Kites Work

Service providers are often busy providing their day-to-day services and may not have time to put into developing new ideas and resources.

Kites is committed to working with communities to help them plan, organize and carry out new initiatives while promoting the self-reliance of people who experience mental illness.

  • Seeking service users/tangata whaiora views
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  • Facilitation and mediation
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  • Feasibility studies
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  • Researching and testing new ideas
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  • Skill and knowledge sharing
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  • Connecting and building networks
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    Contract Work

    Kites is able to undertake work on a contract basis. Examples include:

    * Complementary Therapy & Mental Health publication on behalf of the Mental Health Foundation.
    * Focus groups with service users of Early Intervention Service and GP Liaison Scheme (WIPA).
    * Development of information packs regarding parents with mental illness for HCN – a joint strategy of the Ministries of Health, Education and Department of Child, Youth & Family.
    * Organisation and administration of meetings and workshops for Capital & Coast DHB's mental health and addictions services planning process, named "The Journey Forward".