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Playing a Part in Recovery and Reintegration: The Koori Drug Diversion Forensic Coordinator

Playing a Part in Recovery and Reintegration: The Koori Drug Diversion Forensic Coordinator. Presenters. Belinda Baker - Koori Forensic Drug Diversion Coordinator ACSO Heather Carmichael- COATS Manager ACSO Amanda Bladen - Senior Manager Clinical Services.

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Playing a Part in Recovery and Reintegration: The Koori Drug Diversion Forensic Coordinator

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  1. Playing a Part in Recovery and Reintegration: The Koori Drug Diversion Forensic Coordinator

  2. Presenters Belinda Baker- Koori Forensic Drug Diversion Coordinator ACSO Heather Carmichael- COATS Manager ACSO Amanda Bladen- Senior Manager Clinical Services

  3. ACSO- Australian Community Services Organisation Our VisionA safe and inclusive community, freed of crime and prisons.Our MissionWe help people transition from prison, assist them in the community, stop them from re-offending and divert others from committing crime.Our Ethos“Create another chance”

  4. COATS- Community Offenders, Advice and Treatment ServicesThe Link Between the Justice System and Drug Treatment Services COATS Justice System Treatment Agency

  5. Caution Issued 1 CREDIT / CISP Bail 2 Remand No Conviction or Sentenced without Treatment Community Disposition 3 Key Pathways through the justice system The principal points of referral into the forensic AOD system are marked one through to four. Towards a New Framework for Forensic Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment in Victoria

  6. Under reported Over represented! • Koori women now comprise the fastest growing segment of the Victorian prison population.  • Indigenous persons make up 26 per cent of the prisoner population yet only constitute 2.5 per cent of the Australian population It costs over $652 per day  (or $237,980 annually)  to imprison one young person, it costs $1000 for an episode of Drug Counselling • The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission report Unfinished Business, finds the number of Koori women in jail has doubled over the past five years

  7. Country

  8. What am I trying to do? Keep Aboriginal clients out of prison Break the cycle Strengthen community Identify gaps in the system Improve capacity of mainstream services to work with Aboriginal clients Improve Service delivery for Aboriginal clients

  9. Whose making a difference? • Department of Health funded drug treatment services • Justice Services • KDDW- Koori Drug Diversion Workers • Koori Court (2002) • Aboriginal co-op’s • Aboriginal Specific Drug Treatment • Telkaya

  10. Our Partners

  11. How is it working? • Victoria Police- Drug Diversion • Workforce development • Identifying gaps • Linking the networks • Building the bridge – connecting services

  12. Leanings and Opportunities? • Removal from country • Access to Drug Treatment • Reporting and data collection • Penelope • System silos

  13. Questions? www.acso.org.au

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