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Speaker 1: some good news. Finally, now we know that a new

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Speaker 1: grassroots campaign which is tackling domestic and family violence in schools,

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Speaker 1: rolling out a one hundred day initiative encouraging businesses to

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Speaker 1: Darwin Youth Services. Good morning to you, Sarah.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. Thanks for having me come.

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Speaker 1: Out, lovely to have you in the studio. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for your time. Now this campaign it was launched

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Speaker 2: it's just been amazing. We're onready two weeks in and

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Speaker 2: we've sold fifty one classroom packs awesome, so we've got

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about these resource packs.

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Speaker 1: I know that they're focused on domestic and family violence

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, So we've been delivering domestic family violence prevention

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Speaker 2: So all of apologies, both of our programs are aligned

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Speaker 1: And so what kind of support are you hoping for,

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Speaker 1: How can people get involved? To anybody listening this morning

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Speaker 2: Absolutely so, if you just jump on our website, Darwin

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Speaker 1: So across one hundred days, you're hoping to get a

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Speaker 2: Fifty one fifty one fifty one classrooms and we're two

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Speaker 2: for people to get a little.

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Speaker 1: Bit like, oh, well, no, I don't. I'm a competitive person, Sarah.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you can get to one hundred. You can

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Speaker 2: Why can't we aim, Why we're going to we are

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Speaker 2: absolutely going to smash this goal. And I can't wait

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is wonderful. It's great work that you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Sarah Austin lovely to hear from you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, thank you,