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Speaker 1: Solutions are being sought to tackle the likes of the

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Speaker 1: likes of vaping, nangs and chroming among territory youth. NT

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Speaker 1: Health is offering grants of up to twenty thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: to community groups as well as counsels and sole traders

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Speaker 1: for projects that target substance misuse. The grants are aiming

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Speaker 1: to address the harms associated with substance misuse and can

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Speaker 1: also go towards staff training in trauma informed care. Now

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Speaker 1: joining me on the line to talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about what they do is Mission Australia's area manager

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Speaker 1: Anna Hatchison. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Anna, Good morning, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, really good, Thank you so much for your time

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Speaker 1: this morning. Now, Anna, we recently, well, I mean we've

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Speaker 1: recently seen and heard of a number of incidents where

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Speaker 1: young people have been out chroming and unfortunately engaging in

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Speaker 1: what is it's such terrible, terrible behavior in so many

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Speaker 1: ways and so harmful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is really concerning it right, and it

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Speaker 2: seems to be on the increase at the moment, and

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Speaker 2: media really got a hold of it at the moment,

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Speaker 2: especially social media as well. It's pretty concerning. Yes, tell me,

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Speaker 2: you know, what kind.

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Speaker 1: Of programs or what kind of impact I guess, firstly,

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Speaker 1: does chroming have on a young person?

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, it's in terms of a sector. In those

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Speaker 2: of us that work in use in AOD, we've had

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Speaker 2: to change our workforce and our approach chroming thing on

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Speaker 2: the increase significantly, i'd say in the last twelve months,

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Speaker 2: but prior to that as well, we've had to really

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Speaker 2: educate our workforce and how to approach it, what to do,

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Speaker 2: what not to do. We've had to work with Empty

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Speaker 2: House as well as Darwin and Palmerston City councils in

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Speaker 2: terms of providing their education to our stuff. Because this

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Speaker 2: eighteen months ago wasn't a huge concern, you know what,

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Speaker 2: wasn't in your face like it seems to be at

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Speaker 2: the moment. So we have had to shift it of

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Speaker 2: what we're doing there, and you're seeing an increase in

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Speaker 2: it in sort of social areas, in public areas as well.

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Speaker 3: So when you talk.

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Speaker 1: About the health that it has, because I think that

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Speaker 1: it's really important for people to realize just how badly

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Speaker 1: this does affect young people. And I think that for

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Speaker 1: a lot of us, we understand that there are harmful

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Speaker 1: impacts of criming, But what does it do to a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot the there's still a lot to sort

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Speaker 2: of learn around what this does in the long term

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Speaker 2: for us working in the industry in terms of getting

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Speaker 2: a clinical.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm probably not the best clinical effects, but what

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Speaker 3: it does in the short term for our young people,

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Speaker 3: as you can see in some of the videos that

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Speaker 3: have surfaced, as young people are.

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Speaker 2: Unable to communicate and it can come across as sort

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Speaker 2: of violent and it really causes huge impacts on the

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Speaker 2: heart immediately. But as I was sort of saying, we've

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Speaker 2: had to edge security in our staff and other people

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Speaker 2: that work around with young people, around simple things that

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Speaker 2: do not chase young people who have just chromed, you know,

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Speaker 2: do not approach and things like that, because it can

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Speaker 2: cause significant heart issues right then and there.

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Speaker 1: Right, So there's like it's harmful obviously in a lot

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, of course it's incredibly harmful. And then

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Speaker 2: looking at what this might look long term for these

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Speaker 1: So we know that the Northern Territory Government's obviously offering

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Speaker 1: And I know that, you know, I've asked you a

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Speaker 1: number of questions there about chroming, but it's not the

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Speaker 1: only thing that's sort of on the up and of concern.

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Speaker 2: Right now, you know that's right. Unfortunately, alcohol use in

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Speaker 2: young people as well as other substances of mixing things

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Speaker 2: like hand sanitizers and things like that are differently on

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Speaker 2: the app as well. So I guess having grants at

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Speaker 2: this in place is a really awesome step moving forward,

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Speaker 1: And I know that you know that as part of

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Speaker 1: know what nangs are, if I'm bluntly honest with you, Anna.

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Speaker 2: I'm not familiar.

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Speaker 3: I'm not such a familiar with nangs myself, with all

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Speaker 1: But vaping is a real concern for you know, for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and is it so? And how easy it is

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Speaker 2: for young people to gain access to vaping is well them?

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Speaker 2: And you see vaping shops or absolutely everywhere you can

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Speaker 2: It is quite concerning just how quick the increase has happened,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so obviously the announcement by the government, this

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Speaker 1: that you know, individual grants of up to twenty thousand

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Speaker 2: Yeah, keep having the conversations with our young people. You know,

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Speaker 2: a lot of these things are still so new that

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Speaker 2: we don't know the long term impact on these young people.

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Speaker 2: You know, vaping wasn't huge when I was a teenager.

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Speaker 2: Imagine what this could look like in ten twenty years

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Speaker 2: time in terms of impact. Keep the communication going, changing

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Speaker 2: it from being called to sitting around and vaping and

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Speaker 2: chrome into joining all these community initiatives that you'll see

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Speaker 2: an increase of. There'll be lots more after our activity

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Speaker 2: really engaging in those rather than yeah, buying into this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what kinds of projects could help in terms of

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Speaker 1: curbing the missues that we do see of substances. So

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Speaker 1: I know that Mission Australia does a lot in their space.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think things that we've seen that work really well,

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Speaker 2: so Mission Beat. So that's one of our after hours

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Speaker 2: and we're seeing quite often it's finding things to do

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Speaker 2: seems to be when we're seeing increase in these things.

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Speaker 2: So we're managing to sort of mobilize and you know

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Speaker 2: basketball competitions and things like this. And I'm talking eight

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Speaker 2: for having more access to I suppose more socially acceptable

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Speaker 2: activities after hours, I think will see a decrease in this.

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Speaker 1: And is you know other services of Mission Australia available

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Speaker 1: to anybody or if there are people listening this morning

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Speaker 1: that are thinking, you know, I would like to engage

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Speaker 1: with Mission Australia. Is that something that anybody can do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, particularly with our if you know, if there's

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Speaker 2: events coming out where young people might be congregating, if

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Speaker 2: there's lots of things happening, that's something that Mission beat

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Speaker 2: can do as we can mobilize to where the community are.

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Speaker 2: But if anyone wants any support in terms of educational

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Speaker 2: where they could possibly go for specialist support, we're more

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Speaker 2: than happy to link them into suitable services because there

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Speaker 2: are a few out there that would be more than

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Speaker 1: Well, I really appreciate your time this morning. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for having a chat with us, and hopefully

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you again very soon.

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Speaker 2: All right, no worry thank you,