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National Volunteer Week 2025

Jack — Thu, 22 May 2025 11:00:29 +0000

We speak with volunteers about their experiences with Thorne Harbour Health in Melbourne and SAMESH in South Australia in light of National Volunteer Week.

Since the founding of Thorne Harbour Health in 1983, volunteers have been at the heart of the organisation’s work delivering vital health services.

National Volunteer Week, as well as the LGBTIQ+ Organisations Volunteer Event (LOVE) at the Victorian Pride Centre, are great opportunities to give back and celebrate the incredible work that volunteers do.

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing at joy.org.au/wellwellwell.

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 and South Australia at thorneharbour.org and samesh.org.au.

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National Volunteer Week and LOVE

Jack — Thu, 23 May 2024 11:00:28 +0000

In light of National Volunteer Week, we speak with Volunteer Coordinators Daniel and Boudie about the LGBTIQ+ Organisation Volunteer Event (LOVE).

We also hear from James in Melbourne and Kellie and Edgar in Adelaide about their experience volunteering for Thorne Harbour Health and SAMESH.

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.

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National Volunteers Week 2023

Jacinta — Thu, 18 May 2023 11:55:54 +0000

Cal and Jacinta caught up with Daniel Bryen, Volunteer Coordinator at Thorne Harbour Health, during National Volunteers Week 2023.

Daniel discusses what it is like being a volunteer coordinator, the types of roles volunteers are involved in – including barista positions with the coffee carts – and the impact volunteering has on strengthening community.

For more information, please see:

Volunteering with Thorne Harbour Health

Well Well Well’s 2022 JOY podcast with volunteers

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.

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Rainbow Community Angels

Jacinta — Tue, 16 May 2023 07:07:56 +0000

Cal and Jacinta speak to Flis Marlowe from the Rainbow Community Angels, ‘an LGBTIQA+ community-led safety project working together to make our LGBTIQA+ communities, kids & families feel safer, connected & supported.’
Flis discusses the urgent need for community activism and the mobilisation involved in setting up the Angels as an ongoing initiative to protect community and support events to continue to take place, which have been facing increasing threats and cancellations.

For more information about the Rainbow Community Angels, you can visit:

Rainbow Community Angels Facebook page

Email rainbowcommunityangels@gmail.com

Rainbow Community Angels fundraiser page

If any of the content in this podcast impacts you or is distressing, please get in touch with QLife or other support services included on JOY’s support page: joy.org.au/support/

QLife
QLife provides anonymous and free LGBTI peer support and referral for people in Australia wanting to talk about sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships.
Phone: 1800 184 527 – 3pm-midnight every day Web chat: qlife.org.au

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.

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Tit4Tat – Energy Exchange Portal

Jessie — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 04:50:04 +0000

Join us this week as we introduce to you a community resource revolution in the making. Yelena Galystan, founder of Tit4Tat comes on the show to have a chat about the inspiration behind this innovative new movement.

Tit4Tat is essentially a community-driven energy exchange portal where a loving community shares their skills, services and resources, in exchange for receiving skills, services and resources – without any monetary exchange.

The concept has already proven to be very successful and you’ll get to hear first hand from Leana, her experience of exchanging services through Tit4Tat.

Leana Flaneur – Participant of the Tit4Tat Community

Useful Links

Tit4Tat Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/tit4tatenergy

Tit4Tat Melbourne group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tit4tatmelbourne

Tit4Tat Byron group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tit4tatbyron

Tit4Tat Handle: @tit4tat_

Tit4Tat Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/tit4tat_

Flow Sessions

Flow Music Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/flowmusico

Flow Sessions Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/flowsessions

Listen / download podcast below:

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PrEP On Demand

Michael — Fri, 03 May 2019 00:10:22 +0000

PrEP on Demand

Most folks familiar with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) would know it as a daily pill to prevent HIV. Michael chats with some community and clinical experts around a relatively new way to use the power of PrEP around special ‘events’.

First, we talk with Michael Traeger – PhD student at the Burnet Institute who worked on the Victorian PrEPX study. We discuss the PrEP 101’s.

Next, Community advocate and early PrEP adopter Jeff Montgomery speaks from a community perspective about what is happening in the PrEP community. Just how much desire is for this event driven way of taking PrEP?

Dr. Vincent Cornelisse, a sexual health specialist at Kirkton Road Centre in Kings Cross. Before locating to Sydney, Dr. Cornelisse was a PrEP prescribing doctor in Melbourne and also part of the PrEPX clinical study – as well as undertaking his own research into the ways STIs are spread.

