DrugInfo seminar: Opioids and related harms in Aboriginal Australia
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Presentation by Peter Waples-Crowe to DrugInfo seminar: Heroin and other opioids, on 27 September 2011 in Melbourne Australia.
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DrugInfo seminar: Opioids and related harms in Aboriginal Australia
- 1. Opioids and related harms in Aboriginal Australia Peter Waples-Crowe Public Health and Research Unit VACCHO
- 2. The Victorian ACCH Sector
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- Members often referred to as Aboriginal co-operatives (co-ops) and offer more than simply medical services. Their programs also include services in aged care and disability, housing drug and alcohol management, legal and justice support and the prevention of family violence. They also have cultural and social and emotional wellbeing programs. These Aboriginal Health Organisations are unique in Australia. They are incorporated, controlled by the Community and shape service delivery to meet the needs of the local Community they serve. Each Member Organisation is community controlled which means that all co-ops have annually elected Aboriginal boards, a majority of Aboriginal staff and management including Aboriginal Health Workers who are an integral part to service delivery and carry out a number of roles. Each organisation is also important as it is a space where people come together to maintain family and community connections
- Attributed to marginalisation, Type of drug, and the lack of access to Harm reduction services such as NSPs We need to be for ever vigilant in our communities
- Rural health Support, Education and Training. The project seeks to utilise the strengths within the Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Organisations/Services and in NSPs, to improve health outcomes for Indigenous IDUs in regional and rural Victoria. Its capacity building and seeks to bring the mainstream and the ACCHOs together to improve outcomes for Indigenous IDUs. We are conducting phone audits starting this week about harm reduction. We want to talk to the ACCHO boards and raise the issue of Harm reduction. We want to inspire debate on this issue and we want to come up with outcomes that improve services for this marginalised group. In the Second project we want to conduct interviews with Indigenous IDUs across the state to ask them about safer using, safer sex and service access for clean Injecting equipment. We have an ethics application in at DHS but don’t expect to be able to start this project until after May. This project will recruit through the community controlled sector and the mainstream sector, and the Indigenous AOD workers. It will be governed by an Indigenous Steering group.