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BINSA Brain Injury Network of SA Inc
WHAT’S NEWS
In 2012 – BINSA turned 20 and we celebrated all year with BINSA – goes Platinum
Brain Injury Network of SA Inc (BINSA) 70 Light Square, Adelaide SA 5000 T 08 8217 7600 F 08 8211 8164 Country Call 1300 733 049 E info@binsa.org W www.binsa.org
BINSA’s new website to be launched in early 2013
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BINSA WISHES EVERYONE SEASONS GREETINGS AND A HAPPY AND SAFE ENTRY TO 2013
Members, friends and stakeholders joined in many of the year-long celebrations of our Platinum year - 2012 - and we have featured several events already - see some more pictures inside played and sang for us favourite Christmas carols, finishing with a beautiful song ‘once more’ with both lyrics and score written by Mary-Anne – something for everyone – it was all good fun and so very enjoyable. 2013 BINSA Xmas will be on Wednesday 11 December - so start saving…
More than 70 members and friends See our picture spread inside joined BINSA staff and COM members at a wonderful 2012 BINSA Festive Season Lunch Party on Wednesday 12 December - we all enjoyed terrific food, by caterer Golden Roast, Santa brought along great kris kringle for everyone and our very talented BINSA member Mary-Anne White and her equally talented daughter Ariel
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BINSA ‘s Incomings What’s happening - EO Reporting BINSA Programms and Services Wolf Karschimkus - 2012/2013 BINSA FEB 5 Profile - written by Celeste A Villani 6 6-9 BINSA’s Photo Gallery 7 11 12 14 19 DEC22 to BINSA office closed for festive 20-22 JAN season and new year break 21 6 26 27 JAN BINSA re-opens limited services, 27 7-11 Programs not available 28 14 BINSA resumes full services 28 16 RTP/Assuming Control Alumni 23 COM Meeting 23 Carers Meeting 24 Be Kind - Rewind 24 Re-Wired Session 24 Coffee Club - City 31 Re-Wired Session
DATES
Australia Day BINSA Closed (Australia Day)
yRTP Session RTP/Assuming Control Alumni Re-Wired Session Ladies Lounge - Mt Gambier yRTP Session Re-Wired Session yRTP Session SEBIN - To Be Confirmed Re-Wired Session yRTP Session Carers Meeting COM Meeting Coffee Club - City Re-Wired
BINSA is accredited at Certification level of the Service Excellence
A reminder that BINSA reopens on 7 January 2013 for staff only and then fully from 14 January 2013 for all services and program support including: Advocacy, Springboard, Counselling, Community Learning and Lifeskills, Reconnect Transition Program, Information, Advice and referral to relevant agencies and other services.
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yRTP RTP Mentor Refresher Training RTP/Assuming Control Alumni Ladies Lounge - Mt Gambier RTP Mentor Refresher Training yRTP yRTP Assuming Control - To Be Confirmed yRTP Carers Meeting COM Meeting Coffee Club - City
You are welcome to submit stories or other items to be considered for inclusion in the newsletter. Please forward to the BINSA office at any time.
BINSA all comings ... ...your voices... Comings ...
Great to have you here Tegan and we hope BINSA can compliment the formal study elements.
Shaneen Renshaw - Coordinator Community Learning and Lifeskills ...Staff Kelly Weckert - Coordinator RTP Kelly has been promoted into the solo position of Coordinator RTP, following the departure of Lauren Moulds (with our very best wishes for a bright future in her chosen profession, Lauren has taken up a senior position with DCSI in clinical behavioural management). This is a great opportunity for Kelly to continue to develop this very important program and work with a small team in developing new RTP options, including a youth RTP (yRTP) - in conjunction with NOVITA and TAFESA, as well as broadening our regional express RTP program too. Congrats Kelly, we look forward to continuing the success of RTP, and negotiating with MAC for new funding from 2013-14.
