About the serviceThe role of Te Korowai Whāriki, which encompasses both the Regional Forensic Mental Health Service and the Regional Rehabilitation Mental Health Service, is to provide quality inpatient and outpatient care for youth and adult clients. As regional services, we deliver to the Wellington, Manawatu, Whanganui, Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa and Tairawhiti districts. Our Regional Rehabilitation Service provides specialist inpatient services for clients with high support and complex needs, delivered in a range of settings from minimum security, to ‘open’ rehabilitation and independent cottages on the Rātonga-Rua site. Clients return to their district of domicile for ongoing care. Our Forensic Service works closely with the justice system to provide secure assessment, treatment and rehabilitation services for mentally ill adult offenders and alleged offenders, and secure assessment and treatment services for youth offenders and alleged offenders. We also liaise with secondary services for those adults and youth who present with challenging behaviours and who pose a high risk of offending. The Forensic and Rehabilitation inpatient service’s buildings are located on a site that has been gifted the name Rātonga -Rua-O-Porirua, translating to “The Two Services of Porirua”. The site includes an activity centre, chapel, and Māori and Pacific cultural centres. We also have Nga Taiohi, the National Youth Forensic Mental Health Unit, located at the adjacent Kenepuru Community Hospital in Porirua. Our regional forensic community teams provide mental health care to the regional prisons, youth offending units and youth justice facilities. They also deliver court liaison work to adult and youth courts, and care for community clients who require supervision and support by virtue of their status as Special Patients or who have ongoing need for forensic community support. | 