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About Community Drug Action Teams
What is a Community Drug Action Team? What sort of activities do they undertake and how can you get involved?
What is a Community Drug Action Team?
Community Drug Action Teams (CDATs) are coalitions of volunteer community representatives and local agencies set up to look at the impact of drugs in their community. Each team operates according to the objectives of the NSW Drugs and Community Action Strategy and focuses on discouraging the misuse of drugs and alleviating their impact on the local community.
Each team works to reduce the local impact of drug problems by identifying gaps in services and working with organisations and other community groups on local projects. Common types of CDAT activities include:
- drug information and education eg community forums and information expos
- information gathering and research such as a flyer listing drug and alcohol services in the area
- safe environment and prevention activities like drug and alcohol free events for young people
- service/community partnerships eg a local retailers’ voluntary code of conduct covering the sale of solvents to young people
CDATs are usually made up of community members, including parents and young people, representatives of youth and community organisations, local councils, chambers of commerce and Government agencies, in particular health, schools, police and community services.
What does a CDAT do?
- Identify drug-related problems in their local community
- Identify gaps or potential overlaps in local services which work on drug-related issues
- work with organisations and other community members to meet community needs
- develop a Local Drug Action Plan describing how to take action on local drug-related issues
How can I get involved?
Contact the Senior Project Manager in your region.
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