Final event in the Tikanga Matatika Roundtable series
This webinar brings together a panel of experienced addiction practitioners from around the motu to discuss three ethical scenarios. Viewers will be able to submit questions about each scenario for discussion by our panelists.
Attendance is worth 5 CPD points, and the webinar will be recorded and available to view later (in the members' only section of the dapaanz website).
Our panel members for this Roundtable are:
Ben Kirks Ang (panel chair)
Chair | dapaanz
Chair | New Zealand Drug Foundation - Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland
Ben is the Deputy Executive Director, Programmes for the New Zealand Drug Foundation and Chair of the dapaanz Executive Board. He is passionate about developing approaches that support people to live healthy, successful lives with everything they need to make their own choices.
Trish Dribnenki-Pennock
Kaiwhakahaere Whakaiti Pāmamae | National Harm Reduction and Hep C Lead
ADIO Trust
Trish started her nursing journey after her own lived experience with substances, mental health, homelessness and feeling a loss of connection and support. She is passionate about building awareness, dialogue, inclusion and advocacy for individuals within targeted communities and has since worked in harm reduction, crisis intervention, care coordination, public health, forensics, corrections, sexual assault response, inpatient/community and outreach and culturally specific nursing areas providing services for individuals living with mental illness, substance use, trauma, and/or a variety of additional psychosocial stressors.
Trish was awarded "Registered Psychiatric Nurse of the Year" in 2013 and received a Nursing Award of Excellence in Nursing Advocacy in 2021.
Trish has a 28-year-old son, Oliver, who is her favourite human--he lives in Canada and is the coolest. Trish likes music and friends and talking about drugs.
Philip Glaser
Kaiwhakahaere Whakaiti Pāmamae | Harm Reduction Manager
Te Puna Whakaiti Pāmamae Kai Whakapiri | NZ Drug Foundation
Phil Glaser is culturally and ethnically Jewish with heritage in Eastern Europe but born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau. He has over 15 years experience of working in the mental health and addictions sector, including roles as a helplines counsellor, support worker, crisis worker through social media and addictions practitioner in high schools. Currently he manages drug checking services and staff for the NZ Drug Foundation and am super passionate about using harm reduction approaches to support people who use drugs. Outside of work he has an amazing 5 month old baby at home, an awesome wife and an unhinged Japanese Spitz puppy.
Jolie Leach
Service Manager Merge Community
Lifewise
Jolie is originally from the Waikato but for the last 20 years has called Auckland home.
She is deeply engaged in the homeless sector, working tirelessly to support our most vulnerable whānau. She is a graduate of the AODTC and Te Taketake. Her journey in this field began as a peer support worker, where she found immense fulfillment in using her own experiences to help guide and support others through their challenges. This role not only allowed her to connect with individuals on a deeply personal level but also paved the way for my current position as a leader in the lived experience space. Here, she advocates for meaningful change and strives to ensure that the voices of those we serve are heard and respected.
Outside her professional life, she is a proud mum of one, cherishing the joys and challenges that come with parenthood. Her spare time is often spent lost in the pages of a good novel, pushing limits at F45 workouts, and enjoying precious moments with my family. These personal pursuits enrich her life and fuel her passion for making a difference in the lives of others.
Chris Ranui-Molloy, Ngāti Manawa
Addiction Practitioner
Recovery Street Programme | Higher Ground
Having personally experienced severe addiction and depression, anxiety, homelessness, and incarceration - Chris is now dedicated to supporting others struggling with drug and alcohol dependency as an addictions practitioner and creative therapy consultant.
Drawing upon the tools and strategies that have aided him in his recovery (he is now over six years clean and sober), he aims to give back and demonstrate to Māori individuals that recovery from mental health issues and addiction is achievable. Chris has completed a Diploma in Mental Health and Addiction through Te Taketake. As an aspiring Māori health practitioner, he is on the pathway to becoming a future Māori health leader.
Chris is the founder and director of Recovery St - A tikanga-led therapeutic organisation that fuses creativity and clinical techniques to enhance mana and a person's emotional, social, cognitive, physical, and cultural (including spiritual) functions, one-to-one counselling, group work, wānanga/retreat. The creative therapeutic 10-week program allows whānau with lived experience with addiction and mental health to engage. This initiative has been showcased in various settings, including residential rehabilitation, the Narcotics Anonymous community, Mason Clinic, and theatres by sharing stories of strength, hope, and resilience.