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DRUG POLICY – CHANGING THE NARRATIVE:
Building or Demolishing Community Resilience?
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{{/_source.additionalInfo}}We here at The Dalgarno Institute have over a 150 years of both understanding and confronting the Alcohol and other drug culture and its impacts on society. Consequently we have credible scope in both our concerns and understanding of the devastation of alcohol and other drug abuse, as well as the privilege of presenting and promoting proactive and protective alternatives.
In 2009, the history and legacy of many agencies has been brought together in a collaborative and focused effort to again present to the Australian community, workable options to the often coercive sway of ‘inevitability factor ‘ that the alcohol and drug culture can have when left unchallenged.
To work collaboratively with any and all who seek to promote Demand Reduction and Primary Prevention. To develop and implement signature products/projects that promote and/or deliver professional, relevant and contemporary Primary Prevention and Demand Reduction Drug and Alcohol Education programs and strategies.
In culturally impacting ways these programs and strategies aim to assist young people, children, families and other community groups including, service clubs, churches and sporting clubs, in understanding the complexities of alcohol/ substance abuse and give real and positive options for not only prevention, but proactive alternatives and intervention with peers…
Imperative elements in this program are…
Assist Schools, Sporting Clubs, Churches and other community groups by delivering an effective holistic prevention focused (with early intervention component) Drug and Alcohol Education Education/Advocacy process. This endeavour will act to…
John van Groningen - Criminologist, Adjunct Professor RMIT
Derek Steenholdt - Master Educator
Professor John Toumbourou - Associate Dean, Chair in Health Psychology, Deakin University
Paul Tolliday - National Director of S.T.A.R.S. (Students That Action Reconciliation Seriously)
Professor Stuart Reece MD; University of West Australia & Edith Cowan University, AOD Rehabilitation Clinician
Warwick Murphy - Executive Director of ISAAC Australasia; Veteran AOD Clinician and Counsellor
Helen Johns – Psychologist
Dr. Karen A. Randall MD – Emergency Medicine Specialist
Dr. K. 'John' Smith - Cultural Anthropologist
(Posthumous – in memory of a remarkable and lasting contribution)
DRUG POLICY – CHANGING THE NARRATIVE:
Building or Demolishing Community Resilience?