Charlotte Rasmussen - CoAssistant Coordinator RTP Charlotte is currently undertaking her 3rd year Degree in Social Work and Social Planning at Flinders Uni and has been on student placement with BINSA for 490 hours - a time in which Charlotte proved herself to be not only an exemplary student but also someone who just merged seamlessly into all our work - always very willing to try anything. Charlotte now brings to BINSA both her professional skills as well as her already demonstrated dedication and commitment to assisting people with a disability, and will provide a focus on younger people becoming involved win all that RTP offers. And Charlotte is also one of our ongoing hybrid of employee and occassional volunteer - that’s really so appreciated thanks heaps.
Tegan Whittard - Co-Assistant Coordinator RTP Tegan has joined BINSA in the other CoAssistant Coordinator RTP role - and was a very strong candidate for that position. Tegan is currently involved with 3rd year Psychology Studies at UniSA. Along with these studies, Tegan has a very varied employment background, which will bring some fresh eyes and ideas to RTP and the participants who will gain from her expertise in this role. Like Charlotte, Tegan is also looking forward to increasing the number of younger participants in the RTP courses.
Shaneen has joined BINSA and has both professional qualifications in Community Services as well as many years experience and skills in community development and working with people with a disability and also significant disadvantage. BINSA is very pleased to welcome Shaneen into what might be a small but certainly one of our most important community based programs. Community Learning and Lifeskills program includes a number of elements: Coffee Clubs, Buddy Match, specialist topic forums, some regional outreach facilitation, general community capacity building - all focused on those affected by an ABI. We are very grateful for the funding we receive from DCSI to assist the many individuals who are able to involve themselves in the variety of activity offered each week. Shaneen will be reviewing the current offerings and will be looking into expanding the options and also supporting the existing activities - and that includes the city based coffee club and the ‘reconfigured’ buddy match activity. So a very big welcome to Shaneen - we all look forward to benefiting from her knowledge and skills in supporting and developing options for our ABI community.
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...consider being a BINSA Volunteer
...more than 100 volunteers already help BINSA each year - across all sorts of activities - so think about it - and if interested here’s some options... • event assistance • admin support especially good PC skills • member data base support • newsletter enveloping • Springboard Program participant assistance • social media and web/blog support • be a Buddy • general all sorts Come along and register and try us out - $8/day reimbursement of some transport costs
To all our sponsors:
ABC 891, Andersons Solicitors, ETC Catering, Helen Page AWEA, PlanSure, Perpetual, Tindall Gask Bentley, Teusner and Captain Barossa Wines and a very special thanks
Richard, Sandy and Nick Clark
Disability reforms 2012 has been a very busy year for us here at BINSA and across the whole of the disability sector, as we welcomed major reforms to support and the services available for anyone with a disability. The proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will we hope finally bring about the equity of access to benefits and service entitlements for those who suffer a disability, regardless of how this has occurred. BINSA along with the other state and national agencies that represent brain injury has been very involved with national consultations and ensuring your voices and views are being heard – see the Brain Injury Australia (BIA) website for more information www.bia.net.au So now that the draft legislation is in federal parliament we have the opportunity to continue to shape it – so do please have a look and make comments and add your perspectives so everyone’s views are heard - thus informing the final drafting and then ultimately the legislation - shaped by all of us. Here is the website to follow: http://www.ndis.gov.au/towards/ndisdraft-legislation/ Remember too that in SA there is ongoing consultation about the proposed changes to the Compulsory Third Party (CTP) motor vehicle insurance - to move from a ‘fault’ scheme to a partial ‘no fault’ scheme with all catastrophic injured covered – as well as some other changes. BINSA has submitted a very measured but supportive position - if we can succeed in gaining cover for those currently uninsured due to no fault that will be a significant outcome for all SA’s - up to 25% of anyone who suffers a road transport injury through no fault is uncovered by CTP insurance - that’s inequitable! So - please do add your comments – here is the website for more information and opportunities to add your voice: http://www.mac.sa.gov.au/motor_ injury_insurance/reforms_to_ctp
What’s happening at BINSA on the ‘Square’? Executive Officer Reporting ...that was 2012..
