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Day 1 Thursday February 9

8:30AM
Registration, Tea & Coffee - CENTRAL FOYER
8:50AM
Welcome to Country and conference opening by Tamsin Short - MAIN PLENARY
9:10AM
Message from the Minister for Mental Health the Hon. Gabrielle Williams MP - MAIN PLENARY
9:30AM
Keynote: Comprehensive treatment of Substance Use Disorder patients: The case of opioid users in The Netherlands, Wim van den Brink, Professor of Addiction Psychiatry at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre - MAIN PLENARY
10:30AM
Morning Tea - CENTRAL FOYER
11:00 - 12:30PM
SESSION ONE

Main Plenary

Models of Care

Addressing the challenges of Dual Diagnosis treatment in a Forensic Mental Health Hospital

Lauren Carter, ACSO

Jemma Stevenson, ACSO

Main Plenary

Models of Care

Every piece of the puzzle – a collaborative holistic approach to AOD treatment

Cheryl Sobczyk, GVADS

Sharon Clark, GVADS

Main Plenary

Models of Care

What next for the Comprehensive Continuous Integrated System of Care

Patrick Lawrence, First Step

Ballroom 1

Collaboration with other Sectors

Co-designing a national Prompt Response Network: Victorian perspectives

Penny Hill, NCCRED

Tim Lyons, DH

Alexand Anketell, HRVic

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

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

Delacombe

Priority Populations

Insight into Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Recovery

Helena Gonebale, NWAC

Gillie Freeman, NWAC

Delacombe

Priority Populations

Kamini: An over-the-counter opiate containing Ayurvedic medicine

Thileepan Naren, Western Health

Jon Cook, Western Health

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.

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

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

Huntingfield

Supporting Carers & Families

Intersectional and Family approaches to youth AOD treatment and care

The Zone Team, Drummond St Services

Stradbroke

Harm Reduction

Syringe dispensing machines: innovative uses and expanded potentials

Daniel O'Keefe, Burnet Institute

Stradbroke

Harm Reduction

The changing landscape of methamphetamine use in pregnancy

Julie Blandthorn, WADS

Kerri Felemonow, WADS

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

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

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

La Trobe

Service Showcase

The Living Room: Providing Holistic Care for Homeless People in the Heart of Melbourne’s CBD

Richie Goonan, Youth Projects

12:30PM
Lunch - CENTRAL FOYER
1:30PM
Keynote: AOD Sentencing Reform in Victoria: A Chronically Relapsing Disorder? Emeritus Professor Arie Freiberg, Monash University - MAIN PLENARY
3:00PM
Afternoon Tea - CENTRAL FOYER
3:30 - 4:30PM
SESSION TWO CONTINUED

Main Plenary

Policy in AOD

Achieving drug decriminalisation amidst change: lessons for Victoria from the ACT

Devin Bowles, CEO, ATODA

Main Plenary

Policy in AOD

Connecting state priorities to a national voice: Driving holistic responses through a national peak

James Dunne, AADC

Ballroom1

Family Violence & MARAM

Embedding a family violence lens in an AOD agency

Taran Dhillon, Odyssey House

Emma Shaw, Odyssey House

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

Delacombe

Pharmacotherapy

Will Victoria's troubled heroin treatment program survive?

Benny Monheit, Southcity Clinic, Alfred Hospital

Delacombe

Pharmacotherapy

An implementation-efficacy trial of a collaborative prescriber-pharmacist model for MATOD

Ali Cheetham, MARC

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

Huntingfield

Supporting Families & Carers

Unseen Unheard - The Grandparent Project

Lynne Ruggerio, Odyssey House

Andrew Bramham, Uniting

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

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

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

La Trobe

Innovation

Can a telephone-delivered intervention for methamphetamine use problems overcome barriers to treatment?

