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The New Zealand Suicide Prevention Trust
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Objectives of the NZSPT
Our main function is to provide a toll free counselling line. Our secondary objective is
to implement our Rainbow Ribbons peer mentoring programme along with our Buddy Support
programme, opening doors to recovery, working in conjunction with counsellors, agencies,
churches, parents and seniors. Each colour is associated with a different module, helping
individuals to move on in their journey to recovery. To train Peer Mentors, Buddy Supporters,
Listeners and Lifesavers. This would involve youth mental and sexual health and wellbeing.
This would be holistic, operating through spiritual, mental, physical and social spheres
with the main aim to reduce suicides.
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The programme would be creative utilizing perspectives from art, drama, sports, nature and
would help youth to become individuated self realised social justice advocates. At a deeper
level the programme would seek to establish a crises intervention safe place operating through
our crises helpline at the coalface. Dealing with bullying, family conflict and the negative
links leading to suicide - for example identifying crises situations, depression, hopelessness,
relationship breakdown, addictions.
If you would like to see a presentation of our services or talk to me about this or make
suggestions, please contact me at:
Jack Gielen
82a Cambridge Rd
Hamilton
Ph: 07-8592939
Email: nzspt@clear.net.nz
Respectfully yours,
Jack Gielen
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History of the NZSPT
The New Zealand Suicide Prevention Trust - Ambassadors of Key to Hope Buddy Support
Network
(i)The Waikato Suicide Prevention Trust was registered in 2000 by Jack Gielen. On the 2nd of July
2002 the name of the trust was changed to the New Zealand Suicide Prevention Trust. The trustees
included a Research Psychologist, a Psychotherapist, a Counsellor, a Pastor, a Teacher and a
Solicitor. Since then a number of people have become associate members of the board and we
have had recent additions to our board.
(ii)The Trustees had been coming together to discuss the appallingly high suicide rate amongst
men and women of all ages, two thirds of whom are men with about one fifth of the 540 a year
being youth.
(iii) The people gathering together felt those affected within and without the system were
not being reached. This included those who experienced trauma below the surface in the black
hole as well as the hundreds of attempted suicides admitted to accident and emergency at
hospitals throughout New Zealand. It was unanimously decided to specialise in the Buddy Support
Holistic Trauma Recovery Programme, helping others to access wounds and grief, applying
processes which will bring the individual and family to a place of healing and restoration.
(iv) We desire to have our own Code of Ethics, Code of Practice, and our own manual covering
procedures , services and processes, retaining a community aspect which centres on real
community need so as to deal with real causes to problems, empowering people to control
their own destinies - hence the reason for our own constitution, an autonomous body which is
able to function both inside and outside the system.
(v) We desire to enter both telephone and face-to-face counselling, to operate crisis counselling
teams doing crisis risk assessment utilising Buddy Support and Trauma Recovery Process using
rituals, skills and services; being life savers, life linkers, befrienders and ambassadors.
Suicide is the final stage in a whole series of stages leading up to it. We want to put the
ambulance at the top of the cliff, creating appropriate safety nets within the community.
(vi) We have a Rainbow Ribbons Buddy Support Trauma Recovery programme which we seek to implement
in homes within towns and cities throughout New Zealand. To accomplish this we need volunteers,
Buddy Supporters, Ambassadors and field workers. Each person will facilitate their own support
networking with the aid of the manual, being instructed by Ambassadors and Supervisors.
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