Implementation of Let's get real
Over the next two years, mental health and addiction services and education/training providers will be implementing Let’s get real into their organisations and courses/programmes.
Implementation is focused on bringing the Real Skills and their associated values and attitudes into organisational systems, processes and training. The Ministry of Health and national mental health and addiction workforce development centres are supporting implementation.
The Ministry of Health has developed an implementation plan that describes the two phases of Let's get real implementation and the roles and resources to support this.
The Let’s get real Overview is recommended reading for everyone. It describes all the enablers in detail and how they support implementation of Let’s get real.
Te Pou has developed five enablers to support organisations and mental health and addiction services to implement Let’s get real.
- Three tools (processes and systems) to support organisations to implement the Let’s get real framework.
- A set of self-directed learning modules.
- An Education Tool to support education providers to integrate Let’s get real into programmes and courses for new graduates and industry training organisation trainees who may go on to work in mental health and addiction services.
All enablers can be downloaded from the download enablers page. Alternatively you can request a CD of the enablers by emailing letsgetreal "at" tepou.co.nz.
Intention and purpose of each enabler
The first four enablers are designed for use in mental health and addiction services. The fifth enabler is intended specifically to support education and training providers.
Guide for Managers and Leaders
The Guide for Managers and Leaders provides guidance on how the enablers support implementation of Let’s get real in organisations.
Team Planning Tool
The objective of the Team Planning Tool is to assist services to use and include Let’s get real in service planning, and to develop a team profile and a workforce plan to up-skill team members in the seven Real Skills.
Human Resources Tool
In recognition of the variation in human resources capacity amongst organisations the Human Resources Tool has two aspects:
- a high level guide which assists organisations to understand Let’s get real, and to identify ways of introducing Let’s get real into existing systems and processes
- a comprehensive tool with templates that can be downloaded.
Learning modules
These self-directed modules can also be used for group training sessions. The learning modules comprise:
- Getting Started
- Values and Attitudes
- Essential, practitioner and leader modules for each of the seven Real Skills:
- Working with service users
- Working with Māori
- Working with families/whānau
- Working within communities
- Challenging stigma and discrimination
- Law, policy and practice
- Professional and personal development.
Education Tool
The two-fold purpose of the Education Tool is to develop a:
- process to incorporate Let’s get real into existing review processes
- process or guideline for integrating Let’s get real into curricula.
In addition, the Education Tool supports professional bodies to audit education and training programmes, and other courses provided to students or trainees in their particular profession.
Page last updated: 11 May 2010