Moana to open new residential beds

Dunedin's Moana House will open six new residential beds next week for methamphetamine users.

Programme director Claire Aitken said a newly-refurbished five-bedroomed house next door to Moana's High St headquarters would be officially opened next Friday by Associate Minister of Health, Jonathan Coleman.

Moana has been granted $1.8 million over three years to deliver a targeted programme.

Refurbishment of the 1930s art-deco house owned by Moana for the past three years was made possible by community grants.

Ms Aitken said the new beds increased Moana's total beds to 17.

Unlike Moana's other programmes, which accepted drug and alcohol referrals from the South Island, the new programme could accept referrals from around the country.

Earlier this year, Moana hired four extra staff members, or three and a-half full-time equivalent staff, to deliver the programme, which has been running for several months, with residents staying in other parts of Moana House.

The public are invited to tour the facility next Friday between 11am and 4pm.

Ms Aitken said it was pleasing Moana residents would inhabit 401, 402 and 403 High St.

eileen.goodwin@odt.co.nz

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