Addiction Practitioners' Association Aotearoa-New Zealand

Honorary degree awarded to Tim Harding

dapaanz — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:50:49 +0000

Tim Harding is this year’s recipient of WelTec’s prestigious honorary degree. Tim was for six years the Chair of the New Zealand Drug Foundation and the inaugural chair of the Addiction Practitioners Association for seven years. Although he recently handed over these chairing roles, Tim remains on the boards in support of both. He is also a board member of the National Committee for Addiction Treatment, the New Zealand Society on Alcohol and Drug Dependence (1954) and Platform, a charitable trust that brings together and promotes the voice of the NGO mental health and addiction sector.
The honorary degree of bachelor in Addiction Studies recognises Tim’s significant contribution to addiction treatment over the past 20 years.

Leave of absence

dapaanz — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:49:38 +0000

Registered and endorsed practitioners are reminded that if they are prevented from working because of pregnancy, parental leave, personal or family illness, unemployment, overseas travel, too much excitement and they take leave from work they can apply for leave of absence for up to 12 months without losing their registration. They come off the register, must not work, pay a standard membership only and need not earn CEP points. Leave must be applied for in advance or as early as possible.

Cutting Edge 2012

dapaanz — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:47:49 +0000

Cutting Edge 2012
This year’s gathering of the treatment sector will be in Wellington at the Convention Centre from 5th to 8th September. On the 5th, there will be organised visits to local services and there will be gatherings for Maori and for Pacific. The conference will run on the 6th and 7th and on the 8th there will be workshops led by keynote speakers. The programme is nearing completion and the call for abstracts is open. The theme is 20/20, both the vision and the thinking and planning for our services by 2020: seek the distant horizon, and hold fast to those that are close. There will be scholarships for consumers and for students. More details and registration are available on www.cuttingedge.org.nz You will be sharing this with 400 others and can earn 25 CEP points, 40 if you are presenting, but not both.

Review of registration criteria

dapaanz — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:45:30 +0000

After six years which has included minor adjustments, the criteria for practitioner registration are being reviewed by an expert group to be led by Paula Parsonage. Recommendations will be presented to the Executive at its May meeting. Members are invited to contribute to the review and should contact Ian MacEwan at dapaanz.

New Fees

dapaanz — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:46:53 +0000

The Executive has struck new fees for the forthcoming year:
(inclusive of GST)
Student / Unwaged (application and renewal) $ 45.00
Standard (application and renewal) $ 84.00
New application:
Endorsed Support Worker $ 64.50
Endorsed Associate AOD Practitioner $128.00
Endorsed Associate Problem Gambling Practitioner $128.00
Registered AOD Practitioner $193.00
Registered Problem Gambling Practitioner $193.00
Renewal: (includes annual membership fee)
Endorsed Support Worker $136.50
Endorsed Associate AOD Practitioner $188.00
Endorsed Associate Problem Gambling Practitioner $188.00
Registered AOD Practitioner $238.00
Registered Problem Gambling Practitioner $238.00

Renewals

dapaanz — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:41:42 +0000

Only standard members need to submit renewal membership forms.
Endorsed and registration renewals do not need to include membership renewal forms.
Please stick to the renewal packs. Surprisingly, a number of renewals contain pages from several different renewal packs.
Do not send in renewals before receiving your invoice.
Too many applications / renewals are received without any advice re the payment of the fee.
Keep your contact details current. Let us know where you are or we may have to add a detective to the staff.
Please don’t round up or down the fees. Throws the system totally and everything then has to be done manually.

Annual General Meeting

dapaanz — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:35:05 +0000

The Executive agreed to move the Annual General Meeting from the Cutting Edge conference to the beginning of the first executive meeting after the conference (usually in November). This is to enable more time for the preparation of year-end accounts and their auditing.