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The Work Practice Questionnaire WPQ - iii
The Work Practice Questionnaire -an AOD training evaluation
tool. It addresses a range of factors that are likely to influence training transfer and work practice change. The WPQ also contains scales that address participants perception of education and training programs. The WPQ was designed to assess the key factors likely to influence AOD-related work practices. |
Last Update: Contributor: NCETA |
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Workforce Development and the Alcohol and Other Drugs Field: A Literature Review of Key Issues for the NGO Sector
The project was a collaboration between state peak bodies, NCETA and the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA). Supported by the South Australian Department of Health.
This report is part of a national project “Alcohol and Other Drug Workforce Development in Australia: The Assessment of Needs and the Identification of Strategies to Achieve Sustainable Change”. |
Last Update: Contributor: National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA) |
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Non-Accredited Courses by State
NCETA compliled this list of non-accredited courses for Alcohol And Other Drugs and Mental Health earlier in 2008.
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Last Update: Contributor: NCETA |
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Training Transfer: The what, how and wherefore art thou?
How do organisations support sustainable outcomes from their investment in training? What are the strategies organisations need to develop to maximise the training investment? What are the training frameworks that achieve the best outcomes?
This document challenges organisations to consider more than the content and training delivery. |
Last Update: Contributor: Jodie Shoobridge |
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COMPASS vs DDCAT
What is the difference between the capacity assessment tools? Who can use them? What are their advantages and disavantages? Where can AOD services access them
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Last Update: Contributor: Improved Services Initiative Coordinator VAADA |
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Dual Diagnosis Capability in Addiction Treatment
A brief overview of the Dual Diagnosis Capability in Addiction Treatment (DDCAT) Index Toolkit that Improved Services Initiative grant recipients are using to identify their capacity to provide services to people with drug and alcohol and mental health issues.
Find out more about the tool developed for AOD services |
Last Update: Contributor: Improved Services Initiative Coordinator VAADA |
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Comorbid Capacity Assessment
What is the DDCAT? Who can use it? How is it different to the COMPASS tool?
Find out more about organisational comorbidity capacity. |
Last Update: Contributor: Improved Services Initiative Coordinator VAADA |
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Some Questions and Answers About the Improved Services Initiative
Frequently Asked Questions
Find out more about the National Comorbidity Initiative in Victoria |
Last Update: Contributor: Improved Services Coordinator VAADA |
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Improved Services Initiative Background Flyer
This flyer provides background information on the National Comorbidity Initiative together with details of the 27 services funded in Victoria.
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Last Update: Contributor: Improved Services Initiative Coordinator VAADA |
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NSW Drug and Alcohol Clinical Supervision Guidelines
This document produced and published in June 2007, by the NSW state government provides comprehensive guidance to the implementation of clinical supervision programs within NSW Drug and Alcohol (D&A) services.
It informs local policies and provides a framework for good practice that D&A services can refer to. The document states the intention of applicability across disciplines to all workers in D&A services with responsibility for the provision of direct services. |
Last Update: Contributor: Centre for Drug and Alcohol |
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Clinical Supervision: A Practical Guide for the Alcohol and Other Drug Fields
The practical guide states that it is for those "who want to be part of a clinical supervision program."
It is designed for the Alcohol and Other Drugs field for those working with people with AOD problems. It is a resource for • workers • health professionals wanting to specialise in drug and alcohol • experienced practitioners supervising AOD workers • researchers wanting to study clinical supervision • individuals in management roles (e.g., CEOs, managers)wanting to oversee the development and implementation of a supervision program in their workplace. |
Last Update: Contributor: National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA), |
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Four approaches to capacity building in health:consequences for measurement and accountability
Top Down - changing policies, Bottom Up - provision of skills, partnership approach - strengthening of relationships or is it community organisational approach?
The authors examine four approaches to capacity building, and consider the role of funding bodies and question how these factors impact on the evaluation of capacity building. |
Last Update: Contributor: Health Promotion International |
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The Partnership Analysis Tool
So What is a Partnership?