NGOs 5 Critical Elements a real constituency skilled Board/staff/
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At a recent conference I was invited to discuss how BINSA as an NGO was able to support complex clients - in particular those with a triple diagnosis - that’s where an individual may have an ABI, mental health issues and also drug and alcohol problems - requiring highly professional clinical and allied health support and rehabilitation. BINSA is often called upon by a number of clients who need counselling, advocacy and potentially a range of other informed support and understanding. My view was that to be relevant there were certain principles/elements that any NGO has to satisfy. Then it needs to be able to demonstrate that it has sufficient ‘internal’ infrastructure - that is - able to provide complex responses to complex needs. To do that it needed to have sufficient funding, services and programs that allow a complex client to be supported through a range of social and individual needs - not clinical in our case - but undertaken by professionally qualified staff and supported by a strategic outlook and operational priorities that place an NGO in the centre of key influence for a specific client/ constituency group. In 2012 - following 20 years of dedicated service and progressive building of programs and support through the funding we gratefully receive from: • • •
SA Department Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI) Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FAHCSIA) Motor Accident Commission (MAC)
BINSA has built a very responsive organisation able to meet the needs of clients and participants who require this level of service. In doing that it has retained its core value that it is a totally inclusive and community based organisation which invites and welcomes many to assist its work. Happy Christmas & NY
Mariann
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BINSA 2012 AGM Chair’s Report Having joined the Committee of Management (COM) as Chair in the early part of 2012, I have been privileged to serve with members where everyone is passionate about BINSA and the services it provides. Through my role, I spend time with Mariann McNamara, our highly professional and experienced Executive Officer, who alongside her team, is equally passionate and dedicated to BINSA. It is an exciting time for BINSA with a number of changes made at a strategic level currently taking place. The COM has been through a renewal of membership and I would like to take time at this point to thank Geoff Pritchard for his outstanding long service as the BINSA Treasurer. His professional skills helped to steer the organisation through some very tough times over his 13 year tenure. Thanks also to Megan Barratt for her services provided to BINSA including being our nominee on the Brain Injury Australia (BIA) Board for the past 18 months.
On behalf of the BINSA COM, I wish them the best for their future. I would like to welcome our new board members Karl Mortimer, Simon West, Terence O’Rourke and Cherie Archer, who have recently joined. Currently, the Board is undergoing governance training with Kate Costello of “Governance Matters” with changes to be made to the constitution shortly in order to update, refresh and bring it in line with BINSA’s current strategic goals. In the early part of 2013, the COM will bring these proposed changes of the constitution to members for their vote and notice will be provided in due course so many of you can be informed and involved in these fundamental decisions. The COM will then undergo strategic planning which will address and better position BINSA in this new era of disability services with the imminent introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The COM and I look forward to reporting on the outcome at the next AGM.
Joanna Andrew Chairperson 2012
BINSA Programs and Services
Springboard Program Ready or not the end of year is here and It has been a year of many mile stones and celebrations. On the 5 December we celebrated the Graduation of Lee McEgan. Everyone at BINSA wishes Lee every success as he moves forward in his life and embraces the adventures ahead. Next year we will continue to achieve the program goals and seek out new ones. I would like to thank the participants, family members volunteers and staff for their continued commitment and support that has made the Springboard program such a wonderful place to be. A special thank you to all the drivers without whom our participants would not be able to attend. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and safe New Year. May you all return well rested, refreshed and ready for a great 2013. Take care Victoria Zelipski Springboard Coordinator
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Counselling
Increasing Counselling services to two days a week, has allowed more quality time with people and more comprehensive and beneficial interactions with clients. While some of the problems that arise are widely varied, they all have some common ABI factors, which, when examined separately from the issue(s) at hand, have a lot of explanatory power and can often lead to some acceptance or even resolution around those previously (seemingly) insurmountable problems. It is a rewarding to inform, mediate, clarify and offer alternatives to BINSA clients and other services where appropriate. Please, if you have anything you wish to discuss, clarify or just get off your chest, feel free to contact Chris on 8217 7601 Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday or chris@binsa.org.
