Matua Raki - National Addiction Workforce Development

For a copy of the Screening Assessment and Evaluation manual, please click here

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 please click here to download.

In early 2008 Matua Raki, as the National Addiction Workforce Development Centre commissioned the development and delivery of a mobile training package as part of a suite of programmes within the Ministry of Health Effective Interventions First Step programme. The aim of the training was to support accelerated workforce development for the alcohol and other drug (AOD) sector to enable the sector to competently respond to people with AOD issues who are in, or have been in the justice system.

Abacus Counseling, Training & Supervision Ltd and HMA Ltd were jointly contracted as training organisations to develop and deliver training at eight pilot and twenty Phase II sites throughout 2008 and 2009. Evaluation of the workshops indicated that there was improved engagement with clients involved in the justice system as well as services reporting improved networking and collaborative practices with justice services, in particular Community Probation and Psychological Service (CPPS).

As a result of this positive feedback, Matua Raki have taken the workshop workbooks and redesigned them into this reflective workbook so that the workshop material can be more widely accessed.

Matua Raki hopes that this workbook may be utilized in a variety of ways including:

•    A refresher for those who participated in the original training.

•    A resource that services or teams may use to develop their own in service training.

•    A reflective workbook for individual staff to review their own practice with justice clients and associated services.

This workbook is only available online at this point in time. If you want to access a copy please download the complete workbook here

The individual modules that comprise the workbook are also available for separate download.

• Attitudes
• Core Cultural Safety
• Skills of Engagement
• Ethics and Boundaries
• Justice Context
• Working Across Systems

It should be noted that the material in this workbook reflect the ‘systems’ of the time.  Whilst legislative changes may affect the range of sentences available to the Judiciary or pathways and processes through the criminal justice system, core values, attitudes and practices for working with people who have addiction related harm will remain fairly constant.

This audio relaxation exercise has been provided as a potential tool to help with withdrawal management, as referred to in: Interventions and treatment for Problematic Use of Methamphetamine and Amphetamine Type Substances (ATS).

This is a progressive relaxation exercise designed to guide people through a process that will help them to relax their whole body. Reducing muscle tension and controlling breathing interrupts the feedback process, between thoughts-physical responses and behaviour.
This reduces the chances of escalating stress levels and helps people to manage tension and stress in day to day life and at times of high stress, such as during substance withdrawal and at high relapse risk times.
Please download and load onto an mp3 player, play on your pc or burn to disc by clicking here

An Addiction Specialty Nursing Knowledge and Skills Competency Framework has been developed by Dr Daryle Deering for Matua Raki, in conjunction with a National Nursing Reference Group and the Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia (DANA) Standards and Competencies Expert Reference Group, in response to a need identified by nurses working in the addiction treatment sector.

For a copy of the Addiction Specialty Nursing Knowledge and Skills Competency Framework, please click here to download

Interventions and Treatment for Problematic Use of Methamphetamine and Amphetamine-Type Substances

These guidelines provide general information about methamphetamine and ATS along with specific strategies and considerations for: intoxication and withdrawal management that can be used in a variety of settings, including: Mental Health Services, Police, Corrections, Emergency Departments, General Practice, Primary Care and the Addiction Treatment Sector. The manual also provides specific management and treatment information about: the use of medication; assessment and engagement; brief interventions; special population needs; and evidence based treatment options. A self managed methamphetamine and ATS withdrawal handbook, an information pack for family and whānau members and worksheets for cognitive interventions are included as appendices.

Please click here to download a copy

The appendices are also available for separate download

An eleven session Cognitive Behaviour Therapy based intervention for Problematic Use of Methamphetamine and Other Amphetamine-Type Stimulants

This document is a companion to Interventions and Treatment for Problematic Use of Methamphetamine and other Amphetamine-Type Stimulants (ATS).

The CBT interventions described in this document have been designed to be used over at least eleven sessions with service users/tangata whaiora and provide a more intensive intervention than the shorter CBT intervention outlined in Interventions and Treatment for Problematic Use of Methamphetamine and other Amphetamine-Type Stimulants (ATS). For a copy please click here

Worksheets to accompany this intervention are available for separate download here

These worksheets to be used with the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy interventions described in Interventions and Treatment for Problematic Use of Methamphetamine and Other Amphetamine-type Stimulants (ATS).

