Wade, drug free says he has a new sense of who he really is “As a kid I was smart, but no good at sport. I just wanted to fit in, to be cool. So to be popular I used drugs and started dealing,” said former Buttery resident, Wade. [...]
The level of anxiety symptoms across the community is increasing with the rise in Coronavirus cases. It is important to manage our stress before it becomes debilitating anxiety. It is to be expected that people will experience great stress and increased anxiety symptoms due to the pandemic. If you are [...]
Tanya Magnay, CORE Coordinator The Buttery’s new Relapse Prevention Program, is improving recovery outcomes for people who take part The Buttery’s CORE “day-hab” program. The relapse prevention component is funded by Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation and other philanthropy. Thanks to this support, counsellor, Geoffrey Carthy has joined the team and [...]
Programs Manager, Frances Pidcock is fast-tracking development of a new recovery app Due to the pandemic, people with mental health and substance use and/or gambling issues need support more than ever. With rising anxiety levels and reported increases in substance use and gambling, there has been a sharp increase in [...]
It has been a big year for our Family Support program, which is funded entirely from donations. The service has been growing over time and started operating as a four-day-a-week program and has employed a new family worker on for the additional day, sharing the load with much-loved Family Support worker Lily Schmelzle. Although [...]
F2W team: Stuart Nunan, Manager Footprints2Wellbeing and Community Outreach Manager, Frances Pidcock In September 2019, The Buttery rolled out a new counselling program as part of an innovative consortium, to better support people with mental health issues manage their daily lives. The Footprints 2 Wellbeing (f2w), available from Tweed Heads to Port Macquarie, supports [...]
The Buttery has gone from strength to strength in the last 12 months. We acknowledge the Board of Directors, the Foundation Committee, our donors, funding bodies and importantly our committed, compassionate and talented staff. We are extremely grateful to have staff who care so much about the people they work with, about each other and [...]
Buttery staff can often be overheard talking in awe about the achievements of Kaiden Powell - the 2015 Therapeutic Community resident-turned-mentor, artist and athlete. At 25, Kaiden Powell was in and out of out of mental health units or sleeping rough. He had attempted to take his own life and when doctors took a [...]
Every day, The Buttery sees the benefits of early intervention programs such as the Therapeutic Mixed Martial Arts program for at-risk youth in Lismore and Casino. Many young people in our community find themselves at a crossroads, and without the right support can easily find themselves on a path of hard drug use and [...]
Successful recovery from drug and alcohol addiction through attending a residential treatment program means more to the person than just staying clean and sober, an Australian-first study has found. While a significant body of research has shown that the length of time a person stays in a program is positively linked to abstinence, [...]
