Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS)
@YSASVic
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We help you get on top of drug and alcohol problems, improve your mental health and build a better future.
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined March 2014
Dave has felt like a youth worker since he was three, growing up with many foster brothers and sisters. He now works at our Residential Withdrawal Unit in Geelong. Read Dave's full story here -
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RT @VAADAENEWS: Last Friday, VAADA staff & Board visited Wanyanimbik Wayawan in Bendigo for a tour & lunch with @YSASVic, @MurrayPHN, @TSA_….
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RT @Humankind_UK: #InternationalOverdoseAwarenessDay is in one week. The theme for @OverdoseDay is #TogetherWeCan. We remember the people….
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RT @VAADAENEWS: 🚨 In Victoria, Outreach Workers are facing a critical legal hurdle when responding to overdoses. 💉 In the below article,….
theguardian.com
Untrained bystanders can legally administer the opioid-reversal treatment – but frontline staff workers face a legal risk if they do not first call triple zero
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RT @humanrightsHRLC: Children belong with our families and communities, not locked up behind bars. We denounce Premier Allan for breaking t….
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Read our statement on the Allan’s Government decision to abandon raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14
ysas.org.au
Today a coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, legal, human rights and youth justice organisations will reiterate calls for the Victorian government to raise the age of criminal respon...
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We know first-hand that children involved in the justice system have often been exposed to extreme adversity, involving violence and trauma. The answer to youth crime is a justice system that responds to this adversity, it is never putting more children in jail. #RaiseTheAge.
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RT @AlcoholDrugFdn: Our recent survey found that 60% of people concerned about loved one's AOD use don't know how to help. Our CEO @erinlal….
abc.net.au
If you've had concerns about a loved one's drug use and haven't known how to help them, you're not alone — new research shows most people don't know where to start.
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RT @VAADAENEWS: We, the Victorian justice sector and our allies, urge the Allan Labor Government to hear our calls for a Youth Justice Bill….
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RT @monique_hurley: The Youth Justice Bill has just passed the lower house of the Victorian Parliament without amendment, and will be sent….
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Keeping 10 to 14 year olds out of jail and away from contact with the police is a no-brainer if the government is serious about reducing youth crime in the long run. Read our joint media release⬇️.
Joint Media Release: A coalition of Aboriginal, human rights, community services, health, religious and legal advocates are calling on the @JacintaAllanMP Government to strengthen the Youth Justice Bill to get youth justice reforms right.
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Working with young people and would like to enhance your practice with inclusive and intersectional AOD approaches? . Join us at The Zone's Intersectional AOD Practice Symposium on the 17th of July!. Book your FREE ticket -
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RT @ellensandell: Pill testing will be trialled in Victoria!. This is a good, common-sense (and long overdue) announcement. Well done Pre….
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RT @ellensandell: @TimRRead And last year - Greens MP @AivGoesGreen and other crossbenchers Georgie Purcell & Rachel Payne re-introduced th….
beat.com.au
Three Victorian parties have renewed calls for music festival drug testing after multiple overdoses at a Flemington rave.
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RT @AivGoesGreen: After years and years of pressure from the Greens, the progressive crossbench, the experts, the community. https://t.co….
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RT @SamanthaRatnam: This is a big deal: Victoria will begin pill testing next summer. This move comes after years of pressure from @Victor….
theage.com.au
After a spate of overdoses at music festivals, state cabinet has approved a push from Premier Jacinta Allan to trial pill testing.
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We did it! Vic is set to get pill testing 🎉. Here’s what we know:.👉pill testing will be permanent in Vic after trial.👉mobile service will start this summer & be at 10 festivals.👉a fixed-site clinic will open in 2025.
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Join us at The Zone's Intersectional AOD Practice Symposium NEXT month!. Explore evidence on 'intersectional practice' & learn effective tools to better address the needs of marginalised populations and reduce harm related to alcohol & other drugs.
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RT @TurningPointAU: Great to see the Vic Government considering pill testing & working with sector orgs inc. @VAADAENEWS & us. Yesterday'….
theage.com.au
The proposed 12-month trial would likely include mobile teams at music festivals, where patrons could have their illicit drugs tested and receive harm reduction advice.
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