Drug Safety Program Outreach Service (A)

The first component of the Outreach Service is the Mobile Drug Overdose Response Service (MORS). It provides an overdose response and an education, support, case management and referral service.

Workers attend the place of a drug overdoses and offer support to the person and others affected. In the case where the ambulance doesn't transport the client, support is provided to the affected person by staying with them during the period of the overdose event due to the person's risk of overdose reoccurrence and further assisting them through what can be a disorientating experience while exploring the circumstances that led to their overdose, how overdose happens, what people can do to help reduce the chances of it happening again, and explore other harms associated with drug taking. This support is also offered to others affected by an overdose event such as family members.

One MORS Worker

Drug Safety Program Outreach Service (B)

The second component of the Outreach Service is the Mobile Drug Safety Service (MDSS). In addition to responding to crisis situations the service provides a more generalist drug education and support serviceand conducts joint street outreach with a Drug Outreach Lawyer from the Fitzroy Legal Service and sessions with NRCHC staff including: Women's Health Nurse, Vietnamese Drug Support Worker, Hepatitis and STI Education Worker and Senior Drug and Alcohol Counsellor.

One MDSS Worker

Alcohol and Other Drugs Counselling Service

The Counselling Service consists of three counsellors and provides for individual counselling to adults, young people, families and family members, partners of, or other significant non-using individuals involved with, the drug user.

Clients of this service can either be mandated, that is referred by the Justice System where to a degree treatment is considered compulsory, or non-mandated having attended the service of their own volition.

Senior Drug & Alcohol Counsellor & Two Drug & Alcohol Counsellors

Needle & Syringe Program (NSP)

continues to operate from the centre providing clean injecting equipment, disposal units and health information to people whom injecting drugs. This public health initiative continues to help reduce the spread of blood borne viruses such as HIV and Hepatitis B&C in both the injecting drug and wider population. The goal of the NSP and Drug Safety Program more broadly is to help improve and maintain the overall health and well being of people who use drugs.

There are Four NSP workers in the Team

Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese (CLV) Program

The CLV service was established to provide case management, assertive outreach, assessment and referral, drug harm reduction information, case management, liaison and referral to substitute pharmacotherapy prescribers and drug withdrawal services, education and information, publicity, pre and post release support programs in prisons, community development of drug and alcohol issues for people from a Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese cultural background.