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Speaker 1 00:01:13 Colin has managed to get nine of the Brisbane Murray court participants on to NDI as packages and of those nine, not a single one of them has re-offended and two of them are, in fact, they've been on the packages for more than 12 months, ordinarily you would expect people to re-offend within two years. And in fact, 86% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who go into custody do re-offend within two years. So the idea that these people haven't re-offended, um, is extraordinary. So that's the sort of thing that, that, um, Endis can do. And, and our concern is that, you know, there are so many people who should be on it that aren't on it because a lot of these brain injuries are invisible.
Speaker 2 00:02:12 I would say that the benefits of this continuing,
Speaker 1 00:02:16 Oh, it's absolutely crucial. It's absolutely crucial without this support. We, of course, wouldn't be able to get them on packages because Colin has the magic touch and well, the fact that they're not real authentic, I mean, you know, that's, uh, extraordinary, it's definitely definitely working and it would be a tragedy if, um, the service wasn't able to continue coming to the court of all the service providers who've come to the court. Carers Queensland has probably made the biggest visible impact.
Speaker 0 00:02:51 Tina Tierra says, as well as the high rates of re-offending, it can cost up to $250,000 a year to house a prisoner. But once someone's getting the support they need through the NDIS, everyone benefits their family, their community. And of course the individual Marshall was the first Murray court participants to access the NDIS. He has an acquired brain injury and says he didn't know anything about the scheme until he connected with carers Queensland
Speaker 3 00:03:19 <inaudible> or Matt cone court. Yeah. He told me what it was a bit told him what had happened to me. And he helped me get on it, get cleaning services, um, uh, support work, and the guys to appointments and stuff go food drives and mint team brains stuff. Okay. Swimming every night for, um, more injuries that I've got. I'm recovering from a little bit, um, injuries, the cause of loss so much blood. Um, Reginald's got a brain injury from it. Well, it's got a problem with transport or WellMed and handle lots of people, but it's not too bad yarning circle. Cause everyone there, you got little, everybody tells the story and what's happened on and uh, have, uh, getting better and stuff. Uh, everyone will discuss the problem, um, who goes from person to person around the room. Oh, the good thing is that everyone gets together and we have to eight and talk a bit what we've been through.
Speaker 2 00:04:49 And what do you like about your support worker?
Speaker 3 00:04:53 They, they take me to appointments and make sure everything's <inaudible> then. Yeah. I didn't know anything in bed. Um, and dos and, um, I think a lot of people don't know much about what services and electrons. And I grew up in Brisbane
Speaker 4 00:05:31 Roughly two and a half years now and doing other work in the Murray community in Brisbane for a long time, trying to navigate the justice system and communication conduit between our people and the, and all the other support networks that appear in Murray court getting better outcomes for our people. It's with you, Mike or not on the punitive side, but more the support side. We have a lot of their people that come through who have possibly mental health issues or experienced trauma, and they haven't had those sort of issues dealt with before. So it's more like, uh, hearing their story first, find out where they are in their lives. It's an opportunity, I guess, to see how we can support our people more. That's the role I see as probably one of the most important roles.
Speaker 2 00:06:39 And so why do you think it's important for the Murray court to, to work with us, the carers Queensland NDIS, to, to assist and support people, to gain access to this game
Speaker 4 00:06:50 In the time I've been with Marico in this two and a half years, we see a lot of people who have varying degrees of disability from substance abuse when they were younger, which has a permanent impact on them. And they called me schools and functions. Then we also have people who have suffered trauma or suffered head injuries through accidents. People who've been dealt that blow with, uh, I guess fetal alcohol syndrome. A lot of athletes will come through the court with some of these disabilities and before the ice disabilities have gone unnoticed undiagnosed. And since India have been involved with carers Queensland, and it's really captured a lot of our people who, who need that, um, that extra support to, to help them, I guess, with basic things in life. You know?
Speaker 2 00:07:52 And so you've obviously seeing the progress of those who have, have fronted the call before accessing this game. And now afterwards, um, as a participant made access, what, what have you seen the progress of that?
Speaker 4 00:08:05 I guess the physical size side of things where they're given assistance, getting to appointments or getting, uh, work done in their, in their own homes. But we also see that that mental, spiritual wellness coming through as well. It's that has big impact on, on FAP that, uh, they get into sport, which they had previously been, uh, uh, without to watch upright at the moment it's operating in the driveway. We've got that, um, by face contact with, with people from the NDIS and carers Queensland, they're in the courts, uh, every Wednesday. And that's pretty important having people from both organizations on hand where our people can be referred directly to them. And then the followup happens as well. Why it's work now? I can't see any ways you can improve it because it's, it's, it's operating very efficiently and very successfully. If anything, just likes to see an expanded that into, um, uh, prison systems as well too. And that's something that's, uh, community members, uh, looking to my captain,
Speaker 0 00:09:22 You can find out more about carers Queensland's work with the Murray court on our website, carers qld.com.edu. Thanks very much to Fiona stewards for the reporting in this episode. Thanks for joining us a choice in control a carer's Queensland podcast for more information about the national disability insurance scheme or carers Queensland, contact us
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