December: Mixed bag
To showcase the work that the Knowledge Centre has carried out in 2015, this newsletter will be a mixed bag, and will feature all of the topics we currently cover. All of the information included in this newsletter can be found on the AOD Knowledge Centre. This year has been a very busy one for the Knowledge Centre team, and also very exciting, with the launch of the Community portal, the AOD Worker’s portal, the AODconnect app, and a new section on tobacco, all of which aim to support efforts to reduce harmful substance use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
News
EOI open for mental health and addiction services in Adelaide (16/12/15)
Sale of regular unleaded fuel now illegal on Palm Island (10/12/2015)
Blueprint to overhaul mental health and drug and alcohol services in WA released (9/12/15)
New Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources on alcohol and pregnancy (7/12/15)
Comprehensive package announced to tackle ice use (7/12/15)
Ice taskforce shifts focus from policing to treatment (3/12/15)
New ice training package for frontline workers (2/12/15)
Jobs
Community Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Worker (WA) Palmerston – Closes 21 December 2015
Aboriginal AOD Program Facilitator and Support Worker (MAC) (Vic) Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-Operative – Closes 1 January 2016
Senior AOD Case Worker (NT) Wurli Wurlinjang Health Service – Closes 8 January 2016
Aboriginal Residential Youth Worker (NSW) Mission Australia – Closes 10 January 2016
Team Manager – Population Health (Tobacco) (SA) Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia – No closing date specified
Communications and Promotions Officer (Tobacco) (SA) Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia – No closing date specified
Save the date for 2016 – conferences and events
‘It fits the needs of the community’: Long term evaluation of the Norseman voluntary liquor agreement (WA) 11 February 2016
Quitskills smoking cessation training for Indigenous smoking (WA) 15-17 March 2016
Local Drug Action Groups (LDAG) state conference (WA) 22-23 April 2016
Aboriginal alcohol and other drugs worker forum: connecting engaging growing (WA) 28-19 April 2016
Alcohol Tobacco and other Drugs Council (ATDC) conference (Tas) 12-13 May 2016
The Australian and New Zealand addiction conference (Qld) 18-20 May 2016
Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies (NADA) conference 2016 (NSW) 6 June 2016
Australian winter school conference 2016 (Qld) 20-22 July 2016
4th National Indigenous drug and alcohol conference (SA) 11-14 October 2016
Alcohol
Publication: Aboriginal communities, alcohol-related harms and the need for an evidence-based approach
Health promotion resource: Binge drinking
Health practice resource: Case management in non-government alcohol and other drugs services: a practical toolkit
Program: Beat da binge (completed)
Project: Fighting, alcohol and offending: interventions targeting Aboriginal girls (current)
Organisation: Brahminy Foundation
FASD
Publication: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a review of interventions for prevention and management in Indigenous communities
Health promotion resource: Strong boorais, bright futures – keeping healthy during pregnancy
Health practice resource: FASD and the justice system
Program: Reducing dangers during pregnancy project (current)
Project: Alcohol, pregnancy and Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: midwives knowledge, attitudes and practice (current)
Organisation: Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE)
Tobacco
Publication: Lifting the burden: a coordinated approach to action on Aboriginal tobacco resistance and control in NSW
Health promotion resource: Our lungs, our mob
Health practice resource: Smoking cessation
Program: Stickin’ it up the smokes (current)
Project: Reducing Aboriginal children’s tobacco smoke exposure in the Pilbara (Smoke free kids project) (completed)
Organisation: Australian Council on Smoking and Health (ACOSH)
Cannabis/gunja/yarndi
Publication: Lifetime influences for cannabis cessation in male incarcerated Indigenous Australians
Health promotion resource: Could it be the gunja?
Health practice resource: Cannabis makes the grade
Program: MAKINGtheLINK Indigenous program
Project: Cape York cannabis project
Opoids
Publication: Offending, custody and opioid substitution therapy treatment utilisation among opioid-dependent people in contact with the criminal justice system: comparison of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
Health promotion resource: A guide to heroin within our community
Health practice resource: National guidelines for medication assisted treatment of opioid dependence
Program: Opioid substitution treatment (Aboriginal Medical Service Western Sydney) (current)
Project: A prospective cohort study of ex-prisoners with a history of injecting drug use (current)
Stimulants
Publication: Final report of the National Ice Taskforce
Health promotion resource: Ice: it’s not deadly it’s fatal!
