The Workforce Development Team

Sue Treanor

Director

Sue Treanor joined The Werry Centre as associate Director, and became director in 2004. Sue came to us with more than 20 years experience as a clinical psychologist. She has worked in a range of settings including in-patient, D/CY+F, and most recently as Clinical Team Leader, Kari Centre, Auckland Central CAMHS. She is keen to build relationships with child and adolescent and family mental health workers throughout New Zealand.
Email: s.treanor@auckland.ac.nz DD: 09 369 7321

Rawiri Wharemate

Kaumatua

Ngapuhi, Ngati Porou, Tainui, Ngati Pukenga descent.
Mobile: 021 460 764

Debbi Tohill

National Manager

Debbi joins the Werry Centre after six years experience with the Mental Health Foundation. Her background is in HR and Administration and she recently completed a Graduate Diploma in Not-for-Profit Management. Debbi’s role involves providing management support to the Project Leaders and directly managing projects relating to the CAMHS Conference, training days and website.
Email: d.tohill@auckland.ac.nz DD: 09 369 7329 Mobile: 021 568 013

Dr. Bronwyn Dunnachie

Senior Advisor

In her Senior Advisor role, Bronwyn has responsibility for the Christchurch office of the Werry Centre, and leads a stream of work which includes the Real Skills Plus competency framework development.
Bronwyn has an extensive background working with young people and their whanau in both clinical and managerial roles in community settings. Most recently Bronwyn held a senior role at the CAFMHS in Christchurch . She currently maintains a Private Practice.

Email: b.dunnachie@auckland.ac.nz Mobile: 021 353 027

Justine Leef

Executive PA

Justine joined The Werry Centre as the personal assistant to the Director of Workforce Development. Justine supports the Executive Team which includes the Director, Programme Manager, Manager of Special Projects and Kaumatua. Justine is also part of the Project Support team. Justine has over 8 years work experience in administrative positions within the mental health field in both NGO and DHB services.
Email: jn.leef@auckland.ac.nz DD: 09 369 7320

Vas Ajello

Project Leader – Education Outreach Project

Vas joined the Werry Centre in 2003 and coordinates a project to support distance education, helping CAMH clinicians get the knowledge and skills they need even if they live and work outside the major centres and cannot leave their place of residence for any length of time. To date, this Project has helped over 40 CAMH student-clinicians around the country outside Auckland to do the Postgraduate Certificate in CAMH offered by the University of Auckland. It is hoped that the distance-friendly measures developed can continue to be developed and be used by other providers of further education in CAMH.

E-mail: v.ajello@auckland.ac.nz Ph: 06 867 8200

Trish Lumb

Project Leader - Family/Whanau

Trish joined the Werry Centre as the Family/Whanau Advisor and is based at the Christchurch office. She has spent the last 7 years working voluntarily on a youth consumer and family/whanau advisory group with the CAF Services, CDHB.
Trish has a BSc in Psychology from the University of Canterbury and is completing a BA in Education and Human Services. She is very passionate about promoting child, youth and family participation and support in the mental health services.
Email: t.lumb@auckland.ac.nz Ph: 03 3746537 Mobile: 027 434 5083

Ingrid Altena

Project Leader - Parent Management Training

Ingrid joined the Werry Centre as Project Leader for Parent Management Training. She is a social worker with 10 years experience working in child and adolescent mental health as a clinician and as a Team Leader.

Her current project involves further training in Incredible years parenting Programmes and encouraging agencies to work collaboratively in their delivery of the Programmes. She also continues her employment on a part time basis with the CAMHS service in South Auckland facillitating Incredible Years groups in the community.
Email: i.altena@auckland.ac.nz
DD: 09 369 7322 Mobile: 021 035 2261

Shona Clarke

Project Leader - Youth Consumer Advisor Project

Shona joined the Werry Centre team in 2005 to work on the Youth Consumer Participation project after spending nearly two years as a Youth Consumer Advisor on the Werry Centre Advisory Board. She enthusiastically advocates for youth consumer participation, and has advised in various mental health settings for four years. Shona has completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in psychology at the University of Auckland.
Email: s.clarke@auckland.ac.nz DD: 09 369 7328

