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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 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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 PA/Administrator
Katherine brings to her role an extensive background in administration and office management, both in New Zealand and Australia. Her previous positions include working for Pacific Radiology, The Training Practice, Cackle Telecommunications, Telstra and Mater Hospital. She also worked for Wellington Free Ambulance for three years as administrator for Freedom Medical Alarms. Katherine is currently studying towards the NZIM Diploma in Business.
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Project Coordinator, Co-existing
Dianne is a transplanted South Islander - "I was born in Timaru, nurtured on a farm at Kakahu and educated in Pleasant Point, Timaru, Dunedin and Christchurch. I was tempted to the North Island in 1992 for a two year job, seduced by Wellington and never left. I am passionate about learning and helping people develop. I enjoy developing systems and processes that reduce administration and free up time for strategic thinking. My core value is to make a difference in the world. My work has been with people in South Pacific and Asian countries."
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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, Methamphetamine Guidelines
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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Researcher
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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 Senior Communications Advisor
Shani has a background in journalism and communications. She has worked as a reporter on the Evening Post and Manawatu Standard, and as a reporter/sub-editor for the New Zealand Press Association. Prior to joining Matua Raki, she had a long-term position as Communications Manager at the New Zealand Medical Association.
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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, and she is currently writing a book for Sage Publication Ltd entitled ‘Working with problematic substance use in social work practice’.
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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 Project Leader
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 treatment (ie. methadone), 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 peer workforce and the needs of my peers accessing addiction treatment.”
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Project Leader, Co-existing (joint)
Susan has worked with CADS Auckland Dual Diagnosis Service for nine years, including five years as Clinical Team Leader before moving into workforce development as Dual Diagnosis Training Co-ordinator. She has been upskilling the Mental Health workforce in the recognition and treatment of co-existing problems, and promoting integrated treatment across the Auckland Region. Her previous clinical position was in DHB Community Mental Health Services in Central Auckland, where she developed a particular interest in working alongside mental health service users with co-existing problems. Susan is originally from Scotland.
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 Project Leader - Pasifika
Lealofi Siō is of Samoa heritage and has a passion for the development of Pacific people and the communities they live in. New Zealand born, his links to the Pacific are through his parents Nuu of Puapua, and Iva of Savaii, Samoa. Through his nephew and nieces he acknowledges links to Tokelau, Tonga, Niue, Māori, Cook Islands and papalagi. Lealofi brings to Matua Raki a perspective from lived experiences and skills that have been enhanced through working in the sector in his roles as a volunteer, addictions clinician, and as a funder and planner in the health sector. Along the journey he has picked up qualifications in social work from Whitireia Community Polytechnic, health science at the University of Auckland, and is currently working towards a management qualification at Southern Cross University.
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Project Manager
Tangihaere was born, raised and lives in the wider Wellington region. On his father’s side he comes from Ngāti Porou and on his mother’s side Australia. He studied psychology at Victoria University, and then worked at the Family Centre (Lower Hutt) as a Stopping Violence men’s group facilitator, social policy researcher and lecturer/trainer in areas including indigenous psychology and culturally ethical research, as well as training for Family Start services. More recently he worked in Dublin, Ireland, as the manager of a supported accommodation service for homeless people aged 18-30. Tangihaere has an interest in social justice and a passion for supporting the development of services and staff to meet the needs of the communities they work with.
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Project Leader, Co-existing (joint)
Helen joined mental health and alcohol and drug services as a nurse and addictions counsellor in 1982 and has held a variety of roles since then. Her clinical and academic interests have focused on working with people with co-existing problems. Her PhD involved a grounded theory study of people “living well with co-existing problems”. The research used a qualitative approach to discover the main concerns of ‘consumers’, health workers and families and to explain the processes they used to make sense of their world to live rich and fulfilling lives. Helen is also employed as a senior lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) running the graduate certificate and diploma in addictions.
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