Podcast: Down to Earth Conversations with Rev'd Dr Pauline Stewart

Hear Andy Dickson (young adults minister at St Barnabas,  Fendalton, and Ministry Development Coordinator at All Souls, Merrivale) interview Rev'd Dr Pauline Stewart (non-stipendiary priest, St Barnabas, Fendalton) about the charity she founded, Family Drug Support.

Pauline is an educator, a psychologist, an Anglican Priest, and when she was at an age when many would be hanging up their work clothes, she was starting up a charity to support the family and friends of people with alcohol or other drug habits.

Andy invites Pauline to talk about her time as a teacher and why she moved into psychology. They discuss her time working for the Ministry of Education as a psychologist. And they talk about Family Drug Support, the charity Pauline founded to educate and support people whose loved ones are misusing alcohol or other drugs. Pauline shares about why and how it started. They get into evidence-based practice and why that is important, and Pauline shares about the opportunity she sees in this area to use new technologies including A.I..

Find Family Drug Support on their website, fds.org.nz

Listen to the conversation (42 minutes 13 seconds) at downtoearthconversations.com or wherever you get your podcasts.