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 Drug and Alcohol Recovery
Windana provides holistic, evidence-based services for people experiencing challenges with alcohol and other drugs, family violence, mental health concerns and social disadvantage. On Monday 20 November 2023, TaskForce Community Agency became part of Windana. The combined service offering across Victoria includes:
- – A suite of alcohol and other drug services, including residential and non-residential withdrawal services, residential rehabilitation, and community-based programs.
– Youth and family services, including family violence programs.
– Education, engagement, and employment support.
Windana and TaskForce work across sectors to improve and refine treatment services, increase community understanding and reduce stigma, advocate for positive change, and offer non-judgemental care and services across every client’s journey.
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. Odyssey House is an executive member of the Stepping Up Consortium with TaskForce, Youth Projects and Interact Australia. Go to website >>>
TaskForce Community Agency
TaskForce’s purpose is to empower people through life changing services, wraparound support, and pathways. TaskForce Community Agency plays an important role across communities in south-east Melbourne, whether helping individuals and families due to challenges with alcohol and other drugs or family violence, or enabling people through education, training, and employment. Operating for 50 years, TaskForce aims to help realise the potential of every client, through achieving outcomes and working towards healthier lives, relationships, and communities.
TaskForce Community Agency is now part of Windana – a major provider of alcohol and other drug services in Victoria, including residential and non-residential detox, residential rehabilitation, and a suite of community services.
The combined service offering across Victoria includes:
– A suite of alcohol and other drug services, including residential and non-residential withdrawal services, residential rehabilitation, and community-based programs.
– Youth and family services, including family violence programs.
– Education, engagement, and employment support.
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 >>>