Chris Farrand – Counsellor
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Community Learning & Lifeskills
Heading into 2013, Community Learning and Lifeskills (CL & L) is looking to take on a new face, now that Shaneen Renshaw has joined BINSA expand (CL & L). While Chris Farrand will continue to provide support to Shaneen and some CL & L services such as the Assuming Control
course and Carers Get-Together, Shaneen will be overseeing the coffee groups, with the hopeful resurgence of the Northern Coffee group (pending numbers). and perhaps one in the Western suburbs, again dependent on interest. CL & L is also looking to provide some interesting workshops and forums in the new-year as well as coordinating the Buddy Match, matching people with an ABI with selected volunteers to engage with social and community activities and in turn empower each individual. If you would like any further information on any of the above, please contact Shaneen Renshaw on Thursdays, on 8217 7605 or shaneen@binsa.org Please note if you do leave a message then Shaneen will reply when she returns each Thursday, so if it is urgent then please call the general number 8217 7600 Shaneen Renshaw – Coordinator C&LL ___________________ _____________________________________
Advocacy
The last three months has seen a continuous stream of new referrals a sizeable number of which have had the theme of inappropriate accommodation placement particularly that of younger people with ABI’s in older peoples’ nursing/residential homes. In addition there are still a number of ‘live’ cases which deal with such issues as; capacity and choice, lobbying to help improve inadequate levels of support and helping people with housing and financial issues. Some cases have been resolved, thankfully to client’s satisfaction, and the service has managed to pro actively apply pressure to decision makers to ensure that the needs of our clients are met and that our clients receive a good quality service from their service providers. I hope that the festive season proves to be both peaceful and happy for you all. Slainte! Paul - Advocate
Reconnect Transition Program (RTP) The latest RTP ran 11 September - 6 November and topics included tips and challenges, self-talk, communication, an extra session that focused on sexuality after ABI, mentors and participants alike were able to discuss this very personal topic in gender specific groups. The feedback received allows us to further develop RTP the remaining programs in 2013. It’s already helped us to focus in 2013 on a younger RTP group and regional express options.
RTP ALUMNI: In Oct the session was on Mindfulness and the relevance and benefits this may bring to people after ABI. Interested in attending a session? Contact us as below. There was a joint RTP and Assuming Control (AC) Alumni on 27 November with everyone “Reconnecting” with past participants and greeting the familiar and not so familiar faces. The new RTP Assistant Coordinators Charlotte and Tegan introduced themselves and were welcomed to the group. There was open discussion around anything and everything from RTP, to ABI, to recipes and to Christmas plans. The group reflected on the most important and / or beneficial thing that has happened in 2012, prompting a reaffirming and mutually inspirational time, with lots of networking and sharing. With your advice we look forward to growing and further developing the RTP and AC Alumni in 2013 - see the front page for relevant dates Jan to March 2013, noting that from Feb onwards all Alumni events will be held on the first Wednesday of the month. RTP Alumni needs a new name - help us by sending in your idea with the top 3 voted on at the Jan meeting. For all Alumni sessions / issues contact Chris Farrand on 8217 7601 or chris@binsa.org or Kelly kelly@binsa.org to rsvp or otherwise just come along!
Kelly Weckert RTP Co-ordinator
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The next meeting will be held in Feb and anyone with an interest in ABI or further developing their understanding of issues and services within the region are encouraged to attend…. contact Catherine or Kelly on 8217 7600 anytime Admin - Merry Christmas! BINSA has been hot to trot, with wonderful and exciting activities these last 3 months. No dust settling here - as soon after 2012 Brain Injury Awareness Week (BIAW) we were straight on to organise our 20th Birthday Celebration followed by International Day of People with Disability and finally our wonderful 2012 BINSA Festive Season Party - what a day! Thanks to all for coming and sharing a great day with us of fun, laughter and enjoyment. Special thanks to our 2 Santa’s helpers, Rozalia and Georgia who handed out funky fans to keep us cool and all the pressies. Thank you to all our members, volunteers and everybody involved in BINSA. I love being a part of it and I hope you do too. Wishing you a very happy festive season with joy and peace in your hearts – see you next year! Karen Arthur Coordinator Admin.
