Odyssey supports people seeking wellness and their wh?nau to live the lives they want, free from addiction challenges. They create hopeful and safe spaces for people with drug, alcohol, and other addiction challenges to move towards a brighter future. Odyssey has supported thousands of people in Aotearoa. They work with people whose lives are affected by alcohol, drugs, and other addiction or wellbeing challenges.
- Adults | Pakeke: Whether you are staying with us or accessing our services in a community or custodial setting, we offer opportunities to learn skills to cope with life’s stresses, build positive relationships and make connections that enable long-term recovery.
- Youth | Rangatahi: Are harms from drug or alcohol use getting in the way of what you want to get out of life? We can support you to start thinking about different options while staying with us, or in the community.
- Families | Wh?nau: When someone close to you is living with addiction or mental health challenges, it is often hard to know how to support them and how to get support for yourself. At Odyssey, we encourage wh?nau involvement in our recovery programmes. We also support wh?nau to develop skills that will help them feel stronger and better prepared to navigate challenging times.
- Taupae Wheako: Taupae Wheako provides training, coaching, supervision, and consultancy services to support the lived experience and peer workforce.
Our services for adults | pakeke include opportunities to stay with us, or to receive support in the community.
1. Residential Services
- Adult Residential Service: our adult residence offers a long-term treatment programme for people experiencing issues with drug or alcohol use. The programme is based on a treatment approach called a therapeutic community or TC.
- Family Centre: our Family Centre provides a hopeful, openhearted and safe space for parents to be with their children, while they participate in our adult residential treatment programme.
- Te Wairua: our Te Wairua service, which means ‘two streams of healing’, is available for people seeking support with mental health and addiction issues.
2. Community Services: services and other support at our community hubs and in other community settings in Auckland and Northland
- Community Hubs: at our community hubs in Auckland and Whangarei, we support people who may be experiencing harms from their own (or someone else’s) challenges with drugs, alcohol or gambling.
- Be SMART Support Groups for Friends and Wh?nau: In Auckland and Whangarei we offer free, weekly support groups for people whose lives are impacted by the addictive behaviours of someone close to them.
- Haven: Haven is a safe, warm space if you are having a rough time after taking substances, if you are feeling distressed or you just want to feel less alone.
3. Partnership Programmes
- Te Whare Whakapiki Wairua: Te Whare Whakapiki Wairua (The house that lifts the spirit) is the M?ori name given to the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court, a partnership between Odyssey, the Ministries of Justice and Health, Higher Ground and The Salvation Army that was established in 2012 as an alternative pathway to imprisonment.
- Drug Treatment Programme: group-based Drug Treatment Programmes at Auckland and Spring Hill Corrections Facilities, where peers support and influence each other to develop pro-social behaviour and to work collectively towards recovery.
- Intensive Treatment Programmes: Te Ng?here is an eight-week strengths-based programme that supports participants to work on their recovery capital, rebuilding connections to wh?nau, tikanga and their own cultural identity.
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New Zealand
Contact Person / Email
admissioncentre@odyssey.org.nz
- Be SMART Support Groups for Friends and Wh?nau: In Auckland and Whangarei we offer free, weekly support groups for people whose lives are impacted by the addictive behaviours of someone close to them.
- Te Pu?wai Aroha: a fun and free 4-day programme during the school holidays. It is for children and teens (8 to 17 years old) whose parents or caregivers experience mental health or addiction challenges.
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New Zealand
Address
56 Bollard Ave, New Windsor, Auckland 0600
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New Zealand
Contact Person / Email
admin@odyssey.org.nz
Address
144 Bank Street, Whangarei
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New Zealand
Contact Person / Email
northlandcommunityhub@odyssey.org.nz
The Peer Recovery Center of Excellence exists to enhance the field of peer recovery support services. Led by those with lived experience, Peer voice is at the core of our work and guides our mission. We are here to offer help from those who have done this work to those wanting to enhance or begin peer support services in their communities!
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New Zealand
External supervision for peers by people with lived experience and supervision skills
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New Zealand
Odyssey is now offering its Peer Support 101 training to the sector. This training is an all-encompassing introduction to the Peer Support role. It has a strong cultural foundation and has been developed through extensive consultation with key stakeholders to provide training to prepare people with lived experience for employment in a Peer role. While particularly suited to Peers working in addiction settings, it also supports Peers working in mental health, youth, housing, cultural and a range of other settings. The training can be delivered face-to-face or online across Aotearoa New Zealand.
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New Zealand
Taupaewheako is the centre for Lived Experience Peer Support and Social Recovery. Taupae Wheako provides training, coaching, supervision, and consultancy services to support the lived experience and peer workforce, alongside other national training and programmes. We can tailor training to suit your needs, and have experience working with addiction, harm reduction, justice, corrections, social recovery, recovery capital, and mental health.
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New Zealand
Contact Person / Email
taupaewheako@odyssey.org.nz
Peer Support 101 is strongly aligned to and guided by the Peer Support Strategy, Action Plan and Competencies for the Consumer, Peer Support and Lived Experience (CPSLE) workforce from Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui
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New Zealand
Organisation
Country: New Zealand
Email: admissioncentre@odyssey.org.nz
