Community Connect

We are chatting again via zoom with: - Alex Jones, who is the Community Legal Education and Development worker at BCLS.

And Becky Nevin Berger from MPower.

Alex - Barwon Community Legal Service.

Promote our Barwon Warm Safe Home Facebook Group, as well as encourage listeners to register for our upcoming Virtual Warm Safe Home forum featuring the Commissioner for Senior Victorians and Seniors Rights Victoria.

Barwon Warm Safe Home Facebook group

· https://www.facebook.com/groups/barwonwarmsafehome/

Barwon Warm Safe Home Virtual Forum - 16 Days of Activism

· https://barwonwarmsafehomeforum.eventbrite.com.au

More info can also be found on our website: https://barwoncls.org/barwon-warm-safe-home-project/

We are chatting again via zoom with: - Naomi Lettieri, who is the Community Liaison Nurse at Anam Cara House Colac, and Jenni Polley from Barwon Health Carer Support about National Carers Week 2020.

Barwon Health Carer Respite & Carelink Services

Phone: (03) 4215 7600

Barwon Health Carer Support

www.carersvictoria.org.au- New Number - 1800 514 845

Anam CAra Colac - 03 5233 8203

www.anamcarahousecolac.org.au

We are chatting again via zoom with: -Lily Alford, who introduced her fundraiser thus:-

Heya everyone! My name is Lily Alford & I am a Legally Blind/Chronically ill 20 year old from Colac, Victoria. You may have seen me walking around with my selection of colourful canes (rainbow is my most popular choice!).

And Dussy Kuttner, who is the Community Fundraising & Event Marketing Manager for Vision Australia.

This World Sight Day (October 8), Lily is taking on the My Vision 20:20 Challenge.

Thank you - your support will make all the difference.

https://myvision.visionaustralia.org/fundraisers/lilyalford

Facebook - Lily Alford for more news .

We are chatting again via zoom with: - Naomi Lettieri - Community Liaison Nurse at Anam Cara House Colac, and Annie Keogh, who is a Carer & Community Education Officer with Carers Victoria.

Carer Gateway - 180 422 737

www.carersvictoria.org.au/

www.anamcarahousecolac.org.au

Facebook -/AnamCaraHouseColac

03 5233 8203

We are chatting again via zoom with:- Mick Jones | Clinical Lead - Mental Health Nurse with Neami Nationa,l

And Georgia Barrand, Peer Support Worker - STEPMI program with Neami National Barwon, Colac and the Otways.

For more info, Ph 1300 050 093, Fb Neami National, go to https://www.neaminational.org.au or just Google STEPMI -

We are chatting again via zoom with:- Colac's own McGrath Breast Care Nurse, Michelle Hamblin, and, Anne Johnson, who is a mate of ours, and has her own story in this regard.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Colac along with other towns across Australia is participating in the McGrath Foundation's fundraising activity named Pink up Your Town. Colac will fundraise throughout the month of October with all money being raised for the McGrath Foundation.

Go To Facebook to find out more about it - https://www.facebook.com/pinkupcolac/ - as well as how to get involved.

https://fundraise.mcgrathfoundation.com.au/fundraiser/pinkupcolac

We are chatting again via zoom with:- Kim Coulter who is BCYF Coordinator Early Years Colac, and Nikki Welsh from the Early Intervention Early Childhood team.

For Nikki at EIEC - 1300 012 293

BCYF Colac

54C Bromfield Street, Colac, Victoria, 3250

03 5231 4740

www.bcyf.org.au

International Overdose Awareness Day is a global event held on 31 August each year that aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of drug-related death.

We are chatting again via zoom with:-

Craig Harvey who is the Harm Reduction Coordinator at Barwon Health Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Services,

Misty Collins who is an AOD Care and Recovery/Overdose Prevention Clinician with the Stepping Up Consortium,

And Nick Sourlos, a Clinical Pharmacist at Colac Area Health.

Contacts: Barwon Health - 1800 196 850

Stepping Up - Referral via Barwon Health - 1300 094 187

Direct Line - 1800 888 236

Family Drug Support - 1300 368 186

This program is about Dying To Know Day with Naomi Lettieri from Anam Cara House Colac as the Community Liaison Nurse, Daryl Thomas, CEO of the Geelong Cemetery Trust (which encompasses Colac Otway) and Ashleigh Hoy, his EA.

This is a topic people avoid, but is about the unavoidable!

Anam Cara House:

50 Forans Road,

Barongarook West, 3249

(03) 5233 8203

https://anamcarahousecolac.org.au/

Geelong Cemeteries Trust (GCT)

Ph. (03) 5249 3939

Email. [email protected]

https://www.gct.net.au/contact-us/

We are chatting again via zoom with Emma Collin - Parkinson's Victoria CEO, Naomi Lettieri, the coordinator of Colac and District Parkinson's Peer Support Group, and Drew, who is living with Parkinson's.

They are all inspirational people who gaive us an all round perspectine on Parkinson's and many other related issues

For Parkinson's Vic.:-

https://www.parkinsonsvic.org.au/

Freecall Information Line - 1800 644 189

www.facebook.com/parkinsonsvic

Colac and District:-

 Naomi Lettieri - Community Liaison Nurse

03 5233 8203

www.anamcarahousecolac.org.au

Facebook -/AnamCaraHouseColac

www.parkinsons.org.au

Freecall Information Line

1800 644 189