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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh when you're ready, All right, here we go, Joseph from.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning, good morning, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You've got so much to share with the Gold Coast.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We're all invested in East Swave since Gaily's to the
rescue and living at Pacific Fair, which was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
But you've bought a friend to introduce us too as well.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Yeah, uncle Jason can introduce your health mate on everybody.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
My name is Uncle Jason or Jason Bush on the
program lead at East Wave. So basically I just make
sure everything's functioning day to day, running by Uncle jose
who don't get mad at me, but yeah, that's about
my day to day function really sort of, and also
the mental health aspect of it as well.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Now it's important for you to be here because you
are indicative of how well Eastwave's now going. You can
employ people, Joseph.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
We've taken some of those responsibilities off our shoulders and
been able.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
To grow our team, and that's always sort of been
a barrier for us.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Our small team was always sort of three of us Camel,
Uncle Stephen, myself, and now we've got the team of eight.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh wow, so it's very exciting.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Yeah, So tell us how that's happened, because obviously a
couple of years back we were raising funds, but you
were looking at.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Grants and you were looking at anything.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
But it was a bit frustrating because there was a
lot of positive Hey, yes you'll get a grant, but
they weren't coming and then it was like, Okay, when
is this going to happen? But then you had someone
that actually gifted some help as well.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Made absolutely so the biggest issue was we always had
to apply for grants every twelve months and they were
never guaranteed. With the government coming in then putting a
lot of money into the early intervention space, the premiere,
who we call Uncle dc Up and you know those
titles also aren't thrown around lightly, saw the track record
(01:45):
that East Wave has. We've always never well, we've never
been shy to two to our own horns and explained
what we've always been able to achieve within our space,
and the government have come on board and actually given
us three million dollar investment which is now going to
help over the next three years, help seventy five young people,
and that the whole purpose of this type of money
(02:07):
is to make sure that we intervene early. So I
know they've got a huge stance on locking young people up,
but they've also got a huge stance of rehabilitation and
an early intervention. We are the first organization in Queensland
to receive the proven initiative investment and that comes with
responsibility as well. But that responsibility is something that we
take on our shoulders. We're absolutely going to give back
(02:27):
to the community, but more than anything, make sure that
our young people don't head down to the road where
we then need to rehabilitate them. We're going to make
sure we intervene early, make the right choices and put
that effort.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
In now pass as well. Made exactly. You know, it
costs so much lock up young people.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
We now have the opportunity to prevent that by putting
them through our program and providing them with twelve months
of support.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
The program still got the same amount of time as
for each individual.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yes, so we still have our ten week Big Brother program. Yeah,
but what this now does is allow us to identify
that at risk youth that potentially hitting down that path
where we can step in and devene and then put
in the support network that they require more than anything
after hours, So you're.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Doing a bit of both before they offend, but then
after they offend as well.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
You're getting both now.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
But for us, we always wanted to be in the
early intervention space. We have the proven track record when
it comes to that, and now we have the ability
financially with the support from the government to be able
to provide that to our young people that need it.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
We all met Ari in our journey and he is
doing so well for those that might be new listeners.
When Gaily was sleeping at Pacific Fair for the whole
week in the tiny homes you guys build, we met
a young lad who was going through your program and
he'd had such a terrible time rejected, homeless, you know,
living in McDonald's playgrounds, and now he's on the right
(03:47):
path because of you guys. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Absolutely, Look he lived up on our property for twelve
months and one of our tiny homes at gaily Slipton.
This young man now has his own three bedroom house
up in Woodridge. He is also the Youth parliament member
for Woodridge. He works. He's now a qualified youth worker
at the Logan Acute Mental Health would giving back using
(04:09):
his lived experiences to young people that lived the same
path that he has. He's just completely changed his life
around it. And we always say this, we can give
any of our young people the tools, but it's also
up to the young person to take the responsibility on.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And take the tools that we give him.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
So he's one of many success stories and a big
reason as to why we also now have the investment
from government.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Now you get investment from government, but you remember from
the Gaelic to the rescue, you've got such a kind support.
Is that still continuing because I feel like that they're
very humble, but I feel like a shout out for
them would.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Be yes, if you're allowed to. I'm not allowed to.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I'm not allowed to share the figure, but I will
say the Earl Foundation has stepped on board.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
They pride themselves on being, you know, incognito. They don't
want anyone to know what type of supports they give people,
and mainly because they're doing it for the right reasons.
But a huge shout out to Brent Haley here. He's
a big reason as to why that happened. After listening
to one of how radio interviews here and got them
on board, and I did get a phone call a
month ago that they're on board for.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The next two years as well, So so good.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well that makes.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Me feel so happy to hear that that we can
help as well. It's so important for these young people
to learn that they're kind of their their dopamine and
their value sometimes comes from the terrible groups therewith and
they can get all of that by being around good
groups of people.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And that's what you do now, Jason, it is.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
What I do, and a big part of I guess
my role is, like I said before, as a mental
health aspect of it. I've just finished a diploma in counseling.
