Toward Well Being

Te Kahu O Te Aorangi

The Toward Well Being Suicide Consultation and Monitoring Programme (TWB) is an evidenced-based risk assessment, consultation and monitoring service.  TWB supports Ministry of Social Development's Child, Youth and Family Service (CYF) staff in assessing and responding to suicide risk in young people in contact with CYF.

The programme was developed by the Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, and is delivered by Clinical Advsiory Services Aotearoa.

Key service delivery components include:

• maintaining a monitoring and case audit system for young people identified to be of risk of suicide
• providing specialist advice and monitoring to support CYF social workers and their supervisors to enhance service provision and decrease risk
• providing advice about the targeting of welfare and mental health service to those at risk of suicidal behaviour
• providing CYF with up to date suicide prevention information about best practice, training, research, tools and statistics