Health practice resource: Methamphetamine: effects & responses
Program: Breakthrough: ice education for families (current)
Project: Exploring the needs of Aboriginal women with co-morbid drug and alcohol and mental health problems (current)
Benzodoazepines
Publication: Pharmaceutical drug misuse in Australia: complex problems, balanced responses
Health promotion resource: A guide to prescription and over-the-counter drugs within our community
Health practice resource: Guidelines for the management of substance use during pregnancy birth and the postnatal period
Program: Winnunga Nimmityjah substance use service (current)
Over the counter and supermarket drugs
Publication: Over-the-counter analgesic use by urban Aboriginal people in South Australia
Health promotion resource: Analgesic (painkiller) facts
Program: Parent drug information service (PDIS) (current)
Project: National illicit drug indicators project (NIDIP) (current)
Volatile substance use/inhalants
Publication: Supply reduction through low aromatic fuel (LAF) goes from strength to strength: a perspective on the LAF rollout from Central Australia
Health promotion resource: Glue and petrol sniffing educational programs [audio]
Health practice resource: Volatile substance abuse (VSA) management areas and plans
Program: Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council (NPYWC) youth program (current)
Project: Petrol sniffing prevention program (PSPP) (completed)
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Please contact us if you know of any programs, organisations or resources that have a particular focus on tobacco, or any other areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AOD use that you would like to share. We would love to hear from you! Please email us: aodknowledgecentre@healthinfonet.org.au.
As always, you can follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date with everything AOD! We currently have 786 followers but we would love more so find us at our twitter handle: @AIAODKC.
Best wishes,
Millie Harford-Mills
Research Officer
AOD Knowledge Centre
November: Tobacco
This month, to acknowledge the launch of our recent Tobacco section, the team here at the Knowledge Centre have put together a Tobacco use newsletter, which includes information on publications, resources, programs and projects and upcoming events. All of the information included in this newsletter can be found on the AOD Knowledge Centre under Tobacco.
Workshops and events:
Quitskills smoking cessation training for Indigenous smoking: 15-17 March 2016 (WA)
Alcohol Tobacco and other Drugs Council conference (ATDC): 12-13 May 2016 (Tas)
The Australian and New Zealand addiction conference: 18-20 May 2016 (Qld)
Programs and projects:
Apunipima tackling smoking and healthy lifestyle program – current
Milingimbi tobacco project – completed
Kick the butt – current
Beyond the big smoke – current
Nuff of the puff – current
Tobacco resistance and control (A-TRAC) program – current
Yarning it up – Don’t smoke it up – current
Tackling tobacco team (VAHS) - current
Health Promotion Resources:
Give up the smokes (2015)
Short ones: tobacco stories from Arnhem Land (2012)
White gum (2015)
Breathe clearly, live healthy, quit smoking (2014)
My QuitBuddy (2015)
Let’s make their world smoke free (2015)
Health Practice Resources:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and smoking during pregnancy (2012)
Let’s take a moment: quit smoking brief intervention: a guide for health workers and health professionals(2011)
Supporting smoking cessation: a guide for health professionals [updated July 2014] (2011)
Aboriginal tobacco resistance tool kit (2012)
Healthy starts: reducing the health effects of smoking around Indigenous babies and children (2014)
Publications:
A review of trends in Indigenous Australian tobacco research (from 2004 to 2013), its associated outputs and evidence of research translation (2015)
Lifting the burden: a coordinated approach to action on Aboriginal tobacco resistance and control in NSW(2015)
Reducing smoking in the ACT among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who are pregnant or who have young children (2015)
Implementing an anti-smoking program in rural-remote communities: challenges and strategies (2015)
Tobacco control policies and activities in Aboriginal community-controlled health services (2015)
Guidance for culturally competent approaches to smoking cessation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pregnant women (2015)
Funding opportunity:
Postgraduate scholarship in Indigenous adolescent smoking prevalence and preventive interventions
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute is offering a postgraduate scholarship to a suitably qualified candidate (with a first-class honours degree or Masters degree) in the field of public health, biostatistics, or a related discipline to undertake research studies leading to a PhD in the field of public health, prevention and Indigenous health. The project will investigate the prevalence and key influences on smoking uptake among Aboriginal adolescents and young adults, and explore opportunities for prevention. Applications for the scholarship close 17 December 2015.
