The Community Hub - helping you make a difference
We’re thrilled to launch the new Community Hub, the Alcohol and Drug Foundation’s new one-stop-shop for advice and inspiration to reduce alcohol and drug harms.
The new site is full of evidence-based articles, as well as stories of our Local Drug Action Teams and the difference they are making across Australia.
We hope you enjoy this free, informative and practical resource - and that it helps you engage your community to help reduce the 4,186+ deaths and 75,772 hospitalisations caused by alcohol and other drugs in Australia each year.
Here’s just some of the resources we have available:
Help reduce the 4,186+ deaths and 75,772 hospitalisations caused by alcohol and other drugs in Australia each year.
Case studies, stories and articles
Want to know what other Local Drug Action Teams are achieving? Maybe even get some ideas? Well, we’ve collated a range of inspirational stories of people who are making a difference around the country.
- Celebrating the women of the LDAT program - Women across Australia work hard to reduce harm caused by alcohol and other drugs. On International Women's Day we celebrated their stories.
- Moree touch football - The Moree LDAT is using community sport to help broach the topic of alcohol and other drug harm in young people aged 7-17 years. Learn how they start the conversation with touch football.
- Mental health support for communities in the Alpine region - Learn how club leaders, health professionals and local services came together to support the mental health of their community in regional Victoria.
- Adelaide Metro South LDAT - Building on the success of its first Community Action Plan, the Adelaide Metro South LDAT is taking a whole-of-community approach to reduce the incidence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Onkaparinga.
Resources to help you develop your program
LDAT programs require a lot of planning and evaluation to assist in their success and we’re here to help!
We have a number of handy resources and guidance for every stage.
- Alcohol and Other Drugs Lifecycle Planner - Guide your project from start to finish. This free, printable planner takes you through each step along the way, for all age groups.
- Evaluation Matrix - You’ve started an activity. Great! But how can you tell if it’s working? The Hub takes you through each step of evaluation.
- Promoting a project - Heroes from the community deserve to be highlighted! The Hub has a really useful article on how to do this with social media.
If that’s not enough, we also regularly update the Community Hub with informative and helpful content, to keep in the loop sign up to our newsletter.