Consumer and peer workforce

The addiction treatment consumer and peer workforce plays a vital role in effectively supporting service users and whānau. Matua Raḵi is developing and supporting the capacity and capability of this workforce by:

• 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.

The consumer and peer workforce includes all roles that require personal lived experience of mental health and/or addiction problems, for example peer support and consumer advisor roles.