Leadership

Te Pou believes New Zealand can lead the world in mental health and addiction innovations and expertise, through inspirational ideas and action.

Leadership includes empowering, leading through service and leading by example. We know that if Te Pou is to continue to lead transformation across the sector, the ability to transform starts with us. For this reason, we run a programme of continual improvement not only for the sector but for ourselves – as an organisation, as a partner to government and the sector, and as individuals.

International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership

The International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) is a government to government funded initiative, which has seven member countries. New Zealand is one of the three founding member countries. Te Pou funds a staff member to work on planning, liaison and evaluation for IIMHL.

The aim of IIMHL is to coordinate learning exchanges between mental health and addiction leaders from member countries. The exchanges assist in reforming services by comparing best practice and innovations.
Key priority areas affecting all countries include funding practices, developing primary mental health, reducing seclusion in inpatient units, indigenous best practice and gathering together an evidence and research base for leadership in mental health.

More recently the disability sector has joined this agency and has its own parallel organisation under the umbrella of IIMHL.

Did you know?

There are seven participating countries in the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) – USA, England, New Zealand, Scotland, republic of Ireland, Canada and Australia.

There are more than 2,000 people listed in the IIMHL database, representing 15 countries and 1,000 mental health agencies.

You may also be interested in…

• International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL)
• Leadership and management training
• Disability Workforce Development leadership and consumer leadership development grant funding
• Le Va Le Tautua emerging leaders programme.