Membership Forms
You can now complete your membership form online, save your form and complete it later. Click on the buttons below.
Like paper? Click on the links below the buttons to view and download a .pdf version of the membership form. Once completed email to vaada@vaada.org.au
Become a member of VAADA
As a peak organisation, 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.
What your membership provides
Representation and participation
- Input into VAADA policy development and position papers
- Representation on key decision-making bodies and forums including Workforce, Forensics, Reference Committees, and the VAADA/Department of Health, Sector Program and Services Committee
- Effective advocacy to government, politicians and senior policy makers
- Submissions to government and key decision making bodies
- Participation in the VAADA Sector Development Project
- Participation in the VAADA CEO/Managers Forum
Events
- Conferences and forums (member discount).
- Invitations to member and sector forums
Communications and information
- Media monitoring, liaison and promotion
- Media releases and interviews on key matters
- Regular newsletters
- Email information/discussion list
- Web based information
- Reports on media and Parliamentary debates
Membership Process
- Your application goes before the VAADA Board to be approved at its bi-monthly meeting.
- Once approved a tax invoice will be issued for your membership fee and a Member Kit will be posted out.
- Pro Rata membership fees are applied for new members that join from August onwards in any given year.
- The Pro Rata membership is reduced according to the number of full months remaining in the membership year.
- Membership is renewable on an annual basis (July 1).
Member Organisations
VAADA has 43 Member Organisations:
- Access Health and Community
- Australian Community Support Organisation (ACSO)
- Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF)
- Banyule Community Health Service
- Barwon Child, Youth and Family
- Barwon Health Drugs and Alcohol Services
- Bendigo Community Health Service
- Caraniche
- Cohealth
- Colac Area Health
- Drummond Street Services
- Eastern Access Community Health (EACH)
- Family Drug Support
- Fitzroy Legal Service
- Flat Out Inc.
- Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Drug and Alcohol Service (FaMDAS)
- Gippsland Lakes Complete Health (GLCH)
- Glenelg Southern Grampians Drug Treatment Service
- Gippsland Southern Health Service
- Goulburn Valley Health – Goulburn Valley Alcohol and Drug Service
- Harm Reduction Victoria
- Inspiro Health
- Latrobe Community Health
- Ngwala Willumbong Aboriginal Corporation
- Nursing and Midwifery Health Program
- Odyssey House
- Peninsula Health – Frankston and Mornington Drug and Alcohol Service (FaMDAS)
- Primary Care Connect
- Retreat South
- Salvation Army Territorial AOD Unit
- Self Help Addiction Resource Centre (SHARC)
- St Mary’s House of Welcome
- Star Health Group Ltd.
- Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health
- Taskforce Community Agency
- The First Step Program
- The Loop Safety Testing
- The Women’s Alcohol and Drug Service
- Thorne Harbour Health
- Turning Point – Eastern Health
- Uniting ReGen
- VincentCare Victoria
- Western Health Drug Services
- Western Region Alcohol and Drug Centre (WRAD)
- Windana
- Your Community Health
- Youth Support and Advocacy Service
Individual Members
VAADA has 25 individual members.
Membership Forms
You can now complete your membership form online, save your form and complete it later. Click on the buttons below.
Like paper? Click on the links below the buttons to view and download a .pdf version of the membership form. Once completed email to vaada@vaada.org.au