Youth In Transition Director and Co-founder Tina Jones has been awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to suicide prevention and mental health

Written By Kim Manunui

We are delighted to announce Youth In Transition Director and Co-founder Tina Jones has been awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to suicide prevention and mental health.

Tina Jones co-founded Youth in Transition in 2014, dedicated to preventing youth suicides and providing support to all in need. Tina and her team of therapists worked with 414 youth at risk of suicide in 2021 alone, whose lives would otherwise have been adversely affected. Through Youth in Transition, Tina was able to mobilise her team and provide support during the three-month period of lockdown in Auckland in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They were able to place eight of their clients in respite care, arranged for 12 youth for admission to hospital, successfully referred 23 clients to mental health services in crisis, managed 15 incidents of serious self-harm, provided emotional support to nine after suicide attempts, changed minds of 21 expressing their suicide ideation and supported 11 youth who needed other specialist care for eating disorders, family violence and sexual abuse. During the pandemic, the community recognised her team’s efforts and donated hot food parcels, takeaway meals, frozen home-cooked meals, mentorship, and gym memberships amongst other things to ensure her team were able to continue providing support. Tina received the Life Keepers Award for Suicide Prevention in 2020 for her efforts in her community.

The team at Youth In Transition are Celebrating this honour and recognition for Tina Jones. It truly is a joy to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Tina Jones upon the recognition of NZ Order of Merit for services to suicide prevention and mental health!

Tina, we all really admire your service and deeply regard and appreciate your pioneering work that has enabled hundreds of lives to be changed for the best. Thank you for who you are, what you bring and the huge heart you have to serve others. We are thrilled to join together and say congratulations to you as this year ends and another begins.

Kim Manunui

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