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"Our workforce - including service users and tangata whaiora - is vital in providing leadership and improving mental health and addiction in New Zealand, and over the next 10 years will play a pivotal role in developing services and leading change towards a culture of recovery". Te Kökiri The Mental Health and Addiction Action Plan 2006 -2015
Matua Raki’s consumer projects aim to develop and support the capacity and capability of the addiction treatment consumer workforce, as well as support the other Matua Raki activities and projects.
This includes:
- Ensuring an effective consumer voice at key levels of the addiction sector
- Facilitating forums for the Addiction Consumer Leadership Group
- Supporting the ongoing development of consumer advisory roles
- Developing the peer support worker role within the addiction sector
- Providing Peer Supervision and Mentoring Skills training
- Developing relationships at a national level with mental health service user bodies.
Specific actions to take place:
- Develop a consumer participation framework for addiction education
- Coordinate two Consumer Leadership Group Meetings
- Facilitate and coordinate four regional consumer forums
- Disseminate information to the national consumer network
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Consumer and Peer Roles in the Addiction Sector |
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The discussion document Consumer and Peer Roles in the Addiction Sector was published in September 2010. The document creates discussion around the roles and activities of the consumer and peer workforce and the skills, knowledge and competencies around three specific roles: advice/consultancy, peer support, and advocacy. Each role has its own skills and knowledge requirements but all share the one essential: a lived experience of alcohol and/or other drug use. For a copy of the Consumer and Peer Roles in the Addiction Sector guide, please click here
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