Preferred Future Service Provision for the Residents of Kimberley Centre

Preferred Future Service Provision for the Residents of Kimberley Centre
Date of publication: August 2001

Prepared for The Minister of Health and Minister of Disability Issues by the Ministry of Health with the assistance of MidCentral Health District Health Board

This report addresses the redevelopment of services currently provided to 379 people with an intellectual disability at the Kimberley Centre in Levin. Kimberley Centre is the last major institutional centre of its kind in New Zealand.

The future provision of services to support residents of Kimberley Centre has been the subject of many years’ planning, with no final resolution. The uncertainty of delayed decision-making is affecting the residents, relatives and staff of Kimberley as well as many other stakeholders. There is a desire among key stakeholders for certainty regarding the future of Kimberley Centre.

There has been extensive consultation with relatives, during which a process was agreed for identifying the direction for the Kimberley deinstitutionalisation as a whole, together with a process for making decisions about changes to services for individuals. This is embodied in the Protocol developed between relatives, MidCentral Health (MCH) and the Central Regional Health Authority (RHA) in 1994.

The approach proposed in this report is to improve the quality and range of services available to people living at Kimberley Centre by purchasing accommodation, support and specialist services more appropriate for meeting individually assessed needs. The deinstitutionalisation of Kimberley Centre will take into account where people have originated from, and where their relatives prefer them to live, in accordance with each individual’s support needs. It also aims to position services so that they not only meet the needs of the present Kimberley residents, but are also appropriately located to meet future needs of people with intellectual disability currently domiciled in community settings.

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