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Presentation Slides
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Presentation Slides
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Main Plenary
Models of Care
Addressing the challenges of Dual Diagnosis treatment in a Forensic Mental Health Hospital
Lauren Carter, ACSO
Jemma Stevenson, ACSO
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Main Plenary
Models of Care
Every piece of the puzzle – a collaborative holistic approach to AOD treatment
Cheryl Sobczyk, GVADS
Sharon Clark, GVADS
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Main Plenary
Models of Care
What next for the Comprehensive Continuous Integrated System of Care
Patrick Lawrence, First Step
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Ballroom 1
Collaboration with other Sectors
Co-designing a national Prompt Response Network: Victorian perspectives
Penny Hill, NCCRED
Tim Lyons, DH
Alexand Anketell, HRVic
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Ballroom 1
Collaboration with other Sectors
Yarra and Boroondara Mental Health Alliances create cross sectoral collaboration, optimism and allyship
Mirella Rao, Nexus
Dr Kevan Myers, Nexus
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Ballroom 1
Collaboration with other Sectors
Drug Outreach Lawyer (DOL) – A 21 year collaboration with the AOD sector
Adam Willson, FLS
Tristan Brumby-Rendall, FLS
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Delacombe
Priority Populations
Insight into Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Recovery
Helena Gonebale, NWAC
Gillie Freeman, NWAC
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Delacombe
Priority Populations
Kamini: An over-the-counter opiate containing Ayurvedic medicine
Thileepan Naren, Western Health
Jon Cook, Western Health
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Delacombe
Priority Populations
Project Sunrise: Self-Determined Holistic Approaches to AOD treatment for African Australian Young People
Marcus Hough, OHV
Peter Uzander, African Australian Welfare Bureau Inc.
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Huntingfield
Supporting Carers & Families
A mixed-methods study of online peer-led support for family members of people living with addiction
Freya Horn, Turning Point
Glenn Hunter, SHARC
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Huntingfield
Supporting Carers & Families
“Life is a roller coaster, we all have to ride it". How Uniting supports families.
Keryn Ralph, Uniting
Lis Steen, Uniting
Kelly Foy, Uniting
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Huntingfield
Supporting Carers & Families
Intersectional and Family approaches to youth AOD treatment and care
The Zone Team, Drummond St Services
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Stradbroke
Harm Reduction
Syringe dispensing machines: innovative uses and expanded potentials
Daniel O'Keefe, Burnet Institute
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Stradbroke
Harm Reduction
The changing landscape of methamphetamine use in pregnancy
Julie Blandthorn, WADS
Kerri Felemonow, WADS
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Stradbroke
Harm Reduction
Gender-based violence and mental health support in tandem with peer-based AOD support at events
Bridget Hayes, HRV
Mae Vincent, HRV
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La Trobe
Service Showcase
Providing holistic care to people in their own communities through a health lens
Wendy Hall, BCYF
Raquel Wright, BCYF
Ivy Shumba, BCYF
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La Trobe
Service Showcase
RaSP – the holistic ACT/DBT recovery program for dual diagnosis that “Builds a Life Worth Living”
Clare Woods, BCHS
Katrina Wong, BCHS
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La Trobe
Service Showcase
The Living Room: Providing Holistic Care for Homeless People in the Heart of Melbourne’s CBD
Richie Goonan, Youth Projects
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Main Plenary
Policy in AOD
What We Heard: The Statewide Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Consultation Update
Shalini Arunogiri, Turning Point
Leah Heiss, Moash University
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Ballroom1
Family Violence & MARAM
Supporting change: Thorne Harbour Health’s LGBTIQ+ AOD intervention work with Clearspace Family Violence program
Jodie Allan, Thorne Harbour Health
Vincent Silk, Thorne Harbour Health
Max Castle, Thorne Harbour Health
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Delacombe
Pharmacotherapy
Pharmacotherapy - A Consumer Perspective
Sarah Lord, The PAMS Service, HRV
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Huntingfield
Supporting Cares & Families
Evaluation of the OurRelationship Program within Residential AOD Services
Caroline Long, Odyssey House
Petra Staiger, Deakin University
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Stradbroke
Workforce Issues & Innovation
Increasing access to clinical/practice supervision in the Australian alcohol and other drugs sector
Courtney O'Donnell, QNADA
Sean Popovich, QNADA
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La Trobe
Innovation
A new way of commissioning: a partnership-led approach to blended AOD and mental health
Jess Franks, WVPHN
Jasmine Leigh, WVPHN
Elizabeth Miller, WVPHN
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Main Plenary
Policy in AOD
Achieving drug decriminalisation amidst change: lessons for Victoria from the ACT
Devin Bowles, CEO, ATODA
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Main Plenary
Policy in AOD
Connecting state priorities to a national voice: Driving holistic responses through a national peak
James Dunne, AADC
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Ballroom1
Family Violence & MARAM
Embedding a family violence lens in an AOD agency
Taran Dhillon, Odyssey House
Emma Shaw, Odyssey House
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Ballroom1
Family Violence & MARAM
What does a holistic approach mean when working with adults who use family violence?
