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 [...]

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

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

ATODA’s 2nd Annual Report has been released and 2012-13 Board announced See About ATODA for more details