If you know Teen Challenge Tasmania director Tanya Cavanagh, you’ll know her to be a high capacity, get-things-done person. But with the scope of the projects ahead, she has acknowledged that the organisation’s greatest need is for people power. We need an army of people passionate about helping others, with values that align with Teen Challenge.
Read MoreWe are absolutely thrilled to bring you the news that Teen Challenge Tasmania, with the help of countless supporters, has successfully purchased a Launceston CBD building as the home of its continued operations.
Read MoreIt is with great pleasure that we can now definitively report that Teen Challenge Tasmania will have a bricks and mortar home for operations in less than two weeks. The sale of the Launceston building to TCT will settle early August, secured with a combination of generous donations and loan.
Read MoreDrug use in young people is on a steep downward trajectory, latest data from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey reveals.
Read MoreIn the five months since Hope Thrift reopened at its new St John Street site, staff and volunteers have had the honour of coming alongside young people doing it tough, providing homeless people with clothing and meals. The shop is also a place for mentoring young people, giving them practical retail skills while helping them overcome anxiety, and build confidence for the future.
Read MoreJohn* was twelve years old when he first came onto our radar and of other services trying to help him and his family. John had been arrested for stealing, possession of an illicit substance and drug paraphernalia, he was also addicted to ICE.........
Read More...Of particular interest to me was how the students reported that your sessions had impacted on their likely behaviour in the future – not even once seems to have struck a chord! ......
Read MoreThe parents of current or former ice users all shared one common recommendation from their experiences – educate young people early about the effects of drug use to prevent them from making the choice to use drugs. This should occur in school and in the wider community.
Read More...except in my opinion the current Harm Minimisation message appears to have given up and accepted that Drug use is going to happen. Should we really be accepting that?
Read MoreI have been struck by two things I have heard repeatedly in separate instances recently, that people are being told by agencies somewhere out there and I'm struggling to understand the rationale.
1. The ICE problem is nowhere near as bad as the media make it out to be... 2. ICE is not as addictive as people think.....
Read More“Three Cs.” We didn’t cause our child’s addiction; we can’t cure it; and we certainly can’t control it. Only the person afflicted with the disease can do that. - So why are parents of addicts totally exhausted and what "must" they do about it?
Read MoreMany teens and their parents trivialize marijuana use. They shouldn't. The average potency of today's marijuana is 244% higher -- yes, you read that right -
Read MoreSitting across the table from parents and watching as they crumble and fall apart, describing the devastation their son or daughters drug abuse is wreaking on themselves and their families. is tough. The heart wrenching tears....
Read MoreMy name is Bethany and for most of my life I’ve struggled to fit in. At age 6, doctors told me I had ADHD and at age 15 I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. For years I had been dealing with drug use, depression, an eating disorder, self-harm, sexual abuse and suicidal behaviours......
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