Path2Help
From the Alcohol and Drug Foundation Access Path2Help Path2Help is an intuitive online tool designed to help you find support and information tailored to the specific needs of your loved ones who use alcohol and…
Consumer Participation and Lived Experience Project – Consumer Focus Groups
Via VAADA E-News In each area of Melbourne, as well as Victoria more broadly, alcohol and other drug (AOD) services work together to identify service gaps, barriers and strategies to improve the AOD treatment system.…
Notes from our October 2021 meeting
Comments: Kevan (NEXUS) observed that front line community mental health workers haven’t been as engaged as AOD in the consultation/design process of the integrated system to date. Concern was expressed that AOD services are just…
Peer workers do important work
An excerpt from our March 2021 community forum. https://youtu.be/fwTNZrjQ7OQ Sione Crawford, Executive Officer at Harm Reduction Victoria https://ydhf.org.au/events/ydhf-march-forum/
#IOAD21 and the Campaign for an Injecting Room
https://youtu.be/cB8cyIA5Ow4 Judy Ryan speaks on International Overdose Awareness Day 2021 Thank you to everyone who remembers those lost and works toward a post-stigma world that addresses overdose as a public health issue. https://ydhf.org.au/events/international-overdose-awareness-day-2021/
Law making around alcohol consumption in public spaces
The City of Yarra has proposed a revised local law to manage the public consumption of alcohol after a two-year process of consultation and review with stakeholders. The Yarra Drug and Health Forum has been…
LIVED (AND LIVING) EXPERIENCE OF INJECTING DRUG USE
NOMINEES TO THE YARRA DRUG AND HEALTH FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The YDHF Executive Committee is seeking the participation of 2 people with lived (or living) experience of injecting drug use in the City of Yarra…
Submissions for #IOAD2021
What does International Overdose Awareness Day mean to you?This is a call out to you to participate in the Yarra Drug and Health Forum event in 2021 tocommemorate International Drug Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) by…