Newsletters

2008
2007
2006
  • October VAADA News
    October VAADA News
    Posted: 09-11-2006
  • September VAADA News
    September Edition of the VAADA News.
     Posted: 11-09-2006
  • August VAADA News
    August Edition of the VAADA News
     Posted: 07-08-2006
  • July VAADA News
    July VAADA News
     Posted: 11-07-2006
  • June VAADA News
    June VAADA News
     Posted: 07-06-2006
  • May VAADA News
    Find May's edition of VAADA News here.
     Posted: 04-05-2006
  • April VAADA News
    April VAADA News This month features: Why the disadvantage linked to drug misuse should be addressed in A Fairer Victoria, An outline of VAADA’s PCP discussion forum, Details of VAADA’s 2006 regional consultations (Regional Voices), VAADA’s forthcoming AOD Agencies & Workchoices Forum. Your Say: Local government in alcohol and drugs: being clear about our role by Mark Boyd, Community Health and Safety Project Coordinator, Darebin Council
    Posted: 11-04-2006
  • March VAADA News
    This month features: An overview of the 2006 VAADA conference, Matrix of Diversity: the AOD Sector and Beyond, VAADA’s 2006 State Election priorities, An alert to the forthcoming Working with Children legislation, VAADA’s submission to the Victorian Health Act Review. Your Say: Searching for a new approach to the chronically alcohol dependent by Mark Powell, Dual Diagnosis Clinician and Sharyn Amos, Alcohol and Drug Acquired Brain Injury Clinician
    Posted: 11-04-2006
  • January/February VAADA News
    The front page looked at the impact that the IR changes will have on the Community Sector. Month in review looked at the forthcoming VAADA conference. Other articles in Month in Review examined the issues and events that VAADA would be undertaking throughout 2006. A update was given on the Victorian Human Rights Charter. The Your Say piece, written by Kim Rayner gave an overview of the Homeless and Drug Dependency Program.
     Posted: 31-01-2006
2005
  • December
    This month features: VAADA submission to the State Budget 06-07, VAADA Constitutional Review, Deatils of VAADA's 2006 Conference, Your Say: Pharmacotherapies Methadone and Buprenorphine) – Time for Government to step up to the plate! by Irvine Newton OAM
     Posted: 01-12-2005
  • November
    This month features: VAADA response to ADDP Act, Suspended Sentencing Briefing, VAADA Board, VAADA Conference, Your Say: Alcohol and work – what everyone should know.
     Posted: 09-11-2005
  • October
    This month features: VAADA AGM, Children’s Bill & White Paper, ADDP Act Submission, Staff changes at VAADA, VAADA office relocation, Development of National Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Drug Use During Pregnancy, Birth and the Early Development Years of the Newborn by Veronica Love of the Women’s Alcohol & Drug Service at The Royal Women’s Hospital
     Posted: 25-10-2005
  • September
    This month features: WADAC Conference, Yarra Drug and Health Forum, VAADA Strategic Directions, Will Crawford, a Drug Outreach Lawyer at Fitzroy Legal Service discussing DISPERAL POWERS: GOOD SENSE BRUSHED ASIDE.
     Posted: 25-10-2005
  • August
    This month features: VAADA Update by VAADA president Neos Zavrou, personal profile of Laurence Alvis, Executive Director – Uniting Care Moreland Hall, Human Rights Consultations
     Posted: 25-10-2005
  • July
    This month features: Outcomes of VAADA’s ‘Older but not Forgotten’ forum, the National Alcohol Strategy, A Fairer Victoria, and Jackie Shaw’s ‘Nothing human is alien to me’.
     Posted: 27-07-2005
  • June
    This month features: Federal Budget, VAADA meets with Bronwyn Pike, Tobacco Amendment bill, Suspended Sentencing, and Deb Homburg’s 'Living in a drug culture. Program empowers young Vietnamese women‘.
