Page 2984 - Week 08 - Thursday, 17 August 2017
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• support and case management
• withdrawal
• counselling
• rehabilitation
The services are delivered across a range of settings. For example, ACT Health funds the delivery of bed based residential rehabilitation services.
The types of services purchased by ACT Health align with the national minimum data set and enable ACT Health to monitor the amount of treatment episodes provided. Annually about 12 per cent of drug treatment episodes provided by ACT services are for people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
Specific initiatives to reduce smoking rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, in addition to the above, include funding provided to Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service for a Tackle Smoking Program, including the employment of a dedicated Tobacco Control Worker to provide smoking cessation and reduction education, programs, brief interventions and counselling for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers, and support for accessing free or subsidised Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), where indicated. In 2016-17, total funding to Winnunga for harm reduction and to tackle smoking is $564,552.09.
Gugan Gulwan also provides smoking cessation and reduction information, referral and support as part of its Street Beat youth outreach program. In 2016-17, total funding to Gugan Gulwan for the Street Beat program is $118,070.90.
One-off funding of $212,000 was allocated in the 2015-16 Budget for targeted smoking cessation activities. Activities funded through this allocation included resource development, professional development opportunities and strengthening existing programs at Winnunga and Gugan Gulwan.
(2) Drug Treatment and Support Services work with people who present with problems relating to a broad range of drugs. This range includes analgesics such as heroin, sedatives such as alcohol and stimulants such as nicotine. The outcomes expected from the treatment and support services purchased are:
• reductions in the severity of dependence, amount and/or frequency of drug use, harmful drug use and related behaviours; and
• improvements in mental health, physical health and social and emotional well-being and functioning.
It is not possible to separately identify funding invested by ACT Health in each program as some organisations are funded to deliver more than one type of program.
(3) ACT Health has not yet received data from Drug Treatment and Support Services for 2016-17 about the number of people treated and the number of drug treatment episodes provided.
Outcomes from the activities funded by the one-off allocation in 2015-16 for smoking cessation include resource development, staff professional development and strengthening existing programs at Winnunga and Gugan Gulwan.
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