Free interactive seminar and forum held from 10.00am to 12.30pm on Tuesday 9 April 2008 at Angliss Conference Centre, William Angliss Institute of TAFE, Level 5, 555 La Trobe Street, Melbourne.
Evidence shows that alcohol consumption is disproportionately higher in rural and remote regions of Australia compared with metropolitan areas. There is also evidence that services and systems that might otherwise prevent or reduce harm from alcohol consumption are less readily available in rural and remote communities.
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Program
Welcome and introduction
Geoff Munro, Community Alcohol Action Network, Australian Drug Foundation
An ounce of prevention
Ged Dibley, Director, PDF Management Services
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Drug withdrawal in a rural setting
Dean Hyland, Rural Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Withdrawal Nurse, Upper Hume Community Health Service, Wodonga
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"Doing it Tough": an approach to engaging young people around topics of health and wellbeing
Troy Matisons, Life Care Worker, Incolink, Cbus
David Clark, Apprentice Liaison/Drug and Alcohol educator, Incolink
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The "Party Safe" initiative
Bill Mathers, Inspector, Divisional Support Manager, Geelong and Surf Coast PSA, Police Service Manager for the Surf Coast, Victoria Police
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