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Comorbidity Professional Development Scholarships

 

The Alcohol and Other Drugs and Mental Health Comorbidity Professional Development Scholarships Program is being coordinated by NCETA on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Eligible applicants can apply for scholarships to increase their capacity in the detection and treatment of co-occurring mental health and drug and alcohol-related problems.

For further information, please click on the links below.

 

• Background information
• Who can apply for scholarships
• Important dates
• Application information and guidelines
• Online application process
• Education and training database
• Call for submissions

 

PROMOTIONAL FLYER click here to download (PDF 293KB)

Round One Announcement click here to download (PDF 49 KB)

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Background information

The Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) and Mental Health (MH) Comorbidity Professional Development Scholarships Program has been developed as part of the Australian Government’s National Comorbidity Initiative (NCI).  The program has been allocated $1.9 million (GST exclusive) and is coordinated by NCETA on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

 

There is a pressing need for specialist training and resources to assist workers in non-government agencies that provide AOD and MH services to identify, manage and/or refer people with co-occurring mental health problems and drug and alcohol-related issues. The Comorbidity Professional Development Scholarships Program aims to help meet this need through its three objectives:

• To build expertise in the detection and treatment of mental health problems for workers who currently provide AOD-related client services;
  
• To build expertise in the detection and treatment of AOD-related issues for workers who currently provide MH-related client services; and
  
• To facilitate the capacity of non-government organisations who provide AOD and/or MH-related client services to release staff for professional development.

 

 

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Who can apply?

Scholarships are available for existing, not-for-profit, incorporated, non-government owned organisations and/or their staff whose role substantially involves providing services to clients with AOD- or MH-related issues. The professional development activity for which funding is sought must be directly relevant to:

• alcohol and other drugs (where the applicant provides mainly MH-related services); or
  
• mental health (where the applicant provides mainly AOD-related services); or
  
• AOD / MH comorbidities.

 

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Important dates

Two scholarship rounds are scheduled for 2007/2008:

 

	Round Opens	Application Closing Date	Announcement of Awards
Round 1	15 October 2007	12 November 2007	14 January 2008
(Closed)
Round 2	4 February 2008	3 March 2008	5 May 2008
(Closed)
At this time it is not known whether a third round of scholarshops will be held.

 

 

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Application information and guidelines

The Application Information and Guidelines document contains important information regarding the scholarships application, assessment and award processes including instructions on how to make an application, eligibility and selection criteria, and conditions of award. This document must be read prior to submitting an online application.

 

Please click here to view the Application Information and Guidelines (PDF 234KB) .

Note: Further to the conclusion of Round 1, general changes to the Application Information and Guidelines have been made. However, the overall nature of the guidelines has not changed.

 

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Online application process

The application should be completed and submitted directly online here.

Please note that both Round 1 and Round 2 have now closed. To check whether a thrid round will be conducted , please refer back to this section of the website at a later time.

If you would like to go onto the Comorbidity Scholarships contact list for any updates, please email your name, organisation, state, and email address to ncetascholarships@flinders.edu.au.

 

 

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Education and training database

NCETA has developed an electronic database of AOD, MH, and AOD/MH Comorbidity education and training courses available across Australia.

 

This resource is designed to assist applicants of the Comorbidity Professional Development Scholarships to locate training in relevant areas.

A CD-ROM of Accredited Courses is presently being produced. To register your interest in obtaing a copy, please email nceta@flinders.edu.au with the subject heading "CD-ROM Database".

 

Accredited courses

AOD, MH and AOD/MH Comorbidity Accredited Courses by Institution (PDF 391 KB)

AOD, MH and AOD/MH Comorbidity Accredited Courses by Level (PDF 429 KB)

AOD, MH and AOD/MH Comorbidity Accredited Courses by State (PDF 391 KB)

For additions and / or changes to the Accredited Course database please complete and return the following form to NCETA.

  Accredited Course Registry Form (Word 225 KB)

Non-accredited courses

AOD, MH and AOD/MH Comorbidity Non-accredited Courses by State (PDF 144 KB)

For additions and / or changes to the Non-accredited Course database please complete and return the following form to NCETA.

  Accredited Course Registry Form (Word 222 KB)

 

Both/either form should be sent to NCETA via email: ncetascholarships@flinders.edu.au, fax: (08) 8201 7550 or post: NCETA, GPO BOX 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001.

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Call for submissions

NCETA is presently undertaking a scoping exercise of Mental Health (MH), Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) and MH/AOD Comorbidity courses in Australia.

The key objectives of this project are:

1. Compiling a comprehensive data base on currently availble courses;
2. Indentifying the strengths and deficiencies of courses in terms of content, gaps and overlaps;
3. Making recommendations for future actions and directions to address the training needs of AOD and MH workers which are not being met by existing courses.

An essential component in achieving these objectives is to obtain input from a wide range of relevant community and professional stakeholders.

Attched is a document containing guidelines and a submission pro-froma from written submissions from key stakeholders and the general public.

  Submission package (Word 222 KB)

The deadline for submissions is Friday 11 April 2008. Electronic submissions are preferred and should be forwarded to nceta@flinders.edu.au.

Thank you for your input.

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