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Mental Health and AOD Workforce Wellbeing Grants available now
- May 22, 2020
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS
No CommentsThe department is pleased to announce the release of a workforce wellbeing grants program dedicated to supporting the workers in state-funded mental health and AOD services. The Mental Health and AOD Workforce Wellbeing Grants recognise the impact of COVID-19 on frontline workers in Victoria’s mental health and drug and alcohol services. A total funding pool
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ADCA Agencies Service Delivery Model – COVID-19 Response
- March 30, 2020
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS
AOD Activity Bendigo Comm Health Castlemaine District Comm Health Cobaw Comm Health Echuca Regional Health Maryborough District Health Northern Districts Comm Health Sunraysia Comm Health Swan Hill District Health ADCA Consortium Activities Assessments AOD services are being delivered through telehealth arrangement. AOD services are being delivered through telehealth arrangement. Telephone and telehealth support –
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Presentations from the Victorian AOD Service Providers Conference are now available
- November 28, 2019
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS, Event
Click this link to access
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VAADA’s September Newsletter is now available
- September 19, 2019
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS
https://www.vaada.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/03_VAADA-eNews_September_2019.pdf
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MEDIA RELEASE: Common Sense Approach Welcomed to Public Drunkenness
- August 23, 2019
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS
The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) welcomes the Victorian government’s announcement to decriminalise public drunkenness. The announcement, which aligns with a recommendation from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, seeks to remove an archaic law which drives those experiencing disadvantage further into harms way. The Victorian government has committed to establishing a
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AOD in the News: The Australian, the Guardian and the Age
- August 15, 2019
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS
$20m bid to butt out smoking The Australian, Journalist Olivia Caisley The Morrison government will aim to cut Australia’s smoking rate to under 10 per cent by 2025 as part of a new $20 million strategy to reduce daily smoking among Australians. Speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday, Health Minister Greg Hunt
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Illicit Drug Data Report 2017–18
- August 6, 2019
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS
In its 16th year, the Illicit Drug Data Report 2017–18 (IDDR) provides an authoritative picture of illicit drugs in Australia. It continues to inform policy and operational decisions across government, industry and the not-for-profit sector and focuses efforts to reduce the impact of illicit drugs on our communities. In 2017–18, there were 112,827 drug seizures and 148,373
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Family Violence Newsletter April – Family Violence Reform overview
- June 11, 2019
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS, Family Violence Newsletter
Welcome to VAADA’s first AOD family violence newsletter The current Family Violence reforms are being referred to as the biggest family violence reform in Victoria and impacts our practice in the AOD sector. VAADA has been funded to support the AOD sector with the implementation of some components of the family violence reforms and will keep the
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Victorian AOD Service Providers Conference: Transitions Friday 31 May
- May 30, 2019
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS, Event
Victorian AOD Service Provider’s Conference 31 May 2019: Transitions
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Media Release: Victorian State Budget 018-2019: AOD budget initiatives continue to build on recent investments
- May 28, 2019
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS
Victorian State Budget 2018-2019: AOD Budget Initiatives Continue To Build On Recent Investments The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) has greeted favourably aspects of today’s post-election Budget announcements from the Victorian Government. VAADA acknowledges that additional investment builds on the investment that has occurred in Victoria over the past three years in the endeavour