Julliet Bir

Assistant Research Fellow

Julliet Bir completed her Master of Science (Psychology, 1st Class Hons) in 1998 from the University of Auckland.
Julliet joined the Werry Centre in 2002 as a part-time Centre Administrator and since then has worked as an Assistant Research Fellow on the “Stocktake of Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services in NZ” project that was undertaken in 2004. She is currently working on the update of the 2005 Stocktake project.
E-mail: j.bir@auckland.ac.nz DD: 09 369 7326

Denise Whitfield

Assistant Research Fellow

Denise works as an Assistant Research Fellow/Project Coordinator and has been involved in a number of projects including; the Strategic Framework Project, the review of Waikato DHB funded Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, and the Workforce Development Planning Model project currently being rolled out in DHB CAMHS around New Zealand. Denise has recently returned from maternity leave and is currently involved with the Werry Centre’s facilitation of the Sector Day and Annual Support and Training Days, and the ‘real jobs for real people, careers in child and adolescent mental health’ project.
Denise completed her Master of Social Science (Psychology) degree at Waikato University, gaining first class honours. She has worked as a Social Worker, a Health promoter and taught and managed an EFL language school in Japan. Denise is passionate about issues affecting children and youth and is thoroughly enjoying the juggle of motherhood and being back in the Werry Centre team.
Email: d.whitfield@auckland.ac.nz DD: 09 369 7325

Ellen Nicholson

Researcher/Evaluator

Ellen is the Researcher/Evaluator at the Werry Centre, appointed to the role in October 2007. The Research and Evaluation role primarily involves consultancy and support of in-house research and evaluation activities, and Ellen brings strong writing and publication skills, a research passion in evidence-based practice, and a particular interest in developmental evaluation and mixed-method approaches to her work. Ellen is an occupational therapist with extensive experience in clinical work with children and families; undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and the clinical and professional supervision and support of both students and clinicians. Ellen has been at the Werry Centre for three years, previously in the Clinical Placement Project as the Northern Clinical Placement Coordinator.
Email: e.nicholson@auckland.ac.nz Ph: 09 369 5703

Louise Dentice

Project Support/Website Coordinator

Louise has been with the Werry Centre since July 2005. Her role is both Website Coordinator and Project Support, working with teams to produce publications, presentations and documents.
Email: l.dentice@auckland.ac.nz Phone: 09 369 5703 ext 304

Karen Moke

Canterbury Mental Health Placement Advisor

Karen joins us as the Canterbury Mental Health Advisor with the Clinical Placement Project. She has worked as a mental health nurse in both New Zealand and overseas. Over recent years her focus has been working with young people and their families. Karen was working at Student Health & Support, Lincoln University prior to commencing with us. Previously she worked at Youth Specialty Service with the Canterbury District Health Board. Karen has a post graduate diploma in Health Sciences (Nursing) and is working towards a certificate in Clinical Teaching.
Email: k.moke@auckland.ac.nz Ph: 03 374 6382

Margaret Vick

NGO Advisor

Margaret is a registered nurse who has trained and worked in mental health and general health. She has completed undergraduate and post graduate study in New Zealand.
The majority of her career has been spent working in the community. Margaret worked for a number of years in the child and adolescent mental health clinical area both for the DHB and in the NGO sector; she has completed community projects and has more recently worked in a quality auditing position.
Margaret comes with the experience of having managed a specialist mental health contract in the NGO sector and has awareness of the issues affecting the NGO sector.

Email: m.vick@auckland.ac.nz Ph: 09 369 5703 extn 311

Nicola Peeperkoorn

Administrative Project Support

Nicola joins the Werry Centre in a project support capacity. Her role involves supporting the various projects as well as general reception duties. Nicola has spent the past few years working in various administration roles including a role as an administrator at Massey University.

