Well Well Well

23 Jan 2024

PARTi Project and SeshEd – Harm Reduction Summer Series Part 2

Advocacy and Activism, Alcohol & Drug Harm Reduction

Linda Cowan from the PARTi Project and SeshEd shares with us how to keep safe over our summer pride festival season, and the importance of harm reduction interventions that are peer led.

The Sesh.ed 2024 Survey can be completed here: tr.ee/hDpDMbhVUk

The PARTi Project on Facebook facebook.com/PARTiproject/
Sesh.Ed on Instagram instagram.com/sesh.ed
Drug Reagent Kits drugpolicy.org.au/shop
Sesh.ed 2024 Survey: https://tr.ee/hDpDMbhVUk

Alcohol and Drug resources

• Alcohol and Drug Services at Thorne Harbour Health including Rainbow Recovery, Walk In Program, and  TAPS thorneharbour.org/services/alcohol-and-other-drug-services-aod
• HRV and the Dancewize program hrvic.org.au/dancewize 
• ADF Drug Facts adf.org.au/drug-facts
• The Loop wearetheloop.org
• Touchbase touchbase.org.au
• HIV Drug Interactions Checker, including HIV treatment and PrEP: hiv-druginteractions.org/checker  

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing.

If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

This episode was recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people and broadcast from the lands of the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung peoples. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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