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Speaker 1: We know that there is currently a charity, not for profit,

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Speaker 1: consumer run mental health organization providing a range of free

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Speaker 1: therapeutic services for residents within the Palmerston region. Unfortunately, right

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Speaker 1: now they're in a situation where well they need to

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Speaker 1: find a new home. Now joining us on the line

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Speaker 1: to tell us a little bit more is Helen Day

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Speaker 1: from TEMCO. Good morning to you, Helen.

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Speaker 2: Good morning and thank you for having me Helen.

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Speaker 1: Firstly, for those out there listening who really don't know

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Speaker 1: what tem CO is, tell us exactly what you guys

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Speaker 1: do and what services you provide.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we provide a range of therapeutic services that help

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Speaker 2: and aid with the mental health recovery. But one of

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Speaker 2: the most important things that we actually do is to

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Speaker 2: help with the capacity building so that you know, the

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Speaker 2: people that come, you know, have their rightful place in society.

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Speaker 2: And it's about inspiring and helping people and giving them

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Speaker 2: courage to, like, for example, go back into the workplace.

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Speaker 2: So we've got a program that's running at the moment

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Speaker 2: which is the Ntpeer Workforce Project, and we've got fifteen

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Speaker 2: students that are part of that and they're all people

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Speaker 2: you know that have mental health lift experience, and they're

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Speaker 2: being by a couple of our team mentors that've been

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Speaker 2: inspired and helped and you know, you know, to all

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Speaker 2: their studies and everything. And the main name in the

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Speaker 2: end is to help them to get work at the

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Speaker 2: end of it as peer support workers and Helen.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned, it's a charity, not for profit, consumer

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Speaker 1: run mental health organization, So I would imagine it's you know,

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Speaker 1: you don't have a great deal of sort of excess funding,

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Speaker 1: you know, to be able to pay rests on the.

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Speaker 2: Two string budget. Yeah, for sure. Yes, tell us how.

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Speaker 1: Many territorians you know, do you have coming into your center.

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Speaker 2: Well, at the moment, on average, we have one hundred

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Speaker 2: and thirty people a week coming through and they're not

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Speaker 2: always the same people either. And one of the things

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Speaker 2: that we do is that we encourage people to become

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Speaker 2: members and last week we had five more new members

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Speaker 2: come in, so we're continuously growing. So yeah, and it's yeah,

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Speaker 2: people are learning more and more, you know, as time

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Speaker 2: goes by, you know, you know, with the word out,

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Speaker 2: people are finding out that we actually exist and we're

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Speaker 2: here to help people, you know, within the Palmestan region.

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Speaker 1: But unfortunately in a situation right now where you're no

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Speaker 1: longer able to rent. I know that you were running

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Speaker 1: you drop in service from the Salvation Army Palmerston Courts

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Speaker 1: in Woodroffe. Unfortunately they're actually going to be starting up

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Speaker 1: well fortunately for them, they're going to be starting off

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Speaker 1: a new project. But what it means for you guys

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Speaker 1: is that you need to find a new home.

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Speaker 2: Yes, very soon, because we're actually only there till the

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Speaker 2: end of June, you know, so Le's we get a

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Speaker 2: little bit of a bit more of an extension, but

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Speaker 2: that's been the cutoff the date that we've been informed

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Speaker 2: at this stage, so we're getting a little bit anxious

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Speaker 2: to say, say the least.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so Helen, what exactly you know, what do

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Speaker 1: you guys need? I suppose you know, what have you

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Speaker 1: sort of been operating out of up until now and

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Speaker 1: what do you need?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, we have seven staff that actually work for

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Speaker 2: Timpcohen and again they're part time staff. And as I said,

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Speaker 2: you know, we do work on a very shoe stream.

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Speaker 2: We're not doing this work for the money, that's for sure,

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Speaker 2: but we operate at the Salvation Army. They've got a

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Speaker 2: very large hall, so we do a lot of our

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Speaker 2: students who I mentioned before are actually in the amountable

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Speaker 2: with the staff actually doing their training from there. But

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Speaker 2: we also have quite a few other students that come

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Speaker 2: in to do their work placement as well. So it was,

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Speaker 2: as I said, it was on a large block of

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Speaker 2: land at large building, you know, because we've got so

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Speaker 2: many people coming through, and actually on that block of

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, and so we're I mean, were you

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I've been looking at different commercial rental

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's like I actually contacted you know, I said roughly

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Speaker 2: the real estate said, well, you need to get yourself

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Speaker 1: And this is the difficult thing, isn't it. You know,

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Speaker 1: particularly if you're not sort of getting funding from from

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Speaker 1: It makes it hard. So Helen, I suppose it's a

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Speaker 2: Oh, we would really appreciate that because, as I said,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's a home for us, you know, and

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Speaker 2: to not have that and not know, you know, you know,

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Speaker 2: some of the options we've had is you know, like oh,

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Speaker 2: booking this place here in that place, you know, one

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Speaker 2: appropriate for us. You know, our members need to know

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Speaker 2: no know where they're going each day, you know, and

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Speaker 2: to have that you know, feeling of security and safety well.

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Speaker 1: And what will it mean to those you know, one

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's devastating. We actually did some video. We did

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Speaker 2: and I actually put that up on social media and

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Speaker 2: people were saying, you know, it was just heartbreaking, you know,

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Speaker 2: to how much it would devastate them, you know, like

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Speaker 2: and that's not what we want. You know. We've worked

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Speaker 2: it's you know, it's really inspiring.

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Speaker 1: Well, Helen, I really hope that that some sort of

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Speaker 1: solution is able to be found. I hope that somebody's

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Speaker 1: help you guys in some way, because as as you've said,

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Speaker 1: talked us through some of the different programs that you do,

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Speaker 1: but even for some of those younger people as well,

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Speaker 1: and it does sound as though it's making a real

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Speaker 2: That's right. Even during the school holiday we've actually got

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Speaker 2: from Salt Bush they're bringing out some of the fourteen

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Speaker 2: our program as well, which you know we encourage that

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Speaker 2: during the school holidays too, So it's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Well, Helen, I hope that you are able to get

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Speaker 1: some support. Of course, people are able to head on

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Speaker 1: to social media and to search tem CO now it's

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Speaker 1: spelled t E M HCO and yep, and they'll be

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Speaker 1: able to find you on there. But feel free if

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Speaker 1: that you can help in some way, to give us

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Speaker 1: a call here at the station as well. Eight nine

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Speaker 1: four one one o four nine, Helen, I hope that

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Speaker 1: some sort of solution is able to be found. Please

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Speaker 1: keep in contact and let us know how you go.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, I really appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: No worries at all,