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2010 FebFast Beneficiaries
Proceeds from our 2010 registration and fundraising efforts will be shared amongst the Australian Drug Foundation (operating nationally), Mater Health Services – Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal Service (Qld), The Ted Noffs Foundation in NSW and the ACT, YSAS (the Youth Substance Abuse Service in Victoria) and FebFast’s national grants program for smaller grass-roots organisations.
AUSTRALIAN DRUG FOUNDATION
The Australian Drug Foundation, a non-government, not-for-profit organisation, provides services and programs aimed at preventing alcohol and other drug problems and reducing alcohol and other drug harms.
Find out more here.
MATER ADAWS
Mater Health Services - Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal Service (ADAWS) provides an eleven day residential withdrawal service for young people between the ages 13 – 18. It is the only service of its kind in Queensland and is one of the programs operated by the Mater Child and Youth Mental Service.
Funding from FebFast’s 2010 campaign will contribute to ADAWS’ Artspace program which is provided for young people after they have completed their stay with ADAWS. Artspace is an arts and recreational program that sees about 90 young people each year.
ADAWS understands that when a young person has completed their detox, there can be some big gaps in their days, especially if drugs have played a big part in their life before. This is often a time when it can be tempting to start using again.
Artspace provides:
- a way for a young person to fill in their day
- an alternative to using drugs
- a chance to learn some new skills
- a way to stay connected to ADAWS
- a way of meeting and spending time with other young people who’ve been through the program.
- heaps of fun!
Find out more here.
TED NOFFS FOUNDATION
The Ted Noffs Foundation provides essential services for young people and their families who are experiencing drug and alcohol problems and related trauma.
Funding from this year’s FebFast campaign will contribute to the organisation’s Street University.
The Street University is an unprecedented project that finds its home in a converted warehouse in Sydney's Southwest.
Instead of a traditional drop-in centre, the Street University houses a multitude of programs designed by everyday people who are willing to engage with marginalised young people in the area.
People from all walks of life have asked to dedicate their time and unique skills toward either creating short courses or volunteering their energies in another capacity.
The Street University and its family of volunteers provide a new way of thinking and learning to those who would otherwise be turned away.
It is a place of discovery, determination and opportunity.
Find out more here.
YSAS
YSAS (the Youth Substance Abuse Service) aims to improve the health and well-being of young people affected by alcohol and other drugs.
YSAS provides practical assistance, compassionate support and confidential services to people in need and specializes in working with people who have multiple needs or high levels of disadvantage in the capacities of youth outreach, day program, withdrawal, residential rehabilitation and supported accommodation services across Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Find out more here.
FebFast Grants Program Recipients
In addition to distributing funds to major beneficiaries, FebFast runs a mid-year grants program to distribute further funding to support the reduction of alcohol and other drug related harms in Australia.
The following organisations and programs have been successful in receiving grants from the 2010 campaign.
Uniting Care Wesley, Adelaide Streetlink (South Australia)
Working in partnership, Streetlink, the South Australian Network of Drug and Alcohol Services, NOFASARD and Centacare Family Services will develop and deliver a Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) training and engagement framework resource for youth and family services to help prevent FASD and build the sectors capacity to work with individual and families living with FASD.
This will include the development of a worker’s manual for Streetlink staff which will cover:
a) where to access FASD information and resources,
b) referral pathways,
c) advocacy strategies, and
d) other relevant information as identified by the staff.
For more information about Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, visit www.nofasard.org.au
Mission Australia’s DAYS facility (Western Australia)
Mission Australia's Residential Rehabilitation unit in Western Australia was established in 1990 and is still the only youth residential rehabilitation program of its kind in the state. The facilitators assist young people aged 12 to 18 years from across Western Australia who are having problems with their substance use. The residential setting provides the young people with the benefit of living in a structured and supervised facility that is supportive and caring.
For more information visit Mission Australia here.
Eastern Access Community Health, Alcohol and Drug Strategy Group (Victoria)
The EACH Alcohol and Drug Strategy Group will provide a Tertiary Student Placement Pilot in 10 alcohol and other drug (AOD) services to enhance the practical experience of Social Work and Alcohol & Drug Diploma / Certificate 4 students and attract them into the sector long term. The pilot aims to provide students with intensive orientation to Youth AOD:
The students will be provided with one long placement of 55 days with an AOD service, 10 days at a different AOD service type and 5 intensive orientation/ education sessions which cover all the different types of AOD services that clients / clinicians/ workers utilise at different times during the recovery pathway. The majority of the students will undertake research and project work during the placement and all of them will have intensive orientation to Youth AOD services and experience working with youth.
