Tina Jones, MNZM

Director / Counsellor / Co-Founder

Tina is a registered practitioner with many years of experience working with youth in crisis. She spent eight years working with Victim Support and the New Zealand Police, as part of the suicide bereavement team. Tina dedicated her career to working with our young people after witnessing first-hand the tragic deaths of far too many young people to suicide and the devastating effects on their families and friends. In 2020 she was recognised in national awards for “outstanding work in suicide prevention”, and in 2023 was awarded a New Zealand Order of Merit for services to suicide prevention and mental health.

Having discovered there were far too many young people in our community who were suffering and in need of quality and timely support services, Tina, co-founded Youth In Transition Charitable Trust, in 2014 to improve the wellbeing and mental health of young people and to help them get back into a life worth living.