ATODA is the peak body for the alcohol, tobacco and other drug sector in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Its purpose is to lead and influence positive outcomes in policy, practice and research by providing collaborative leadership for intersectoral action on the social determinants of harmful drug use, and on societal responses to drug use and to people who use drugs.
ATODA works to provide alcohol, tobacco and other drug related expertise in the areas of policy; sector workforce development and capacity building; research, data and evaluation; health services planning; coordination and partnerships; training and education; communication; information and resources.
ATODAʼs vision is a healthy, well and safe ACT community with the lowest possible levels of alcohol, tobacco and other drug related harms. Underpinning ATODA’s work is a commitment to health equity, the social and cultural determinants of health, and the values of collaboration, participation, diversity, human rights, social justice and reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians.
ATODA strives to achieve better interaction and integration between alcohol, tobacco and other drug researchers, services, policy workers, practitioners, consumers and their friends and families in the ACT and region.
Staff
Devin Bowles, Chief Executive Officer
devin@atoda.org.au
Amanda Bode, Senior Programs Manager
amanda@atoda.org.au
Dave Corby, Office Manager
info@atoda.org.au
Julie Robert, Workforce Development and Project Manager
julie@atoda.org.au
Anke van der Sterren, Senior Researcher and Project Manager
anke@atoda.org.au
Jeanette Bruce, Operations and Office Manager
jeanette@atoda.org.au
Annie Bleeker, Senior Training Specialist
annie.bleeker@atoda.org.au
Consultants
ATODA engages consultants and evaluators to provide expert advice and support to the organisation including:
- Ann Tattersall (Uniting ReGen)
- Bernard Hanson (Uniting ReGen)
- Damien Martin (InDidgi Programs)
- David McDonald (Social Research & Evaluation)
- Fiona Christian (ARTD Consultants)
- Jennifer Harland (DASSA WHO Collaborating Centre Kate Fuelling Consulting)
- Linda Jenner (360Edge)
- Melanie Darvodelsky (ARTD Consultants)
- Nicole Lee (360Edge)
- Paula Ross (360Edge, Quitsills Cancer Council South Australia)
- Sandra Simpson (360Edge, Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA))
*Correct as per the ATODA Annual Report 2017-18
Board
ATODA’s 2019-20 Board includes:
| Sharon Tuffin | Chair | Karralika Programs Inc |
| Sue-Ann Polden | Deputy Chair | CatholicCare Canberra and Goulburn |
| Gerard Byrne | Treasurer | The Salvation Army |
| Bronwyn Hendry | Secretary | Directions Health Services |
| David Baxter | Member | Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy (CAHMA) |
| Kate Gardner | Member | Alcohol and Drug Services, Canberra Health Services |
| Sarah-Jane Olsen | Member | Hepatitis ACT |
| Susan Clarke-Lindfield | Member | Toora Women Inc |
| Devin Bowles | Public Officer | ATODA |
ATODA’s Full, Associate and Individual Members and their ATOD Programs* includes:
- ACT Shelter Association
- Aids Action Council of the ACT
- Alcohol and Drug Services, ACT Health
- Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy
- Canberra Institute of Technology
- Canberra Recovery Services, The Salvation Army
- CatholicCare Canberra and Goulburn
- Directions Health Services
- Families ACT
- Family and Friends of Drug Law Reform (ACT) Inc
- Health Care Consumers’ Association of the ACT
- Hepatitis ACT
- Karralika Programs Inc
- McDonald, David
- Mental Health Community Coalition ACT
- Mental Health Foundation ACT
- Solaris Therapeutic Community, ACT Corrective Services
- Steven Byrne
- Ted Noffs Foundation
- Toora Women Inc
- Volunteering ACT
- Wellways Australia Limited
- Youth Coalition of the ACT
*Correct as per the ATODA Annual Report 2017-18
Stakeholders who are ACT based ATOD services and / or support the objects of the ATODA are invited to become a member of ATODA or renew their membership.
Download the 2020-2021 NEW ORGANISATION member form
Download the 2020-2021 ORGANISATION RENEWAL membership form
Download the 2020-2021 NEW INDIVIDUAL membership form
Constitution
ATODA Constitution 2018
ATODA Constitution 2014
ATODA Constitution 2010
Annual Reports
ATODA Annual Report 2018-19
ATODA Annual Report 2017-18
ATODA Annual Report 2016-17
ATODA Annual Report 2015-16
ATODA Annual Report 2014-15
ATODA Annual Report 2013-14
ATODA Annual Report 2012-13
ATODA Annual Report 2011-12
ATODA Annual Report 2010-11
Strategic Plan
ATODA’s Strategic Plan 2020-2023
ATODA’s Strategic Plan 2014-2019
ATODA’s Strategic Plan 2012-2013
Financial Reports
Please contact ATODA for hardcopies or further information.
