Key Events

This is an introductory workshop for family inclusive practice.

Including families in addressing alcohol and drug issues can have significant benefits for both clients and their families. This introductory training, based on our Practitioner Guide, ‘Family Inclusive Practice in the Addiction Field’ is aimed at building on current inclusive practice. By drawing on a range of intervention models, the following topics are addressed:

Matua Raki staff plan and host — in collaboration with NCAT — three leadership days a year (in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch) in coordination with the the Ministry of Health. The leadership forums bring together addiction workforce leaders from different functions: policy, planning, funding, training and education, service management and delivery, consumers and cultural leaders.

These conferences have been held around the world for two decades and, for 2010, harm reduction is returning to the city which hosted the first conference in 1990 – Liverpool, England.

The conference theme for 2010 is ‘Harm Reduction: The Next Generation’. There are now two and a half decades of harm reduction experience. A substantial body of evidence shows the feasibility and effectiveness of harm reduction in a wide variety of social and cultural settings.

This is the 5th Reconnexion National Conference on Anxiety and Depression. The conference theme is 'Standing on the Edge: what is the way of the future?'.

The Conference Program for 2010 provides diverse and thought provoking approaches to the treatment of anxiety disorders and/or depression from a range of established practitioners and experts in their field.