Connect & Learn
Connect & Learn webinar series address a wide range of practice-relevant topics presented by local expert clinicians. The webinars aim to enhance the capabilities of Victorian AOD and MH workers in responding to substance use and addiction issues among their clients and consumers.
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- presented by Georgia Bolt on 8th August 2025
This presentation situates cognitive impairment as a key factor to be considered within the AOD sector. - presented by Benn Veenker on 22nd July 2025
This presentation will start with unpacking exactly what is lived and living experience and what does this mean within an AOD context. - This presentation provides a brief overview of what trauma is, paying particular attention to complex trauma, and the relationships between trauma and addiction whilst also addressing the social complexity clients may experience.
- This webinar will provide examples of how to get communities to reflect on their alcohol or drug use. Using examples from remote NT through to urban NSW, Kylie will present a range of resources her team has developed, along with research efforts, to help whole communities to reduce harms from alcohol or drug use.
- This webinar will provide an overview of four expert-endorsed neuroscience-informed interventions for addiction treatment: cognitive bias modification, contingency management, emotion regulation training and cognitive remediation.
- This webinar focuses on three studies in Victoria that collect data on alcohol consumption, drug use and driving:
- This presentation will provide a basic overview of the Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) communication model and its guiding principles.
- Our presentation will provide practitioners with an overview of the Drug outreach program provided by Fitzroy Legal Service exploring how it has built a success from a collaboration with the AOD sector.
- In this session Patrick will discuss the Department of Health funded Integrated Care Pilot, which trialled a 12-month implementation of the Comprehensive Continuous Integrated System of Care (CCISC), a system for developing organisations to better support people with co-occurring needs (AOD, MH and more).
- This presentation will examine the characteristics of the lived and living experience.