Health Promotions

General Health Promotion :
  • Producing health education and promotion resources on BBVs and drug-related health issues

  • Peer Education: safer injecting, general harm reduction,
  • Advocacy for individuals experiencing discrimination, poor access to services etc.

  • Policy advice to government on drug-related issues

  • Contributing to public discussion and understanding of drug use issues and minimising drug-related harms in the community

  • Working with researchers to build body of evidence for better policy and practices

  • Working with community groups, service agencies and local government to formulate local and regional responses to drug-related harms and health promotion

  • Providing training and advice to health and human service workers to enhance their capacity to meet the needs of drug users;

  • Helping to harness and develop capacity within drug user communities to advance health

  • Working with other peer-based drug user organisations in Australia and overseas to develop best-practice in peer education and harm reduction policies and practices
Discrete Projects :
  • Working with young injectors, education and prevention around Hepatitis C, HIV , Hep B, STIs
    and drug-related harms (YDUPEO)

  • Pharmacotherapy, Mediation and Support Service (PAMS)

  • Peer Education: prevention, management of overdose and drug-related adverse effects (DOPE)

  • Peer Education, prevention and management of drug-related harms in the dance-party scene (RaveSafe)

  • Peer-based treatment support and education around Hepatitis C (Hep C)
See also Our Services.
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