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25.01.2022 Narcotics Annonmyous Convention 2017 is fast approaching. Make sure you call and book your spot for April 29th.

23.01.2022 ‘I lost a relative to heroin. It came with no warning. Bang! They were gone. That’s why I joined Our Town's ICE Fight. After the attack in the Bourke St. Mall,... we are all reminded of the heartbreak Ice can cause’. I’m interviewing Ian Campbell, the Geelong Community Drug Action Group’s treasurer and representative from Rotary along with the group’s President, Peter Hester. ‘Our mantra is Prevention through awareness and education. We formed to tackle the crisis around Ice in the Geelong and Barwon region. The group’s aim is to unite the local community to address the impact of substance abuse. We are assisted by police, businesses and employers and see ourselves as ‘enablers’ supporting our local best practise service providers in the provision of drug counselling, rehabilitation and support services. ‘We went with the name ‘Our Town’s Ice Fight’ so the documents and principles are transferrable to any town in Australia. http://www.icefight.com.au/. Our ‘Clubs that Care’ program has a document that’s a management plan if Clubs are ever confronted with drug use problems. There were players active in sport, going out onto the field Iced up. For tradesmen, we hold awareness seminars and in conjunction with the Australian Drug Foundation, developed an iPhone app to intervene on worksites where Ice use could be a problem. It involves an initial accreditation and a 3 monthly refresher course and runs alongside random testing to ensure OH&S on a worksite. ‘150 people attended our Family Awareness public forum in June. We hope to make this an annual information session. We used Family Drug Support expertise and had a number of family members give presentations on managing drug addiction in the family. We produced a fact sheet that’s a quick reference guide to drug services and information and also a booklet ‘Ice What you need to know’. We’ve had calls from all over Australia asking for the booklets. We have been the trail blazers in this Australia wide fight. ‘We believe one answer to the Ice problem is education. That’s why we have teamed up with Northern Bay P-12 College and are supporting their Outdoor Ed program which has a learning and life skills focus, they run at Staughton Vale. It is about instilling pride and respect and its ultimate objective, is keeping students in education and helping them to make wise life choices and aims to plot a pathway to work for each student. Anne-Marie Ryan from the Geelong Local Learning & Education Network is active in developing pathways to work for these people, and for people caught up in the Youth Justice system. ‘Youth offenders are often made to do community services like picking up papers along the highway or removing graffiti. While this helps the environment, it doesn’t identify the root cause of the offending or help reform the individual. We believe that further work is needed to identify the underlying cause/s of the student disengagement and to intervene by providing a G-TECH type environment where we could teach them transferrable work skills while at the same time provide mentoring. ‘We concluded last year with a meeting where 8 service providers from Geelong were represented so our grass roots focus is coming from the local community. ‘We don’t think building bigger jails is the answer. That’s just throwing money at the wrong end of the problem after the horse has bolted. I’d love to see an a-political research study undertaken to help understand the root causes of the problem’ says Peter. Ian adds, ‘With Rotary behind us we have an army of skilled and experienced people to help with obtaining funding and with lobbying, in organizing public events, and in providing mentors. We can make a difference in young people’s lives provided we can set them on the right path at school and provide support and counselling along the way. We’ve found great generosity whenever we have approached businesses for funds, help and in-kind support. The effects of drugs touches everyone. This is a community fight. Peter and I are behind the scenes people, who see our roles as enablers of change, with experience as managers in our own fields. We always have room for others to help too. This fight requires smart thinking. Anyone interested in helping us can contact Peter on 0400 056401 or Ian on 0408 082514

22.01.2022 R U OK? It could save a life

20.01.2022 Parents need power to protect their kids. This petition to Federal Government is asking for this, sign and share this petition. https://www.change.org/p/my-son-is-dying-and-a-danger-allow

18.01.2022 Are you or a loved one struggling with an Addiction Problem and want to get be able to take control of your life and your health?? Take the positive step! There are rehab beds and Inpatient/Outpatient programs available in Geelong with trained and experienced people who will be there for you on your journey. If you would like to know more about how this can help you and your family, please feel free to contact us.

17.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/AlcoholDrugFdn/posts/10154095788078884

16.01.2022 A great story about a young footballer who's struggle with depression led him down the road of substance abuse. But his determination and fight has him back on his feet and were so grateful he could share his story. Keep up the great work Sam https://www.facebook.com/KROCKFootball/posts/802076503226506

15.01.2022 http://www.dannygrant.com.au//2/7/1/sex-drugs-broken-homes

12.01.2022 Open to discussion! https://www.facebook.com/iwakeupwithtoday/videos/1294597727241556/

10.01.2022 Here at Our Town's ICE Fight, we are all about education and awareness to our community. Over the last year we have been privelaged to be working with Northern Bay College & Nelson Park Schools with many aligned initiatives to assist their members of our community who need the guidance the most. Such guidance initiatives include "9 Heroes Journey Program", which remove students from daily distractions and provides coaching and mentoring towards goal and plan setting in self ...resilience and management. Over the past several years, Northern Bay College & Nelson Park have endevoured to provide these great initiatives from the Staughton Vale Outdoor Education Centre. this facility has been intergral to their camps enambling students to access excursions & activities while keeping costs to a minimum for families over the last 25 years. The camp facilities allow the students the space to practise social skills and connection as well as their growing independent life skills in an environment away from home. However, this facility was in dire need of an upgrade to be an effective environment for their members. We are very proud to share upgrades and maintenance to this facility on an ongoing basis into the future. We here at Our Town's ICE Fight would like to especially thank Deakin & Rotary Clubs of Highton & Geelong for their invaluable support to this great cause and we know it is greatly appreciated by the schools & our community.

09.01.2022 What are your thoughts?? https://www.facebook.com/KOMONews/videos/1338590199542642/

08.01.2022 A lovely read about the overarching Principal of Northern Bay College. An area that we have spent a lot of time and done a lot of work with to help support such programs and initiatives to keep our kids in school

07.01.2022 A great turnout for Our Town's ICE Fight Information night. Thank-you to Family Drug Support (FDS) and our local service providers for coming and providing their time, knowledge & services to the community.

07.01.2022 Just a reminder that we have a brief information session for those who have approached us regarding volunteering. To be held tomorrow night 27th June 6pm at The Geelong Police station-Mercer street. If you have any skills that you think could be utilised with upcoming and ongoing projects & initiatives come along and see if you can help!

06.01.2022 What a great read and we could not agree more!! "At the same time the community must do much more. For one, the state government needs to get real. It should hold a day-long intensive program for teachers, school counsellors and the heads of schools' parent associations to learn about managing drug issues. None of this online module learning rubbish. Each school should send two or three teachers. Bring in the medical specialists and the top drug addiction counsellors. Teach the teachers skills."

05.01.2022 What are your thoughts?? https://www.facebook.com/geelongadvertiser/posts/10154470705504271

04.01.2022 Scary that "flakka" has been detected in Australian employees, but what's going to be done to stop it before it gets out of hand? https://www.facebook.com/ttadelaide/videos/1219100254778255/

02.01.2022 Very scary!! Please educate your kids about the dangers they face when drugs are involved!

02.01.2022 For those interested, there is going to be a Narcotics Anonymous "United In Recovery" convention in Norlane on April 29th. See details in post- make sure you register.

01.01.2022 http://www.heraldsun.com.au//3d290afb2186f4bbc0b62f3ed3c05