In this episode, I speak with Lachlan, an early career Social Worker whose final placement saw him working in a youth drug and alcohol NGO providing specialist homelessness services. This piqued Lachlan's interest in the social complexities of this client group and saw him working as a new grad Social Worker in an Opiate Treatment Program based in the inner city, where he has found a passion for domestic violence, mental health, institutionalisation, and homelessness.

Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:

• Mental Health Carers NSW - https://www.mentalhealthcarersnsw.org/
• South East Sydney Local Health District Drug and Alcohol Services - https://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/services-clinics/directory/drug-and-alcohol-services
• Methadone use in Australia - https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Content/drugtreat-pubs-meth-toc~drugtreat-pubs-meth-int
• Wayside Chapel - https://www.waysidechapel.org.au/
• Kirketon Road Centre - https://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/services-clinics/directory/kirketon-road-centre
• The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) - https://www.mocatest.org/
• Psychiatric impairments and the Disability Support Pension - https://www.ejaustralia.org.au/wp/social-security-rights-review/psychiatric-impairments-and-the-disability-support-pension/
• Psychosocial NDIS Access Project - https://www.missionaustralia.com.au/servicedirectory/193-mental-health-recovery/psychosocial-ndis-access-project
• Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre (hospital-based) - https://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/psychiatric-emergency-care-centre-pecc-0
• The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk) - https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/resources/the-body-keeps-the-score
• Medically Supervised Injecting Centre - https://www.uniting.org/community-impact/uniting-medically-supervised-injecting-centre--msic
  

This episode's transcript can be viewed here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14D1mR1KOt4adxKUaebO31fTLGqKQdswNCAuxAwKdtlg/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks to Kevin Macleod of incompetech.com for our theme music.