Peer WS | male | female | Non binary | Total | |
BBV’s | 6 | 50 | 6 | 56 | |
Safer Using | 8 | 38 | 18 | 56 | |
Overdose/naloxone | 6 | 24 | 3 | 27 | |
Healthy advICE | 1 | 7 | 7 | ||
total | 22 | 119 | 27 | 146 |
DOPE Naloxone monthly online workshops
11 workshops / 250 participants (average per ws = 22)
201 kits posted - 43 (21%) to a regional address
Naloxone Brief Interventions = 45 Kits distributed = 51
DOPE workforce training
13 workshops / 167 participants (average per ws = 12) (12 F2F 1 V)
HPT workforce training
34 workshops (29 F2F 5 V) 546 participants (average per ws = 16)
Awareness Days
Each year, we choose 6 awareness days to focus our energy into. We choose the days to focus on based on relevance, impact and community engagement opportunity.
July 28th Hep Day. We made short videos containing info & stats that were posted each day and then the following day we had an online competition asking people about info contained in our videos the day prior. We had 30 entries over the week with small cash prizes ($50) each day, leading up to the final day with a larger cash prize ($200)
We attended North Richmond CHC and held a space at their event where we were collecting entries for our competition and we engaged with approx. 40 community members.
Another team member attended an event at Access Health where they engaged with approx. 20 community members.
We presented at Burnet’s WHD Symposium about the Its Your Right project and that was attended by approx. 35 people.
August 31st IOAD We ran an online campaign over the two weeks leading up to IOAD. In the first week, each day covered a different type of overdose, prevention, signs and symptoms, and response. In the second week, we answered Frequently Asked Questions to do with overdose and naloxone administration. This generated 277 likes and 103 shares. On the day we had our photo booth with a “wish you were here” theme for people to show messages with loved ones names etc. we showed a film called Smokey Devil: Underworld Street Reporter and then we did a naloxone training session for people who were present. Approx 20 people showed up to watch the film with 15 staying for the peer naloxone training. We also had a campaign display in the NSP and lightboxes in the front window.
We represented community and spoke at an event for YDHF which was attended by approx. 40 people.
We represented community and spoke at an event in the city held by KOCA (Keep Our City Alive) with approx. 25 people attending.
A team member spoke on 3CR morning radio show about HRVic and overdose which was heard by a wide audience.
HRVic were also part of a group led by Melbourne City Council that put together a submission to council for the expansion of naloxone availability in the city of Melbourne.
November 1st IDUD. We tried out doing a Live feed/live interaction with viewers with Q & As called “A Day in the Live” Talking to people who use drugs about what makes them more than "just a drug user". It was our first time attempting something like this and we had interviews with a range of people who use drugs. We attracted 539 views.
We had a social media campaign on our HPTeam instagram site that also had the theme “More Than Our Drug Use”, which looked at how stigma labels PWUD as “addicts” and erases people’s complex, multi-faceted identities. This generated 113 likes and 49 shares.
Feb 24 Midsumma Carnival. We attended the festival on the Sunday alongside DanceWize where we held a competition “guess the number of pills in a jar” and we had prizes consisting of a reagent test kit along with a bunch of goodies to promote safer drug use in hot weather, along with an online campaign promoting same. The team engaged with approx. 60 people on the day and we had 72 competition entries
March 8th International Womens Day. We had a campaign display in the NSP and front windows. Our social media campaign leading up to the day focused on the experiences that women who use drugs have when accessing healthcare, particularly those who are living with hep C and those who are pregnant. On IWD, we held an online competition where people had to match the correct answer with the corresponding question, with the winner receiving $100, and 2 runners up receiving $50 each. The campaign generated 104 likes and 43 shares.
June 26th Support Don’t Punish Day. We decided to ask our community “What does support mean to them?” usual thing is to print out the SDP logo and take a photo of yourself holding it to be uploaded onto their website. We literally erased the word support and asked people to write in what support meant to them, then take a photo and post it online. Community members were also able to write it out and put it in the box we had in our NSP. All of the responses were collated and used to make the display we had up in our NSP, and some were posted online. We collected 16 responses in the NSP and we had 8 online. Additionally, 17 staff members participated in the online campaign.
Conferences, Forums and Other Talks
2 team members had the opportunity to attend the NUAA PAC forum and they each sat on a panel for the event.
We spoke at the Penington Harm Reduction Network meeting about THN.
2 presentations about the nurse/peer led model of care, one for ASHM at the C The Whole Story forum and one for the Abbvie Viral Hepatitis Summit.
Abbvie nurses summit – presented on stigma reduction.
Presented to a group of advance practice nursing students at the university of Melbourne about consumers accessing healthcare.
Partnerships, Allies and Working Groups
HRVic is a regular attendee at NNRG National Naloxone Reference Group and the AIVL NPN national peer network.
We are also invited members of;
MSIR CAG
APSU advisory committee
APSU CAG
Stigma Toolkit Advisory Com
Liverwell expansion of their Liverline
Liverwell advisory group for development of their online training modules
and accepted an invite to be a part of the MSIR roundtable discussion re client congregation.
Hep C Outreach:
Over the last year we have continued hepatitis C testing and treatment peer navigation partnerships.
C No More, is our partnership with St Vincent’s and the Burnet Institute.
This van-based outreach project combines the skills of our peer workers with that of nurses to bring testing and treatment to people who are involved with Community Corrections. This has been really successful so far and we are continuing this work into 2025.
Alongside this we have been partnering with Royal Melbourne Hospital to continue our “It’s Your Right” peer navigation projects in the western suburbs of Melbourne/Naarm.
Moving into the new work year, we will be enrolled in the National Point-of-Care Testing program and will be expanding our efforts.
This is when the HPT and nurse Sally went out to Melton. The timing of this program was the end of the Financial Year so we have only inserted the numbers from the 4 days of outreach.
No of times we were out | 4 |
People engaged | 60 |
People tested | 23 |
Results given | 16 |
NSP data for 2023-2024
Total number of N&S supplied = 24500
Demographics
male | female | Non binary | Pref not to say | total |
195 | 183 | 21 | 3 | 406 |
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