Matua Raki provides and funds a range of brief specific skill based training workshops. These have been developed to enhance the ability of the addiction and mental health workforce to provide best practice evidence based treatment for problematic substance use. Workshops are provided free of charge in a range of locations as resources allow.

In 2012 Matua Raki will sponsor training in:

  1. Co-Existing Problem Formulation: introduces mental health and addcition practitioners to a process that helps to integrate the parts of a comprehensive assessment into a description of tangata whaiora that informs treatment planning that is responsive to both mental health and substance use problems
  2. Brief Cognitive Interventions: provides training in Motivational Interviewing and CBT skills and techniques that can be used for short duration treatment interventions.  Please register here
  3. Introduction to Contingency Management: introduces practitioners to a strategy that uses incentives to help recruit and engage tangata whaiora in treatment
  4. Smoking Cessation for the Addiction workforce: specifically designed to train practitioners to meet the treatment needs of tangata whaiora with co-existing nicotine dependence and other addiction issues
  5. Introduction to Motivational Interviewing: introduces fundamental Motivational Interviewing principles and skills
  6. Introduction to the Takarangi Competence Framework
  7. Smashed and Stoned, in partnership with ALAC: providing training to work in the community with young people in groups

It is important to Matua Raki to maintain the quality and relevance of all training provided.

Matua Raki routinely collects information and feedback from participants in training workshops to ensure that they are useful and appropriate and enhance the knowledge and skills of the addiction and allied workforces.

Depending on the workshop or training that people register for they will be asked to complete a registration form and a post workshop evaluation at the least. They may also be asked to complete a pre evaluation questionaire and possibly a follow up evaluation to assess the impact of the training on practise.


For more information on all Matua Raki training please click here

As well as providing particants with an opportunity to give feedback about the quality of training this information informs planning for future training and supports the ongoing funding of training initiatives.

 

Matua Raki is also commited to supporting the primary health and allied workfoces to develop skills to screen for substance use problems and provide brief interventions.

In 2012 Matua Raki will sponsor training in:

  • Substance Use Screening and Brief Intervention for Probation staff
  • Substance Use Screening and Brief Intervention for Primary Health workers
  • Substance Use Screening and Brief Intervention for Police Youth Coordinators