     Posted: 27-07-2005
  • May
    This month features: Victoria’s State Budget, Drug Action Week, politician agency visits, VAADA’s upcoming ‘Older but not forgotten?’ forum, and Elena Tauridsky's 'Random thoughts on shaping student placements‘.
     Posted: 27-07-2005
  • April
    This month features: VAADA’s RRSSR and YSSR final reports, forensic workforce training program, First Aid and CPR updates, Hugh Mackinnon honoured, and Eddie Micallef's/ECCV Drugs task Force 'Keeping CLD issues on the agenda'.
     Posted: 27-07-2005
  • March
    This month features: Victorian Drug Driver testing, VAADA’s IT project, Windows on Economics, Thinking Drinking, workforce development and Dr Janine Bush's 'An Introduction'.
     Posted: 27-07-2005
  • February
    This month features: Victoria's RRSSR and YSSR reviewed, VAADA's strategic planning, staff changes and Jackie Shaw's 'A history of Depaul House'.
    Posted: 27-07-2005
2004
  • December
    This month features: 2004 VAADA Annual Conference – ‘Are we doing a good job?’’, Victorian Illicit Drug Driver Testing Campaign Panel, RRSSR and YSSR Service System Reviews, 2004 APSAD Conference and Neos Zavrou’s “Looking back at VAADA over 2004”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • November
    This month features: VAADA’s Annual Conference, Vic Roads Drug Driving Campaign, Sector Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) update, North and West AOD Providers’ Forum, YacVic Conference Presentation and Professor Greg Whelan’s “My journey through the drug and alcohol field”.
     Posted: 28-07-2005
  • October
    This month features: 2004 VAADA AGM, Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) forum, VAADA submission on underage drinking; Letter to Victorian Federal Politicians and Sam Biondo’s “How well does the Law Deal with Drug Using Offenders”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • August
    This month features: VAADA releases Youth Binge Drinking report, New Legislation and Policy, winter school in July, Pharmacotherapy Support Program, Drugs Statistics Handbook and Jenny Blakey’s “Newcomer on the block”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • July
    This month features: Is Getting Pissed Getting Pathetic?, A New Study into ‘Party Drugs’, Secretary’s Partnership Forum, and Bruce Clarke’s “Kids Like That”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • June
    This month features: VAADA’s budget briefings, Parliamentary Drugs Initiative, Soft targets for Police Sniffer Dogs, Amphetamines Inquiry, VCOSS ‘Count the Cuts’ survey and Tom Stylli’s “Will legislation reduce chroming?”.
     Posted: 28-07-2005
  • May
    This month features: AOD Supported Accommodation: A program in crisis?, Is getting pissed getting pathetic?, VAADA’s response to the NDSF, International Conference on the Reduction Drug Related Harm (ICRDRH), Cross sector partnerships, and Geoff Munro’s “The Australian Drug Foundation”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • April
    This month features: Victoria’s AOD sector response to the Service System Review, Supported Accommodation Network update, Commonwealth Budget Briefing forum, VAADA’s planning day, GHB Overdoses, VCOSS survey, and Jocelyn Snow’s “The Yarra Drug & Health forum”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • March
    This month features: New drugs funding for Victoria, chroming protocols, new Chairperson for PDPC, VAADA’s submission to Senate Inquiry into the Disability Discrimination Amendment Bill, and Major David Brunt’s “Highlights of 30 years service to the Alcohol and Drug Sector”.
     Posted: 28-07-2005
  • January
    This month features: The long term fix: what is the future of the drug sector in Victoria? Workforce development – launch of national AERF funded collaboration, and Cath Smith’s “Facing the future”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
2003
  • November
    This month features: Productivity cuts campaign rally, VAADA’s consultation on the Service System Review, Parliamentary Amphetamines inquiry, ENEWS survey results, National Workforce Development project launch, AOD supported accommodation workshop, NIDS grant update and John W. Toumbourou’s “A researchers comment on reducing youth binge drinking”.
     Posted: 28-07-2005
  • October
    This month features: The ‘Little Purple Book, VAADA launches ‘Hitting the ground running’ induction discussion paper, VAADA news survey response, productivity cuts – a new offer, CPI grants assessment update and Theadora Wallace’s “Is accreditation worth the hassle?”