ATODA engages in and supports a range of consultative and advisory structures, to inform its work, such as:
- ATODA Board
- ACT ATOD Workers Group
- ACT ATOD CEOs/Executive Directors Group
- ACT Comorbidity Strategy Working Group
- ACT Grant Recipients Network
- Service User Participation Project Committee
- Expanding Naloxone Availability in the ACT Committee
- ACT Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Strategy Evaluation Group
- Crime Prevention Forum
- Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services Executive
ATODA acknowledges its funders, partners and sponsors for their generous support, including:
Funders, Sponsors and Supporters
- Members of ATODA
- Ms Meegan Fitzharris MLA, Minister for Health and Wellbeing
- AOD Policy Unit, ACT Health (disbanded in September 2017)
- Department of Health, Australian Government
- ACT Education and Training Directorate
- Justice and Community Safety Directorate
- Community Services Directorate
- Health Promotion Branch, ACT Health
- Policy and Government Relations, ACT Health
Partners and Collaborators*
- ACT Community Corrections, Justice and Community Safety Directorate
- ACT Corrective Services
- ACT Council of Parents and Citizens Associations
- ACT Council of Social Service (ACTCOSS)
- ACT Department of Education
- ACT Greens
- ACT Health
- ACT Health Human Research Ethics Committee
- ACT Health Representative – CGFSIDC
- ACT Labor
- ACT Mental Health Consumer Network
- ACT Policing
- ACT Shelter Association
- Agnes Shea OAM, Ngunnawal Elder
- Ainslie Village, Argyle Housing
- Alcohol and Drug Services, ACT Health
- Alcohol and Other Drug Policy Unit, ACT Health
- Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs Council of Tasmania (ATDC)
- Annie Bleeker Consultant
- ARTD Consultants
- Assistant Professor Petra Staiger, Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies; Deakin University Centre for Drug, Alcohol and Addiction Research
- Association of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies NT (AADANT)
- Association of Parents and Friends of ACT Schools
- Australian Drug Foundation
- Australian Illicit and Injecting Drug Users League
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Beryl Women
- Burnet Institute
- Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy (CAHMA)
- Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT)
- Canberra Liberals
- Canberra Rape Crisis Centre
- Canberra Recovery Services, The Salvation Army
- Capital Chemist Dickson
- Capital Chemist Tuggeranong Square
- Capital Health Network
- Carers ACT
- CatholicCare Canberra and Goulburn
- Chemist on Northbourne
- Chief Minister Treasury and Economic Development
- Child and Youth Protection Services, Community Services Directorate
- Clayton Utz
- Consumer representatives
- Council of Australian Government Advisory Panel on Reducing Violence against Women and their Children
- Criminal Law Group, Department of Justice and Community Safety
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Develin’s City Chemist
- DFV Advisory Group of ACT Health Staff
- Directions Health Services
- Domestic Violence Crisis Service
- Domestic Violence Prevention Council
- Donna Ribton-Turner, Uniting Care ReGen
- Doris Women’s Refuge
- Dr Anna Olsen, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University
- Dr Ashlee Curtis, Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies; Deakin University Centre for Drug, Alcohol and Addiction Research
- Dr Caitlyn Hughes, Drug Policy Modelling Program, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
- Dr Justin Barker, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
- Dr Rebecca McKetin, Centre for Research on Ageing, Health & Wellbeing (CRAHW), The Australian National University
- Dr Stefan Gruenert, Odyssey House Victoria
- Dr Suzie Hudson, Network of Alcohol and Drug Agencies
- Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia (DASSA) and the WHO Collaborating Centre
- Drug Policy Modelling Program
- Eleanor Morrison
- Erindale Pharmacy
- EveryMan
- Families ACT
- Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform
- Family Drug Support
- Family Violence Intervention Program Committee
- Fiona Christian, ARTD Consultants
- Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE)
- Gordon Ramsay MLA, Attorney General
- Greg Aldridge, Domestic Violence Prevention Council & EveryMan
- Gugan Gulwan Youth Aboriginal Corporation
- Health Improvements Projects, ACT Health
- Health Protection Service, ACT Health
- Helene Delany, Manager, Alcohol and Other Drug Policy Unit, ACT Health
- Hepatitis ACT
- Ms Helen Tyrrell, Hepatitis Australia
- Indidgi Programs
- Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
- Interchange General Practice
- Jane Pepper, Health Advisor, Office of the Coordinator-General for Family Safety