Job opportunities
Ninti One has a number of job opportunities available to work on the new National Best Practice Unit for Tackling Indigenous smoking, which will support regional tobacco grant recipients in their efforts to reduce the rates of smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. You can view them here.
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Please contact us if you know of any programs, organisations or resources that have a particular focus on tobacco, or any other areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AOD use that you would like to share. We would love to hear from you! Please email us:aodknowledgecentre@healthinfonet.org.au
As always, you can follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date with everything AOD! We currently have 779 followers but we would love more so find us at our twitter handle: @AIAODKC.
Happy reading!
Millie Harford-Mills
Research Officer
AOD Knowledge Centre
OCTOBER: Mental Health and Substance Use
The Yarning Place Updates will be changing its presentation, therefore, this is the last newsletter in this format. To continue to receive our monthly AOD Knowledge Centre updates please click on this link and subscribe to our exciting new newsletter format.
To acknowledge Mental Health month, the team here at the Knowledge Centre have put together a ‘Mental Health and Substance Use Update’ which includes information on publications, resources, programs and projects and tips for people working with clients who use alcohol and other drugs and may have a mental health issue. All of the information included in this Update can be found in the AOD workers’ portal and the social and emotional wellbeing section of the Community portal.
Programs:
Alcohol, drug and mental health (WA- Fitzroy Crossing)
Nyoongar patrol outreach service (WA – metro)
Alcohol and other drugs/social and emotional wellbeing program (Vic)
AMSANT AOD and mental health program support (NT)
Central Australian youth link up service (CAYLUS) (NT)
Kulintja Palyaringkuntjaku project (NT, SA, WA)
Gamarda men’s program (NSW)
Young Aboriginal drug and alcohol service (yAdas) (Tas)
Lakalinjeri Tumbetin Waal Frahns farm (SA)
The Healing Centre (Qld)
headspace (National)
Projects:
Exploring the needs of Aboriginal women with co-morbid drug and alcohol and mental health problems – current
Comorbidity action in the north (CAN) project – current
Best practice in early intervention, assessment and treatment of depression and substance misuse (BEAT project) – completed
The development of culturally-appropriate cognitive assessments with applications in substance abuse and mental health with Indigenous clients – completed
Health Promotion Resources:
Be part of the healing (2014)
Yarning about services: a guide to services for people seeking help with alcohol and wellbeing concerns (2012)
Yumukirli man (2012)
Dual diagnosis: mental health and substance use (2011)
Health Practice Resources:
Communicating with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander adolescent: guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person (2014)
Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice (2014)
Brief wellbeing screener (2013)
Indigenous risk impact screen and brief intervention project: screening instrument (2011)
Queensland Health dual diagnosis clinical guidelines and clinicians tool kit (2010)
Publications:
Improving access to primary mental healthcare for Indigenous Australians (2015)
A systematic review: identifying the prevalence rates of psychiatric disorder in Australia’s Indigenous populations (2015)
Needs of Aboriginal Australian women with comorbid mental and alcohol and other drug use disorders (2014)
Dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: editorial (2014)
Tips for workers provides information based on the chapter, 'Mental health and substance use' in the Handbook for Aboriginal alcohol and drug work.
Please contact us if you know of any programs, organisations or resources that have a particular focus on mental health and AOD use or any other areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AOD use that you would like to share. We would love to hear from you! Please email us: aodknowledgecentre@healthinfonet.org.au
As always, you can follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date with everything AOD! We currently have 735 followers but we would love more so find us at our twitter handle: @AIAODKC.
I hope you all have a top day!
Jaime Read
Research Assistant
AOD Knowledge Centre Yarning Place
SEPTEMBER: Reducing Harms
For the month of September the team here at the Knowledge Centre have put together a ‘Reducing harms update’ which includes information on programs, projects, organisations, resources, publications and tips for workers to assist those who work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to reduce the harm of AOD use.
