Victoria’s peak body representing Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) services.

VAADA’s purpose is to ensure that the issues for people experiencing the harms associated with alcohol and other drug use and the organisations that support them are well represented in policy and program development and public discussion.

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Upcoming Events

May 25

Tri-Peaks webinar: Child Safe Standards across the Health & Community, AOD, and Children and Family sectors

May 25

ADRIA webinar: Reviewing evidence for grant writing

May 25

BreakThrough: Families undertanding addiction

Publications

High Risk Indicators of Family Violence – Poster/Resource
MARAM-Aligned Evidence Based High Risk Indicators If clients that have been identified as victim...
VAADA Victorian Budget Pack 2022/23: Funding cut to drug treatment during pandemic will place lives in jeopardy
The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) is alarmed with the overall cut of...
State Budget Submission 2022/23
Summary of recommendations Recommendation 1: $2M to support agencies to maintain flexible work arrangements...

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ADRIA – Alcohol and Drug Research Innovation Agenda

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COVID-19 (coronavirus) Vaccines

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Upcoming Events

May 25

Tri-Peaks webinar: Child Safe Standards across the Health & Community, AOD, and Children and Family sectors

May 25

ADRIA webinar: Reviewing evidence for grant writing

May 25

BreakThrough: Families undertanding addiction

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Family Violence

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Tri-peaks project

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AOD TV – VAADA’s YouTube Channel

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Recently Posted Jobs

AOD Counselling and Recovery Clinician

cohealth, Melbourne

Outreach Worker - Yarra Public Intoxication Program

cohealth, Footscray

AOD Clinician

Vincent Care Victoria, North Melbourne

Recent News

AOD sector workforce, leaders and managers videos

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The AOD sector workforce: on engagement, learning and wellbeing Findings from a recent study... read more

VADC End-to-end review 2020

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In 2020 an end-to-end review was undertaken to document data quality issues persisting in... read more

VAADA EO Sam Biondo on ABC Mornings with Virginia Trioli – Health Complaints Commissioner’s report into the review of private alcohol and other drug services.

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VAADA EO Sam Biondo speaks on ABC Mornings with Virginia Trioli on 05 March... read more

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