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • September
    This month features: Alcohol – back on the agenda?, getting past the rhetoric: a VAADA discussion paper, launch of ‘The Little Purple Book’, the long term fix: what is the future of the drug sector in Victoria?, campaign unity amongst Victorian community sector, VAADA’s 2003 Annual General Meeting and Nic Bolto’s “Purely and Simply”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • August
    This month features: Government CPI offer not good enough says NGO sector, party drugs: a Victorian approach, pay and conditions the key to workforce development, new directions in Corrections, politician’s visits to AOD agencies, volatile substances protocols and Irvine Newton’s “Opioid Substitution Pharmacotherapies – who pays?”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • July
    This month features: Beyond ‘e’: VAADA’s party drugs symposium, sector consultation on unit cost formulas, three year funding – a double edged sword?, supporting the children of people experiencing drug problems, a whole of government approach to drugs? and Stephen Mihaly’s “Is abstinence a dirty word?”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • June
    This month features: A better state budget for drugs, poverty evidence, Youth Party Drugs Symposium and Christopher Foley-Jones’ “A Question of Priorities”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • May
    This month features: VAADA meets Minister Pike, response from Premier Bracks regarding VAADA’s 2003 budget submission, Funded Agency Partnership project, Senate inquiry into poverty, consulting the sector and Bev McIlroy’s “Reviews from a rural perspective”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • April
    This month features: Focus on drug services and the prison system, workforce development – Tasmanian and Victorian consultations, evaluation of the National Drug Strategy framework, induction for new workers in the sector and employing people who have been in alcohol and drug treatment and Gino Vumbaca’s “The Victorian Sector has its say on the National Drug and Alcohol Agenda”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • March
    This month features: VAADA’s budget submission seeks sustainable funding for the Alcohol and Drug sector, NIDS treatment grants, a tribute to Peter Bucci, workplace drug testing and Lee Cooney’s “‘Doing good work is only half the equation”.
     Posted: 28-07-2005
  • February
    This month features: Workforce Development - A VAADA Priority in 2003, diversion funding, costs of drug and alcohol use, chroming guidelines and Terry Laidler’s “A path too often trodden’.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • January
    This month features: Tackling alcohol and other legal drug issues, VAADA welcomes Bronwyn Pike, VAADA’s new FASA, the ANCD Forum, ADF Alcohol Survey, SMR Mapping and Geraldine Moses’ ‘Medicines – a part of everyday life’.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
2002
  • December
    This month features: Keeping alcohol and drug issues on the election agenda, awards in the sector, National CPI Initiative Grants Advisory Committee, VAADA Corrections forum, APSAD presentation and Trevor King’s “What is Workforce Development?”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • November
    This month features: Government launches drugs package report card, VAADA Special Issues forum, drugs and justice, alcohol tax, alcohol and young women, alcohol on campus, VAADA’s AGM, Road Safety Bill and Cameron Boardman’s “Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • October
    This month features: Focussing on everyday drugs and everyday problems, episodes of care review, Southern Metropolitan Region Mapping Project, VAADA’s key election issues statement, corrections conference, Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Crime and Carol Bennett’s “Solutions to Chroming”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • September
    This month features: Drug treatment or prison – a no brainer? And Neos Zavrou’s “Response to Paul McDonald”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • July
    This month features: VAADA’s Drug Expo a success, national launch of Drug Action Week, drug prevention and treatment exposed and Paul McDonald’s “Drugs policy and services”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • March
    This month features: Victoria’s Response to Drug Action Week 2002 and Chroming: Horror headlines and Harm Minimisation under threat?
    Posted: 28-07-2005
  • January
    This month features: VAADA meeting with Minister Thwaites, VAADA Priorities for 2002, DHS funded agency partnership project, where does prevention end and treatment begin? and Dr John Fitzgerald’s “The need for an inclusive Victorian research strategy”.
    Posted: 28-07-2005