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Speaker 1: Now we talk a lot in the Northern Territory from

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Speaker 1: this morning, you know, speaking about the police review which

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Speaker 1: is now underway. We speak a lot about our wonderful

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Speaker 1: frontline services and you know, those wonderful responders that are

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Speaker 1: out there in the Northern Territory helping us in so

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Speaker 1: many different ways. Now, Forsham Australia is set to celebrate

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Speaker 1: the launch of their services for Darwin's First Responder families.

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Speaker 1: As I understand it, they are a national not for

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Speaker 1: profit organization that does support the mental health and well

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Speaker 1: being of first responders and their families. And joining us

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Speaker 1: get under way with here in the Northern Territory is

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Speaker 1: their CEO, John Bail. Good morning to you, John, good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wonderful to have you on the show. John. Firstly,

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about Forsham and the

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Speaker 1: work that you do.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's been going now for four years and it

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Speaker 2: really was born out of the fact that you need

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Speaker 2: to have it in depending an organization that's trusted by

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Speaker 2: the first responder and their family to be able to

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Speaker 2: support their mental health, their well being as well as

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Speaker 2: their career development, to either be retained in the organization

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Speaker 2: or to leave the organization with dignity. And I was

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Speaker 2: lucky enough to help start solder On, another non for

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Speaker 2: profit that supports veterans, and a lot of the lessons

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Speaker 2: we learned from soldier On were able to bring over

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Speaker 2: at the same time a very different group of people

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Speaker 2: in so far as they see a lot more trauma

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Speaker 2: more regularly, they have families that suffer I think in

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Speaker 2: many instances that vicarious trauma from what they see on

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Speaker 2: a daily basis that comes into the community. And ultimately

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Speaker 2: it's also a community that's quite in often disconnected from us.

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Speaker 2: We don't really understand what they do on a daily

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Speaker 2: basis in so far as the impact that can have

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Speaker 2: on them. So four years later, we've been able to

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Speaker 2: grow to fourteen locations around the country and so excited

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Speaker 2: to be finally properly launching in Darwin on the nineteenth September.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so a little bit later this month launching those

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Speaker 1: services here in the territory. What will those services be

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Speaker 1: and what will it mean to those frontline responders?

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Speaker 2: Well, can I let you in on a little bit

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Speaker 2: of a secret actually been delivering services since December of

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Speaker 2: last year. We've actually already supported just under five hundred

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Speaker 2: first responders and their families. So we've provide social connection activities,

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Speaker 2: which is about bringing people together. And social connection is

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Speaker 2: so critical in putting your hand up early, so early

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Speaker 2: intervention for mental health, and then we provide direct clinical support,

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Speaker 2: so psychologists that are supporting the individual and they have

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Speaker 2: put their hand up to make sure that they can

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Speaker 2: be connected to mental health services fast. A lot of

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Speaker 2: people wait until they're at a point in time. It's

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Speaker 2: never too late, but it's a lot harder when you've

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Speaker 2: seen all these things and you haven't reached out early.

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Speaker 2: Our services are about early intervention to clinical services and

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Speaker 2: then career management support as well. So for people who

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Speaker 2: want to stay in and do other things, we can

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Speaker 2: support them. But also for people who are leaving Northern

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Speaker 2: Territory Police or Foreign emergency services or some John's Ambulance

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Speaker 2: and decide they want to do something else, we support

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Speaker 1: So, John, how can people sort of access Fortum services?

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Speaker 1: Because I know that it is it's a not for profit.

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Speaker 1: How can they access those services. We've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of police officers, a lot of you know, first responders

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Speaker 1: that listen to this show.

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Speaker 2: If they just go straight to our website Fordham Australia

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Speaker 2: dot org dot au. At Fordham Australia dot org dot au,

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Speaker 2: local area and a lot of those activities are specifically

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Speaker 2: designed not just for the first responder, but also for

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Speaker 2: their family, the families that are deeply impacted by the

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Speaker 2: work as a first responder for getting them both at

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Speaker 2: building that connection outside of the work environment, which is

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Speaker 2: what they're doing and it supports their mental health if

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Speaker 2: they need extra support. That's where we have the psychology

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Speaker 2: our website and then career management as well, so all

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Speaker 2: through our website. And the great thing is also the

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Speaker 2: we're independent, we're not part of the organization, we're really

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Speaker 2: building that trust to the first responder.

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Speaker 1: Now, in terms of what's happening later this month on

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Speaker 1: the nineteenth, what exactly is it going to be a

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Speaker 2: Well, we're coming back into the disaster season and a

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Speaker 2: lot of the funding that we've been provided from the

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Speaker 2: natural disasters. And when we think of capability for natural disasters,

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Speaker 2: we usually think of fire trucks, or we think of

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Speaker 2: actually don't think about the first responder. So this is

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Speaker 2: a launch also of the federal governments funding of US

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Speaker 2: to support first responders and make sure they are fit

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Speaker 2: So that's a key element of this launch, as well

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Speaker 2: as the connections we have with the agencies and to

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Speaker 2: highlight the more people we're here and we want to

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Speaker 2: support you.

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Speaker 1: Look like I say, I think that there's going to

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Speaker 1: be plenty of people get in contact with FORTHAM to

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Speaker 1: find out more and to be able to access some

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Speaker 1: of those services. But we might try and have a

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Speaker 1: chat to you again a little later in the month,

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Speaker 1: well once some of those other services get up and

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Speaker 1: running on the nineteenth, So we'll no doubt talk to

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Speaker 1: you again very soon, and I really appreciate your time

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Speaker 2: I'd love that. I'd love to talk again, and thank

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Speaker 2: you so much. Actual were supporting any first responders out there.

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Speaker 2: We really look forward to supporting you and your family.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, John, Thanks so much for your time.