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Roads to Recovery
Tune in to find out what is available in our community to make living in our community easier, safer and more worthwhile.
| Presenters | Greg McHenry |
| Type | Talk |
| Keywords | Recovery, abuse, alcohol, other drugs, support, mental health, rehabilitation, living with any pain, community services, homelessness, homophobia | | Website | roadstorecovery.co.cc | | | | Tuesdays 11:00am - 12:00pm | Tune in to hear what is available in our community to make living in your community easier, safer and more worthwhile. Have a pen and paper ready, as there are always contact details to jot down!
Tune in with Greg McHenry, Tuesdays 11am-noon on 94.7 The Pulse.
Roads to Recovery, which is now into its sixth year of broadcasting, intends to increase public awareness of what is available in our community, to make living in our community easier, safer, and/or more worthwhile.
Edwina, who has produced many programs, and has been very much the ideas person for many topics we have covered, will handle ANY ideas you may have for appropriate discussion, and your involvement as a participant is encouraged.
Please use the “send program feedback” link below, and we will be in contact in a timely fashion.
The audience target is people of all ages. The program attempts to cover as many groups as possible that are able to help people in our community through their issues. We act as a conduit, only, to get information to people who (possibly) want to take that huge first step to recovery, for whatever the reason.
We talk about these issues in an informal, chatty manner, hoping that we de-mystify them, and inform the audience of relevant contacts to get help towards recovery. We have heard of a number of local people taking note of information they have learnt from the program, and taking that important first step to recovery.
The program goes to air on a weekly basis, when guests mainly drive the format, and the program has a strong focus about making it their program.
Participants have included
- Barwon Health, including their drug treatment services, mental health and chemical dependency unit.
- All services and programs of Barwon Youth
- The Victorian Salvation Army Network Services
- Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA), Broken Rites , ASCA, Childwise, and other such agencies
- Youth Substance Abuse Support (YSAS)
- Vision Australia, MS Society, Parkinson’s Australia
- Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
- Bethany Community Support
- SANE Australia, Turning Point (Direct Line)
- Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous
- Headspace, Clockwork, Pathways, and Jigsaw Youth Health Services
- The Geelong Adolescent Sexuality Project (GASP)
- Churches of all faiths
- Recovering individuals still caught in the cycle of addiction
- CLAN - Care Leavers Australia Network
- DSAVic - Disabled Surfers Association
- Cottage By The Sea – Queenscliff
- M.A.R.C. – Coxie’s Melbourne Alcohol Recovery Centre
- June Alexander – anxiety and struggling with eating disorders.
Feedback from one of our listeners...
Dear Sir
Congratulations to Greg & the team for yet another great program.
What an amazing, informative, pro-active program this has become, bringing together people from different branches of the 'caring' community, encouraging co-operative networking, & providing information that can bring people to the services that can enrich their lives.
This week's program (25th October 2011) was a fine example of this, and the planned programs for the next few weeks reflect a genuine attempt to give comprehensive cover to issues, with follow-up & linked issues, and being catalyst to bring issues such as Gedda's situation to the table for action.
Greg's dedication, genuine interest in people & passion for making a difference is inspirational.
I hope The Pulse will continue to support the community issues & such dedicated presenters, and maybe consider repeating the program, perhaps in an evening or weekend time-slot , to hopefully help reach more who could benefit from the services or information.
"Well Done" to Greg & the team!
Sincerely
Trish (subscriber)
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Who will we be chatting with next week?
Each year we have been chatting with Jacqui Pierce to promote Brain Injury Awareness week, and give a plug to all the events that are on in our area. This year Ivan Thorne, who is from the Victim of Crime program at Centacare, will be with us. Given that 3000 brain injuries in Australia are [...]
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Who will we be chatting with this week?
Barbara Henry, the Chief Executive Officer of Barwon CASA Counselling Services and Kerry McFarlane, program and client services manager, and I will talk about the services Barwon CASA provides. We will chat about staff profiles, why the service is needed, and how it works for you. We will give some stats as well as talk [...]
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Welcome to Roads to Recovery
Roads to Recovery goes to air every Tuesday on 94.7 The Pulse. I look forward to your comments, and any suggestions for topics you would like covered in the future. Any issue can be considered!
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The Roads to Recovery PodcastHere is a selection of the most recent episodes on this podcast. You can listen to these episodes by clicking on the blue play button, or download them by clicking 'Download'.
