The theme of the 2022 Frontline Mental Health Conference is Working together - Exploring an integrated health wellbeing approach. The conference will provide delegates the opportunity to share their approach to greater frontline mental health care, including: current mental health care practices in your organisation research findings from enquiries, reports, and agency surveys frontline leadership lived-experience learnings gaps […]

Gain advanced clinical practice skills in working with families  Work more effectively with families and carers of people who use alcohol and other drugs, whether the person using drugs is in treatment or not. This workshop focuses on the impact of alcohol and other drugs on families and models of responding using principles of Jim […]

This seminar will report on the findings of the CoLAB qualitative study which aimed to examine the multiple social, material and temporal effects of extended-release buprenorphine depot (BUP-XR) treatment in clients’ lives, among a group of participants receiving BUP-XR in Australia, and consider the situated potentials of these new opioid agonist treatment technologies. In particular, […]

Prenatal drug exposure is one of the fastest growing public health problems in the world. A great deal of attention is focused on treating the infant's withdrawal after birth and reducing duration of hospitalisation but emerging evidence shows that later problems, such as increased risk of death, disability and intra-generational disadvantage. The focus on identifying, […]

There is increasing recognition of the value of the AOD peer workforce. However, less is known about AOD workers who have lived and living experience of AOD use, but do not work in designated peer roles. This presentation provides an overview of the demographic and professional profile of AOD workers with lived and living experience, […]