FDS Insight Magazine Jun - Sep 2023

13 offering and it is so important that that support for families be available. • Storytellers were really powerful. • Hearing other people’s stories and realising how drugs affect people from all walks of life. • Cate Faehrman. • Seeing the fantastic support the organisation provides. • Learning more about how family can be supported around their loved ones negotiating AOD dependence. • Hearing of lived experience. Overall, the Sydney IFDSD event was well attended and well received. Tony Trimingham OAM, FDS CEO NSW International FDS Day event held in Sydney at Surry Hills David Kelly, Programs Director, Odyssey House Ms Cate Faehrmann MLC