The ACT AOD Sector Project, in collaboration with the ACT AOD sector and the ACT Drug Action Week Planning Group hosted the Second Annual ACT AOD Sector Conference: Exploring the Relationships between ACT AOD Services and the New Prison.
The conference focused on the relationship between AOD services and the ACT's new correctional facilities; and aimed to facilitate access to evidence relating to best practice and to strengthen the capacity, skills and knowledge base of workers.
Date: Wednesday 24 June 2009
Time: 8.30am - 5pm
Venue: National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes
For more information, download the Second Annual ACT AOD Sector Conference:
Penal Philosophy: History
Dr Mark Brown, University of Melbourne
Human Rights in the Prison: the ACT experience
Dr Helen Watchirs, Human Rights and Discrimination Commissioner, ACT Human Rights Commission
Criminal Justice System and Prisons in Australia
Professor Toni Makkai, Australian National University
The Criminal Justice System in the ACT
Mr Brian Dunn
What Works?: Identifying effective AOD interventions within a corrections context
Dr Jill Roberts, Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice
Case Study
Dr Peter Sharp
Case Study: Solaris Therapeutic Community
Mr Simon Rosenberg, Alcohol and Drug Foundation of the ACT, Mr Peter Townsend, Solaris Therapeutic Community, Alexander Maconochie Centre and Ms Shelly-Ann Cox, Alcohol and Other Drug Unit, Alexander Maconochie Centre
Theory of Interventions: Throughcare
Dr Michael Levy, Corrections Health, ACT Health
Theory of Interventions: Throughcare
Ms Alison Churchill, Community Restorative Centre New South Wales
What We Can Do: A lived experience perspective
Ms Deb Wybron, ACT Women and Prisons Group
AOD Sector Project
(02) 6247 3540
conference@aodsector.org.au