Rachel Petukhova, Turning Point

6:00PM
Conference Dinner

Day 2 Friday February 10

8:00AM
Registration, Tea & Coffee - CENTRAL FOYER
9:00AM
Day 2 Opening by Sam Biondo - MAIN PLENARY
9:15AM
Keynote: A coordinated, person-centred, holistic “treatment service system”: Within grasp or pipe dream? Professor Alison Ritter AO, Director, Drug Policy Modelling Program, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales - MAIN PLENARY
10:45 - 12:15PM
SESSION THREE

Main Plenary

Policy in AOD

Developing a structured approach to monitoring system reform

Susan Beattie, QNADA

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

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

Ballroom 1

The Power of Data

Collaborative Data Projects - New Ways to Drive Sector Learning & Outcomes

Dale Renner, Latitude Network - Social Impact Consultancy

Ballroom 1

The Power of Data

Utilising AOD-related ambulance data to inform policy and the community

Jessica Killian, Turning Point

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

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

Delacombe

Treatment Innovation

Approach bias modification during alcohol withdrawal treatment increases duration of post-discharge abstinence

Joshua Garfield, MARC

Delacombe

Treatment Innovation

The Windana Health and Healing Program, a holistic complementary treatment approach, unique to Windana

Erika Wiseman, Windana

Louise Bodycomb, Windana

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

Huntingfield

Systems and Policy

Reforming treatment system bias

Gabby Cohen, AMAH

Huntingfield

Systems and Policy

Young people’s experiences of treatment for substance misuse with co-occurring disordered eating: A qualitative study

Amanda Mack, TaskForce

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

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

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

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

12:15PM
Lunch - CENTRAL FOYER
1:15 - 2:00PM
Voices of Impact- harnessing lived experience for progressive AOD policy reform - Panel Discussion
2:00 - 3:25PM
SESSION 41 hour 25 mins
1 hour 25 mins

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

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.

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

Ballroom1

Positive Program Outcomes

The U-Turn Program

Tony Johannsen, TaskForce

Delacombe

Service Gaps

Gender-responsive service provision in the AOD system

Sarah Fitzpatrick, Monash University

Amy McKernan Monash University

Delacombe

Service Gaps

Shifting landscapes for people who use performance and image enhancing drugs

Kay Stanton, Your Community Health

Delacombe

Service Gaps

Understanding realistic achievements within a three-month therapeutic community residential rehabilitation program

Douglas Shaw, Windana

Huntingfield

Lived & Living Experience

Tackling Stigma through Co-design

Tina Lam, MARC

Kirsty Morgan, Peninsula Health

Jessica Reece, Peninsula Health

Huntingfield

Lived & Living Experience

Integrating complex client needs into the treatment of benzodiazepine dependence: evolving service design

James Szeto, Reconnexion

Natalie Corrigan, Reconnexion

Huntingfield

Lived & Living Experience

Elevating consumer voices - consumer participation in practice

John Quiroga, NWMAODS

Roland van Olphen, Uniting

Candice Folkard, NAHMSU

Stradbroke

Treatment Innovation

Providing dual diagnosis treatment to the highest risk offenders in the community: more than counselling

Gundula Roedel, Caraniche

Melissa Pardi, Caraniche

Stradbroke

Treatment Innovation

Does CBD help improve mood and sleep in daily cannabis users?

Vårin Eddy, GVADS

Sharon Hall, GVADS

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

La Trobe

Workforce & Collaboration

Clinician’s Perspectives of Trauma-Informed Care in the Alcohol and Other Drug Sector

Rachael Broomhall, Monash University

La Trobe

Workforce & Collaboration

How a multidisciplinary framework can support treatment outcomes for presentations of non-fatal strangulation?

Meg Bagnall, BCHS

JoAnn Parkin

La Trobe

Workforce & Collaboration

A holistic approach to treating benzodiazepine dependency: the rural and regional perspective

Erin Oldenhof, Reconnexion

Adam Engel, Reconnexion

3:25 - 3:30PM
Closing Remarks - MAIN PLENARY
3:30 - 4:00PM
Afternoon Tea - CENTRAL FOYER
4:00PM
Conference Close

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