participate in rehabilitation activities. Today he’s the Brain Injury Network of South BINSA is privileged to Upon referral from Disability SA, on 21 August Australia’s (BINSA) representative — no acknowledge Wolf Karschimkus longer is he a participant in the ‘Springboard’ 2008, Wolfgang was on his way to partial and family as the face of BINSA rehabilitation program — he’s a graduate , and neurological recovery. clearly, he’s is proud. He looks at us, opens his for 2012-13 mouth, then we are taken back to that traumatic “The first two or three years were difficult Wolf and his family are featured in themoment. because I couldn’t speak, but when I went to Springboard, I seemed to get better and 2012 BINSA-UniSA “I woke up in hospital and it was a bit unclear,” better,” he says, largely due to the fact he annual professional writing made speech one of his three personal therapy he recalls, and even now, he is trying to goals. BINSA Profile Award piece together the events of 5 April 2006. Mr Karschimkus was a fit and healthy man who never smoked, rarely drank, and was playing The winner is Celeste Ann Villani indoor soccer with his son the night before he collapsed. If someone told him he would suffer for her article entitled a stroke the next morning, the ex-Bridgewater “It’s all there in my head.” mid fielder would have shunned the outlandish _____________________________ claim.
Here is Celeste’s prize winning piece which along with the University Course The former aged-cared accountant stayed in award also carries BINSA’s contribution hospital for a month and his wife, Meri, was appalled by the treatment he received. His of $500
“It took three and a half years [to get some of my speech]”, he says, “but [even now] it’s a gradual process.” With the power of his new found speech, he discharged himself from hospital without doctor’s approval. Goal 1, completed. Wolfgang’s second goal was to become more physically independent.
Although his past employer ‘Eldercare’, an aged care and retirement living provider, doctors could barely speak English, and often, it generously revamped his home to be more was difficult to determine a concrete prognosis. wheelchair friendly, he longed for his former agile locomotion. “It’s all there in my head” Despite this, she very quickly came to terms It’s something he never thought about until with her husband’s ABI, but Wolfgang still felt He persisted with physiotherapy, hydrotherapy guilty. Upon gaining movement, using only his and fitness programs, then one day, Wolfgang it happened, but when it did, Wolfgang ascended from his wheelchair at a Payneham Karschimkus’ life changed forever. He tells left hand as the stroke had affected his right, he table tennis hall. He brought onlookers to a wriggled his wedding ring off his finger to tell his Celeste Villani about living with an acquired wife that he understood if she wanted to leave stand still and they cheered in disbelief. Soon brain injury— the aftermath of a stroke he him. “But she stayed with me and I liked it,” after, he was walking with only a walking stick, suffered six years ago. says an elated Wolfgang who explained that his but unfortunately, his improvements were interrupted when he injured his hip in 2009. marriage is now stronger than ever. Movement is now minimal, but he says with a 59-year-old Wolfgang looks frustrated. He knows grin that he can “go from the wheelchair to the what he wants to say, but unfortunately, he can’t Wolfgang’s six children, five who he fathered bed” without assistance. remember how to say it. He sits in his wheelchair, with Meri and the other from a previous shakes his head then softly mutters the words, ‘oh marriage, were devastated and the words ‘dad is boy’ as if to say ‘this is difficult, but I’m trying.’ going to die’ continually taunted their emotions. He even independently uses public transport to move himself from his Hawthorndene home to Despite what can be seen, this hasn’t always been They couldn’t understand why something so the case for Mr Karschimkus. In fact, it is the upshot catastrophic would happen to their loving and ‘Springboard’s’ headquarters in the city. Goal two, achieved. of a dire autumn’s morning… the morning Wolf deeply religious father. suffered a stroke. His third goal was to relearn the skills Other than his loving wife of 24 years, it was necessary to function in everyday life, an “I went to bed and I felt ok, but when I [was] his youngest son, Billy, who lifted his spirits. getting ready for work [the next morning,] I “Billy was only six, now he is 12, but I think he integration of both goal one and two. Although collapsed,” he says through expressive