Juls Budau: Episode 1: Financial Insecurity, Respect & Recognition at Work

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In this episode, you'll hear Giorgia Ricciardi and Charisma Crystal Thomas interview Juls Budau about financial insecurity and receiving respect and recognition at work. Juls believes she is not paid highly enough for her peer work and explains that she, like many peers is paid through grant funding. Juls questions if peer work is a sustainable career or whether she will need to move into an adjacent field like social work. Juls also provides examples of times she's felt respected and disrespected while doing her job and describes the challenges of doing peer work in a small, conservative community.
Glossary
BCCDC: The BC Centre for Disease Control
CAI: Community Action Initiative.
Carrier Sekani Family Services: a non-profit society that provides social services, holistic health, and wellness services to Indigenous people living in Northern BC’s central region.
De-crim: Decriminalization
Downtown Eastside: The Downtown Eastside is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, known for having a large unhoused population, many of whom are affected by substance use disorder.
EOPS: Episodic Overdose Prevention Services
Foundry: a network of integrated health and wellness services for young people ages 12-24 in British Columbia.
INAC: Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
OPS: Overdose Prevention Site
Quesnel: A city located in the Cariboo Regional District of British Columbia, Canada.
UNDU - Uniting Northern Drug Users
RainCity Housing: a non-profit society that provides housing and support programs for people experiencing homelessness and substance use issues, throughout BC's lower mainland

This episode was recorded on April 10, 2023