Matua Raki - National Addiction Workforce Development

Matua Raki has supported Kina Trust in developing this material for supervisors in the alcohol and other drug sector, aimed at equipping supervisors in their work to promote and support family inclusive practice. These resources are aligned with other Kina Family Inclusive Practice resources and best practice supervision models.

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Matua Raki has a clear focus on enhancing the capability of the addiction workforce to work with the family and whānau of their service users.  Matua Raki will be exploring models of practice and emerging practice that can support this work. 

Matua Raki in partnership with Kina Trust will be releasing their Think Parent resource at the 2011 Cutting Edge Conference in Auckland. This resource offers addiction services and their practitioners some tips and ideas on how to reduce the barriers for parents accessing services, how to maintain a family inclusive focus and how to work with the children and young people who may attend services with their parents.  This resource will be available free of charge to addiction services throughout the country.

Matua Raki continues to work with and support the work of Kina Trust and will support the continued roll-out of the Creating Spaces and Family Inclusive Practice (FIP) Supervisors workshops where expressions of interest from the regions are sought.

Working with families experiencing complex and challenging issues... alcohol and other drug use being one.

These four resources are ‘Creating Spaces’ guidelines, developed by Kina Trust in partnership with Matua Raki. These guidelines aim to promote best practices for alcohol and other drug workers to engage with families, to maximise wellbeing and the capacity for positive change.

1. Guidelines for Fostering Engagement with Families (download)

2. Guidelines for Home Visiting (download)

3. Guidelines for working with Families and Family Violence (download)

4. Guidelines for Fostering the Care and Protection of Children with Parental Alcohol & Other Drug Issues (download)