Programs:
Needle syringe program (NSP) - (National)
Opioid treatment service (ACT)
Larrakia night patrol (NT)
Needle and syringe program (NT)
Yulu-Burri-Ba methadone program (Qld)
Harm minimisation team (SA)
A-clinic (NSW)
Harm minimisation project (NSW)
South West mobile needle and syringe exchange (WA)
Projects:
Hit and miss: exploring the health and service needs of ex-prisoners with a history of injecting drug use – current
Community consultation rapid scoping project (RISE) – completed
Using rapid assessment procedures to investigate the impact of injecting drug use amongst
Indigenous Australians in metropolitan Adelaide - completed
Organisations:
Aboriginal Medical Service Western Sydney (AMSWS) (NSW)
Weigelli Centre (NSW)
Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation (NT)
Northern Territory AIDS and Hepatitis Council (NTAHC) (NT)
Yulu-Burri-Ba (Qld)
Western Australian Substance Users Association (WASUA) (WA)
Health Practice Resources:
AODconnect: a national directory of AOD treatment services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (2015)
National guidelines for medication-assisted treatment of opioid dependence (2014)
NSW needle and syringe program guideline 2013 (2013)
Injecting drug use among Aboriginal people in New South Wales (2012)
Reducing the harms from substance misuse (2012)
Health Promotion Resources:
Deadly liver mob project (2014)
Naltrexone facts (2013)
Ask for a test poster series (2012)
Don’t share a bloody thing (2011)
Healthy eating for wellbeing: a nutrition guide for alcohol and other drug consumers (2011)
Hep C and us mob: a handbook for Aboriginal people about Hepatitis C (2008)
Heroin – keeping safe (2008)
Torres Strait Island HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis information in Creole (broken English) (2007)
Publications:
Experiences of diagnosis, care and treatment among Aboriginal people living with hepatitis C (2015)
Understanding trends in methamphetamine use and harm: implications for harm reduction (2015)
Determining the impact of opioid substitution therapy upon mortality and recidivism among prisoners: a 22 year data linkage study (2015)
Australian NSP survey 20 year national data report 1995-2014: prevalence of HIV, HCV and injecting and sexual behaviour among Needle and Syringe Program attendees (2015)
Community consultation rapid scoping project among Aboriginal people who inject drugs (2014)
Uptake of hepatitis C treatment among people who inject drugs attending needle and syringe programs in Australia, 1999-2011 (2013)
Prevention and management of drug use in prisons (2013)
The Tips for workers section provides information for people working to reduce the harm of AOD use with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
All of the above information can be found in the AOD workers’ portal under Reducing harms.
Please contact us if you know of any programs, organisations or resources that have a particular focus on reducing the harm of AOD use or any other areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AOD use that you would like to share. We would love to hear from you! Please send me an email: j.read@ecu.edu.au
As always, you can follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date with everything AOD! We currently have 725 followers but we would love more so find us at our twitter handle: @AIAODKC.
I hope you all have a top day!
Jaime Read
Research Assistant
AOD Knowledge Centre Yarning Place
emsg_substance@healthinfonet.org.au
AUGUST: Community portal
For the month of August the team here at the Knowledge Centre have put together a 'Community Portal update' which includes a breakdown of the programs, projects, organisations, resources and factsheets which are included on the portal, to assist natural leaders in the community working to reduce harmful AOD use.
Alcohol and other drug factsheets
Alcohol
Gunja
Ice
Kava
Benzodiazepines
Prescription opioids
Petrol, paint and other inhalants
What can communities do?
Programs
Aboriginal kinship program (Grannies group) (SA)
BushMob bush adventure therapy program (NT)
Midnight basketball (National)
Yiriman youth project (WA)
Prompur Paanthu Aboriginal Corporation (Qld)
Reducing supply of alcohol
There’s hope in the valley (2012)
Marulu: the Liliwan project
Reducing supply of volatile substances
Central Australian youth link up service (CAYLUS) (NT)
Mt Theo program (NT)
Yuendumu youth program (NT)
The Opal story: 10 years on (2011)
Opal fuel facts (2010)
Help for families
Services that have a family focus
Family health (Riverina Medical and Dental Aboriginal Corporation) (NSW)
Family support program (Vic)
Aboriginal family support service (WA)
The Healing Centre (Qld)
Drug and alcohol program (Umoona Tjutagku Health Service Aboriginal Corporation) (SA)
Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs program (Tas)
Help for young people
Programs for young people
Youth off the streets Aboriginal services (NSW)
Linking youth and families together (Vic)
Yiriman youth project (WA)
Youth alcohol and drug treatment and support services (Qld)
Back to culture (NT)
Street youth service (SA)