So it's good for my like Joe said, my own
of the experience as I get to teach these young
kids and.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Young you w on the wrong track as well.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Yeah, yeah, we've all pretty much had very similar bringings
back in New Zealand. I grew up around violent hasing
and my father's in gangs and that sort of stuff,
and yeah, so I grew up in that sort of
environment and it was sort of until I got to
the age that sort of turned my life around. And
a big thing I love about this program especially is
we've actually got young women, young young girls on this program.
It's a sort of a I know it's Big Brother,
(06:19):
but Bigcester as well in this program, and I think
it's a bit of a different energy being around young girls,
you know that they sort of bring a bit of
a healing and a calmness to the space and definitely
a different challenge to a very very challenging young woman.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
How were you able to turn your life around? When
was the pivotal moment where you said, I've got to
change or else I'm in strife.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
I mean, I don't look at but I'm thirty six,
so it was probably it was probably thirty. I was
thinking I was about thirty when I turned my life around.
I went through depression, sort of was on medication, suicide
and all that sort of stuff. I just like everybody else,
got to a point where I felt like enough was
enough and I needed to change. And that was sort
of when I started doing a bit of men work
and getting to know myself. And that was actually like
(07:02):
Joseph when I actually bumped into him the first time
we held one of our men's workshops at the original
Estwave back and what was that? Almost yeah, and their
little shit, We're actually just looking at the pictures out there.
It was five years ago. Wow, so it was crazy,
crazy time.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
But even five years ago where you are today, that's amazing.
Five years is that's you fitted.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
It a lot in Yeah five years yea, yeah, for sure,
for sure we have and it's so as you can
turn your life around quickly.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
The scary thing is we are just warming up. We've
set a solid foundation with our track record. We know
what we can achieve and we did that on the
smell of an oily rag. Now we have the opportunity
to really excel and help so many more young people.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So it's exciting.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Is this a program that you can see going national
or do you want to concentrate on here for us?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
We have something else in the pipeline now using virtuality
to go national for us. We never wanted to dilute
the quality, as we always said, we wanted to be
able to provide a quality service. But through virtuality, and
that's probably another conversation, we can definitely scale all across
Queensland and definitely Australia.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Now, wow, that's exciting to watch this space. Well, look,
we love you, We're always here to support you and
anything that you need. I believe you're building a podcast
studio for the kids.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Look out, so.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We're coming gaily. You're going to spend another week in that, mate, jose.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Look at you go?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
No very exciting. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.
Always keep us at top of mind for anything you
ever needed.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Thank you.
Oh when you're ready, All right, here we go, Joseph from.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning, good morning, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You've got so much to share with the Gold Coast.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We're all invested in East Swave since Gaily's to the
rescue and living at Pacific Fair, which was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
But you've bought a friend to introduce us too as well.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Yeah, uncle Jason can introduce your health mate on everybody.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
My name is Uncle Jason or Jason Bush on the
program lead at East Wave. So basically I just make
sure everything's functioning day to day, running by Uncle jose
who don't get mad at me, but yeah, that's about
my day to day function really sort of, and also
the mental health aspect of it as well.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Now it's important for you to be here because you
are indicative of how well Eastwave's now going. You can
employ people, Joseph.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
We've taken some of those responsibilities off our shoulders and
been able.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
To grow our team, and that's always sort of been
a barrier for us.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Our small team was always sort of three of us Camel,
Uncle Stephen, myself, and now we've got the team of eight.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh wow, so it's very exciting.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Yeah, So tell us how that's happened, because obviously a
couple of years back we were raising funds, but you
were looking at.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Grants and you were looking at anything.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
But it was a bit frustrating because there was a
lot of positive Hey, yes you'll get a grant, but
they weren't coming and then it was like, Okay, when
is this going to happen? But then you had someone
that actually gifted some help as well.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Made absolutely so the biggest issue was we always had
to apply for grants every twelve months and they were
never guaranteed. With the government coming in then putting a
lot of money into the early intervention space, the premiere,
who we call Uncle dc Up and you know those
titles also aren't thrown around lightly, saw the track record
(01:45):
that East Wave has. We've always never well, we've never
been shy to two to our own horns and explained
what we've always been able to achieve within our space,
and the government have come on board and actually given
us three million dollar investment which is now going to
help over the next three years, help seventy five young people,
and that the whole purpose of this type of money
(02:07):
is to make sure that we intervene early. So I
know they've got a huge stance on locking young people up,
but they've also got a huge stance of rehabilitation and
an early intervention. We are the first organization in Queensland
to receive the proven initiative investment and that comes with
responsibility as well. But that responsibility is something that we
take on our shoulders. We're absolutely going to give back
(02:27):
to the community, but more than anything, make sure that
our young people don't head down to the road where
we then need to rehabilitate them. We're going to make
sure we intervene early, make the right choices and put
that effort.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
In now pass as well. Made exactly. You know, it
costs so much lock up young people.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
We now have the opportunity to prevent that by putting
them through our program and providing them with twelve months
of support.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
The program still got the same amount of time as
for each individual.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yes, so we still have our ten week Big Brother program. Yeah,
but what this now does is allow us to identify
that at risk youth that potentially hitting down that path
where we can step in and devene and then put
in the support network that they require more than anything
after hours, So you're.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Doing a bit of both before they offend, but then
after they offend as well.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
You're getting both now.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
But for us, we always wanted to be in the
early intervention space. We have the proven track record when
it comes to that, and now we have the ability
financially with the support from the government to be able
to provide that to our young people that need it.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
We all met Ari in our journey and he is
doing so well for those that might be new listeners.