Email: coordinator@werrycentre.org.nz Phone: 09 369 5703

Helen Telford

Project Leader - Local Workforce Development Planning

Helen joins the Christchurch Branch of the Werry Centre to lead the Local Workforce Development Planning Project. Helen is a registered social worker, having recently completed a Masters in Social Work; she has a background in disability and justice work and a Bachelor of Social Sciences. In this new role, Helen draws from her previous experience of workforce development while Programme Manager in a Youth Justice Residence. Her own work in management is the basis of her enthusiasm for challenging and enriching leadership within organisations. Helen is a member of the Project Management Institute of New Zealand and is currently working towards the Project Management Professional exam.
Email: h.telford@auckland.ac.nz Phone: 03 374 6382

Maliaga Erick

Pacific Clinical Advisor

Fakaalofa lahi atu and Warm Pacific Greetings.
Maliaga Erick is a well known Pacific Island Mental Health Professional to Pacific Mental Health providers, locally, regionally and nationally. She has vast experience in community work and 11 years experience as a Clinical Social Worker/Senior Community Support Worker. Mali is also a member of the Multi-Regional Ethic Committee, member of the Pacific Reference Committee to the Mental Health Commisssion, National Director for Niu Development Inc part time. Mali will be working with the team to ensure that Pacific workforce needs are acknowledged in all Werry Centre workforce initiatives.

Oue Tulou!
Email: m.erick@auckland.ac.nz Phone: 09 369 5703 ext 305

Lyn Dawson

Project Leader - Mental Health Placement

Lyn Dawson joins the Werry Centre in September 2007 to lead the mental health placement project and the workforce leadership initiatives project.
Originally trained in England as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse (R.M.N.), she has been in New Zealand for nearly 9 years. This time has been spent working at Waitemata DHB in the child and family community mental health services in clinical, managerial and project roles.
Lyn has completed a Post Grad diploma in child and adolescent mental health at the University of Auckland.
Email: l.dawson@auckland.ac.nz Phone: 09 369 7324

Chris Haddock

Project Leader - 7 Helpful Habits of Effective CAMHS

Chris joins the Werry centre with 6 years experience as a CAFMHS clinician and for the past 7 years as its clinical service manager.He gained his masters in social work in 1988 and has worked in a number of senior postions within the NGO sector,inpatient adult mental health and CYF. Within his role as clinical service manager Chris has spent the past 4 years with a focus on developing internal service procedures and collaborative partnerships between the CAFMHService,Government agencies and NGO’s in both urban and rural settings.He believes this had a huge impact on service response times and service delivery.
Email: c.haddock@auckland.ac.nz Phone 09 369 5703 ext 303

Joyce Leevard

Youth Consumer Advisor

Kia Ora my name is Joyce Leevard and I am the new youth consumer advisor along side Shona Clarke here at The Werry Centre.
I have been involved with Whirinaki since 2005 and have helped run one of their groups called ‘Interacteen’ where young clients go to help improve their social skills.
I am excited to be working at The Werry Centre as I am very passionate about young people’s needs and mental health.
Email: j.leevard@auckland.ac.nz Phone: 09 369 5703 ext 308

Hone Fowler

Youth Advisor

Ngati Porou, Ngapuhi descent.

Kia ora tatou,
I have joined the Werry Centre in 2007 in a part-time position as a youth advisor. I am currently studying fulltime towards a conjoint degree at Auckland University – Bachelor of Health Sciences, with a focus on health promotion and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in psychology.
In the past I have worked as a mentor for Maori and Pacific at risk youth in South Auckland for Ohomairangi Trust. My role as part of the Werry Centre’s youth consumer advisor team is to support and help with team projects and actively advocate for youth consumer participation.
Email: h.fowler@auckland.ac.nz Phone: 09 369 5703 ext 333

Diana van Vugt

Mental Health Placement Advisor

Hallo,
I was born and raised in The Netherlands and after completing my Tertiary Education there I came to New Zealand in 1998. I joined the Werry Centre in December 2007 to seek further career development opportunities as well as doing what I am passionate about, which is being involved in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health workforce. In my previous employment, I have been passionate and keen to guide and support students, whilst on their placements, and to ensure students experience a good quality placement. When the opportunity came for me to become the Mental Health Placement Project Advisor – Northern Region I considered it the perfect opportunity to assist the growth of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health workforce.
Email: d.vanvugt@auckland.ac.nz Phone: 09 369 5703 ext 302

Rebecca Wharton

Administrative Project Support

Rebecca joined the Werry Centre in April 2008 after moving to Auckland from her home town of Dunedin. She has a degree in Applied Management from Otago Polytechnic and has a background in hospitality management. Her role involves administration support for Werry Centre projects and general reception and administrative duties.