Dame Helen Winkelmann and Mr Mataio Brown, of Christchurch, MNZM for services to mental health and the prevention of family violence
Mataio Brown founded My Father’s Barbers, a community barbershop that supports men’s mental health and family violence prevention initiatives. He hosts and speaks at family violence prevention events in New Zealand and internationally. He created and has facilitated a barbering programme in men’s prisons in partnership with the Pathway Trust. He has collaborated with government and other organisations to create open spaces for conversations around mental health and domestic violence. He co-founded the anti-violence movement She is Not Your Rehab and co-wrote the book of the same name. Mr Brown is an ambassador for the It’s Not OK campaign and the Griffith University Domestic Violence Research Department in Australia.