Young Aboriginal drug and alcohol service (Tas)
Drug and alcohol program (Gugan Gulwan Youth Aboriginal Corporation) (ACT)
Help for offenders
Court diversion programs
Court referral of eligible defendants into treatment (CREDIT) (NSW)
First offender’s court intervention service (FOCiS) (Vic)
Illicit drugs court diversion program (Qld)
Kumangka drug and alcohol diversion service (IDDI) (SA)
Indigenous diversion program (WA)
Illicit drug diversion initiative (IDDI) (Tas)
Organisations
Aboriginal Justice (ACT)
Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT)
Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (ALSWA)
Sisters Inside Inc. (Qld)
Aboriginal Prisoners and Offenders Support Services (SA)
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) (NT)
Social, emotional and cultural wellbeing
Programs
Good sports program (National)
Aboriginal health community re-entry program (WA)
Alcohol and other drugs/social and emotional wellbeing program (Vic)
AMSANT AOD and mental health program support (NT)
Benelong’s haven (NSW)
DreamTrack (Qld)
Lakalinjeri Tumbetin Waal Frahns farm (SA)
Ngnowar Aerwah Aboriginal Corporation East Kimberley support services (WA)
Young Aboriginal drug and alcohol service (yAdas) (Tas)
We have recently added a Video section on our Community portal which includes a list of videos covering topics included:
Please contact us if you know of any programs, organisations or resources that can be included on our Community portal to assist natural leaders working in the community with people to reduce harmful AOD use. We would love to hear from you! Please send me an email: j.read@ecu.edu.au
As always, you can follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date with everything AOD! We currently have 693 followers (so close to 700!!) but we would love more so find us at our twitter handle: @AIAODKC.
I hope you all have a top day!
Jaime Read
Research Assistant
AOD Knowledge Centre Yarning Place
emsg_substance@healthinfonet.org.au
JULY: Ice/AOD Workers portal
Here is an update from the Australian Indigenous Alcohol and other Drugs Knowledge Centre on AOD resources for July.
If you missed out on the National Methamphetamine Symposium hosted by NCETA, the Youtube and powerpoint presentations are all available from the NCETA website:
National Methamphetamine Symposium: speakers & presentations
The Symposium included the latest information on methamphetamine, trends in use, and treatment approaches including a presentation by Ms Dina Saulo -Research Officer from the Kirby Institute:
Youtube presentation: Methamphetamine use in Aboriginal communities: what we know- what are the gaps?
Power point: Methamphetamine use in Aboriginal communities: what we know- what are the gaps
New resources on ice and methamphetamines have also recently been added to the AOD Knowledge Centre:
Practice guidelines
Guidelines for the acute assessment and management of amphetamine-type stimulant intoxication and toxicity (2014)
Guidelines for the management of substance during pregnancy and the postnatal period (2014)
Amphetamines and Cocaine - Tips for workers plain language practice guidelines with information about amphetamines (stimulants) and treatment.
Workshops and events
Practical skills in crystal methamphetamine treatment workshop (Brisbane)
Tackling methamphetamine: improving prevention, treatment and support (Sydney)
Publications
A place of health, hope and healing: submission to the Legislative assembly of the Northern Territory ‘Ice’ Select Committee
Primary health care responses to methamphetamine use in Australian Indigenous communities
Methamphetamine treatment: building on successful strategies to enhance outcomes
If you are not familiar with the AOD Workers portal on the Knowledge Centre, this resource provides Tips for workers - plain language practice guidelines with information ranging from specific drug types to how to conduct an assessment.
Examples of topics are:
General principles: Tips for workers includes guidelines on how to do an assessment with a client, approaches to counselling, brief intervention, and case management
Reducing harms: Tips for workers covers STIs, reducing harms from injecting, how to recognise an overdose, Hepatitis C and B, and HIV
Special situations, setting and groups – includes information on legal issues such as when to apply for guardianship, programs to reduce reoffending and culturally appropriate courts
Please contact us if you know of any programs, organisations or resources that you would like to share. We would love to hear from you.
As always, you can follow us on Twitter, find us at our twitter handle: @AIAODKC.
Regards,
Joanne Hoareau
Research Officer
Australian Indigenous Alcohol and other Drug Knowledge Centre
Email: j.hoareau@ecu.edu.au
JUNE: Australian Capital Territory / Tasmania
For the month of June the team here at the Knowledge Centre have put together an ‘ACT/Tas Resource Package’ which includes information on programs, projects, organisations, resources, publications and courses to assist those who have an interest in Aboriginal AOD work in both ACT and Tassie.
