Management Team
Tracey-Leigh Peters – CEO
Tunumafono Tracey-Leigh Peters has a background in education and human resources. She began her career at Iosis in 2008, as Executive Administrator. She became Operations Manager in 2013, and was Acting CEO for 10 months before her official appointment as CEO on 1 September 2015. Tunumafono is a matai (chiefly) title from her Samoan family line.
To give a voice to our most vulnerable and give them the opportunity to make the changes needed to have a good family life is the heartbeat of what we do. To see that transformation happen through the support that we can give is priceless.Tracey-Leigh Peters - CEO
Michele Efaraimo
Wayne Boyd
Board of Directors
Peter Browning, Chair
An organisational development consultant, Peter specialises in working with not-for-profit organisations.
His focus is on helping small social services agencies in the family services and poverty alleviation areas. He is currently Chair of the Northern Baptist Association.
Peter was CEO of Baptist Action from 1991 to 2002.
I am privileged to work with such a committed and competent team. Our God-given task is together bringing wholeness to individuals and families, and providing skills for permanent change that will be passed on from one generation to another.Peter Browning, Chair
Bonnie Robinson
Vao Muller
Lyndon Twemlow
Andrea Page
Case Study
A Day in the Life
of a Merivale Social Worker
To be a social worker within a residential environment like Merivale comes with unique challenges, as the families must adjust to communal living during their stay.
While this can be daunting for the residents initially, the Therapeutic Community model that Merivale uses brings healing, connectedness and growth. Seeing this occur is one of the Merivale social workers’s richest rewards.