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Pacific workforce development |
The Pacific Mental Health and Addiction Workforce development landscape is evolving to meet the challenges identified in the Matua Raki Strategic Plan 2005-2015. The Matua Raki Strategic Plan identifies benefits for Pacific workforce development will most likely occur through prioritising recruitment and retention and training objectives. Since this plan was written, significant developments have occurred which include:
- the establishment of Le Va - Pacific Mental Health and Addiction workforce unit within Te Pou (launched 2008)
- the development of Seitapu: Pacific Mental Health and Addiction Cultural and Clinical Competencies (Pulotu-Endemann 2007)
- the planned review of the AOD Practitioner competencies to include Pacific competencies aligned with Seitapu; and
- the development of Working with Justice Clients accelerated workforce development programme.
In the light of these developments, the first task is to consolidate the infrastructure for Pacific workforce development, through establishing capacity within Matua Raki to support alignment and coordination with Le Va and to provide internal Pacific capacity to other Matua Raki activities.
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