Te Whare Puawai O Te Tangata Trust is a Mental Health Service that covers North Taranaki. They provide a number of different services. The one that relates most to youth is the service they offer for young people who may be experiencing psychosis for the first time.

Bruce Jackson is their Nurse. He helps young people and their whanau to understand psychosis and teaches them ways to look after themselves so that they can either get over it or learn ways to manage it better. Te Whare Puawai is a Hauora Maori service which is open to all.

 

Contacts

Bruce can be contacted between 8:30am and 4.30pm, weekdays on: (06) 759 4300. The office is located at the Barrett Street complex, New Plymouth.