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Thank you to everyone who attended the Aboriginal Alcohol and Other Drug Forum in early May. Presenters spoke on subjects as varied as the new Strong Spirit Strong Mind resources, culturally secure supervision, AOD service provision and funding throughout Australia, and how to recruit and retain Aboriginal staff members. Presentations and more information will be available soon.
Quality Framework Program Area
The Western Australian Alcohol and other Drug Sector Quality Framework assists agencies and their staff, management and boards to work towards continous quality improvement of services. WANADA's projects aim to familiarise agency staff and management with the quality framework and support them in using it to find opportunities to improve their services to the benefit of their agency and consumers.
Quality Framework Implementation Support Project
The Western Australian Alcohol and other Drug Sector Quality Framework assists agencies and their staff, management and boards to work towards continous quality improvement of services. WANADA's project aims to familiarise agency staff and management with the quality framework and support them in using it to find opportunities to improve their services to the benefit of their agency and consumers.
Diversity of services supported include residential and non residential treatment and support, withdrawal, SAAP funded (AOD incorporated), Sobering-up-Centres, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, Aboriginal Medical Services (AOD incorporated), and DACs.
The project promotes a worker/staff driven process for continuous quality improvement, and includes support with recording, evaluation, documenting gaps and support needs, meeting some of those needs as appropriate, canvassing support from government and key stakeholders to address gaps and support needs, promoting quality of the sector. Project also includes supporting services to incorporate sustainable continuous quality improvement, and for WANADA to inform the development of peer review.
The Western Australian Alcohol and other Drug Sector Quality Framework is available here and from WANADA. For your convenience, we also include Section 2, which is the self-assessment tool, and Section 4, which gives policy and procedure templates, as separate documents.
- Western Australian Alcohol and other Drug Sector Quality Framework (PDF)
- Quality Framework - Section Two - Self Assessment (Word Document)
- Quality Framework - Section Four - Policy and Procedures Template (Word Document)
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Quality Framework Peer Review
The Institute for Healthy Communities Australia (IHCA) successfully tendered to develop and deliver a peer review system to support the sector Quality Framework. This is an exciting step in supporting agencies to deliver quality services. The reviews will be conducted over a three year cycle, with those agencies first to implement the QF being reviewed in the first year. For more information and an expression of interest form to become a Peer Reviewer, please read the documents listed below:
- Peer Review Overview
- Peer Review Handout
- Peer Reviewer Description
- Peer Reviewer Training Outline
- Peer Reviewer Expressions of Interest
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