Programs:
ACT
Drug and alcohol program
Street beat program
Opiate project
The connection
Winnunga Nimmityjah needle syringe program
Opioid treatment service
Substance use service
Young men’s mentoring group
Tassie
Aboriginal community links
Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs program
Community education training and education initiative program
Drug and alcohol educator
Illicit drug diversion initiative (IDDI)
Young Aboriginal drug and alcohol service (yAdas)
Projects:
Tassie
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and training program for placement support workers in Tasmania: a pilot project - completed
Developing a best practice model of holistic health service delivery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates of the Alexander Maconochie Correctional Centre in the ACT - completed
Organisations:
ACT
Gugan Gulwan Youth Aboriginal Corporation
Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
Tassie
Circular Head Aboriginal Corporation
Colony 47
Cornerstone Youth Services Inc (CYS)
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Inc.
Tasmanian Council on AIDS, Hepatitis and Related Diseases (TasCAHRD)
Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs Council
Health Promotion Resource:
Tassie
Get linked: to your family, spirit, culture and country (2012)
Health Practice Resources:
ACT
The ACT opioid maintenance treatment guidelines (2010)
Tassie
A compendium of alcohol and other drug-related resources for law enforcement in Australia (2008)
Publications:
ACT
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2012 report: Australian Capital Territory
Tassie
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and training program for placement support workers in Tasmania: a pilot project (2013)
Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Tasmania 2008-09: findings from the National minimum data set (MNDS) (2011)
Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Tasmania 2007-08: findings from the national minimum data set (2009)
Courses:
Tassie
Certificate IV in alcohol and other drugs (CH40408)
Graduate certificate in addiction studies for health professionals
Please contact us if you know of any programs, organisations or resources that have a particular focus in both ACT or Tassie, or any other areas of Aboriginal health and AOD use that you would like to share. We would love to hear from you! Please send me an email: j.read@ecu.edu.au
As always, you can follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date with everything AOD! We currently have 647 (wow!) followers but we would love more so find us at our twitter handle: @AIAODKC.
I hope you all have a top day!
Jaime Read
Research Assistant
AOD Knowledge Centre Yarning Place emsg_substance@healthinfonet.org.au
MAY: Victoria
For the month of May the team here at the Knowledge Centre have put together a ‘Victorian Resource Package’which includes information on programs, projects, organisations, resources, publications and conferences to assist those who have an interest in Aboriginal AOD work in Victoria.
Programs:
Alcohol and other drugs outreach services
Alcohol and other drugs/social and emotional wellbeing program
Bunjilwarra
Drug and alcohol program
Family support program
Innovative health services homeless
Night patrol
Residential recovery centres program
Wathaurong alcohol and other drugs program
YSAS residential withdrawal
Projects:
Aboriginal metropolitan ice partnership initiative - current
Hit and miss: exploring the health and service needs of ex-prisoners with a history of injecting drug use - current
Addressing HIV risks related to injecting drug use in Victorian Aboriginal communities – completed
Organisations:
Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative
Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Co-operative (GEGAC)
Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Cooperative
Mallee District Aboriginal Services
Ngwala Willumbong Co-operative Ltd
Njernda Aboriginal Corporation
Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation
Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative Ltd
Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO)
Health Promotion Resources:
A guide to alcohol within our community (2014)
Healthy spirit, healthy community: a guide to drugs and alcohol within our community (2014)
A guide to ecstasy within our community (2014)
A guide to hallucinogens within our community (2014)
A guide to heroin within our community (2014)
A guide to ice and speed within our community (2014)
A guide to synthetic drugs within our community (2014)
A guide to yarndi within our community (2014)
A guide to prescription and over-the-counter drugs within our community (2014)
Healthy pregnancies, healthy babies for Koori communities (2007)
Health Practice Resources:
Victorian retailer’s kit (2012)
Tucker talks tips: healthy drinking guidelines (2011)
The relationship between alcohol and drugs and mental health: a resource book for Aboriginal workers (2012)
Our Healing Ways: putting wisdom into practice: working with co-existing mental health and drug and alcohol issues: Aboriginal way (2012)
Life is health is like: taking action to close the gap (2011)
CREDIT bail support program (2012)
Alcohol and other drug withdrawal practice guidelines: acute inpatient and residential services (2011)
Publications:
Our Healing Ways: putting wisdom into practice: working with co-existing mental health and drug and alcohol issues: Aboriginal way (2012)
Our Healing Ways: supervision: a culturally appropriate model for Aboriginal workers (2012)
The relationship between alcohol and drugs and mental health: a resource book for Aboriginal workers (2012)
Mental health and Victorian Aboriginal people: what can data mining tell us? (2014)
Inquiry into the supply and use of methamphetamines, particularly ice, in Victoria: final report: volume 1 (2014)
Inquiry into the supply and use of methamphetamines, particularly ice, in Victoria: final report: volume 2 (2014)
Conferences, workshops and events:
National cannabis conference: 7 – 9 October 2015
Please contact us if you know of any programs, organisations or resources that have a particular focus in theVictoria or any other areas of Aboriginal health and AOD use that you would like to share. We would love to hear from you! Please send me an email: j.read@ecu.edu.au
As always, you can follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date with everything AOD! We currently have 621 (wow!) followers but we would love more so find us at our twitter handle: @AIAODKC.
