Join NADA for an alcohol and other drugs focused forum exploring the 2023 IWD theme: 'Cracking the code: innovation for a gender equal future'. The IWD theme, ’highlights the role that bold, transformative ideas, inclusive technologies, and accessible education can play in combatting discrimination and the marginalisation of women globally' (UN Women Australia).
Program
- 9.30am: Registrations open
- 10am: Welcome to Country by Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council
- 10.10am-10.20am: Introduction to forum and IWD 2023 theme
- 10.20am-11.20am: Panel: 'Doing innovative peer and consumer advocacy work with women'. Moderator: Naif-Jamie Martin. Confirmed panellists include Gail Gray, Tahnee Anthes (participant in NADA Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Audit Project advisory group) and Maureen Steele.
- 11.20am-11.50am: Morning tea
- 11.50am-12pm: Icebreaker session
- 12pm-1pm: Panel- 'Performing trauma informed AOD work with girls and women'.
Moderator: Kittu Randhawa (CEO, Community Resource Network Inc). Panellists: Leanne Lawrence (Senior Treatment Facilitator, Watershed, Lives Lived Well), Jolene Mokbel (AOD/Mental Health Programs, Salvation Army-Youthlink) and Gen Whitlam (Associate Director, Client and Clinical Services, ACON). - 1pm-1.50pm: Lunch
- 1.50pm- 2.50pm: Workshop- supporting women who’ve experienced incarceration in AOD spaces. Facilitators: Carlea Wallace and Bianca Amoranto (Senior Transition Worker-AOD), Community Restorative Centre.
- 2.50PM-3.10PM: Workshop: how will attendees implement what they’ve learned from the day in their workplaces? (Hannah Gillard and Sarah Etter, NADA)
- 3.10pm-3.15pm: Forum close
The forum will be an excellent opportunity to network with NADA Women’s AOD Network members and other AOD/community workers.
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Please note that the in-person event is limited to NADA members only.
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Speaker bios
Naif-Jamie Martin
Naif is a Queer Trans Wiradjuri woman, and is currently working as a part of the Towards Zero Suicides team at St. Vincent’s in Darlinghurst. Naif works as an LGBTQIA+ Suicide Prevention Peer Specialist. She takes pride in using her living experiences of drug and alcohol use, recovery, suicidality, gender and sexuality diversity and personality vulnerabilities, to connect with and support her communities. Her ongoing focus is making positive changes in trans inclusive healthcare, and showcasing the power of peer work in trauma informed care.
Tahnee Anthes Tahnee is a disability support practitioner and family support worker. She spent eight years in total in addiction. Tahnee also has lived experience of family and domestic violence. Tahnee seeks to advocate for others that have experienced the same hardships as herself.
Tahnee is currently studying a Bachelor of Criminology, majoring in Psychology, at the University of Newcastle, for which she has been awarded many scholarships. She is the current vice president of the University of Newcastle Psychology Society (NUPS). Maureen Steele Maureen performs Consumer Participation work at St Vincent's Hospital.
Jolene Mokbel
Jolene works with young people as part of her role as the Clinical Coordinator, AOD/Mental Health Programs, Salvation Army-Youthlink. Jolene is a registered psychologist, and has worked in the youth and AOD sector over the past 6 years. Prior to this, Jolene was employed as a school counsellor.
Bianca Amoranto Bianca is a Senior Worker - AOD Transition Program at the Community Restorative Centre. She has been working in the AOD sector for the past seven years in a range of settings, including a youth-specific residential treatment program, a mentoring program for young women at risk of incarceration, and a homelessness support program.
Bianca's passion for supporting those with substance-use issues and related harms comes from her own lived experience of trauma, substance abuse, violence and incarceration. With the support of services such as CRC, that operate within a trauma-informed framework, Bianca has been able to complete her Youth Work Diploma and she is currently working towards her Bachelor of Psychological Science.
Carlea Wallace Carlea has been working in the community sector for over thirteen years, with experience in AOD, Mental Health, Domestic and Family Violence, Homelessness and the Criminal Justice System. Carlea is currently working for the Community Restorative Centre's Reintegration Housing Support Program providing specialist Criminal Justice System training and program development.
Carlea values equality and human rights, and is a strong advocate in supporting people who do not have a voice. This comes from her own experience as a survivor of childhood and adult trauma, which has helped to shape her practice.
