A wide range of Mental Health services is offered under the Whanganui District Health Board’s provider arm of Whanganui District Health Board.

The services are provided for people aged between 2 and 65 years of age in a range of settings in the community and at the Whanganui Hospital campus on Heads Road.

The services are provided through multidisciplinary teams including psychiatrists/doctors, clinical psychologists, mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, rehabilitation association and Mäori mental health workers, who provide a range of assessments, clinical interventions and rehabilitation programmes including service co-ordination. 

A Community Mental Health team is based on campus with a second team based at Rangitikei Rural Health Centre.

Mental Health services based at the Whanganui Hospital campus include:

• Te Awhina - which houses the Adult Acute In-patient Services and Day Services
• Stanford House - an extended secure regional forensic unit
• Child, Adolescent and Family Services
• Alcohol and Drug Service 

Te Awhina Adult Acute Inpatient Services

Te Awhina is a 15-bed acute in-patient unit for people aged 17 to 65 who suffer from an acute mental illness.

Visiting times are 3.30pm to 8.00pm Monday to Friday and 9.00am to 8.00pm Saturday and Sunday.


Day Services

Although sited in the in-patient building, this service is part of Whanganui Community Mental Health Services and provides individual, group-based clinical interventions and rehabilitation programmes for in-patients at Te Awhina to facilitate early discharge and treatment planned follow up of outpatients.

Contact:
+64 6 348-1281 (in-patient services)
+64 6 348-3175 or +64 6 348-3168 (day services)


Kaupapa Maori Mental Health Service

The Maori Health Outcome Advisory Group has developed an integrated Kaupapa Maori Mental Health and Addiction services approach as part of whanau ora, following the District Health Board Te Hunga Piki-Te-Ora Review and on the advice of Hauora a Iwi.  This model is for Kaupapa Maori mental health service provision and primary mental health care, delivered through whanau ora.  The district’s iwi health providers and Te Oranganui PHO will work together to ensure seamless access to appropriate clinical and kaiawhina support services for Maori tangata whaiora.  Each iwi health provider will employ their own kaiawhina to support their own people at home.