aphasia, was the one who supported me the most,” says these included speaking, walking and being a condition that hinders his ability to effectively Wolfgang, “but [whenever] I asked [any of my more independent, in Wolf’s eyes, he wanted communicate. “I got in the ambulance and went kids] to do something, I always got a response.” to be able to help others in similar situations. to hospital.... I was awake the whole time.” It was this support that saw him transferred to Daw Park Rehabilitation Centre on 5 May 2006. “I wanted to help another person at Springboard,” he says, and now proudly Wolfgang is one of 346,700 Australians who have experienced a stroke. Defined as a neurological “I went to rehab and I spent five months there. volunteers one or two days a week at the disease, a stroke occurs when the blood supply Everyday I had some treatment,” he says about ‘Springboard’ program. Goal three, fulfilled. to the brain is interrupted, and most times, there his time in the rehabilitation centre. Speech are no warning signs—the victim will simply therapy, physiotherapy and hydrotherapy were He has achieved everything his heart desires and is even an ambassador for a program collapse. all on the agenda for five long months, until Wolfgang was finally discharged from Daw Park. he values so highly—so what next for this motivated man? This year alone, approximately 60,000 Australians will suffer a stroke, and like “I went home and then there was no treatment He still partakes in self-directional therapy Wolfgang, about two per cent will be left with a whatsoever,” says Wolfgang, a contributing twice a week and enjoys his rehabilitative disability. Fortunately, he is in the 35 per cent factor why he went to the Brain Injury of Australians whose independence hasn’t Rehabilitation and Community Home (BIRCH) in fitness program, but since teaching himself how to use his left hand, he has become completely been taken away. June 2007. ‘Springboard’s’ answer to van Gogh. When we meet Wolfgang, he is sitting in his He participated in community and home-based “Everything is all in my head,” he says, electric wheelchair and staring apprehensively at rehabilitation programs until September 2007, “and I just think about my art,” which can be purchased on greeting cards from the a classroom full of university students. but from here it was at a dead-end street— Blackwood Community Centre. the Karschimkus’ were unaware of any other rehabilitative programs. Adrian Horan with Wolf Karschimkus He smiles as he shows us pictures and we realise just how far he has come. “My wife [started to] ring around and look for programs. She got onto the Minister of Health As he wheels himself out of the room, he and then she found about Springboard,” says Wolfgang. BINSA’s ‘Springboard’ program is a is asked whether he would recommend the ‘Springboard’ program to other stroke victims. three year slow-stream initiative where adults He turns his chair around, his eyes glisten, with severe physical and cognitive disability then he smiles and says, “Yes, Yes, Yes.”
Celeste Villani 2012
BINSA’S 20TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 13TH NOVEMBER 2012
BINSA Chair Joanna Andrew and BINSA Supporters enjoying the celebrations
BINSA Patron Prof Richard Clark and Sandy Clark – Event Manager
Keryl Beesley “volunteer par excellence” (right) who completed the city to bay in record time, raising $498.30 for ‘Cancer for Kids’ in September 2012
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Victoria Zelipski & Tegan Whittard (BINSA Staff) Catherine Young: who runs the Re-Wired program at BINSA Representatives from Brain Injury Australia Synapse and Brain Injury Tasmania
Everybody enjoying themselves at the 20th Anniversary Celebrations
A good night enjoyed by all
BINSA 2012 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEOPLE WITH DISABLITY 3RD DECEMBER 2012
Toni & Rosa Polyak with Victoria & Tony Zelipski Enjoying ‘Sharing the Square’ for lunch
Future BINSA volunteer – Declan Our grateful thanks to Ray, Greg & Warren from the Lions Club who donated all proceeds to BINSA for IDPwD
BINSA Springboard Participants enjoying lunch
The wonderful Virginia Chen – BINSA Volunteer
SHIRAZ AT SUNSET
PERPETUAL and AUSTRALIAN LAWYERS ALLIANCE BINSA FUNDRAISER 4TH DECEMBER 2012
A wonderful opportunity to mix and network
Tony Kerin ALA, Patrick Boylen ALA Host, Mariann McNamara, BINSA and Gabor Szekernyes, Perpetual
Raffle Table: BINSA Staff, Tegan Whittard, Catherine Young and Kelly Weckert
2012 BINSA ANNUAL FESTIVE SEASON PARTY 12TH DECEMBER 2012
Andersons Representations: Michael Irvine, David Fabbro,Suzanne Pinyon, Matthew Fuss and Robyn Clissold.