I hope you all have a top day!
Jaime Read
Research Assistant
AOD Knowledge Centre Yarning Place
emsg_substance@healthinfonet.org.au
APRIL: Queensland
For the month of April the team here at the Knowledge Centre have put together a ‘Queensland Resource Package’ which includes information on programs, projects, organisations, resources, publications and conferences to assist those who have an interest in Aboriginal AOD work in the Queensland.
Programs:
Alcohol and drug prevention and awareness education
Banjara
Kambu choir
Lyons Street diversionary centre
New Gulf misuse and community wellbeing service
Mt Isa Murri men’s group
Snuff out the sniffing (SOS) campaign
Substance misuse program (SMP)
Volatile substance misuse (VSM) safe place
Young and awesome project
Projects:
Alcohol management plans in remote Indigenous communities: their impacts on injury, violence, health and social indicators and their cost-effectiveness in Cape York, far north Queensland - current
Improving pre-pregnancy health and pregnancy outcomes in north Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities – current
The public health impacts of liquor outlets on Queensland communities: outlet numbers, alcohol sales and alcohol-related morbidity - current
Resilience in individuals and families coping with the impact of alcohol related injuries in remote Indigenous communities: a program of mixed method research – Current
Cannabis withdrawal among Indigenous inmates in north Queensland - completed
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) within the criminal justice sector in Queensland – completed
Organisations:
Darumbal Community Youth Service
Deadlee Maardars
Ferdy’s Haven Rehabilitation Aboriginal Corporation
Gindaja Treatment and Healing Centre
Juwarki Kapu-Lug Ltd
Kambu Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Health
Queensland Indigenous Substance Misuse Council (QISMC)
Wuchopperen Health Service Limited
Young People Ahead (YPA)
Health Promotion Resources:
Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs during pregnancy and breastfeeding (2012)
Bring the mob home safely: if you drink, don’t drink (2011)
Dual diagnosis: mental health and substance use (2011)
Grog: it’s your call (2011)
Healthy Murri, healthy Islander: strong hearts, strong bodies (2008)
Which way? Our way! A strong community way (2011)
Pacha/ku-ul: gunja (2011)
Speed: it’s your call (2011)
Torres Strait Island HIV/AIDS and hepatitis information in Creole (broken English) (2007)
Yarndi: it’s your call (2011)
Sniffing: it’s your call (2011)
Health Practice Resources:
Indigenous risk impact screen and brief intervention project: screening instrument (2011)
Alcohol restrictions for travellers (2015)
Community alcohol limits (2014)
Chroming/sniffing: a guide for people involved with youth using volatile substances (2004)
Queensland retailer’s kit (2011)
A retailer’s response to inhalants: Queensland (2014)
The chroming report: a Government framework for children-in-care (2012)
Publications:
The implementation and development of complex alcohol control policies in Indigenous communities in Queensland (2015)
Dignity, diversion, home and hope: a review of interventions for volatile substance misuse in regional North Queensland (2014)
Queensland opioid treatment program: clinical guidelines (2012)
Alcohol restrictions and drink driving in remote Indigenous communities in Queensland, Australia (2013)
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) within the criminal justice sector in Queensland (2013)
Findings from the Queensland injecting drug survey (QuIDS): comparing hepatitis C risk behaviours among Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who inject drugs (2013)
Conferences, workshops and events:
Creating futures conference: 11 – 14 May 2015
The Australian and New Zealand addiction conference: 20 – 22 May 2015
Australian Winter School conference: 22 – 24 July 2015
Please contact us if you know of any programs, organisations or resources that have a particular focus in the Queensland or any other areas of Aboriginal health and AOD use that you would like to share. We would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at: j.read@ecu.edu.au
As always, you can follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date with everything AOD! We currently have 589 followers but we would love more so find us at our twitter handle: @AIAODKC.
