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Speaker 1: Five, A nice with Matthew Pantellas. Now a few weeks

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Speaker 1: ago on this program, and it would have been after eleven.

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Speaker 1: It was in the last half hour, certainly somebody called

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Speaker 1: in I record. It was Barry by name, and Barry

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Speaker 1: kids and had them for some time, for years, she

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Speaker 1: basically was raising them, and all of a sudden one day,

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Speaker 1: someone from the Department of Child whatever it is, Services Protection,

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Speaker 1: whatever it's called, doesn't matter really anyway, they were there

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Speaker 1: and said, the boys are coming with us because we've

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Speaker 1: got a complaint that you're turning the kids against their

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Speaker 1: father and no investigation. No, what did you say? What words? Possibly?

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Speaker 1: Could this be taken out of context? Could you know

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Speaker 1: what happened? None of that kid's just gone and she's

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Speaker 1: as much as he could for his daughter. But he

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Speaker 1: mentioned the Riley Foundation. Never heard of the Riley Foundation.

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Speaker 1: I'd never heard of them, and gee, they do a

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Speaker 1: lot of good work. The foundation was started by co

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Speaker 1: creator CEO Nadia Virginetti, who is on the line right now. Nadia,

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Speaker 1: good evening, Thanks for your time.

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Speaker 2: Hallie Matthew, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Now, I see and we'll talk about this. You've recently

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Speaker 1: had a state government grant awarded to the foundation, but

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Speaker 1: we'll get to that. But tell me a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the Riley Foundation. How did it start? What's it about?

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Speaker 2: Sure, it started because we identified a gap in the

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Speaker 2: the concerns of the Department for Child Protection had and

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Speaker 2: come home. So if we know that children aren't doing

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Speaker 2: well in out of home care and there's an o

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Speaker 2: we know that family is best, then it's about helping

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Speaker 1: Okay, how does it get to that point though? And

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Speaker 1: I suppose every case will be different, but you know,

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Speaker 1: when you start looking at what you can do as

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So we know that a lot of the reasons

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Speaker 2: And once they really understand what is happening and why

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Speaker 2: So you know that, and when we know that out

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Speaker 1: So, I know from your website you've got workshops running

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Speaker 1: Present for Life. And these are not long, you know,

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Speaker 1: But obviously parents sometimes, you know, all of us probably

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Speaker 2: Yeah. We find that parents are really wanting the knowledge,

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Speaker 2: There are other parents that are navigating the same space.

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Speaker 2: It can be really isolating. A lot of families don't

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Speaker 2: their parenting template looks like. You know, parenting is hard.

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Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. I'm a mum of three and it

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Speaker 1: There's a direct experience group that you run and this

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Speaker 1: was established by the Minister for Child Protection Katrine Hillyard.

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Speaker 1: I understand. So you do have a close relationship with

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think the focus is that we're all

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Speaker 2: we're possible with parents and their families and so I

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Speaker 2: that children are best when it's safe to be raised

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Speaker 2: Direct Experience Group. The members of that group are incredible.

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Speaker 2: this system hasn't always treated them really well. You know,

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Speaker 2: they've been traumatized by this system, I think that's incredible

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Speaker 2: that they know, the advice that they give on many stages.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Who's Riley? Was there a Riley? Tell me about Riley?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? No, Riley is just a name. It's a Uni

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Speaker 2: just it's about children that are wrapped up into this system,

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Speaker 1: Name that we came up right, Okay, so it's not

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Speaker 1: actually a person. It's just our real person. It's just

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Speaker 1: YEA gives it a cover. All that's okay. If people

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Speaker 1: a good place to start.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And we're wanting to make that more informative.

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Speaker 2: We're wanting to have because parents don't have a really

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Speaker 2: it's really important so they have those information really quickly,

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Speaker 2: other support services. So yeah, our website is the best

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Speaker 1: All right, Could people navigate child protection without a group

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Speaker 2: It's not easy. It's really difficult. It's really difficult to

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Speaker 2: need to be aware of? What does a documentation mean

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Speaker 2: when you sign that, what's the next step? What do

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Speaker 2: these different orders mean? How do you show up in

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Speaker 2: I think it's so hard for parents to be able

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Speaker 1: You're the co founder. What motivated you to start this foundation?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I think I worked in a school

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Speaker 2: do everything to support that.

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Speaker 1: Nadia. It's such a hard area, and no case is

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Speaker 1: more the opposite that in some cases there is some

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Speaker 1: deadbeat parents out there that just shouldn't be anywhere near

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Speaker 2: I suppose, yeah, I think that there's some parents that

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Speaker 2: But for the majority, and in ninety nine point nine

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Speaker 2: are wanting very much to address the concerns. They're very

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Speaker 2: in the first instance, and we understand that that's really important,

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Speaker 2: make sure kids are safe, but long term it's in

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Speaker 1: So. Yeah, now you've got a reasonable grant I understand

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Speaker 2: and she thought that what we were doing as an association,

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Speaker 2: what is it that Riley needed, and Riley doesn't have

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Speaker 2: but our funding majority comes from philanthropic We received grants,

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Speaker 2: especially from Community Capital and ten by ten Impact one hundred,

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Speaker 2: So the ten thousand dollars grant that we have to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, the underlying mission Nadia, you'd probably say

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Speaker 1: this is all about helping parents be better and raising

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Speaker 1: better kids, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, our focus is about children. You know, I

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Speaker 2: all children are safe, but where it's possible that they're

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Ultimately, absolutely, good on you, Nadia. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for your time tonight. That's all really interesting in

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Speaker 1: I remember anyways, name was Barry. What Barry was saying

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Speaker 1: was that you're helping. Obviously, I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: hopefully they get the resolution they're looking for too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I really appreciate your time and putting and shining

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Speaker 2: a light on this because a lot of times parents

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Speaker 2: really important to be able to support them through.

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Speaker 1: This process absolutely, Nadia, thank you and all the best

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Speaker 1: for Christmas two to you and your family.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Nadia Virginetti, who is CEO and co creator of the

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Speaker 1: Riley Foundation,