Part 2 Indigenous innovation: Disrupting the system, value and impact.
Published:
July 31, 2024
Indigenous innovation and disrupting the system, value and impact.
The Whanganui mental health & addictions sector agreed a Te Ao Māori worldview would provide a much deeper and inclusive frame for shifting the system from a clinically led model to a human and eco-centric continuum of care. By identifying these patterns, we are now able to determine where earlier intervention and prevention can occur. This will support sector partners to design and prototype potential solutions using a Te Ao Māori perspective to address mental health & addictions issues and amplify and accelerate the impact of these through stakeholders and community working together across the ecosystem.
Te Ao Maori prevention solutions to address crisis within Mental Health and Addictions.
Maramataka patterning and the use of a Te Ao Māori perspective to address mental health & addiction challenges, through a prevention lens. Healthy Families Whanganui Ruapehu Rangitikei (WRR) Rautaki Māori alongside the Lead Systems Innovator for the Collaborative Re-design of Mental Health & Addictions (MH&AOD) service delivery have been exploring the use of Maramataka, for analysing mental health and family harm crisis data. This has included collating and mapping 5 years of admissions to the acute psychiatric inpatient unit, seclusion, positive screening at the hospital for family harm, police family harm call outs, and suicides.
A total of 15,208 regional data points has been collated and mapped in this initiative.
Between 2018 – 2022 the region has spent $418 million on one-off mental health and addiction and family harm crisis interventions.
To date we have had over 200 stakeholders visit the Maramataka patterns walk-through, including whānau, iwi, Māori researchers, central government, Mātauranga Māori holders, mental health experts, and health clinicians. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, with many stakeholders excited at what the findings could mean for collaboratively disrupting the mental health crisis trajectory.
