Staff

Genevieve Dally is a Nurse with 15 years’ experience in the sexual and reproductive health sector. A passion for advocacy, education and addressing gaps in services for vulnerable communities has led Genevieve to a career in sexual health and blood borne viruses.

Genevieve has a Master’s in Public Health and a Master’s in Business Administration and prior to joining the NTAHC team held a number of senior management roles within Government and the Not for Profit sector. The rollout of the Preliminary Forensic Kits across the NT and facilitation of a youth led sexual health clinic have been passion projects for Genevieve, because providing choice and access to inclusive services is essential to improving health and wellbeing and creating a world free from shame, stigma and discrimination.

I have been with the company since 2010. For me working for NTAHC was a blessing I am a transgender woman living in a very small city & it is not an easy option to find a supportive workplace to be accepted into. 

I was pleased to be given the opportunity to take on the role of Care & Support for Men accessing support services here at NTAHC.

I have had a long association with NTAHC starting in 1991 where I became a volunteer with the Men’s project and then in the mid 90’s became a board member for around 3 years.

Around 2006 I was given the opportunity to apply for the Peer Project position as a support to the LGBTI community a positon I held for around 4 years.

After 8 years working closely with our Indigenous countrymen as a Manager with Aboriginal Hostel Limited decided to apply for the position of Care & Support Coordinator back at NTAHC.

I started back at NTAHC on the 13th May and I look forward to working with and supporting our client base and community members.

I have long been an advocate for HIV/Hep C positive people and community members accessing our support services here at NTAHC and look forward to meeting with our existing and future clients.   

Mark Halton

Care & Support coordinator (Men) 

Working in the Needle and Syringe Program, I am able to give our Clients a break from the constant fight that is life for a person who injects drugs, by supplying sterile injecting equipment without the judgmental humiliating garbage that PWID suffer in their daily dealing with authority.

With a history of injecting drug use, I have an insight of the struggle and stigma imposed upon our Clients as a result of the totally misguided, so called “war on drugs”, which treats our fellow citizens as lowlife criminals.

As well as trying to make a difference in our Clients life through the NSP, I believe that drug law reform is the most important aspect of stopping the persecution and incarceration of our Brothers and Sisters who enter the black market due to current stupid laws. Until this changes, I will continue to fight on a political level.

I’ve been with the NT AIDS and Hepatitis Council for nearly 15 years. I work with injecting drug users which is never a boring job and I’ve meet some very colourful people during my daily encounters. 

It’s a shame that drug users are marginalised and stigmatised and I do everything in my power to assist them where ever I can. There is no stereotypical drug user and people would realise that if they worked at the coal face as I do. NTAHC is a great place to work and I enjoy the challenges that are put before me. I enjoy being of assistance to marginalised groups and at NTAHC we provide services for many of them. 

I hope to be with NTAHC for many years to come. Since I began with NTAHC, I have now completed my certificate 4 of AOD and I have a Diploma in Community Education.

My name is Fiona and I am NTAHC’s Needle and Syringe Program/Harm Reduction Peer Educator. I have lived experience as an injecting drug user so am very aware of the stigma attached to people who inject drugs (PWID).

I try to always be non-judgmental, be open for a chat if desired and make our clients feel welcome in a confidential setting. No matter what their issue I aim for them to leave feeling they have been heard and have a smile on their face.

I also have lived experience of hepatitis C, which I have now cleared through treatment and am committed to reducing the spread of Blood Borne Viruses such as HIV and hepatitis C by the distribution of sterile injecting equipment and by providing information regarding these diseases.

Hi, I’m Dr Bel.  I joined NTAHC in January 2020 after being a board member since October 2017.  It’s a breath of fresh air working at NTAHC where everyone respects your views and your uniqueness into what you bring the organisation.  It’s a pleasure coming to work here and I hope what I do supports my communities here in the NT.

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Larz Lauer is a white settler living on Larrakia country, originally from Western Sydney and has lived on the East coast of Australia for most of his life. Larz has a master’s degree in Gestalt therapy and a background as a registered nurse. Larz is a queer trans man, eldest of a family of six children and a cat dad who balances his city life with the urge to be as deep into nature as possible.

For Larz, the draw to Gestalt therapy comes from the process of bringing out the self in order to meet the other. Central to his practice is his passion and active work in applying an intersectional and anti-oppressive framework into therapy and life. He is invested in building community and is willing to show up in his vulnerability and flaws to meet our collective humanity.

I started volunteering for NTAHC and Darwin Pride Festival back in 2010, I always wanted to work for NTAHC and I finally applied for the role in late 2016 for the Communication's Events and Sponsorship Officer, my experience, dedication and loyalty to the organisation and our community paid off. I am a local to the Territory, I love doing Event and Production Management.

In 2011 I was nominated for Young Australian of the Year, up against Territory royalty Jessica Mauboy she won :-) but what an honour, I believe it gave me the confidence and acknowledgement to keep doing what I do best. I was nominated by my community for my volunteer work in getting Darwin Pride Festival back up and running.

I worked as an entertainment club manager for 8 years, producing local drag shows and managing a gay nightclub, with weekly events and 30 plus staff to motivate and manage. Since moving on from the hospitality industry I've started my own Entertainment Company called Drag Territory. In 2016 Drag Territory held Darwin Prides first ever YOUTH event at The Quarter Casuarina.

I am a community leader and have a real passion to bring our community together, using my expertise in events and engaging the whole community, all ages sexes and genders!

I bring fun, my contacts in the event industry and community support to the organisation, I'm loving bringing new and exciting events to NTAHC to help raise awareness and money for the non-for-profit organisation.

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Pip is an alice springs local who has worked for ntahc in different capacities since 2009.

Currently Pip is a Harm Reduction Officer looking after the Primary NSP and the two secondary NSP’s in Alice Springs. Pip is also a Silver Rainbow Trainer for Alice Springs.

Pips favourite parts of the job are being the “Silent Protector” handing out safe sex supplies at stalls and events and delivering educations sessions to young people.

Hi everyone, we jointly share the Sex Worker Outreach Program (SWOP NT) officers role at NTAHC. Together we have an extensive range of work experience in the adult entertainment industry. Our lived experiences collectively as sex workers includes work as sole operators on the street, privately from hotels, within massage parlours, brothels and escort agencies in various jurisdictions with very different legislation regimes throughout Australia and abroad.

These lived experiences as peers and our work experience in Australia and Australasia in Sex Worker Rights, Community Development, Capacity Development & Health Promotion/policy sectors has enabled us as SWOP officers to understand how important it is for all sex workers to be actively engaged together. We are passionate about sex worker rights, decriminalisation of sex work, harm reduction strategies and dissolving the stigma, discrimination and isolation that we as sex workers experience. We know what it is like to live double lives due to stigma and discrimination and we know what it is like to be isolated. We open pathways for our peers to connect at SWOP to break that isolation. This engagement and connection in SWOP project activities, events and meetings with other workers facilitates solidarity, leadership, contemporary ideas and relevant direction within SWOP NT programming.

We speak publically and advocate with other sex workers for our voices to be heard. We understand the privilege this role brings in being representational in raising the needs of our sex worker community. Our responsibility in the SWOP program is to ensure that any sex worker who engages with the program is enabled to advocate for sex worker rights and better work health & safety outcomes that includes building on skills where required to sell safer sex or for referral of workers to other NTAHC programs.. We have an acute understanding of what our role entails and the responsibility that we have as a peer.