 
Interviews and specials as heard on Roads to Recovery on 94.7 The Pulse, Tuesday'a at 11.00 a.m..
This snap is of Edwina & Greg at International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO Day)
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International Day Against Homophobia 2012
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"?All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights?.*
That is the famous first sentence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted almost sixty years ago by the General Assembly of the United Nations.?*
This is a quote from organisers of the International Day Against Homophobia on May the 17th? (IDAHO day) which is now in its seventh year. *
Geelong Adolescent Sexuality Project?s or GASP has the same stand, and as the name implies, it is aimed at our youth. *
Susanne Prosser who is a Youth Development Officer with the COGG, and one time catholic priest John Bartlett chat about their perspectives on life, phobias in general and acceptance.* GASP can be contacted through Youth Development at the
City of Greater Geelong *
(03) 5272 4977 *
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Djillong and Wathaurong
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I chat with Uncle David Tournier, Ron Milligan and Glenda McNaughton about our local history, and how they are on a quest to collect as much information and any artifacts that will tell us the real stories. *
We talk of *The Mystery of the Medal ? where is Dan Dan Nook's medal now? * Dan Dan Nook (Derdanook) is a Wathaurong man who competed in the early Highland games in the region.* He won a medal which proclaimed him to be the 'fastest runner in Geelong'. He was chief of the Barrabool clan. He died of tuberculosis in the Geelong Invalid Asylum in 1870 and is buried in the Western cemetery. After his death there was only one traditional Wathaurong living in the Geelong region.*
And we hear about a song written by Ron, about Willem Baa Nip (King Billy), the last of the local Wathaurong. * We also talk about the Geelong One Fire Reconciliation Group that is showing Indigenous films - * check their site * www.onefiregeelong.org.au * for more information. *
If you have any information or artifacts, call Uncle David on 5277 0044 or call in at 62 Morgan St. North Geelong.
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Adoption and Adoptees
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*Ocean Grove's Rose Cooper was adopted out after her biological mother was forced to give her up. She is now a grief counsellor. *
Ms Cooper was one of thousands of children removed from their unwed mothers to live with adopted parents a practice widely used in Victorian hospitals until the mid-1970s.*
She talks with fellow adoptee Robert Bender, a man who she introduces who has now found out about himself.*
We chat about JIGSAW and how that organisation benefited so many, and express our hope that those who hold the secrets of others births give them up before it is too late.
*** You can contact Rose for Grief Support on (03) 5255 1799 *** Other places to start to "find yourself" if you wish are:- * http://www.vanish.org.au/ OR * http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/vic/
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Viet Vets and PTSD
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In keeping with our tradition here on ?Roads?, we chat to three gentlemen who, amongst other things, represent the Vietnam Veterans Association, the group of returned soldiers and survivors of the American war in Vietnam.
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These blokes have become the backbone for all ex-servicemens' needs in dealing with their being assimilated back into our community.
*Nigel Wilson, who has chatted here on a number of occasions, is with me again, and he has brought in a couple of mates, Ken Baker (GDVVAA President), and,
Gary Ryan (GDVVAA Vice President.
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We also have Bernard Clancy who is an author,journalist and playwright AND a Viet Veteran on the phone for some very lively conversation about the ill, or lack of, appropriate treatment for our Vets.
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The GDVVAA meets the second Monday of every month 1030 Hrs at Osborne House - * 5277 0311 *
The Veterans Welfare Centre is at 151 Myers Street, Geelong Phone: 5222 6003 *
AND * Geelong Private Hospital - Phone: 5226 1678 *
Email: gvwc@geelongvets.org.au
Associated *
Organisations: RSL Sub Branches INC
Contact: Helen O'Beirne
Phone: 03 5272 4804
Email: hobeirne@geelongcity.vic.gov.au *
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Barwon Youth - National Youth Week
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National Youth Week (NYW) has been up and running since last Friday, with events running all over the country until Sunday 22nd and this year?s theme is:
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Imagine. Create. Inspire ***
National Youth Week launch at the Waterfront on Saturday was a great success, as was the BBQ in the mall yesterday.
And there are other special events happening that we will remind you of during the program.
But the main events with our youth are programs that run twenty four seven, and today we will be talking about one of those that has been running in Geelong for about nine or ten years.
