Matua Raki Workforce Innovation Award
Northland DHB Mental Health & Addiction Services (on behalf of the Te Ara Oranga steering group) were presented with the Supreme Matua Raki Workforce Innovation Award at the Cutting Edge Conference dinner in Rotorua, 13 September 2018
The award recognises innovation in work practices contributing to workforce development and wellbeing, with a connected approach central to the supreme winner’s successful community initiative to positively change the lives of tāngata whai ora.
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Photo: LTR – Clinicians Michelle Petricevich, Jewel Reti and Robin Oxborough received the award at the Cutting Edge Conference Dinner
2018 Northland Health and Social Innovation Awards
Te Ara Oranga was the winner of the Cedric Kelly Supreme Award and Collaboration Award at the 2018 Northland Health and Social Innovation Awards. This Supreme Award is presented to the best initiative from any of the Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Awards categories as the Supreme Winner.
The aim of Te Ara Oranga is to reduce the demand for methamphetamine through community and individually targeted projects that align the resources of Northland Police and Northland DHB. The combined effort offers a model that improves the opportunity to reduce supply – through focused enforcement – and demand by supporting individual users into treatment.
Te Ara Oranga has taken the learnings and governance of Social Wellbeing Governance Group and Kainga Ora and the strengths of a collective strategy and applied them to ‘how’ it delivers the pilot, particularly through engaging with community in a co-design process.
Te Ara Oranga also won the Collaboration Award which recognises outstanding examples of collaboration within departments in the health service and between primary and secondary services that have contributed to service improvements or better health outcomes.
2020 Evidence-Based Problem Oriented Policing Awards
Te Ara Oranga won the Excellence in the Generation, Application, and Development of Evidence at the 2020 Evidence-Based Problem Oriented Policing Award at Te Papa in March 2020.
Te Ara Oranga was among eight harm-reduction projects from Police districts and national workgroups selected as finalists from 20 original entries. Finalists had to show they had identified and analysed recurring problems and how they developed, implemented, and assessed effective responses.
