Trust Board
Platform Charitable Trust - Trust Board |
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| Jan Dowland | ||
| Chairperson | ||
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Jan's previous roles are as CEO of IHC New Zealand from 1998 – 2002 and National Manager for IHC specialist services from 2004-2006.
As Chair of the Mental Health Commission from 2002-2004, Jan spoke up for the role of the community sector and the participation of people with experience of mental illness and addictions in service planning and delivery. |
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| Paul Ingle | ||
| Pathways | ||
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Paul is the Chief Executive of Pathways Health Ltd. Initially Paul worked for Pathways in the Waikato in a client services role, before moving to Wellington as a member of Pathways project team charged with the responsibility of designing and establishing its Wellington services during the closure of Porirua Hospital. Prior to his appointment as CE he was General Manager, of Pathways Auckland. While now in a national role within Pathways he is based in Auckland and remains committed to the development of innovative community solutions in this region. Originally from the Eastern Bay of Plenty, Paul has worked in community mental health in both a practice and management capacity for the past 10 years in New Zealand and the UK. He holds a double major in Psychology and Business Management. Paul has been an Executive Member of Platform since March 2000 and has served on a number of local and national committees. He is currently Platform's appointed representative on the Mental Health Advisory Committee. | |
| Rob Warriner | ||
| WALSH Trust Board Auckland | ||
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Rob has been working in the mental health sector since 1993. This is his fourth career having worked in the textile industry, as a builder, and as a dairy farmer for 10 years. Rob joined Accommodation for Mental Health Society in 1993 and over the ensuing years assumed a number of roles – from developing a supported employment service to the position of Policy and Development Manager. In December 2004 Rob took on his current position as Director of WALSH Trust, in West Auckland. WALSH Trust is an NGO providing a range of community based mental heath services including residential rehabilitation, community support, vocational and employment services. During his time in the sector, Rob has also undertaken a variety of additional roles. Rob has been: Chairman of Shared Vision North Shore (10 years), Founding Board Member of the Association for Supported Employment in New Zealand (ASENZ), Board member of Community Support Services Industry Training Organisation (CSSITO), member of Standards Implementation Body for the Certificate in Mental Health (later to become MHSWAG), appointed by Department of Labour to participate in Vocational Services Review (2000), member of National Certificate in Employment Support Advisory Group. Currently Rob is a member of the Waitemata DHB Local and Combined Stakeholder Network, the Mental Health Advocacy Coalition (MHAC). |
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| Tim Harding | ||
| Care NZ Wellington | ||
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Tim has worked in the Addiction Treatment Sector for 17 years. He has postgraduate qualifications in Health Science from the National Addiction Centre, Christchurch School of Medicine. Tim has been a consumer of services, counsellor, educator, group facilitator, team leader, clinical director, service manager, hospital chief executive and chief executive of a national provider. Tim Chairs the New Zealand Drug Foundation and The Drug and Alcohol Pracitioners Association (DAPAANZ), the representative association of those that work in the sector. Tim sits on the board of the National Society on Alcohol and Drug Dependence (NSAD) and advisory committees for both the National Mental Health and Addiction Workforce Development Programme and the National NGO Mental Health and Addiction Workforce development Plan. |
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| Virginia MacEwan | |
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Virginia has recently taken up a position with Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga in the Hawkes Bay. She was CEO of Wellink Trust from 2006 - 2012. Her family and professional experiences of the public mental health system have given Virginia a strong commitment to improving opportunities for recovery for service users - and the system. She has 15 years experience as a social worker in mental health services and 14 years in management roles in various parts of the New Zealand health system, including rural community health, mental health, maternity services and planning and funding. Virginia's most recent role as Director of the Mental Health Programmes, Health Research Council of New Zealand, also incorporated the roles of Project Manager of the national Mental Health Epidemiology Study and Programme Manager of the national Mental Health Research and Development Strategy. Virginia's qualifications include a Master of Public Policy degree and a Master of Management (Health Services) degree. Her interest in services evaluation and outcome measurement has driven her current work towards a PG Diploma in Social Sector Evaluation Research |
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| Kay Fletcher | |
| Comcare Trust Christchurch | |
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Kay is CEO of Comcare Charitable Trust, a provider of mental health support services and social housing services in Canterbury. Kay comes to her role as an NGO leader from extensive experience in provider arm mental health services and a long term trustee relationship with a well respected local NGO and Platform member, Step Ahead Trust. Kay's special interests are in services for people with enduring mental illness and early intervention in psychosis services (EIP). Prior to leaving clinical services Kay lead the development of Totara House, NZ's largest EIP Service. Kay remains committed to seeing early intervention philosophy and practice mainstreamed and accepted as best practice service delivery for all people in their first contact experience with a mental health service. These ideals embrace a whole of health approach highly desired by NGO providers and a highly collaborative environment that best supports the client and their family. Kay joined Platform as a regional representative in 2005 and has supported the transition to a charitable trust as a foundation trustee. |
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| Donald Shand | |
| Pact Dunedin | |
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Pact provides support for about 850 people with intellectual disabilities or recovering from mental illness and employs more than 380 staff, providing services in the West Coast, Otago and Southland. I started working for Pact in July 2006 as Organisational Development Manager and moved into my current position in June 2007. This is my first experience of working in the health and disability arena and my first time employed by a community organisation. I totally enjoy the energy and vitality of Pact and the sector, the challenges facing us all and the opportunities that are available. Participation in Platform and membership of the Board is an obvious way to meet those challenges and work together to realise our opportunities. Prior to pact my work history has mainly been in the public sector, initially with the Department of Social Welfare, then with the Department of Internal Affairs, and more recently with the Ministry of Social Development as regional relationship manager with Family and Community Services. |
| Major Lynette Hutson | |
| The Salvation Army | |
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Lynette has been a Salvation Army Officer for 26 years. She has spent 20 years in the Addictions Sector in a variety of roles and currently holds the role of National Manager for Addictions and Supportive Accommodation Services throughout New Zealand, based in Auckland. This role covers a wide range of services which include, alcohol and other, drug and gambling addictions, mental health, intellectual disability, homeless services and prison reintegration services. Lynette holds a tertiary qualification from the University of Canterbury and is a registered Social Worker and a member of DAPAANZ. Lynette spent four years in Winnipeg, Canada which has added to her broad understanding of the sector. She has a strong interest and commitment to social justice and an understanding of the disproportionate impacts of inequality and poverty and disadvantage. |
| Matiu Julian | |
| Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand (ALAC) | |
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Matiu Julian (Nga Ruahine, Te Atihaunui-a-Paparangi, Ngati Tu Mango) is currently the national Pouarahi Maori, or Maori Manager, at the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand (ALAC).
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