To talk to us about that program, Big Brothers Big Sisters, i have Marina Power with me again from Barwon Youth, and she has brought in Big Sister, Tanya Dudas for this chat.
* Contacts *
* Barwon Youth ? 5221 4466 * OR
* www.BarwonYouth.org.au *
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Encompass Community Services
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* Debi Hope (Training Services Coordinator),
* Michele Butcher (Employment Consultant) and
* Felicity Kenyon (Youth Services support) talk about their organisation with the focus on their methods in "Creating a Person-Centred Plan focusing on the individual?s goal".
Encompass Community Services are at * 400 Pakington Street * Geelong Victoria 3220 * Phone:- (03) 5222 3377 * www.encompass-cs.org.au
*** P.S. Silje ( pronounced - Celia !) tells us the final info, and that they are also on Facebook ***
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Blokes Day Out - 2012 - #3
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Our region is at the half way mark leading to the Blokes Day Out celebration, or is it an event, that is being held at Eastern Beach on this Sunday the 1st April.
We have a studio full of people to tell us all about their stuff and my co-host Peter Kelly from Barwon Health introduces them:- * Foddy Kyprian (Big Issue Street Soccer), * Damien Bernasconi (SalvoConnect), and * Luke Elliot who is our ?artistic? leader for Blokes Day Out.
As with last week, this is a lively and entertaining conversation.
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Blokes Day Out - 2012 - #2
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My co-host Peter Kelly has a studio full of blokes to chat about their services and BDO 2012: - * Laurence Anderson Dads in Distress and Help Mate, * Andrew Coon chats about Pathways Foundation and their programs about boys? rites of passage programs into manhood AND * Brian Mear from Male Health Victoria manages to tell us about some of his *stuff*.
This is a lively and entertaining conversation, and I must warn you that one of the guests uses a (mild) four letter word ???***
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Blokes Day Out - 2012 Launch
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*Blokes Day Out (BDO) is a unique event that will be held for the third time in the Barwon region on the 1st April.
*There were about 1,200 people at Johnstone Park last year.
*We chat about the many positives that have arisen from the events, that run for a week from the 23rd March till the 1st April.
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*The general idea is that BDO celebrates what it is to be male!
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The founder of BDO, Peter Kelly, who is a Health Promotion Officer with Barwon Health, arranged for us to chat with Heather Smith, Stroke Services Coordinator, Barwon Health, and ? Megan Somerville, General Manager, Kardinia Health, (www.kardiniahealth.com.au)
Geelong Stroke Support Group meet at the * Uniting Church Hall * Cnr Boundary & Queenscliff Roads *
EAST GEELONG * Second Tuesday of each Month * 1:00pm until 3:00pm * Contact Ms Bev Rushton * 5248 3463
*If you wish to find out more, or want to register an event, the deadline for entries is Friday, 16 March 2012.
* For enquiries, please call Peter Kelly on 03 5260 3810.
* or email - peter.kelly@barwonhealth.org.au
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Stop placing the Middle Aged In Nursing Homes - MAINH
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We spoke with one of my guests back on the 1st November last year when she was an inmate at Wallace Lodge.
She is now a free woman, after receiving a Making a Difference (MAD) package of about six hours support a week.
It was a battle that no-one should have to go through, and was only won because she had to make a noise about her situation in the media, and such.
Gedda Kowal tells us about her living arrangements now, and she has with her a co-founder of a local initiative MAINH, or Middle Aged In Nursing Homes, Peter McQuillan.
We will find out about this new support group as well and we will meet Jen Dew who is co founder of BRAINS (Barwon
Region Acquired brain injury
Information Networks Support)
which being launched in Geelong on March 8.
We also talks about the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
BRAINS:- Contact details are:
Jen: 0429 040534 OR Vanda: 5257 3404 and they meet on the first Thursday of the month from 10.30am?12.30pm in the Activities Room at Newcomb Community Health Centre.
104?108 Bellarine Hwy
Newcomb
MAINH:- Contact details are:
Peter: 0419 951701
Gedda: 0448 485688
Email: mainh@bigpond.com - and they meet on the first
Tuesday of the month from 10.30am?12.30pm in...
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Sat 19 May 2012 08:30 - 13:00 Mon 21 May 2012 09:30 - 12:00 Mon 21 May 2012 19:00 - 21:00 Mon 21 May 2012 19:00 - 21:00 Tue 22 May 2012 17:15 - 18:30
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