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BreakThrough – Families Understanding Addiction: Understanding Addiction

Online

Overview Since 2015, this unique program has helped family members across Victoria better understand addictive behaviours, improve communication and wellbeing, and access appropriate support networks. BreakThrough offers practical strategies and provides an opportunity for family/friends/partners of people with addictive behaviours to connect and learn from each other. Online BreakThrough sessions go for 1 hour and

Free

BreakThrough – Families Understanding Addiction: Addiction & Mental Health

Online

Overview Since 2015, this unique program has helped family members across Victoria better understand addictive behaviours, improve communication and wellbeing, and access appropriate support networks. BreakThrough offers practical strategies and provides an opportunity for family/friends/partners of people with addictive behaviours to connect and learn from each other. Online BreakThrough sessions go for 1 hour and

Free

North East Metro Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect – Family/Carer Open Day

North East Metro Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect invites you to our upcoming Open Day during Carers Week Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect is a new service which supports families, carers, supporters and kin of people with mental health or substance use concerns. Staffed by people with lived and living experience of caring for someone

Free

Student Open Night 2024: Turning Point

Turning Point 110 Church Street, Richmond

Unlock Your Future at Turning Point's Student Open Night! Join us on Wednesday, 28 August, 4 to 8pm at 110 Church Street, Richmond, to explore educational pathways in addiction sciences. Learn about our comprehensive range of programs – including internships, scholarships, postgraduate courses, and PhD projects – in collaboration with Monash University. Highlights of the

Free

WEBINAR | Neurodiversity and substance use: what clinicians need to know

Online via Zoom

This webinar will be presented by Dr. Eddie Mullen (Psychiatrist, Orygen Specialist Services). Dr. Eddie Mullen is a youth psychiatrist and has been at Orygen Specialist Program in Melbourne, Victoria for over 11 years. He is the Director of Medical Workforce and Co-Lead of the Orygen Youth Addiction and Dual Diagnosis Stream and Substance Use

Free

Tuesdays with Nexus 17 September 2024

Online via Zoom

Topic: The increasing prevalence and harms of new synthetic drugs Presenter: Associate Professor​​​​ Dimitri Gerostamoulos Head, Forensic Sciences & Chief Toxicologist, Forensic Services, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University Tuesdays with Nexus is a monthly interactive online session. It is an invitation to connect professionally and share information. Register for Tuesdays at

Free

VSURF: Tracking the highs and lows: Methamphetamine and heroin price and purity changes in Melbourne, Victoria between 2009 and 2020 with Dr Kasun Rathnayake

Online webinar

The Victorian Substance Use Research Forum (VSURF) are pleased to invite you to our *online* October webinar where Dr Kasun Rathnayake from the Burnet Institute will be presenting work examining  changes in the price and purity of methamphetamine and heroin in Melbourne, Victoria between 2009 and 2020. Please email vicsubstanceuseresearchforum@gmail.com to be added to the

Free

Tuesdays with Nexus

Online

Topic: MIND Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub Abbotsford: providing psychosocial supports for people experiencing mental health concerns and life stressors including substance use. Presenter: Callum Fleming, Lead Practitioner, Mental Health & Wellbeing Hubs, Mind Australia Tuesdays with Nexus is a monthly interactive online session. It is an invitation to connect professionally and share information. Register for Tuesdays

Free

Inside CBT: A four day masterclass in behavioural and cognitive therapies

Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Level up your practice with our acclaimed four day self practice/self reflection masterclass in cognitive behaviour therapy Are you an alcohol and other drug worker in a counselling or case management role? Then this four day intensive is for you! Inside CBT only comes around once a year, so you don’t want to miss this

VSURF: Oisin Stronach – An age–period–cohort–interaction analysis of methamphetamine-related deaths in Australia, 2001-2020

BurnetInstitute Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Victorian Substance Use Research Forum (VSURF) - April Seminar - Oisin Stronach - An age–period–cohort–interaction analysis of methamphetamine-related deaths in Australia, 2001-2020 Please join us on 11th April for our next VSURF seminar, which will be delivered by Oisin Stronach from the Burnet Institute. Oisin will be presenting his work examining trends methamphetamine-related deaths in