Odyssey Trust

24/12/2025

Meri Kirihimete and Season's Greeting from Odyssey. We hope you and your whānau have a refreshing break during the holiday season. Catch you in 2026!

08/12/2025

A few months back we celebrated 30 years of our Te Wairua, Royal Oak service. Te Wairua supports people experiencing mental health and addiction challenges. We made a video explaining the impact of Te Wairua, and share highlights from the celebration event. We hope you enjoy watching!

This year we proudly celebrate 30 years of our Te Wairua service! On Thursday 25 September, we hosted a formal celebration to commemorate Te Wairua, Royal Oa...

01/12/2025

Today we're proud to be sharing Arotake ā-tau, Odyssey's Annual Review for 2025. Links are in the comments.

If videos are more your thing, we've got you covered! Our Annual Review also features two video stories about our work in the wellbeing space and the people that we're supporting.

Thank you for supporting Odyssey in 2025. We hope you enjoy learning about what we've done this year.

Ngā mihi

26/11/2025

It was great to have Matt Doocey MP visit us yesterday at our Bank Street Community Hub in Whangārei.

We chatted our about work in Northland, and the visit coincides with the recent boost in funding helping those affected by Methamphetamine.

Pictured is Matt (centre), Fiona Trevelyan (middle left, Odyssey CEO) and kaimahi from Odyssey and NZ Drug Foundation.

We appreciate the visit!

23/11/2025

Kai pai to two of our Odyssey kaimahi who were honoured with the prestigious Dapaanz Excellence Awards during the Cutting Edge Conference earlier this month.

Stand Up! Clinical Manager, Alex Siu received the Dapaanz Excellence In Working With Rangatahi award. Pou Tokomanawa, Sheena Maunsell received the Dapaanz Excellence In Mātauranga Māori Addiction Practice award.

Ngā mihi for your amazing mahi and dedication to the people we work with

11/11/2025

Enthusiastic mahi from our whānau is transforming once overgrown areas of our grounds that face Te Auaunga (Oakley Creek).

A big thanks to Foundation North for a grant that supports this mahi and our Kai Garden training for tāngata whai ora.

We’ve held two working bees involving tāngata whai ora and kaimahi. We've come together to suppress weeds, so in the future we can grow native plants.

The before and after pics below from one area show the big difference it makes when working together.

29/09/2025

This year we are proud to be celebrating 30 years of our Te Wairua service! On Thursday 25 September, we hosted a formal celebration to commemorate Te Wairua, Royal Oak.

Te Wairua opened in 1995 as the first of its kind: a service for people experiencing both addiction and mental health challenges. We now have three Te Wairua residences – two in Auckland and one in Northland.

As we reflect on this milestone, we tautoko all the kaimahi who have dedicated their efforts to supporting people in their recovery journeys over the years; we also acknowledge the hundreds of tāngata whai ora who have come through the doors of Te Wairua, making a better future for themselves, their whānau, and the wider community.

21/09/2025

Kia ora e te whānau, our Hep C team is testing at the Kaikohe Memorial Hall this coming Friday 26 September. Ohonga Hauora (Awakening the Wellbeing) is an event coordindated by Te Putahi nui o Rehua.

Come down and see the team. Have a kōrero, learn how to keep yourself and whānau aware, and how we can support each other in this space of wellbeing. There'll be goodie bags, prizes, and gift cards for first time testers.

Nau mai, haere mai.

14/09/2025

This week for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori we're affirming our commitment to uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi in our work, and encouraging and supporting the use of every day reo. While there's always work to do in this space, we're proud of our services which lean on and are guided by Te Ao Māori principles, and our teams which educate and guide us towards these aspirations.

Ake Ake Ake

28/08/2025

Odyssey advocates for harm reduction. It's important to our work. With International Overdose Awareness Day upon us, it's a good time to reflect on the role of harm reduction in helping people make informed choices, and hopefully mitigate associated risks of substance use.

We navigate this within our services in various ways. We proudly collaborate with NZ Drug Foundation to deliver monthly drug checking clinics. This helps reduce the risks of accidental overdose as people know what is in the substances they are taking.

Our Haven service in Auckland's CBD supports people affected by mental distress, AOD challenges, and homelessness. To help minimise the risk of overdose we are able to provide brief interventions through educational materials and our peers onsite provide conversation with people about their recovery journeys.

On occasion we've also handed out drug checking kits containing nitazine and fentanyl test strips along with NZDF harm reduction information.

These are just a few ways that we are active in the harm reduction space, but we believe that taking action to encourage harm reduction can reduce the chances of overdose and ultimately improve people's wellbeing.

17/08/2025

We're delighted to be offering a Hepatitis C service across the Te Manawa Taki region. The service begins on 1 October 2025.

The service is a partnership between Odyssey, DISC Trust, and Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora

Odyssey was chosen after a competitive procurement process. Te Whatu Ora liked Odyssey and DISC’s model, which emphasised community-led, culturally responsive care.

We will be running this alongside our Northland Hepatitis C mobile service.

20/07/2025

Our Hep C team is working together with Te Hiku Hauora for World Hepatitis Day on July 28th. Running from 10am-2pm we will be raising awareness through education and testing. We will share information around Hepatitis C, why it's important to test and how to stop the spread.

There are goodie bags and $10 gift cards for whānau who test with us for the first time.

The event is being held in Kaitaia's Commerce Street in the town square.