About Us
SECADA is a single point of contact for a large network of specialist services which support youth and adults with a range of alcohol and drug concerns. This includes people who may be experiencing mental health problems, family and social disconnect, or have been involved with the courts or police. SECADA also provides support to their families, friends and carers.
The purposes of SECADA are to:
- Reduce the harms associated with alcohol and other drug use
- Improve physical and mental health and,
- Reconnect people to their loved ones and their community
What is a consortium?
A consortium (or consortia) is made up of independently run organisations that choose to pool their resources and expertise to provide the best possible care for clients. The following is a description of each of the partner agencies of SECADA commencing with Windana as the lead agency for the consortium:
Windana
Providing connected services for more people in need.
Windana provides services across Victoria for adults and young people experiencing alcohol and other drug harms, family violence, mental health challenges and social disadvantage.
Our Model of Care puts clients at the centre of what we do to create positive change in people’s lives. We work with families, communities and other organisations to deliver trauma informed, equitable, culturally safe and integrated services based on evidence and practice wisdom.
By intervening early and creating purposeful partnerships, we help clients achieve improved outcomes while reducing demand on acute services. And we are influencing policy, practice and research to help shape better systems for clients. Together, we influence the broader system for a more positive and connected future.
Monash Health
Monash Health has been operating drug treatment services since the 1990s and provides a wide range of integrated clinically oriented treatment options including residential and community withdrawal, primary healthcare clinic, safe injecting equipment, outreach, hospital liaison/addiction medicine unit in both Monash Medical Centre and Dandenong Hospital, dual diagnosis, ABI and a broad range of community programs including counselling to voluntary and forensic clients. Monash Health Alcohol and Drug Service provides programs for Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian residents. Go to website >>>
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Odyssey House Victoria
Odyssey House, providing AOD services since 1979, is a leader in integrated service delivery to clients with highly complex needs. Odyssey House has extensive experience in implementing a broad range of responses to causal and maintaining factors in drug use, including childhood and adult post-trauma and other mental health issues, and works collaboratively with other services to provide holistic, tailored interventions that are sensitive to clients’ individual differences and diverse needs and that address the multiple factors that drive drug dependence. It also provides specialist training to the AOD sector through its RTO status. Go to website >>>
Youth Support and Advocacy Services (YSAS)
YSAS, operating since 1998 from multiple sites across Victoria, provides two-thirds of the youth AOD services and is the largest youth-specific provider of health services in Victoria. YSAS is an RTO and provides holistic, therapeutic, evidence- and youth-informed treatment and support across a continuum of care and recovery, through assertive outreach, youth residential withdrawal and rehabilitation, supported housing, day programs, specialist support services and social enterprise. YSAS provides developmentally customised services that assist vulnerable young people to build on their strengths and access the resources they need to deal with the multiple and complex problems they experience. Go to website >>>
