- Weave Youth and Community Services: ‘Speak Out’ Dual Diagnosis Program
Care coordination, counselling, information and referral support and group activities for young people with mental health and drug and alcohol support needs. Drop-in centre.
Enquiries: 9318 0539 Website: www.weave.org.au
- Drug and alcohol program – Community Restorative Centre
Provides holistic outreach-based rehabilitation to support community reintegration on release from custody. Accessible via a Service and Programs Officer (SAPO), parole officer or case-manager. Enquiries: 9288 8700 Website: www.crcnsw.org.au
- Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program
What is the AMS Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program?
The Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programme provides culturally appropriate non-residential treatment programmes, pharmacotherapies, counselling, referral services and aftercare.
The AMS provides a range of services including:
- Client focused health promotion including harm minimisation advice
- Infectious disease screening and contact tracing
- General primary medical care
- Counselling for drug and alcohol issues
- Methadone maintenance and buprenorphine out-patient detoxification and maintenance pharmacotherapy treatment programs
- Outpatient rehabilitation services
- Outreach counselling
- Referral services
- Dual diagnosis management in conjunction with AMS general medical, psychiatry and psychology clinics
Eligibility
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that are registered patients/clients of the service and their families.
- Clients over 18 who present with substance use.
How to access the service?
Self-referral or via an allied health service.
Contact Details
Aboriginal Medical Centre
Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program
36 Turner Street, Redfern, NSW 2016.
Phone: (02) 93195823
Website: http://amsredfern.org.au/
- We Help Ourselves (WHOS) withdrawal management
What is the Withdrawal Management service?
WHOS deliver an innovative community based ambulatory model of Withdrawal Management care for low-to-moderate withdrawal needs. This service is based at the WHOS Rozelle site for people who present for admission to the WHOS Residential Programs. It provides clients with support for detoxification before entering further treatment with WHOs, within a community-based environment with access to support from the existing day programs.
CESPHN also fund identified Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Officer positions at WHOs, who work across the day residential programs to provide culturally appropriate support.
Eligibility
Clients will be assessed for suitability to the WHOS Withdrawal Management program or may be referred for hospital detoxification.
How to access the service?
Self-referral, via an allied health service, by application from a general practitioner working in collaboration with SLHD or SESLHD departments/detoxes or a WHOS nurse.
Contact Details
Phone: (02) 85727444
Service Manager: Carolyn Stubley (Nurse Manager) WHOS: 8572 7471
Website: https://whos.com.au/
What is Odyssey House Community Services (OHCS) and who can use it?
Odyssey House Community Services delivers a range of free alcohol and other drug (AOD) services within a holistic stepped care treatment model. The model includes aftercare support, psychosocial counselling for individuals with co-occurring substance misuse and mental health (MH) disorders with access to individual care co-ordination and counselling. Programs are flexible, evidence based, client centred, and aim to achieve positive client outcomes through an integrated approach and include:
- Aftercare
The Odyssey House Community Services Aftercare services are designed as a two stage AOD recovery program that a client can access at either the commencement of their treatment journey or at the end of their time in a residential AOD service or for support post relapse. The model is designed to be responsive to client needs such as education regarding substance misuse, providing relapse prevention education and care coordination that will assist with other issues such as housing, unemployment, money management and health or mental health issues. The Aftercare AOD Recovery Groups provide an accessible treatment option for clients who are under the supervision of Community Corrections or are currently engaged in a MERIT Program.
- Psychosocial Counselling
The psychosocial counselling services can be delivered in conjunction with aftercare services and aim to equip clients with co-occurring Alcohol and other drugs (AOD) and Mental Health (MH) issues with therapeutic tools which will support and sustain their recovery. There is a Mental Health Recovery group program run over 8 weeks which is focussed on supporting clients through their treatment journey and developing strategies to build resilience and wellbeing.
Clients can also access one on one support through counselling with qualified clinicians.
All services are free and a Mental Health Care Plan is not required.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program, which includes partnerships with Aboriginal organisations and aims to deliver AOD and Wellbeing Men’s and Women’s groups.
Eligibility
How to access the service?
Contact Odyssey House directly 1800 397 739
Website https://www.odysseyhouse.com.au/what-we-do/community-services/