Meet the YDHF Executive Committee – Saade Melki
We'd like to introduce you to Saade Melki. Saade joined the Yarra Drug & Health Forum Executive Committee in late 2021, as part of our lived experience representation.
Executive Committee Appointment
The Forum welcomes Yasmin Karaata to the Executive Committee. https://ydhf.org.au/staff-member/yasmin-karaata/
Turning Point Research -Lived Experience – Public Drunkenness
INTRODUCTIONLaws making public drunkenness an offence have been repealed in most English-speaking countries and most states of Australia, although not in Queensland and Victoria. The Premier of Victoria has committed to decriminalising public drunkenness and…
Multicultural Drug and Alcohol Partnership
https://www.ceh.org.au/multicultural-drug-alcohol-partnership-mdap/ The Multicultural Alcohol and Drug Partnership (MDAP) aims to support young people from the South Sudanese community who are experiencing harm from alcohol and drug use. The program is focused on working with young…
Professor Margaret Hamilton presents on the MSIR Review to the community
Looking out for the health of people who inject drugs is a complex task for health services in the context of criminalised and stigmatized drug use. Such was the health crisis in North Richmond over…
MSIR preventing overdoses and saving lives
Congratulations to the independent Review Panel led by Professor Margaret Hamilton on the report on the first 18 months of operation of the first Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR) established in Melbourne in North Richmond…
Diversity, conflict and the power of story: Community Forum 1 June 2020
Urban planners Andrea Cooke and Imogen Carr presented on the concept of storytelling as a means of encounter between disparate groups in the community and the experiment of providing a mediated “storytelling as encounter” experience…