- Jennifer Harland, Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia and Karralika Programs Inc
- Jo Wood, Coordinator-General for Family Safety
- Justice Health Services, ACT Government
- Karralika Programs
- Lee Jackson Design
- Legislation, Policy & Programs, Justice and Community Safety Directorate
- Linda Jenner, 360Edge
- Marcia Williams, Domestic Violence Prevention Council (Chair), Women’s Services Network & Women’s Centre for Health Matters
- Professor Mark Bassett – Canberra Gastroenterology, MB ChB (Otago), MB (Qld), GradDipMgt (ANU), MHA (UNSW), FRACP
- Meegan Fitzharris MLA, Minister for Health and Wellbeing
- Melanie Darvodelsky, ARTD Consultants
- Mental Health Community Coalition ACT
- Mental Health Services, ACT Government
- Minister for Health’s Office
- Minister for Women
- Ministerial Advisory Council on Women representative on the ACT ATOD Strategy Evaluation Group
- Mirjana Wilson, Domestic Violence Crisis Service
- National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA)
- National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
- National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales
- National Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
- Network of Alcohol and Drug Agencies (NADA)
- Nikki Goddard, Women’s Services Network & Women’s Health Services, ACT Health
- NSW / ACT Alcohol Policy Alliance
- Odyssey House Victoria
- Office for the Coordinator General for Family Safety, Community Services Directorate
- Office for Women, Community Services Directorate
- Optimal Pharmacy Plus Jamison
- Paula Ross, 360Edge
- Pharmacy Guild of Australia, ACT Branch
- Pharmasave Woden Pharmacy
- Philip Hull, Health Improvements Projects, ACT Health
- Professor Alison Ritter, Drug Policy Modelling Program
- Professor Beau Kilmer, RAND
- Professor Nicole Lee, 360Edge
- Professor Peter Miller, Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies; Deakin University Centre for Drug, Alcohol and Addiction Research
- Public Health Association of Australia
- Queensland Network of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies (QNADA)
- Quitskills, Cancer Council South Australia
- Research School of Population Health, Australian National University
- Shannon Wright, YWCA NSW
- Sione Crawford
- Social Research and Evaluation
- South Australian Network for Drug and Alcohol Agencies (SANDAS)
- St John Ambulance ACT
- Ted Noffs Foundation
- Tim McCann
- The Association of Independent Schools of the ACT
- The Connection
- The Salvation Army
- Toora Women
- Trevor King, Uniting Care ReGen
- Dr Tuck Meng Soo OAM
- University of Newcastle
- Victims Liaison Office (ACT Policing)
- Victims of Crime Commission
- Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA)
- Western Australian Network of Alcohol and Drug Agencies (WANADA)
- Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Services
- Women’s Centre for Health Matters
- Women’s Health Service – Division of Women, Youth & Children Community Health Programs, Health Directorate, ACT Government
- Women’s Services Network
- Your Discount Chemist, Griffith
- Youth Coalition of the ACT
- Yurauna Centre, Canberra Institute of Technology
- Yvette Berry MLA, Minister for Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence
- YWCA
- 360Edge Pty Ltd
*Correct as per the ATODA 2017-18 Annual Report
ATODA was established by the ACT ATOD sector in 2010, representing a significant achievement by many individuals and services within the sector over several years. ATODA became incorporated in early 2010 with an Interim Board recruited from the sector’s Chief Executive Officers / Executive Directors. A goal of the Interim Board was to establish the organisation with a view to having a full Board elected from the membership at the first Annual General Meeting.
This was achieved on 4 November 2010.
The staff and resources from the ACT Alcohol and Other Drug Sector Project, auspiced by the Youth Coalition of the ACT since 2007, were transferred and novated to ATODA on 1 July 2010. For further information regarding this process please see the report Coming Together, Keeping Together, Working Together: How Stakeholders Collaborated for Sector Development and Change (June 2010).
In addition to its core functions, the Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT (ATODA) is able to provide fee-for-service consultancy services for projects that align with the organisation’s vision, values, mission and strategic priorities. Alcohol, tobacco and other drug subject matter specialists can be engaged by ATODA to undertake discrete, time-limited projects to meet the needs of external stakeholders and partner organisations on a fee-for-service basis.
Phone: (02) 6249 6358
Email: info@atoda.org.au
Mail: PO Box 7187, Watson ACT 2602
Visit: 11 Rutherford Crescent, Ainslie ACT 2602