Tim Harding

Care NZ, Wellington

Tim's key roles are managing Care NZ (NGO addiction treatment provider), Chairing DAPAANZ, chairing the New Zealand Drug Foundation, sitting on the executive of Platform who support the NGO sector, and working on various advisory groups that endeavour to improve the field of addiction treatment.

Tim comes from the foundation of his own recovery from addiction and has a Post Graduate qualification in addiction treatment. Over the last 14 years he has worked as a volunteer, counsellor, programme director and CEO. This has included outpatient, residential (both short-term and therapeutic community) and prison based services. Tim's greatest challenges have been starting the first prison based TC at the Arohata Women's Prison residential programme and being CEO of Queen Mary Hospital. He has a passion for supporting the client, the workers and the sector as a whole and considers it his vocation.

Tim's first love is to be involved whenever possible at the coalface, and that is how he stays in touch with what we do; the needs of our clients and the reality of working in an under-resourced and under-valued vocation.

Major Paul Clifford

Salvation Army Bridge Programme, Hamilton

Paul entered the Addictions field in 1996 and trained at CIT gaining Adv. Cert. in AOD Studies and Dip. Counselling, working as a case worker in the Alcohol and Drug field before transferring in 1998 to Counsellor, Oasis Centre for Problem Gambling. In 1999 he was appointed as the Director of the Waikato Bridge Programme (Midland) with the responsibility for Addictions and Problem Gambling (8 years). During that period, Paul was directly involved in the development of the Bridge Model of Treatment that was implemented across all of the Bridge Programmes in New Zealand. This followed training in the U.S. (Community Reinforcement Approach). He undertook short term Alcohol and Drug research and review for prospective Alcohol & Drug Services for The Salvation Army whilst in Singapore and Fiji. An additional appointment as Assistant National Manager (Gambling) came in 2005, and in 2007 Paul was appointed Director, Auckland (Mt Eden, Waitakere a& Manukau) Bridge Programmes and Oasis Gambling Centre. He is married to a wife who supports him in the field and they have four adult children.

Jan Davy

WELTEC - Auckland

Jan Davy is currently a Senior Lecturer for Wellington Institute of Technology ()Alcohol & Drug Studies programme). She has a long history of training and work in the Alcohol and/or Other Drug (AOD) and Mental Health areas - as AOD Clinician, Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, Youthline Counsellor, and Psychology Tutor (Auckland University). Relevant study and training areas include: Mental Health and AOD, Medical, Health Care Ethics, Culture and Bi-culturalism, Clinical Psychology, Education, and Sociology.

Jan negotiated a clinical pathway with Community Alcohol and Drug Services (CADS) last year to maintain practice skills and knowledge, and inform teaching. Via clinical practice and support of students in AOD placements over the last five years, Jan has and actively maintains a broad network of colleagues and peers in health (particularly in the AOD field).

Selina Elkington

Ko Wetekia te maunga
Ko Wharariki te awa
Ko Tainui te waka
Ko Whakatu te marae
Ko Ngati Koata raua ko Ngati Toa nga iwi
Ko Sam Elkington toku koro raua Ko Ester Hippolite toku kuia
Ko Jim Elkington toku papa raua ko Patricia McDermott toku mama
Ko Selina Elkington toku ignoa
Ko Hinekawa Elkington taku tamahine

Selina's mother's family is from the Winton/Invercargill area, with strong links back to Scotland and Ireland.

She works at Nga Kete Matauranga Pounamu (NKMP) in Murihiku as the Manager of the AOD/Gambling service. NKMP is a Kaupapa Maori health & social service provider accredited. We believe that people can achieve anything if they are empowered or connected to information that helps them solve problems, motivates and stimulates them. The first step towards positive change needs to occur within. The Nga Kete Matauranga Pounamu Charitable Trust is an organisation with energy, zest and resources that can aid a person on their journey and empower them to succeed.

Takurua Tawera

Twenty-two years in Health, Maori representative on National Committee for Addiction Treatment, executive member of Te Upoko (Central Region Maori Mental Health), board member Wairarapa PHO.

Jeff Cummings

Talofa Lava, My Name is Jeff Cummings and my heritage arises from my Mother who is from the village Sava'ia in the lefaga district, Upolu, Samoa. My father is Scottish Maori(Nga Puhi).

My current role is a senior Clinical Supervisor/ Alcohol and Drug/Gambling Clinician at TUPU Services which is the Auckland regional Pacific addiction service. TUPU services is the addiction branch of Takanga a Fohe (Pacific Mental Health and Addictions Service, Waitemata DHB). I have worked in the social service field for over 10years being at TUPU Services for the last 5 years working with clients with dual diagnosis, justice, trained supervisor and gambling issues. Prior to this my roles included guidance counselling with a private training organisation and social worker at the SAFE programme with adolescent sex offender.

I am standing to be a member of the DAPAANZ executive committee to humbly represent the voice of Pacific people when it comes to alcohol and drug/gambling issues. I believe I have a lot to contribute to DAPAANZ not only because of my experience and Pacific heritage but also my diverse ethnicity which is reflective of the changing face of Pacific in New Zealand.

I graduated with a diploma in community and social work from Unitec and recently completed a Graduate diploma in counselling at Auckland University. I intend to go on to complete my masters in counselling. I'm married to Clair have two sons a 4year old and 2year and expecting a third child in September this year.

Wolfgang Theuerkauf

CADS Counselling Service, Auckland

Wolfgang has worked in the AOD field in New Zealand since 1989 in a number of roles and organisations including ADDS (Presbyterian Support Services) and CADS from 1990 to 1996. He was a senior lecturer and manager with CIT and WelTec's AOD programmes from 1997 until 2004 and is since 2005 the manager of the Auckland CADS Counselling Service and the CADS Pregnancy and Parental Service.

Wolfgang is the current chairman of the National Training Providers Network under the Matua Raki AOD Workforce Development Project, a member of the National Committee for Addiction Treatment (NCAT) and has been a member of the DAPAANZ Executive since 2004.

Dr. Fraser Todd

National Addiction Centre, Christchurch (NAC)

Fraser works as a Senior Lecturer with the National Addition Centre in Christchurch, where he leads our post graduate teaching programme, and as a psychiatrist working with young people suffering from substance use and mental health problems at Youth Specialty Services, Christchurch.

Claire Aitken

Moana House Training Institute, Dunedin

Claire has 20 + years experience in the AOD sector and, prior to that, in Mental Health and the teaching sector. She is a clinician with a current caseload as well as managerial responsibilities who is passionate about criminal justice clients, family inclusive practice, group work and cultural competence. Claire has a special interest in co-existing disorders and in teaching/workforce development.

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