Stephen Herd, Turning Point
Megan Bagnall, BCHS
Cindy McKelvie, Salvation Army
Rachel Daniel, Ballarat Community Health
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Delacombe
Pharmacotherapy
Will Victoria's troubled heroin treatment program survive?
Benny Monheit, Southcity Clinic, Alfred Hospital
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Delacombe
Pharmacotherapy
An implementation-efficacy trial of a collaborative prescriber-pharmacist model for MATOD
Ali Cheetham, MARC
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Huntingfield
Supporting Families & Carers
Making a Mosaic From Broken Pieces - A Spotlight on Affected Families and Friends in a Changing Landscape
Robert Campbell, Family Drug and Gambling, Help, SHARC
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Huntingfield
Supporting Families & Carers
Unseen Unheard - The Grandparent Project
Lynne Ruggerio, Odyssey House
Andrew Bramham, Uniting
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Stradbroke
Workforce Issues & innovation
Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) training for nurses & midwives: A collaboration
Sharon Patterson, Turning Point
Madeleine Harradence, ANMF
Rose McCrohan, Uniting
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Stradbroke
Workforce Issues & innovation
Efficacy of training delivered to health professions to tackle stigma and discrimination of consumers of Opioid treatments
Tejaswini Patil, Monash University
Pauline Molloy, BCH
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La Trobe
Innovation
Project ECHO: Joint Addiction and Mental Health (JAMH ECHO)- A Model for Collaboration, Education, Innovation.
Lisa Pearson, GV Health
Sharon Hall, GVADS
Vårin Eddy, GVADS
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La Trobe
Innovation
Can a telephone-delivered intervention for methamphetamine use problems overcome barriers to treatment?
Rachel Petukhova, Turning Point
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Main Plenary
Policy in AOD
Developing a structured approach to monitoring system reform
Susan Beattie, QNADA
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Main Plenary
Policy in AOD
Families, professionals, and young people: Three national surveys exploring attitudes towards drug policy reforms.
Chloe Span, Family Drug Support
Oisin Stronach, SSDP
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Main Plenary
Policy in AOD
The Drug and Alcohol Services Planning Model (V-DASPM) – making it fit for purpose for Victoria
Professor Alison Ritter AO, Director Drug Policy Modelling Program at UNSW, Sydney
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Ballroom 1
The Power of Data
Collaborative Data Projects - New Ways to Drive Sector Learning & Outcomes
Dale Renner, Latitude Network - Social Impact Consultancy
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Ballroom 1
The Power of Data
Utilising AOD-related ambulance data to inform policy and the community
Jessica Killian, Turning Point
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Ballroom 1
The Power of Data
New coronial data releases to inform AOD policy and advocacy
John Cain, State Coroner, CCOV
Jeremy Dwyer, CCOV
Troy Williamson, CCOV
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Delacombe
Treatment Innovation
Guanfacine extended-release Randomised controlled trial for Adolescents with Cannabis use The GRACE study
Gillinder Bedi, Orygen
Aji Akintola, YSAS
Andrew Bruun, YSAS
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Delacombe
Treatment Innovation
Approach bias modification during alcohol withdrawal treatment increases duration of post-discharge abstinence
Joshua Garfield, MARC
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Delacombe
Treatment Innovation
The Windana Health and Healing Program, a holistic complementary treatment approach, unique to Windana
Erika Wiseman, Windana
Louise Bodycomb, Windana
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Huntingfield
Systems and Policy
Measuring what matters: using the perspectives of service users, providers and funders to establish a core set of performance measures
Robert Stirling, NADA
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Huntingfield
Systems and Policy
Reforming treatment system bias
Gabby Cohen, AMAH
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Huntingfield
Systems and Policy
Young people’s experiences of treatment for substance misuse with co-occurring disordered eating: A qualitative study
Amanda Mack, TaskForce
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Stradbroke
Collaboration with Other Sectors
Strengthening integrated service delivery using Minkoff and Cline’s Comprehensive, Continuous, Integrated System of Care approach
Cathy Keenan, EACH
Fay Edebohls, EACH
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Stradbroke
Collaboration with Other Sectors
20 years of collaboration on the delivery of a AOD focused Primary Health Care Service: The Salvation Army’s Access Health Program
Bec Thatcher, The Salvation Army
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Stradbroke
Collaboration with Other Sectors
COVID learnings transformed to improve the health, housing and wellbeing of people experiencing homelessness.
