April 2024
Quote
“Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want, too. If we never find our experience described in poetry or stories, we assume that our experience is insignificant.”
Useful Fact
Isolated Patients Travel & Accommodation Service (IPTAAS) provides financial assistance from the NSW Government towards your travel and accommodation costs when you need to travel long distances for specialised health treatment that is not available locally. To be eligible for IPTAAS, you must:
be a resident of NSW including Lord Howe Island
be enrolled with Medicare
not be receiving, or eligible for, financial assistance for travel and accommodation from third party insurance or other Australian government services
be referred for treatment at their nearest health service
receive treatment at an approved health service
travel from their residence for treatment at least 100km (one way), or at least 200kms in a week by making multiple trips to and from treatment
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𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝙾𝚗 𝙾𝚞𝚛 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚍 🤷♀️📣 We have some thoughts, let us know yours💬
𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘀, 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁? When you're feeling partly happy and partly sad at the same time. When you know ending a situationship was the right choice, but you also lowkey miss it. When you're feeling two seemingly opposite emotions.
This is not a thought about cognitive dissonance, where you are in a mental conflict of your beliefs and actions not lining up. This is more a thought about holding both spaces simultaneously.
What if in that nuanced space we can feel deep sadness and grief but we can also proper laugh and feel joy. What if we're alone but don’t feel lonely. What if we miss them but don’t want to be with them. What if we feel rejected, but also free.
𝗘𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆, 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. 𝗪𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲.
Sit with the uncertainty, the liminal space, seek out information from places like @gottmaninstitute @relationshipsaustraliasa and
@reachout_aus and potentially find a professional that’s the right fit for you, if you need to.
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲✌️
Campaign & Events
The Good Box is a social enterprise that creates beautifully packaged gift boxes for people experiencing homelessness in Australia.
They’re on a mission to abolish misconceptions surrounding homelessness to prevent isolation and increase communication.
Give a box to someone you see experiencing homelessness OR opt for it to be distributed by one of their awesome charity partners. Either way, you’re going to brighten up someone’s day!
Their engagement programs for school and corporates aim to remove the stigma around homelessness, educate and connect.
Know Your Websites
Yellow Ladybugs is a non-government organisation with strong bridges to the community. They are dedicated to the happiness, success and celebration of autistic girls, women and gender diverse individuals. They believe all autistic individuals deserve to be recognised, valued, accepted and supported in order to realise their full potential. They are committed to shining a positive light on autism through the creation of positive and inclusive experiences for our members.
They use identity-first language (‘autistic’ rather than ‘has autism’) to respect thier community’s preferences and because they are actively seeking to reframe the conversation on autism, to remove the stigma, and to focus instead on acceptance, and a world that celebrates neurodiversity.
They are an autistic led organisation, which means that the majority of their team members are autistic. They recognise that actually autistic individuals are the true experts on autism, and their lived experience is a critical factor in Yellow Ladybugs’ commitment to being an organisation that can advocate for its autistic members, whether they are children, teens or adults, and whether they are formally diagnosed, or self-identify as autistic.
Who are?
The Centre for Future Work is an initiative of the Australia Institute, to conduct and publish progressive economic research on work, employment, and labour markets.
It serves as a unique centre of excellence on the economic issues facing working people: including the future of jobs, wages and income distribution, skills and training, sector and industry policies, globalisation, the role of government, public services, and more.
The Centre will also develop timely and practical policy proposals to help make the world of work better for working people and their families.
On the Blog
You might have still been on vacay back in January when we released the blog-Our Summer Favs.
In it we cover our fav book (hard to pick, but we did), movie, series, documentary, music, podcast and artist from 2023.
Resource
The Understanding Dementia MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) was developed by the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre based in the College of Health and Medicine at the University of Tasmania. This world-leading online course is free, easily accessible and available to everyone with an interest in dementia.
The ageing of human populations across the globe has contributed to dementia being identified as one of the public health issues of the 21st century. The MOOC curriculum addresses this health issue by drawing upon the expertise of neuroscientists, clinicians and dementia care professionals from both within the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, and beyond.
Since 2013, the Understanding Dementia has received over 360,000 enrolments from all around the world. We invite you to join our community and learn about the diseases that cause dementia, how the condition affects the person with dementia, and how we can provide the best quality care.
Diary Dates
Our exciting line up of guests for On The Couch in 2024 includes Dr Tessa Opie from In Your Skin with Kerrin Bradfield, Danyelle Mei Kaplan from Magkasama with Egan Magee from Every Body, Laura Crozier from Youth Affairs Council of Victoria and Rachel Wotton with Mohammed Samrah.
Register and get your free tickets to be in the live online audience for On The Couch episodes HERE.
Watch or listen to previous On The Couch episodes HERE.
Complete free modules about sexual & reproductive health in your own time.