Project Title:

Quality Improvement Project

As South Australia is the only state with a community controlled peak body, representing substance use organisations, we are ideally placed to participate and support the national pilot project for the use of quality standards.

The need for quality recognition is a key element, identified in the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH) review of Indigenous Substance Misuse Organisations, to show the quality and the extent of the work performed by Indigenous organisations. The Quality Improvement (QI) process allows people to identify what they do well and highlight areas that need development and areas of unmet need. It provides an evidence base for funding requirements and reporting.

The QI project provides a focus for ADAC to further improve and develop its systems and responses to alcohol and other drug issues. It supports our focus on relevant and appropriate health promotion, research and advocacy. We are now preparing for the quality accreditation process, which will see ADAC gain national recognition as a quality endorsed community organisation.

Other council members are also participants in this process and have used it to review and promote their work. The aim of the project is that by the end of 2003 all permanent council organisations; Aboriginal Sobriety Group, Kainggi Yuntuwarrin and Kalparrin will, along with ADAC have achieved Quality Accreditation. Currently each organisation has identified areas of development and have all undergone successful partial reviews against various standards.
 


Project Contacts

Warren Parfoot
Education Manager
Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (SA) Inc.
53 King William Street
Kent Town, SA, 5068
Ph: +61 (08) 8362 0395
Email: warrenpa@adac.org.au

Mandy Watson
Research Administration Assistant
Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (SA) Inc.
53 King William Street
Kent Town, SA, 5068
Ph: +61 (08) 8362 0395
Email: adac@adac.org.au