8582. For a copy of the consultation document contact Wickcliffe Press, PO Box 932, Dunedin, tel (04) 496 2277 (Wellington), fax (03) 479 0979 (Dunedin), email moh@wickcliffe.co.nz, website www.moh.govt.nz (look under Publications - downloadable as a .pdf file) |
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