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Director
Raine registered as a Psychiatric Nurse in the mid 1970s, and entered the addictions sector in 1990. She has been employed in a number of positions within addictions including senior nurse at an outpatient service, therapist at a residential service, nurse counsellor for an opioid substitution programme, lecturer at the National Addiction Centre, and National Programme Manager of WelTec’s Counselling and Alcohol and Drug Studies Programmes. Most recently she worked part-time for Nelson Marlborough Health as Rural Addictions Counsellor, and carried out contract project work, mainly in the opioid substitution treatment area including development of the Practice Guidelines for OST in NZ published by the Ministry of Health in 2008. Raine graduated with her Master of Health Science from Otago University in 1998. She has a special interest in the co-existing mental health and addictions area. Her other areas of interest include cannabis use and mental health, opioid substitution treatment, the interface of the forensic and addiction areas, and workforce development.
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Project Leader, Research and Evaluation
Klare Braye began work in the AoD field in the early 1990's, starting out in the UKs 'wet and dry' house setting. Upon moving to New Zealand Klare made Wellington her home.Over the last 15 years Klare has worked in a number of important roles within the sector including in mental health, residential treatment, as a CADS clinician, and within supervision, research and lecturing roles. Klare has maintained her clinical role both as a counsellor and supervisor, but her passion lies in promoting addiction related research and building the skills of the workforce to best meet the needs of clients. As chair of ATRIG she maintains a focus on addiction treatment research, looking to the future development of the addiction workforce. She also has special interest in co-existing disorders, enhancing the skills of the workforce, and ensuring that clients do not fall between the gaps. Outside this busy work schedule and enjoying being with her children Klare braves life and limb commuting the hills of Wellington by bike. In what free time she has she dives and surfs in the nearby sea and tramps in the surrounding countryside.
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Project Manager, Methamphetamine
Vanessa is of Ngai Tahu descent. She is a Registered Psychologist and has been practising in the field of addictions for over 17 years. She has managed intensive and outpatient AOD facilities in the Wellington area. Most recently she has been an executive director of Instep Limited, a healthcare company that assists organisations to respond to alcohol and drug issues in their workplaces. She completed an MBA (Victoria) in 2008 and found a new passion for economics. Vanessa is leading the project on developing resources for the treatment of problematic methamphetamine use.
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 Senior Advisor
Terry is of Te Arawa and Ngati Porou descent. He began his working life as a Probation Officer, and has been involved in the addiction sector in a number of roles -- his most recent being Project Manager Māori for Matua Raki.
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Project Coordinator
I am a proud Wellingtonian, born and raised here. I am of Samoan heritage. My connection to Samoa is through my parents, Avao - Savaii and Faleasi’u - Upolu Samoa. I have an expansive background in project coordination and administration. My previous role was at NZTA which involved a lot of project business coordination. I am an advocate for any programmes or initiatives which emphasise positive change within the community. I have a passion for helping and inspiring people through learning, development and by supporting and assisting the needs of the wider community, to contribute to the greater good and wellness of our people.
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Project Leader 
Ashley has worked as a clinician in the addictions field for the past 20 years for the Nelson Marlborough DHB outpatient service. Prior to this he worked as a social worker, youth worker and also spent some time as a registered psychologist working for the Family Court. His particular interest is encouraging recognition of the specialist skills of the addictions workforce.
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 Project Leader
Rawiri (Ngāpuhi) has come from the education sector, with 20 years experience from primary through to secondary, including 10 years in senior management. He also worked as a Resource Teacher of Learning and Behaviour in the Far North for five years. He has a Master of Education first class, Diploma in Teaching, Diploma in Education, and Post Graduate Diploma in Special Education. Rawiri has colluded in the writing of several published works on restorative justice practices in education. He has a passion for rangatahi and brings this passion to Matua Raki as a researcher.
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Programme Manager
Anna Nelson began her career in the AOD sector 15 years ago as a ‘dual diagnosis’ social worker in the Waikato. Following this she worked in a variety of AOD settings including day programmes, residential services, prisons, outpatient services and education throughout New Zealand and in London. More recently she was a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at London’s South Bank University where she specialised in teaching problematic substance use to a range of allied health professionals. Anna graduated with her Master of Social Work in 2000, having researched effective alcohol and drug interventions with adolescents in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her other research interests include how we work with intimacy and desire in the AOD field. She has published a book for Sage Publication Ltd entitled ‘Social Work with Substance Users. A link to her book can be found here
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 Project Coordinator, Co-existing
Patricia was born in England, travelled to New Zealand in the 1980s as part of her OE and never left. She worked as personal assistant to a number of chief executives in Wellington in the tourism, banking and retail electricity industries. In 2000 she moved to Fiji where she worked as a full-time volunteer for Save the Children. To inform her work she travelled with project teams to a number of sites in Fiji where children were considered to be at risk. Over a two year period she became increasingly aware of the cultural issues that impacted this work and in an attempt to better understand the values and beliefs of Pacific Island people she enrolled at the University of the South Pacific as a full-time student. She studied sociolinguistics at postgraduate level because she was particularly interested in the relationship between language and culture. She returned home to Wellington in early 2010 and retains her interest in Pacific languages and cultures.
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 Consumer Advisor
Rhonda hails from Christchurch, and came to Wellington via the Bay of Plenty. She started working in the health and disability sector in 1989, initially in the area of intellectual disability as a community support worker. She became involved in AOD consumer issues, particularly opioid substitution treatment, in Christchurch in 1994. She has worked at a peer-based needle exchange, and as an AOD Consumer Advisor for an NGO, and then within a DHB. She became Matua Raki Consumer Project Manager in January 2008. “I am passionate about both the needs of the consumer and peer workforce and the needs of people with problematic substance use.”
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