Embarking on a career in the NSW alcohol and other drugs (AOD) sector? The orientation guide for the AOD sector in NSW is your essential companion as you begin this journey of supporting individuals, families and communities impacted by AOD use.
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The guide offers a practical overview of essential knowledge, core principles, and practical resources that define AOD practice. It’s designed to help you confidently navigate the sector and set yourself up for success.
Whether you’re shaping policy, delivering frontline services, conducting research, engaging with communities, studying, or considering a future in AOD work—this guide is for you.
Shaped and informed by your fellow workers, service providers, peak bodies, researchers, sector leaders, and people with lived and living experience of AOD use, the orientation guide is filled with diverse perspectives on what was important to people as they started out in AOD or what they wish they had known.
This resource was created through a partnership between the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA), The Network of Alcohol and Other Drugs Agencies NSW (NADA), and the NSW Ministry of Health, with funding support from NSW Health.