Finally, in the lead up to National Volunteers Week – as part of our volunteer spotlight series – I am joined by Thorne Harbour Health volunteer Clayton to talk about his experience volunteering with the organisation.

PrEP at Thorne Harbour Health and the On Demand PrEP video

PrEP’D for Change and PAN [PrEPaccessNOW] for PrEP doctors and community support

This show, Episode #668 originally aired Thursday 2nd May 2019.

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Head to www.thorneharbour.org for more information about Thorne Harbour’s LGBTI health and well-being services

Thorne Harbour is social!

Facebook: facebook.com/thorneharbour
Twitter: twitter.com/thorneharbour
Instagram: instagram.com/thorneharbour

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Trans and Gender Diverse Inclusion in Sport

Cal — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:00:40 +0000

This week on Well, Well, Well, Cal Hawk is joined in the studio by Proud2Play‘s Bowie Stover to take a look at inclusion of trans and gender diverse players in sport. Offering her perspective from an elite level is Australian national team handball player and Australian Rules Football player Hannah Mouncey. Meanwhile, Kew Football Club player Carter O’Regan offers some insight at the community sport level.

This episode is also the first to feature our Volunteer Spotlight in the lead up to National Volunteer Week 2019. This week, Cal talks to Greg Kelly, a longstanding community advocate for people living with HIV who volunteers every month with the SAMESH program in South Australia to host GK’s Cooking Class.

Later in the episode Cal also talks to Tom Lee from Box Hill Institute about an upcoming LGBTIQ inclusive basketball event on happening on 10 May aimed at tertiary students.

This show, Episode #666 originally aired Thursday 18th April 2019.

Grab this and other podcasts from the Well, Well, Well team on iTunes | Spotify | or your favourite podcast platform – or head to joy.org.au/wellwellwell

Head to www.thorneharbour.org for more information about Thorne Harbour’s LGBTI health and well-being services

Thorne Harbour is social! facebook: facebook.com/thorneharbour | twitter: @ThorneHarbour | instagram: @thorneharbour

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Carrying on in the Worst of It (VAC Legacy Series)

Cal — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:30:13 +0000

Admin Block of Fairfield Hospital – closed in 1996.

In this fourth episode of the VAC legacy series, we look at the community response to HIV and AIDS at a time when accessing effective treatment was near impossible and AIDS-related deaths were at an all-time high. How did our community cope at this time in the HIV and AIDS epidemic?

Cal Hawk talks to Bill O’Loughlin, Maureen O’Brien, Bruce Parnell, Sue Stone, David Menadue, Tony Keenan, and Dr. David Bradford about this incredibly difficult time – but also a time of incredible displays of compassion, care, and love. All this in the lead up to VAC’s 35th anniversary next month.

Dr. David Bradford recently published a book about this experience in greater detail — Tell Me I’m Okay. The book is available to purchase from Monash University Press: http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/tmio-9781925523331.html

This show, Episode #625 originally aired Thursday 21st June, 2018.

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Couldn’t Have Done That With a Hangover

Renee — Thu, 10 May 2018 11:00:24 +0000

ReThink the Drink is a new project that seeks to inspire alcohol culture change among lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women in Victorian regional and rural areas. Studies* have shown that some LBQ women enjoy a few too many drinks, enough to cause a hangover (from time to time) and we think it’s time we did something about it. Renee Speaks with Rachel Cook to find out about the campaign and the upcoming LGBTIQ Women’s health conference in July.

More info vac.org.au/rethinkthedrink

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Head to www.vac.org.au for more informaiton about VAC’s LGBTI health and wellbeing services

This show, Episode #619 originally aired Thursday 10th May, 2018.

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Volunteers

Michael — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:01:30 +0000

In the lead up to National Volunteer Week, Michael talks with Jack and Daniel from VAC about their respective roles as Partnerships Manager and Volunteer and Student Coordinator, and how they work to accommodate and recruit volunteers to assist with operations and events at VAC. We talk about the LOVE (LGBTI Organisation Volunteer Event) shining the light on volunteers that make up our LGBTI organisations, and how we all contribute!

Looking to get involved as a volunteer?

Head to www.vac.org.au for more info and to contact Daniel!

Looking to partner with VAC?

Chuck us a line at enquiries@vac.org.au

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Head to www.vac.org.au for more informaiton about VAC’s LGBTI health and wellbeing services

This show, Episode #616 originally aired Thursday 19th April, 2018.

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