Barry Coldwell & son, Jayden with parents Eva and Dennis. Mariann McNamara, Stuart Witt, Bob Tetley, Peter Guidera and Colin Winsor all enjoying the festivities
2012 BINSA ANNUAL FESTIVE SEASON PARTY - Continued
Mary-Anne White (keyboard) with Daughter Ariel - beautiful!
Scott Leckey - BINSA Member
Elissa, Matilda and Jo Goldsworthy and Jeff Leunig with smiles all around
BINSA BOARD, STAFF & BIA-EO DINNER 12TH NOVEMEBR 2012
A great night was had by all involved
Alison, Tegan and Victoria enjoying the chat at this end of the table
Angela Gregory and Pam Kirkham
Nick Rushworth, Nadia Moffatt and Mariann McNamara sharing the fun
Vanessa Seymour and Charlotte Rasmussen
Membership Form/Renewal 2012/2013
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Patron Professor Richard Clark Committee of Management (COM) (voluntary) Elected Office Bearers Chair - Joanna Andrew Vice Chair - Pam Kirkham OAM Treasurer - Terence O’Rourke Members Cherie Archer Dean Fyfe Neville Hamilton-Brown Alison Lamshed Nadia Moffatt Karl Mortimer Simon West BINSA Staff Executive Officer Mariann R McNamara 8217 7609 / 0412 195 296 Coordinator Administration Karen Arthur 8217 7600 / 8217 7606
Coordinator Springboard Victoria Zelipski 8217 7602 Springboard Program Assistant Catherine Young 8217 7607 Springboard Support Workers 8217 7610 Cindy Gillespie Jordan Forrest Vanessa Seymour Ed Weaver Springboard Re-Wired Fitness Catherine Young - Sessions 8217 7607 Counsellor (Tuesday - Thursday Chris Farrand 8217 7601 Community Learning & Lifeskills Coordinator - Thursdays only Shaneen Renshaw 8217 7605 Advocate (Mon/Tues & Thurs/Fri) Paul Connor-Kearns - 8217 7608 Coordinator Reconnect Transition Program (RTP) Kelly Weckert (Tues and Wed) 8217 7613 Assistant Co-Coordinators RTP Charlotte Rasmussen Tegan Whittard Tuesday/Wednesday - 8217 7603
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Specialist Consultants Oct-Dec 2012 Sarah Andary - Website Graphics Consultant James Burdon - BurdonAwire Design Website Graphics Kate Costello - Director Governance Matters Michal Dutkiewicz - BIAW and Website Illustrator Angela Gregory – Finance Officer Susan Hillier PhD – Physiotherapist InterIntra - IT and Website Contractor Karen Osborne - Psychologist - Independent Associate Joan Tamiaans - Minute Taker - BINSA COM Natasha Sari - Website Project/Newsletter Ralph Scalzi - Consultant Electrician Ann Walter – Co-ordinator Clinical Education Speech Pathology Cathy Carruthers - Corporate Consultant
Volunteers: Jan - Mar 2013 Springboard Program Athina Takianos Archie Sailesh Bec Closter Collette Albino David Bajjali Jessie Wu Morneer Ackarie Patrick Kiu Penny Stuart Phoebe Weier Robert Semmens Suzanne Edwards Tanya Davey Valmai Mackenzie Sheridan Marin
RTP Mentors TBA - March 2013
Administration general Keryl Beesley Virginia Chen
Reception Penny Sommers Laura Cole
Student Practicum Carrick Education - Diploma of Community Services Krystyna Knight 2 new students starting in the new year - TBA in Jan
Program Advisory/Events Support Cttees RTP Adrian Horan Donna Langdon Terry Somerville Springboard Professional Members Group Anna Miles Delores Wells Fiona Creed Liz Williams