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ISSUE 1,124 Friday 1st March 2024
A LIFETIME’S WORK RECOGNISED A finalist for Kiwibank New Zealand Local Hero of the Year award, Hororata local Dr Olive Webb is still coming to terms with her initial nomination for the prestigious award. Dr Webb is one of three finalists for the award; the winner will be announced at the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Awards Gala later in March. “I have no idea who nominated me,” says Dr Webb, “but it’s clearly someone who knows me in my role with people with disabilities.” A clinical psychologist by profession, Dr Webb specialises in working with people with intellectual disabilities and autism. Her work for the last 50 years has been in an area that is often discriminated against, where a huge number of people in need, over the last decades, have been subjected to terrible abuse and not adequately recognised in their
own right. Her early involvement began when she and her mother started a youth club for people with disabilities from a local hospital in the Waikato district. Later after working at a hospital as a nurse’s aide, Dr Webb decided that if she was going to continue to work in this area, she wanted to do so from a point of view of knowledge and with real empathy and really understand people with disabilities on a minute-tominute, day-to-day basis. Her work has enabled her to make a difference to people’s lives and allowed her to “form entrenched and wonderful relationships and learn so much about people.” An area Dr Webb is very proud of is her work as a leader in the deinstitutionalisation movement where she was seconded by the then Department of Health one to two days a week to give talks around the country to groups and parents. At the same time,
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as a service leader for people with intellectual disabilities at Sunnyside, she helped reduce the number of residents from 150 to just 15 inpatients. Asked how she felt about
getting to the finalist stage for the award, Dr Webb says, “It’s exciting, bewildering and massively humbling. It’s nice that this sort of work is considered to be important.”
Dr Olive Webb has dedicated her career to helping and advocating for people with intellectual disabilities.