The Partnership Analysis Tools is a resource for establishing developing and maintaining partnerships. The tool is divided into three activities. The first explores the purpose and value of the relationship, while the second maps its nature and the last activity involves the completion of a checklist which provides feedback on the status of the partnership. |
Last Update: Contributor: Improved Services Initiative Coordinator VAADA |
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VicHealth Fact Sheet No 1 Partnerships
The Fact Sheet describes partnerships, their benefits. It uses the Himmelman continuum to describe the construct of partnership.
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Last Update: Contributor: Improved Services Initiative Coordinator VAADA |
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Workforce Development TIPS: Chapter 9
This Resource Kit aims to provide straightforward and practical guidance, tools and resources to support workforce development activities and initiatives in the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) field.
It comprises 14 chapters: an introduction to workforce development and 13 workforce development topics relevant to the AOD field that while interrelated,can be used as a stand alone resource. Each chapter contains evidence-based strategies to address a particular workforce development issue, as well as resources and tools that can be used to implement the strategies. |
Last Update: Contributor: Improved Services Initiative Coordinator VAADA |
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Review of diagnostic screening instruments for alcohol and other drug use and other psychiatric disorders 2nd Edition
Review of diagnostic screening instruments for alcohol and other drug use and other psychiatric disorders 2nd Edition.
This Victorian resource has as its aim to equip treating mental health and alcohol and other drug treatment clinicians and agencies to recognise co-occurring disorders and provide effective responses. It provides brief profiles of some of the available tools and approaches supported by the Victorian Dual Diagnosis Initiative (VDDI). The resource is aligned with the state-wide Dual Diagnosis Action Plan 2007-2010 and the DHS 2007 policy, Dual diagnosis: Key directions and priorities for service development. |
Last Update: Contributor: Improved Services Initiative Coordinator VAADA |
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Review of diagnostic screening instruments for alcohol and other drug use and other psychiatric disorders: 2nd Edition.
Review of diagnostic screening instruments for alcohol and other drug use and other psychiatric disorders 2nd Edition.
This Monograph published in 2002 is a comprehensive review of both screening and diagnostic tools related to comorbidity. It has the additional feature in that it provides information about specific population groups: older persons, adolescents and indigenous Australians. The objectives of the review were to: • update the original review of AOD and psychiatric screening/diagnostic instruments, • recommend when these instruments should be used, by whom and how they should be interpreted, • identify limitations and provide recommendations for further research, • refer the reader to pertinent Internet sites for further information and/or purchasing of • assessment instruments. Website: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/health-pubhlth-publicat-document-mono48-cnt.htm |
Last Update: Contributor: Improved Services Initiative Coordinator VAADA |
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Council of Australian Governments National Action Plan for Mental Health 2006 - 2011 Progress Report 2006 - 2007
Progress Report 2006 - 2007
The COAG National Action Plan on Mental Health,endorsed in July 2006, represents a landmark in the development of mental health services in Australia. This is the first in the series of annual reports stipulated by COAG as a requirement for monitoring implementation. It describes progress made in 2006-07 and presents information about allocations to date in each of the priority areas, along with details of additional funding commitments made by jurisdictions since the Action Plan was signed. The report brings together the most current data relevant to 12 progress indicators agreed to by COAG for measuring the outcomes of the Action Plan. |
Last Update: Contributor: Improved Services Initiative Coordinator VAADA |
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Monograph Series
National Drug Strategy Monograph Series
The attached document provides the list of monographs produced about comorbidity. |
Last Update: Contributor: Australian Government |
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Barriers and Incentives to Treatment for Illicit Drug Users
Monograph Series No 53
There were two main purposes to this monograph: the first and investigation of barriers and incentives to treatment for substance use and the second was the development of recommendations regrding possible policy and program directions that arose from the research |
Last Update: Contributor: Australian Government |
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