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SHARC Peer Worker Training
- February 21, 2019
- Posted by: SHARC
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Peer workers, like any professional discipline, need quality, standardised training and ongoing professional development. Through extensive research and co-design, SHARC has developed Peer Worker Training. This comprehensive training provides a vital knowledge base for peer workers in the AOD sector, and ensures that the peer workforce has a discipline-specific framework. The SHARC Peer Worker Training
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VAADA Conference 2019
- February 14, 2019
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
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The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association’s biennial conference brings together the diverse Alcohol and Other Drugs Sector as well as fellow travellers in health, education, justice and community sectors to share ideas and experience for the benefit of our clients. The conference provides a space for clinicians, researchers, peer support, case managers, nurses, and counsellors
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Victorian Alcohol and Drug Collection (VADC) – news and updates
- December 13, 2018
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS
Project update With the end of the first full quarter of VADC reporting nearing, it is great to see 54 funded agencies collecting live VADC data through their compliant client management systems. The remaining 30 in-scope agencies received implementation extensions, and are working hard to get their VADC systems up and running as soon as
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Victorian AOD Service Providers Conference 7 December 2018: Tomorrow’s Sector
- December 7, 2018
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
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VAADA has been funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to organise the Service Providers’ Conference. Please note: the Service Providers’ Conference is for AOD services receiving funding from DHHS The theme for the Conference is “Tomorrow’s Sector” We encourage CEOs, managers and frontline AOD workers within funded organisations to attend. Program The draft Program can be viewed
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“Using Collaborations as a Capacity Building Tool” is now available for download
- November 21, 2018
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS
VAADA is proud to announce the release of its new resource ‘Using Collaborations as a Capacity Building tool’. This manual has been developed by VAADA as an adjunct to the popular ‘Capacity Building and Change Management’ manual made available in 2016. This new resource has been designed to provide community services and alcohol and other
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Victorian Alcohol and Drug Collection (VADC) – news and updates
- October 31, 2018
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS
Project update We have now finished our first month of collecting data through the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Collection (VADC). It was great to see so many providers get their VADC compliant systems up and running by 1 October 2018. A range of useful queries have been coming through as providers enter live client data
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NWMPHN Forum – Intersectionality: what it is and why it matters
- October 9, 2018
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
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VAADA has been commissioned to run an AOD Workforce Development and Stakeholder Engagement Project for the North Western Melbourne PHN region, coordinating forums, training, communities of practice and managers networks. Intersectionality explains how an individual may experience multiple types of overlapping discrimination, depending on their age, gender, ethnicity, physical or cognitive ability, class or other
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Alcohol and other drugs information seminar for nurses and midwives
- September 7, 2018
- Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
- Category: ENEWS, Event
Friday 12 October 2018 8am – 12 noon or 1pm – 5pm, CPD 4 hours Carson Conference Centre, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne No cost What is it like to work in alcohol and other drugs (AOD)? Interested in a career move into an alcohol and other drugs specialty? Expand your horizons at
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World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training
- August 29, 2018
- Posted by: arc_admin
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Designed to coincide with International Overdose Awareness week, The World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training is the coming together of 13 concerned organisations who saw an opportunity to help prevent overdose. Our aim was both to honour those lost and to provide members of the community with the skills to recognise and prevent an overdose death
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Australian Youth AOD Conference 2018
- August 16, 2018
- Posted by: YSAS Training
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Only 1 week left, tickets still available! Register now! A low cost, intensive 2-day learning and practice advancement experience This is Australia’s only conference dedicated to Youth Alcohol other Drugs (AOD) work, and the only sector-wide practice development opportunity for Youth AOD in Victoria. We give youth workers the opportunity to learn about new and
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