I hope you all have a top day!
Jaime Read
Research Assistant
AOD Knowledge Centre Yarning Place emsg_substance@healthinfonet.org.au
MARCH: Northern Territory (NT)
For the month of March, the team here at the Knowledge Centre have put together a ‘Northern Territory Resource Package’ which includes information on programs, projects, organisations, resources, publications and conferences to assist those who have an interest in Aboriginal AOD work in the NT.
Programs:
AMSANT AOD and mental health program support
Back to culture
East Arnhem community night patrol and sobering up services
Piliyintinji-ki stronger families
Intensive support tenancy enabling program
Northern Territory AIDS and Hepatitis Council (NTAHC) needle and syringe program
Venndale rehabilitation and withdrawal centre
Mt Theo program
Yuendumu youth program
Gubbalanya family safety program
Wulgularr youth petrol sniffing prevention program
Warra-warra Kanyi counselling and mentoring
Projects:
Alcohol and other drugs Indigenous communities project – current
Cognitive response to thiamine replacement therapy in alcohol affected patients in Alice Springs – current
Best practice in early intervention, assessment and treatment of depression and substance misuse (BEAT project) – completed
Neurocognitive and social changes associated with unleaded petrol sniffing and abstinence from further sniffing – completed
Organisations:
Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT)
Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation
Balunu Foundation
Barkly Region Alcohol and Drug Abuse Advisory Group (BRADAAG)
BushMob
Central Australian Youth Link-Up Service (CAYLUS)
Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation
Wurli Wurlinjang Aboriginal Health Service
Health Promotion Resources:
Drink driving (Sandridge Band) (2007)
The cycle of behaviour change (2008)
Piliyinginyi-ki Stronger families program (2012)
Brief wellbeing screener (2013)
The grog brain story (2011)
Yarning about alcohol (2011)
Brief yarning about staying well: 4 steps you can take for help with alcohol and other drug worries (2012)
Yarning about gunja (2013)
Yarning about relapse (2013)
Yarning about gunja on Groote Eylandt (2013)
Yaka nhmul petrol (2011)
The Opal story: 10 years on (2011)
Northern Territory retailer’s kit (2008)
Health Practice Resources:
The AUDIT alcohol consumption questions (Audit – C): an effective brief screening test for problem drinkers (2011)
Grog – making the change (2010)
CARPA standard treatment manual [6th ed.] (2014)
Online remote primary health care manuals (2014)
Minymaky kutju tjukurpaa: women’s business manual (2008)
Contractors and volatile substances: contractors guide for visiting communities (2010)
Northern Territory substance abuse prevention act – the facts (2010)
Opal fuel and Anangu communities [audio] (2012)
Volatile substance abuse (VSA) management areas and plans (2014)
WYDAC: strong organisation, strong communities, strong young people (2012)
Publications:
Epidemiology, etiology, and motivation of alcohol misuse among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders of the Northern Territory: a descriptive review
Damming the ‘rivers of grog’: a partnership between NDRI and Aboriginal community controlled health services in the Northern Territory
Monitoring trends in prevalence of petrol snigging in selected Aboriginal communities: an interim report (2013)
Youth programs in remote central Australian Aboriginal communities (2013)
Aboriginal youth suicide in Central Australia: developing a consistent data system and referral pathway (2013)
High risk alcohol-related trauma among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Northern Territory (2013)
A criminal shift: alcohol regulation in the Northern Territory (2014)
‘The first thing is survival’: sexual health, blood borne virus and service delivery in the long grass in Darwin, Northern Territory (2013)
Conferences, workshops and events:
13th National Rural Health Conference: 24-27 May 2015
DRUMBEAT facilitator training (Darwin): 25-27 May 2015
19th Annual Chronic Diseases Network conference: 24-25 September 2015
Please contact us if you know of any programs, organisations or resources that have a particular focus in the Northern Territory or any other areas of Aboriginal health and AOD use that you would like to share. We would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at: j.read@ecu.edu.au
As always, you can follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date with everything AOD! We currently have 584 followers but we would love more so find us at our twitter handle: @AIAODKC.
I hope you all have a top day!
Jaime Read
Research Assistant
AOD Knowledge Centre Yarning Place emsg_substance@healthinfonet.org.au
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