Dear ATODA Members and Stakeholders
The Chief Minister’s office has advised that the date for submissions to the 2016/17 ACT Budget consultation has been extended by two weeks to
28 October 2015. This now aligns with the ACT Government community engagement guidelines.
For more information on the budget submission process, please visit:
http://www.timetotalk.act.gov.au/consultations/?engagement=2016-17-act-budget-consultation
To read the 2016/17 Budget Consultation Paper, please visit:
http://www.budgetconsultation.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/771338/2016-17-Budget-Consultation-Contextual-Document.pdf
ATODA will be making a submission. If you would like to contribute to our submission bring your ideas to the ATODA Strategic Brainstorming Forum.
Contribute your ideas to ATODA’s Submission to the ACT Government Budget Consultation through the ATODA Strategic Brainstorming Forum (Tomorrow, 13 October 2015)
ATODA members and stakeholders are invited to attend one or both strategic brainstorming forums on Tuesday 13 October 2015 (details below). The forums will generate ideas for the sector for the next five years, which can then contribute to policy processes such as the 2016-17 ACT Budget and the new ACT and National Drug Strategies.
Goal
ATODA’s overarching goal is the identification of priority outcomes and the activities needed to achieve them so as to make the ACT community healthier and safer and the ATOD sector the best in Australia.
Domains
ATODA will be seeking input across the following domains:
- Treatment and support
- Workforce development
- Participation of service and drug users, families and friends
- Research
- Harm reduction
- Law reform and enforcement
- Prevention
Workshop details
| Date |
Tuesday 13 October 2015 |
| Time |
Forum 1 - 09:30 – 12:30: Workers with service user contact
Forum 2 - 13:30 – 16:30: Executives/Managers, Researchers, Policy Makers and others |
| Venue |
Common Room, University House, The Australian National University - 1 Balmain Crescent, Acton |
| Audience |
- ATODA members and stakeholders
- Anyone working in or who has an interest in preventing or reducing alcohol, tobacco and other drug related harms in the ACT
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| RSVP |
Please to Carrie Fowlie on carrie@atoda.org.au or (02) 6255 4070 |
| Cost |
Free |
| Facilitation |
The workshop will be facilitated by Kinnford Consulting |
| Out-of-session participation |
An online survey will be available following the forums for stakeholders to contribute ideas.
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Preparing your ideas
In preparation for the sector’s strategic brainstorming forums stakeholders are encouraged to develop ideas based on the questions below or download the template
here. Please come to the forums with some ideas in mind. You can contribute as many ideas as you like.
- You have been given a magic wand that will allow you to fix* an everyday problem that your clients often experience or that we in the sector often see in the ACT. What would you wish for?
- What exactly is the problem this will fix and how does the problem arise?
- Can you point to any evidence—such as trials of the idea or arrangements in other jurisdictions—that can be drawn on for guidance in making this idea work?
- If your wish comes true, what real world outcomes will we notice?
- How will this idea work in practice, what timeframe would it need, and who would carry it out?
*
Don’t simply wish for ‘more funding’ here because while that would undoubtedly be useful, it is something over which ATODA and the sector has limited influence. Funds are more likely to be forthcoming for innovative ideas to spend or re-direct resources.
