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Friday, 12 February 2021, 3:08 pm
Over 120 Māori students who have received bursaries for
their mental health studies have been welcomed at two-day
hui at Massey University in Auckland today.
“We are
committed to improving mental health and addiction outcomes
in Aotearoa New Zealand. We want to make sure that Māori
can be supported by Māori, so we need to make sure we build
the Māori workforce and encourage working in mental
health,” said Toni Gutschlag, Acting Deputy
Director-General, Mental Health and
Addiction.
“Māori are disproportionately affected
by mental health and addiction issues in Aotearoa New
Zealand, so we need to ensure Māori perspectives and
Black Power member Denis O Reilly talks about what went wrong with the CART meth programme.
A $1m scheme to get gangsters off meth collapsed amid internal dissent over treatment methods, staff turnover and concerns that few people were being helped. Tony Wall reports. In February 2018, Florence Leota, a senior advisor in the Ministry of Health s addictions treatment team, emailed her boss, group manager for addiction Richard Taylor, over concerns about a programme to get predominantly Black Power gang members off methamphetamine. The programme, called Wakatika Ora, was being run by the Consultancy Advocacy and Research Trust (CART) – a social action group with a long history of working with gang communities, using a $920,000 grant from money seized under proceeds of crime legislation.