Samantha Corrie, SVHM
Jessica McMeniman, Launch Housing
Claire Doherty, SVHM
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La Trobe
Peer Workforce Workshop
Cultural safety for the living experience and harm reduction Peer Workforce - organisational and cultural readiness workshop
Christian Vega, HRVic
Amelia Berg, APSU
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Main Plenary
Workshop
ADHD and addiction: Epidemiology, Genetics, Neurobiology, Prevention and Treatment
Wim van den Brink, Professor of Addiction Psychiatry at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre
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Ballroom1
Positive Program Outcomes
SMART Inside Out Program: Innovating a SMART approach to justice health continuation of care
Daniel Raffell, SMART Recovery Aus.
April Long, SMART Recovery Aus.
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Huntingfield
Lived & Living Experience
Utilising social media to expand the reach of harm reduction messaging amongst peer networks
Liam Neale, Star Health
Lucien Keene, Star Health
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Ballroom1
Positive Program Outcomes
The U-Turn Program
Tony Johannsen, TaskForce
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Delacombe
Service Gaps
Gender-responsive service provision in the AOD system
Sarah Fitzpatrick, Monash University
Amy McKernan Monash University
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Delacombe
Service Gaps
Shifting landscapes for people who use performance and image enhancing drugs
Kay Stanton, Your Community Health
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Delacombe
Service Gaps
Understanding realistic achievements within a three-month therapeutic community residential rehabilitation program
Douglas Shaw, Windana
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Huntingfield
Lived & Living Experience
Tackling Stigma through Co-design
Tina Lam, MARC
Kirsty Morgan, Peninsula Health
Jessica Reece, Peninsula Health
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Huntingfield
Lived & Living Experience
Integrating complex client needs into the treatment of benzodiazepine dependence: evolving service design
James Szeto, Reconnexion
Natalie Corrigan, Reconnexion
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Huntingfield
Lived & Living Experience
Elevating consumer voices - consumer participation in practice
John Quiroga, NWMAODS
Roland van Olphen, Uniting
Candice Folkard, NAHMSU
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Stradbroke
Treatment Innovation
Providing dual diagnosis treatment to the highest risk offenders in the community: more than counselling
Gundula Roedel, Caraniche
Melissa Pardi, Caraniche
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Stradbroke
Treatment Innovation
Does CBD help improve mood and sleep in daily cannabis users?
Vårin Eddy, GVADS
Sharon Hall, GVADS
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Stradbroke
Treatment Innovation
Walk-in, Walk with: Same day single session work in Thorne Harbour Health’s LGBTIQ+ Walk-in AOD Program
Amy Lopez, Thorne Harbour Health
Joseph Borellini, Thorne Harbour Health
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La Trobe
Workforce & Collaboration
Clinician’s Perspectives of Trauma-Informed Care in the Alcohol and Other Drug Sector
Rachael Broomhall, Monash University
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La Trobe
Workforce & Collaboration
How a multidisciplinary framework can support treatment outcomes for presentations of non-fatal strangulation?
Meg Bagnall, BCHS
JoAnn Parkin
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La Trobe
Workforce & Collaboration
A holistic approach to treating benzodiazepine dependency: the rural and regional perspective
Erin Oldenhof, Reconnexion
Adam Engel, Reconnexion
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