Emma Wood

Emma is the Manager – Practice at Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui a national centre for evidence based workforce development for the mental health, addiction and disability sectors in New Zealand. Emma’s work oversees a portfolio of initiatives that aim to enhance the values, attitudes, knowledge and skills of the workforce working with people with mental health and addiction needs. Trained as a social worker and a partnership broker, one of her interests is how we make working in collaborations such as Equally Well successful in both how our organisations work as well as developing the right knowledge and skills of the workforce.