The worksheets are also for use along with the interventions described in An eleven session Cognitive Behaviour Therapy based intervention for Problematic Use of Methamphetamine and Other Amphetamine-type Stimulants.

This booklet has been developed as a resource for service users/tangata whaiora who are using methamphetamine and amphetamine-type substances problematically. It will be most useful for those people who do not need intensive withdrawal management and for those people who want to manage their own withdrawal processes. The booklet contains straight forward information and suggestions to ease and manage acute methamphetamine and ATS withdrawal symptoms. Where possible supportive counselling and follow-up treatment should also be provided to enhance outcomes. For a copy of the booklet, click here download

New book aims to provide guidance to addiction practitioners working with sexual minority communities and clients

Successfully preventing and treating drug and alcohol addictions in gay, lesbian, bisexual and other sexual minority people is addressed in a new book aimed at the addiction prevention and treatment sector.

Making Visible: Improving services for sexual minority people in alcohol and other drug addiction prevention and treatment, by Frank Pega and Ian MacEwan, is published by Matua Raki, the National Addiction Workforce Centre, and is being distributed to all treatment services nationally.

It aims to be the main resource for addiction practitioners working with gay, lesbian, bisexual and other sexual minority clients, especially Māori or Pacific sexual minority people (such as takatāpui, fa’afafine, fa’afatama, akava’ine, fakaleiti, and fiafifine) and young sexual minority people.

For a copy of the Making Visible: Improving services for sexual minority people in alcohol and other drug addiction prevention and treatment document please click here to download

This guide provides a review of the evidence-based talking therapies commonly used by New Zealand practitioners with people experiencing problematic substance use. In order to reflect the diversity of psychosocial interventions used in the alcohol and other drug sector, this guide also provides an overview of other commonly used models. In addition, this guide takes an in-depth look at what practices can be effective in engaging a person with problematic substance use in therapy.

For a copy of the Talking Therapies For People With Problematic Substance Use, please click here to download

Te Pou has also released a number of other Talking Therapy guides. To download the guides, please click here here

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.

For a copy of the Supervisors Guide, please click here to download

This document outlines an integrated framework for the addiction and mental health sectors which will support the dissemination and implementation of the updated clinical practice guidelines Te Ariari o te Oranga: The Assessment and Management of People with Co-existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems (Todd, 2009), and the Service Delivery for People with Co-existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems - Integrated Solutions service guidance document (Ministry of Health, 2009).

For a copy of the Co-Existing Problems Training Framework for the Addiction and Mental Health Workforce, please click here to download

National Addictions Centre, with support from Matua Raki and Waipuna Trust. Provides an overview of key information for the national addiction treatment sector. Written primarily for people new to the sector. For a copy of the Orientation to the Addiction Treatment Field, please click here to download

Advanced Practice Nursing Strategy for the Addiction Treatment Sector: A discussion document

Daryle Deering. National Addiction Centre, Matua Raki. July 2008.
This project aimed to establish recognition of specialist addiction nurses. For a copy of the Advanced Practice Nursing Strategy for the Addiction Treatment Sector : A discussion document, please click here to download

Ian MacEwan. 2007.

Matua Raki undertook a project to ask the mental health and addictions sectors for their views on integrated practice and to look to ways we could improve collaborative partnerships between the workforces of mental health services and alcohol and drug services.

For a copy of the Mental Health and Alcohol and Drug Co-Existing Disorders: An Integrated Experience for Whaiora?, please click here to download

Cave T, Robertson P, Pitama S and Huriwai T. Matua Raki. Ōtautahi, Christchurch, NZ. 2008.

He Tētē Kura reviews the growth of the Māori addiction treatment sector and examines the lessons for a new generation of workers and leaders. The title comes from the whakataukī ‘Mate atu he tētē kura, ara mai he tētē kura’.  The koru which is often associated with this whakataukī represents birth, regrowth and regeneration and symbolises sustainability and the passing of knowledge and resources from one generation to the next.