When Gaily was sleeping at Pacific Fair for the whole
week in the tiny homes you guys build, we met
a young lad who was going through your program and
he'd had such a terrible time rejected, homeless, you know,
living in McDonald's playgrounds, and now he's on the right
(03:47):
path because of you guys. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Absolutely, Look he lived up on our property for twelve
months and one of our tiny homes at gaily Slipton.
This young man now has his own three bedroom house
up in Woodridge. He is also the Youth parliament member
for Woodridge. He works. He's now a qualified youth worker
at the Logan Acute Mental Health would giving back using
(04:09):
his lived experiences to young people that lived the same
path that he has. He's just completely changed his life
around it. And we always say this, we can give
any of our young people the tools, but it's also
up to the young person to take the responsibility on.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And take the tools that we give him.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
So he's one of many success stories and a big
reason as to why we also now have the investment
from government.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Now you get investment from government, but you remember from
the Gaelic to the rescue, you've got such a kind support.
Is that still continuing because I feel like that they're
very humble, but I feel like a shout out for
them would.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Be yes, if you're allowed to. I'm not allowed to.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I'm not allowed to share the figure, but I will
say the Earl Foundation has stepped on board.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
They pride themselves on being, you know, incognito. They don't
want anyone to know what type of supports they give people,
and mainly because they're doing it for the right reasons.
But a huge shout out to Brent Haley here. He's
a big reason as to why that happened. After listening
to one of how radio interviews here and got them
on board, and I did get a phone call a
month ago that they're on board for.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The next two years as well, So so good.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well that makes.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Me feel so happy to hear that that we can
help as well. It's so important for these young people
to learn that they're kind of their their dopamine and
their value sometimes comes from the terrible groups therewith and
they can get all of that by being around good
groups of people.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And that's what you do now, Jason, it is.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
What I do, and a big part of I guess
my role is, like I said before, as a mental
health aspect of it. I've just finished a diploma in counseling.
So it's good for my like Joe said, my own
of the experience as I get to teach these young
kids and.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Young you w on the wrong track as well.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Yeah, yeah, we've all pretty much had very similar bringings
back in New Zealand. I grew up around violent hasing
and my father's in gangs and that sort of stuff,
and yeah, so I grew up in that sort of
environment and it was sort of until I got to
the age that sort of turned my life around. And
a big thing I love about this program especially is
we've actually got young women, young young girls on this program.
It's a sort of a I know it's Big Brother,
(06:19):
but Bigcester as well in this program, and I think
it's a bit of a different energy being around young girls,
you know that they sort of bring a bit of
a healing and a calmness to the space and definitely
a different challenge to a very very challenging young woman.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
How were you able to turn your life around? When
was the pivotal moment where you said, I've got to
change or else I'm in strife.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
I mean, I don't look at but I'm thirty six,
so it was probably it was probably thirty. I was
thinking I was about thirty when I turned my life around.
I went through depression, sort of was on medication, suicide
and all that sort of stuff. I just like everybody else,
got to a point where I felt like enough was
enough and I needed to change. And that was sort
of when I started doing a bit of men work
and getting to know myself. And that was actually like
(07:02):
Joseph when I actually bumped into him the first time
we held one of our men's workshops at the original
Estwave back and what was that? Almost yeah, and their
little shit, We're actually just looking at the pictures out there.
It was five years ago. Wow, so it was crazy,
crazy time.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
But even five years ago where you are today, that's amazing.
Five years is that's you fitted.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
It a lot in Yeah five years yea, yeah, for sure,
for sure we have and it's so as you can
turn your life around quickly.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
The scary thing is we are just warming up. We've
set a solid foundation with our track record. We know
what we can achieve and we did that on the
smell of an oily rag. Now we have the opportunity
to really excel and help so many more young people.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So it's exciting.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Is this a program that you can see going national
or do you want to concentrate on here for us?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
We have something else in the pipeline now using virtuality
to go national for us. We never wanted to dilute
the quality, as we always said, we wanted to be
able to provide a quality service. But through virtuality, and
that's probably another conversation, we can definitely scale all across
Queensland and definitely Australia.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Now, wow, that's exciting to watch this space. Well, look,
we love you, We're always here to support you and
anything that you need. I believe you're building a podcast
studio for the kids.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Look out, so.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We're coming gaily. You're going to spend another week in that, mate, jose.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Look at you go?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
No very exciting. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.
Always keep us at top of mind for anything you
ever needed.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Thank you.
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