Tasmania has received $5 million from the Australian Government to implement and deliver services in response to recommendations from the National Ice Taskforce Report (full response available here).
As a result, Primary Health Tasmania has commissioned three organisations to deliver alcohol and other drug treatment services across Tasmania to 30 June 2019 (read the media release here).
Anglicare Tasmania, the South East Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation (SETAC), and Youth, Family and Community Connections will provide services focused on early intervention, treatment, and preventing relapse.
SETAC will also provide workforce education and training to support the sector to provide safe and appropriate care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Primary Health Tasmania is in discussions with a fourth organisation to deliver statewide education and training to the drug and alcohol treatment sector on safe and appropriate care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Through these services, Primary Health Tasmania and the commissioned providers are seeking to:
reduce alcohol and drug-related presentations at hospital emergency departments
improve the quality of life for people accessing treatment services in the community
reduce the number of people at risk of or using harmful levels of alcohol and drugs
improve the capacity of people affected by alcohol and drug use to manage their health and wellbeing.
Eligibility
people who have experienced negative effects (including harm or impairment) from the misuse of alcohol and other drugs
people who identify as an Australian Aboriginal person; are in a family relationship with an Aboriginal person; or are a ‘significant other’ to an Aboriginal person who has experienced negative effects from their own or others’ alcohol and other drug use.
Referral
Access to services can be through self-referral, referral from families and carers, as well as from GPs and other health services, schools and community services.
Commissioned service providers
Statewide
Anglicare Tasmania
1800 243 232
Screening, brief intervention, counselling, case management, and aftercare services (see below for service definitions).
Southern Tasmania (Huon Valley and Channel)
South East Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation
6295 0004
Screening, brief intervention, counselling, case management, and aftercare services for Aboriginal people (see below for service definitions).
Includes family support.
Workforce education and training to support the sector to provide safe and appropriate care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Far north west Tasmania (Circular Head, Waratah-Wynyard and King Island)
Youth, Family and Community Connections
6423 6635
Screening, brief intervention, counselling, case management, and aftercare services (see below for service definitions).
More information
For more information about our commissioned services, please contact the relevant service provider listed above.
For more information about Primary Health Tasmania’s alcohol and other drug program more broadly, call us on 1300 653 169 or send us a message.
Service definitions
Screening and brief intervention
Screening and brief intervention commonly consists of time-limited sessions of information and advice that aims to motivate people to change their behaviour.
Counselling
Counselling services delivered by trained professionals support people to develop self-understanding and make positive changes in their alcohol/drug use behaviour, through individual, group and family counselling sessions.
Counselling services make an assessment of the issues people present with, and support them through their recovery journey with a choice of person-centred treatment options that respond to their social and cultural circumstances.
Case management
Case management provides a strong foundation for care that is person-centred, culturally appropriate, and improves a person’s quality of life. Case managers work to engage people in services, assess individual needs and arrange necessary support services including longer-term counselling as appropriate.
Aftercare
Aftercare involves supporting people once they have completed a recovery or rehabilitation program. Aftercare can minimise the likelihood of relapse and ensure a coordinated approach to the provision of psycho-social support services such as vocational (work-related), financial and social support services.
Jenny Denholm Manager – Communications and Marketing
