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Welcome to Unhoused, a podcast where we explore the changing face of homelessness in the Bega Valley, the levels of awareness in the community and the kinds of assistance available to those experiencing difficulties with housing. In later episodes we will also explore some of the housing strategies that are on the table and those being implemented for our community.
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A podcast series exploring how people stay hopeful, how they deal with loss, and the resilience that binds the Bega Valley. It focusses on community experiences in the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this series, you’ll hear from a range of people across the Bega Valley — from nurses to school students, artists to small business owners, grocery workers to retirees. Stories of grief or ingenuity, told with humour, warmth or rawness.
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Celebrating Community Leadership. This four-episode series speaks to thirteen community leaders about how they each harnessed and developed new skills in the face of disruption — featuring the voices of some of the Bega Valley's most active and creative emerging leaders. They share insights about how the Far South Coast NSW not-for-profit sector is now planning collaboratively for the future, through a place-based capacity building partnership program. From the regions to the cities, this se ...
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Episode Three – Two Older Men's Experience in the Bega Valley
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Unhoused - Voices from the Threshold listens to the voices of those living in unstable housing, those who have lost a home, and those finding it difficult to create or afford a stable home in the Bega Valley NSW. The NSW social housing system is crisis, with more than 58,000 applicants on the waiting list. Another 90,000 households could be eligibl…
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Unhoused - Voices from the Threshold listens to the voices of those living in unstable housing, those who have lost homes, and those finding it difficult to create or afford a stable home in the Bega Valley NSW. In episode 2 we meet Jude, a conscientious objector to the commodification of housing. A life time renter, and a single mother who raised …
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Episode One – Youth Homelessness in the Bega Valley
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Welcome to Unhoused, a podcast where we explore the changing face of homelessness in the Bega Valley, the levels of awareness in the community and the kinds of assistance available to those experiencing difficulties with housing. In later episodes we will also explore some of the housing strategies that are on the table and those being implemented …
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Unhoused – Voices from the Threshold is a podcast that explores issues around homelessness and housing in the Bega Valley NSW. Over 6 episodes we will be speaking with young people from 16 into their 20s, mature single women, families struggling to find affordable housing, bushfire affected households, people from our Indigenous communities, single…
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In this episode we cover everything from the big plans and ambitions of community groups, to how we think about the building blocks of what leadership is, and how we support and foster a strong community sector. “Allowing the community to excel and thrive has been evident in this program, where we’ve worked with people that they felt heard and list…
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In this episode we focus less on what not-for-profits and community organisations are doing in the Bega Valley, and more on how they’re doing it. “It was very powerful and I think for myself, I can only speak for myself on this one, it helped my recovery because I was able to help others... As a community member I was seriously impacted as was ever…
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In this episode, we’re going to take stock of some of the key challenges all Community Leaders face, and some of the unique ways rural Community Leaders respond to them. It’s about Filling the Gaps, and embracing the spirit of doing the best you can with what you have. “One thing that the Council have done recently that is really good is sharing in…
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In this episode, you’ll hear three local Community Leaders reflect on Leadership, what that word means to them; what leadership means to people in rural and regional areas; and of what community leadership in regional places like the Bega Valley can teach us all, no matter where we live, about community leadership as a whole. “It was a life changin…
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In this, our final, episode we hear from different communities from around the Shire. We know that communities come in all shapes and sizes, and that people's relationships are central to resilience. When people come together adnd collectively do whatever they can to support each other, relationships are preserved, nurtured, strengthened and enrich…
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In this episode we hear from three very different Bega Valley businesses, and while these stories can’t fully capture the breadth of enterprises in the shire — because, like so many places, the nature of business in the Bega Valley is just so diverse — this episode does give valuable insights into how community goals can co-exist alongside financia…
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In this episode we look at education from both sides of the classroom, speaking with students and teachers alike, and touching on the lives of rural young people during those early pandemic years. We hear about what school's like when no-one’s at school; how both students and teachers coped during the lockdowns; and the challenges younger and older…
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In this episode — the second of two parts — we hear about the personal worries our healthcare workers faced as they tried to keep their communities, families, friends, colleagues and themselves safe. These rural stories, that are rarely told, tell of the complexities in how people in a single rural shire prepare for, confront and live through COVID…
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In this episode — the first in a two-part focus on Health — we hear people's reflections on those first days of the pandemic. The complexities and nuances in how people in a single rural shire prepare for, confront and live through the pandemic is telling. Even in a local bushfire crisis, many people were already tracking COVID-19 closely. These ru…
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The story of COVID-19 in the Bega Valley isn't a single crisis but a compounding cumulative one. So while COVID-19 is global, the experiences of these last few years can't be separated from local stories. These are stories of grief and ingenuity, told with humour, warmth or rawness. These stories explore the different ways people stay hopeful, deal…
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