Maroondah Addictions Recovery Project

Jackie Shaw, President

Jackie has been the Honorary President of Maroondah Addictions Recovery Project for almost two years.

She is a registered Division 1 Nurse and has trained at the Royal London Hospital in the UK and RMIT in Melbourne. She has a background of nursing in acute care and Neurosurgery, which gave her an excellent grounding for a transition into working in the field of Addictions.

In the mid 1980's, Jackie changed career pathways and commenced facilitating Drink/Drive programs at St.Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, followed by working in Depaul House, the Residential Withdrawal Service.

She left Depaul House to pilot a Home Based withdrawal program at Anglicare, Boxhill, then managed the Salvation Army Detox at St. Kilda, and did community AOD Counselling. Jackie returned to Depaul House in the early 90's, where she became the Manager and continued until 2008, when she retired from full time work. She has been very happy to maintain her links with Addiction Treatment and MARP, and hopes to continue for a while yet. She also hopes to meet some of the people involved with MARP from time to time as consumers, staff and friends of MARP.

Matt Riley, Chair

Matt has extensive experience in both the Drug and Alcohol Sector and Community Mental Health Sector. Matt has previously chaired the Mental Health Alliance Education and Training Committee and is currently involved in the development and coordination of Dual Diagnosis capability training. Matt has a Diploma in Community Services AOD & Cert IV Training and Assessment.

Rod Hutchison, Vice Chair

Rod joined the Committee of Management having previously been a resident in the MARP Programme for four months and utilising the services of MARP's Supported Accommodation Programme for a further nine months.

An accountant by trade, Rod has returned to this field, following stints in landscaping, demolition and tree-recycling. Previously Rod has been Treasurer of a local charity group, Treasurer and President of a local Primary School Council for four years, and an auditor and secretary of various other local sporting groups and kindergartens. Rod's accounting experience includes the Taxation Office for 13 years, large corporate tax accounting for two years and running his own tax & accounting practice for nearly 15 years. Rod has been back in tax and accounting for the last seven years.

Graham White, Treasurer

Graham is a CPA and qualified financial planner. He has owned The Compass Group since 1997 and grown it from a tax based accounting practice to a fully integrated financial services firm offering all traditional accounting and taxation services as well as financial planning, superannuation, self managed super and loan broking. Bringing together the disciplines of taxation, superannuation and financial planning enables top quality strategic advice that saves on tax and creates wealth into the future. The Compass Group services all types and sizes of clients from the mum & dad businesses to a client they helped expand into the USA market.

Graham's bucket list includes heading back to Africa with his wife to help in a community environment for a 6-12 month period as well as travelling around as much of Australia and the world with his family as possible.

In between managing 10 staff during the day and 4 young children out of hours Graham does martial arts, motor bike riding & camping with his family.

Liz Morgan, Member

Liz Morgan is a lawyer at the Public Interest Law Clearing House Inc. (PILCH) in Melbourne. In her role at PILCH, Liz provides legal service to not-for-profit community organisations that operate in the public interest. Prior to this position, Liz worked as a lawyer at Victoria Legal Aid for a number of years. She has also worked as a Legal and Policy Officer in the Victorian Department of Justice and in private legal practice. Liz has an ongoing interest in alcohol and drug services since she worked at St Vincents' Hospital's Department of Drug and Alcohol Studies while completing her Arts/Law degree at Monash University. Liz is currently undertaking further studies at RMIT. Liz joined the MARP Committee of Management in May 2010.