Australian Drug Education & Consultancy, founded in 2014, was formed by three great mates.
With specialist drug and harm reduction knowledge, and counselling and trauma informed care expertise, we wanted to offer the sector something different. To deliver workshops, which are contemporary, bespoke and to your service, that are hands-on, interactive, with ‘real’ conversations.
We hold an unshakeable belief in the resilience of our shared clients, and hold hope that building a workforce, which is trauma aware, compassionate and curious, will cultivate safety, wellbeing, connection and healing in our community.
Hold a safe, inclusive and culturally secure learning space.
Provide contemporary education and training, to develop and strengthen the skills and practice, of drug and alcohol, mental health, community service, school education, first responders, justice, mining safety and wellbeing workers.
Work in partnership with key stakeholders, to develop and implement harm reduction initiatives, to reduce drug related harms and deaths in our community.
Subject matter expert ‘consultancy’ on drugs and harm reduction.
We honour and respect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, as the rightful Custodians of Country.
We pay respects to Elders past and present, and to their continued care for song lines and the land and waterways on which we work and live.
This workshop aims to enhance worker skills and confidence, to respond to crisis behaviour presentations, and to develop a toolkit of strategies, to prevent and respond to crisis behaviours, using evidence based, health approaches.
✦ Identify potential crisis behaviours
✦ React, act, exploring staff approaches
✦ Assess degree of risk for the client, worker, bystanders
✦ Trauma informed approaches
✦ Precipitating factors influence on outcomes Communication, de-escalation strategies and interventions
✦ Exit and emergency responses
✦ Post-incident review, hot debrief/cold debrief
✦ Re-engaging the client and the worker
‘The key to responding to the unpredictable, is having a predictable approach, to minimise the impact, harm and shame associated with out of control behaviours’.
Learn to create a healing, person centred approach, when working with clients impacted by trauma, through developing an understanding and respect of the role that coping strategies like drugs and alcohol may play in survival.
Being Trauma Aware is making a commitment to understanding the different types of trauma,Trauma Informed Care principles and the impact trauma has on the mind, body and spirit.
Discover the ‘window of tolerance’, the vagus nerve and mindfulness tools, to calm the nervous system and develop connection with self. Interactive activities to develop trauma informed practice as a worker and a service, for client and worker wellbeing, transformation and hope.
“Traumatic stress is an illness of not being able to be fully alive in the present.” Bessel Van Der Kolk
Practical harm reduction approaches in festival and night venue settings, to keep patrons who are affected by drugs safe.
Current landscape of drug trends and patterns of use at events. ‘What’s on the street’ and the horizon, with novel and new emerging drugs. Identify signs and symptoms of drug use to inform effective, supportive, health approaches by staff, to reduce drug related harms, overdose and deaths.
Responding to disclosure of drink spiking and sexual violence in event settings, a supportive, safe evidence based approach.
‘Look after your mates’- tips and strategies for young people to look out for each other; to identify the signs and symptoms of distress and drug use; and to access early support and medical assistance.
Australian Drug Education & Consultancy, provides expert advice to create contemporary evidence based harm reduction messaging for festival, event and night venue settings and promotion.
This workshop is aimed at events industry workers and organisers including; local council; bar staff; security; first aid and chill out space providers; School Leavers event organisers; volunteer event staff; universities; schools; and Police.
Cutting edge drug information and harm reduction approaches. Equipping workers with the skills and knowledge to hold targeted harm reduction conversations.
Drugs, how drugs are used, signs and symptoms of drug use, responding safely to people who have used drugs, preventing drug related harms and overdose deaths.
What’s on the streets in Western Australia and on the horizon, novel and emerging drugs and drug alerts.
‘Look after your mates’- tips and strategies for young people to look out for each other; to identify the signs and symptoms of distress and drug use; and to access early support and medical assistance.
‘Drug kit’ - what they look like, weights, injecting equipment and other drug use paraphernalia.
Interested in finding out more?
Here’s how we work.
Face to face training and working collaboratively is central to our work, so let’s meet.
We want to get to know you, your service and your needs, to create bespoke workshops to build a sustainable and skilled workforce. We look forward to hearing from you.
