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TV special shines light on Tauranga service

A Tauranga addictions service is being featured in a powerful and eye-opening one-hour TVNZ2 special on the life of former professional rugby league player and high-profile boxer Dave Letele.Tauranga’s Brave Hearts NZ founder and director Erin ONeill will join ex All Black Zac Guildford, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Hinemoa Elder and Police Commissioner Andrew Coster, alongside others who will be bravely sharing their stories on TV2 on Thursday, August 3 at 8.30pm.Well-known community adv...

NZ Drug Foundation

Gayle Billings (our Manukau facilitator) and Erin attended a recent Drug Foundation symposium in Wellington and have voiced our concerns for families living with loved ones in addiction. It was lovely to meet up with Dave Burnside, Odyssey Lived Experience Lead and Edith Moore, Senior Network Coordinator, Drive Consumer Direction and share our thoughts....

Kerry's Story

A charity helping families cope with meth addicts is bringing a support group to Christchurch.According to the latest New Zealand Police wastewater drug testing results, an average 13.5 kilograms of methamphetamine per week was consumed nationally across sample sites, equating to an estimated weekly cost of $14.9 million in social harm.The Canterbury District has the third-highest average weekly consumption.Brave Hearts founder, Erin O’Neill said “while there is a lot of support for the addi...

Christchurch Community Hui - 29th March 2023

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Rebecca's Story

Published in Stuff.co.nz...

Rotorua Community Awareness Hui - 9th March 2023

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Mental Health & Addiction Enquiry

Following Brave Hearts NZ submission to the Mental Health and Addiction Enquiry in 2019, we are finally meeting with the BOPDHB tomorrow to discuss what is the best way forward for Supporting Families and Whānau as per recommendations 23, 24 and 25 of the report He Ara Oranga....

Brave Hearts meets Helen Clark to discuss supporting whānau affected by addiction

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Brave Hearts starts support group in Whakatāne

Published in The Beacon, 14 September 2022...

Bay mum inundated by cries for help from families with meth addict kids

Published in the Bay of Plenty Times....

Jay-Jay Feeney's secret struggle, a friend's 'P' methamphetamine addiction

Published on the New Zealand Herald website, 18 September 2021...

2021 Parliamentary Drug Policy Symposium

Thanks Amicus for the opportunity to speak with you today about how addiction affects us as families Brave Hearts speak in Wellington - On the Road to Health...

Brave Hearts support Group Battles Meth Scourge

Published on NewsHub, 7 September 2018. See the AM Show interview here...