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Who We AreThe Rev Harry Herbert
Graduate of Sydney, New South Wales, La Trobe and Yale Universities. Married to Meg, with two daughters – Catherine and Julia. Former Ministry: Current Position: Executive Director of UnitingCare NSW.ACT. UnitingCare is the Community Service, Social Justice and Chaplaincy division of the Synod. Service Groups are UnitingCare Ageing (overseeing all aged care work); UnitingCare Children, Young People & Families (including Burnside, Unifam, Wests and the Harris Community Centre); UnitingCare Children’s Services (overseeing all childcare centers). Programs include: UnitingCare Supported Living (disability service); and the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) at Kings Cross. UnitingCare Chaplains are in Correctional Centres, Acute Care Hospitals, Mental Health Services, and the Police Service. UnitingCare is the licensing operator of the trial of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre at Kings Cross. Other Current Positions:
Formerly:
Dr. Ingrid van Beek
Ingrid has been the Director of the Kirketon Road Centre – a primary health care facility of South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service in Kings Cross, involved in the prevention, treatment and care for HIV/AIDS and other transmissible infections among “at risk” young people, sex workers and injecting drug users (IDUs) since 1989. In 2000, Ingrid was seconded on a half-time basis to be the Medical Director of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Kings Cross. Having also lived in the Kings Cross area for 6 years during the 1990s she had a keen appreciation of the need for a balanced approach to the public health and public order problems that can arise when drug-related activities become prevalent in public places and believes that the MSIC continues to have a key role in minimising these problems, benefiting both drug users and local community. Ingrid has been a consultant to the World Health Organization advising on the prevention of sexually transmissible infections among commercial sex workers and health service models for the treatment of HIV/AIDS among IDUs in resource poor settings. Her other interests include the natural history, prevention and treatment of heroin overdose and the prevention of the transition to injecting as a mode of drug use. Ingrid is also a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and an honorary Fellow of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre of the University of NSW. She is also the Immediate Past President of the Australasian Professional Society of Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD).
Colette McGrath
She has worked in the HIV/AIDS area before becoming interested in working with injecting drug users. She then took up a post in the community working under a harm minimisation model followed by an appointment as the deputy manager in a community drug team in North London setting up a needle syringe, methadone and outreach service. In 1995 she migrated to Australia where she became a Clinical Nurse Consultant at The Private Clinic in the Eastern Suburbs. In 1997 she was employed at the Kirketon Road Centre as Nursing Unit Manager. For the past few years she had been working in the capacity of Acting Assistant Director and more recently as Projects Manage at the Kirketon Road Centre until she was seconded to the position of Clinical Services Manager at the MSIC. Colette is very familiar with the Kings Cross area having worked with the local population there since 1996
Tracey Brown
In 1996 she took a sabbatical for four years enjoying the travelling world as Office Manager of Student Flights, Newtown, before returning to work in the health system. The opportunity to be involved in setting up the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre attracted Tracey back into the Drug and Alcohol field. In 2004 Tracey completed the Graduate
Susan Jarnason
Susan is keen to build upon her experience in community and health promotion projects in taking up her new position as the Sydney MSIC Case Referral Coordinator. As part of her new role Susan has a particular interest in forming partnerships with other relevant services and providing community education regarding the Injecting Centre. Susan is committed to providing clients of the Sydney MSIC with the best possible opportunities to move onto drug treatment programmes and other health and welfare services. CommitteesThe Community consultation committee was established to support and advise the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) operations over the trial. The terms of reference and membership of this committee are detailed below Community Consultation Committee Terms of reference The purpose of the Community Consultation Committee is to facilitate the smooth integration of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) into the Kings Cross community in the following ways:
The vision of the Community Consultation Committee is to forge a community partnership to reduce drug related harm to all people in the Kings Cross area Membership
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Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. Ordained in 1972 as a Minister of the Congregational Church, which formed part of the Uniting Church at Church Union in 1977.
Ingrid van Beek is a Public Health and Addiction Medicine physician, whose professional career has focused on the prevention and reduction of drug-related harm and communicable diseases among marginalised populations.
Colette McGrath, trained as a Registered Nurse and Mental Health Nurse in London and has worked in the Alcohol and Drugs area for over ten years.
Tracey Brown joined Sydney MSIC in May 2000. She started training as a nurse but changed careers to health administration and has worked in health service management in both private and public hospitals. She joined the Kirketon Road Centre as Office Manager in 1990 and worked there for six years.
Susan emigrated from Canada in 1989 with an established career in acute mental health nursing. After settling in Sydney Susan continued working with community mental health services. Upon completing a degree in Health Sciences in Nursing, and attracted by the primary health care and harm minimisation models of care, Susan joined the Kirketon Road Centre in 2002.