An exciting opportunity to grow and develop youth mental health services is how a move off-campus for three of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board's youth mental health teams is being viewed.

On Thursday August 27 the Sorted Youth AOD (Alcohol and Other Drugs) Service, Adolescent Mental Health Services, and the Young Person Mental Health Acute Duty teams will move from their location on the Tauranga Hospital campus to 290 Cameron Rd.

Anja Theron, Nurse Leader Mental Health and Addictions Services says the move is key to enabling future service growth.

'An exciting opportunity to help our services continue to grow and develop presented itself at short notice, in terms of this office space, and needed to be taken or it would have been missed,” says Anja.

'With continuing future increases in population and service requirement, our teams need space to grow and the new premises offer that potential. They also better allow those teams to meet the needs of the diverse age groups they serve.”

The new office premises are located above John's Photo Pharmacy, next door to Employ NZ and across the road from Noel Leeming. It is the same office space which was previously occupied by the BOPDHB's Planning and Funding teams until they moved to their new location off 17^th Avenue.

For those needing to contact any member of the teams, all contact details remain the same apart from physical location.

Contact:

Sorted Youth AOD (Alcohol and Other Drugs) Service

Adolescent Mental Health Services

Young Person Mental Health Acute Duty