Marc Beecroft
Peer Support Team Leader/project lead
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Name:
Marc Beecroft
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Position:
Peer Support Team Leader/project lead
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Email:
marc.b@odysseychch.org.nz
Marc has been working in the addiction sector for the past 20 years, mainly in lived experience roles, he sits on several local and National working groups.
He loves his work in these pioneering years of peer support development across the addiction sector. He has developed and implemented a successful peer support model which sits well in clinical settings within his role of Peer Support Team Leader/project lead.
Peer Support groups are another passion for which he has been designing, facilitating, and coordinating for over 20 years. Additional work in this area has seen the creation of an online platform ‘Zoom to Noon’ (Peer Support Groups) which he created and helped launch at the start of COVID -19. Marc maintains a project lead/coordination role with this initiative.
Marc also plays a key role in building a consumer network across the South Island in his role as the Regional AOD Consumer Advisor for Canterbury, South Canterbury, and the West Coast.