Photo (L-R) Caroline MacDonald and Debbie McGenniskin from the Alcohol & Drug Strategy Group recieve a cheque from FebFast's Fiona Healy.
ANEX (Victoria)
ANEX's Youth, Drugs and Work program will provide Employment Officers with knowledge, skills and confidence to work more effectively with young people who are experiencing barriers to employment and education as a result of drug and alcohol use. This will enable greater numbers of young people to participate in the workforce. For more information about ANEX visit www.anex.org.au
Red Hot Arts Central Australia (Northern Territory)
The Bush Band Bash (BBB) is a vibrant project in Alice Springs that promotes music for a healthy life. Showcasing unique contemporary Indigenous music from remote communities in Central Australia in a safe, healthy and cross-cultural alcohol and drug free setting. It has been embraced as a vital cultural project by Aboriginal people in Central Australia – an opportunity for community members to develop, share, interpret, and celebrate their culture, country, community, family, and language through the universality of music.
For more information about the Bush Bands Bash visit www.bushbandsbash.net.au
Gold Coast Drug Council (Queensland)
Gold Coast Drug Council will conduct a DRASTIC arts and life skills program which utilises peer support for young people 10-25 years. The program is delivered in consultation with clients, where young people interact with workers and mentors on an equal level to discuss issues and concerns, develop and experiment with new skills as well as create artworks and achieve personal outcomes.
Throughout the program young people have the opportunity to share personal stories, through narrative therapy sessions.
DRASTIC utilises a group of young peer support workers who are trained in peer support training courses. These peer support mentors work as positive role models and use early intervention techniques to engage and reduce harms for young clients.
In the final week of the program the participants hold a celebration of their achievements where clients perform a theatre piece utilising skills in therapeutic playback theatre and comedy they have acquired through their theatre training performing stories inspired by clients on the DRASTIC program.
More information about the Gold Coast Drug Council can be found here.
Gunditjmara Aboriginal Co-operative Ltd (Victoria)
Gunditjmara’s Kalay Wartee (Sister Brother) Indigenous Mentoring Program is designed to educate Indigenous young people about awareness and effects of drug and alcohol abuse.
The program aims to:
More information about Gunditjmara Aboriginal Co-operative Ltd. can be found here.
Queensland Association for Healthy Communities (Queensland)
Queensland Association for Healthy Communities, Cabaret Q project will promote the awareness of, and reasons for, the high levels of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs use within lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities in Cairns and surrounding areas, ustilising an engaging and creative arts/health model.
Phase 1 will create a supported mentor program, in partnership with Young People and the Arts Australia, linking 5 young LGBT emerging artists with 5 established LGBT artists to create performances based around the mental health and alcohol, tobacco and other drugs research findings.
Phase 2 will showcase this work in the form of a Cabaret, a FREE event, open to all LGBT people, their friends, and those who work in mental health and drug and alcohol services in the Cairns and surrounding districts. Each audience member who attends the event will receive a drug and alcohol fact sheet along with a Cabaret Program containing information about each performance with a corresponding quote from Queensland Association for Healthy Communities research, thereby reinforcing the connection between the artists work and the organisation’s health promotion agenda. QAHC and other relevant youth organisations, along with drug and alcohol services will be invited to hold a stall in the foyer of the Cabaret venue promoting their services.
For more information about Queensland Association for Healthy Communities visit www.qahc.org.au
Photo (L-R) Queensland Association for Healthy Communities Shane Garvey receives a cheque from FebFast's Fiona Healy
Our Corporate Supporters
Middletons
Middletons is a national commercial law firm that prides itself on a straight talking approach in the delivery of legal services.
As our pro-bono legal partner, Middletons provides FebFast with professional legal advice, as well as commercial solutions and innovative ways to help FebFast achieve its goals.
CPM
CPM is Australia's leading customer acquisition company.
As an employer of hundreds of personnel from diverse age ranges and backgrounds, CPM appreciates the importance of a 'healthier lifestyle'.
We particularly like FebFast's emphasis on individual rewards for participants. Not every fundraising campaign can have this effect on people!
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