Families Commission: Teen Pregnancy – New Report

A recent report on teen pregnancy in New Zealand makes recommendations aimed at providing more support, choice and opportunity for young parents.

To download and view the report go to the Families Commission webpage.

Supporting Families and Mental Illness

A Qualitative Exploratory Study, Into The Views and Needs of Parents who Experience Mental Illness has been released. The study revealed that the parents valued meeting other’s with similar experiences and felt different approaches were needed to parenting when experiencing mental illness.

You can read the full article here.

New media resource provides best practice on reporting suicide

A resource for use by journalists and others who report or comment on suicide was published in December 2011.

It outlines issues relating to suicide reporting, provides some best practice suggestions, and identifies useful sources of information.

The resource was developed by a working group of media and mental health professionals along with agencies (NGOs and government) working in suicide prevention.

Download Reporting Suicide here. PDF, 228 kb