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National Drug and Alcohol Awards (NDAA)

ATODA — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:42:22 +0000

The 2013 Awards will be presented at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 20 June 2013. The NDAA are a highlight of the annual Drug Action Week and encourage, recognise, and celebrate achievements of the many people and organisations that do exceptional work to reduce the harm and impact of alcohol and other drugs in Australia. The 2013 Awards are being hosted by the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA) and are open to all people and organisations working across the health and wellbeing sectors.
For more information: Visit the Awards’ website, or contact Brian Flanagan by phone (02) 6215 9802 or email brian.flanagan@adca.org.au

4 Core Competencies: Block 2 of the Certificate IV in Alcohol and Other Drug Work

ATODA — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:35:20 +0000

The next session will be held on 20-22 May 2013. This course is for people that have registered to undertake training and assessment through the ACT ATOD Minimum Qualification Strategy.

For more information visit the MQS Project page, email info@atoda.org.au or call (02) 6255 4070

First Aid (Subsidised for ACT ATOD Workers)

ATODA — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:29:44 +0000

As part of the ACT ATOD MQS, Senior First Aid will be subsidised for ACT ATOD workers. The training will be held on 13 May 2013 between 8.30am – 5pm. This course is unfortunately now full. For more information email info@atoda.org.au or call (02) 6255 4070.

Drug Action Week 2013

ATODA — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:22:59 +0000

Drug Action Week 2013 is coming soon! It will be held from 16-22 June 2013, under the theme “Drugs, Communities & Families!”

Drug Action Week is a week of activities held nationally to raise awareness about alcohol and other drugs issues in Australia. The week also highlights the achievements of the dedicated individuals who work within the AOD sector to reduce alcohol and drug-related harm. It is an initiative of the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia and funded by the Department of Health and Ageing.

For information on Drug Action Week nationally visit http://www.drugactionweek.org.au/ or daw@atoda.org.au.

Consumer Participation Forum

ATODA — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:48:21 +0000

A Consumer Participation Forum for the ACT ATOD sector was held on Friday 12th April 2013. The forum offered the opportunity to further engage all specialist ATOD services regarding meaningful consumer participation and ideas of how to progress this throughout the sector. The ACT Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Sector Service Users’ Satisfaction Survey 2012 Final Report was also launched at the forum, with a presentation on the findings from the reports author and consultant to ATODA, David McDonald. ATODA will circulate a report on the forum in the coming months.

For more information: email charlene@atoda.org.au or call (02) 6255 4070

Drug Policy Modelling Program Annual Symposium

ATODA — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:03:04 +0000

This year the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) Symposium is being held in Canberra during Drug Action Week on 20th of June at the National Portrait Gallery. The program will be most relevant for those interested or engaged in evidence informed policy development, including researchers, policy analysts/makers and service providers.

For more information visit the DPMP website

Training and Professional Development Calendar

ATODA — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:12:40 +0000

The Training and Professional Development Calendar is produced bi-monthly as a partnership between the Youth Coalition of the ACT, the Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT and the Mental Health Community Coalition ACT.

The Calendar seeks to raise awareness of training and professional development opportunities available to ATOD, youth, mental health and allied workers in the ACT.

To download the calendar see the website

ACT ATOD eAssist

ATODA — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:10:23 +0000

In recent years the ACT ATOD sector has sought to strengthen its capacity to screen for ATOD and implement associated brief interventions. To support this work, an ACT version of the electronic Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (eASSIST) has been developed and will be piloted in ACT ATOD services. The tool is based on the eASSIST developed by Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia from a World Health Organization tool.

An ACT version of the tool has been developed, and will be implemented by a group of ACT ATOD services from November 2012. Its implementation will be evaluated, and recommendations made regarding the potential further roll out of the tool. An evaluation worshop will be held on 22 February.

For more information see the website

ACT Government Budget Consultation 2013-14

ATODA — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:25:39 +0000

ATODA provide a submission to the public consultation for the ACT Budget 2013–2014.
The requests for funding in this submission are modest and considered within the

context of the challenging fiscal realities of the ACT economy and Canberraʼs ambitious social policy agenda. The priorities identified therefore are those which

would seek to have a long term benefits for individuals, families and communities of Canberra.

This submission includes the following five initiatives to prevent and reduce ATOD related harms in the ACT.

For more information: download the ATODA ACT Budget Submission 2013-2014 or see the ACT Budget page on ATODA’s website

ATODA’s 2nd Annual Report

ATODA — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:16:37 +0000

ATODA’s 2nd Annual Report has been released and 2012-13 Board announced

See About ATODA for more details