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Every job to a greater, or lesser degree, comes with demands... but our work should not ‘bust our brains’; you are entitled to a safe work environment, a safe workplace, a mentally healthy workplace.

Recently, ADA Australia facilitated the third batch of STAR Group workers through the accredited 12-hour Standard Mental Health First Aid (MFHA)...

Every year on the 11th of March we recognise World Plumbing Day. At ADA Australia, we take this day to recognise all members from the Plumbing and Pipe Trades Employees Union (PPTEU)...

‍The ADA Australia facilitation team recently completed a series of Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training sessions for people leaders at Opal, one of Australasia’s leading packaging companies...

Bold fruity flavours like blueberry. At face value, these flavours don’t exactly sound life-threatening, do they? Which is exactly what companies making and marketing vape products want you to think.

The ADA Australia facilitation team recently visited the North East Link Project to conduct our drug and alcohol awareness program.

Why not use the break from the grind of work to reflect on our mental wellbeing? ADA Australia's ‘Well Connect’ app is one resource that can also be utilised to help. It’s right there on your phone...

Apprentices with Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) from all over Australia have recently participated in ADA Australia’s BEST LIFE, BEST WORK Apprenticeship Development Program...

The ADA Australia facilitation team recently visited Patrick Terminals to conduct our flagship Drug and Alcohol awareness training program...

ADA Australia delivered our BEST LIFE: BEST WORK apprentice training to Field Officers with the Apprenticeship Employment Network (AEN), Victoria’s largest apprentice and trainee employer network...

ADA Australia conducts alcohol and drug awareness programs with a number of secondary schools, providing alcohol and drug awareness training for students from years 8 to 12...

ADA Australia has been providing training to Orora people leaders to promote better understanding of drugs and alcohol on both physical and mental wellbeing and on the workplace...

World Mental Health Day brings into focus, on a global level, the barriers to a more mentally healthy world such as social stigma and the protection of the rights of people suffering mental ill-heath

Hitting up the casino... or dropping 100 bucks into the Sportsbet account for the weekend… gambling is an imbedded part of Australian culture, and it’s everywhere...

ADA Australia is pleased to announce a partnership with the Prahran Psychology Clinic...

Recently, the ADA team attended the National Apprentice Employment Network (NAEN) conference at Marvel Stadium...

ADA Australia is proud to announce that its new ‘Well Connect’ app is launched, and now available to all ADA Australia clients...

ADA Australia is pleased to announce that we will now be offering accredited 12-hour Standard Mental Health First Aid (MFHA) training, alongside our current range of courses...

For many of us... our first experiences of camaraderie, passion and teamwork are on the sporting field... Unfortunately, we do see some sporting clubs adopt a toxic culture... around mental health

From time to time, many of us will go through periods of loneliness, of feeling uncomfortably isolated – lonely. This week, we recognise Australia’s first Loneliness Awareness Week...

The ADA facilitation team recently travelled to Queensland to deliver the first of many BEST LIFE: BEST WORK Apprenticeship Development Programs for Electrogroup.

Workplace culture is always defined from the top. This is why a business committed to mental health will work to establish a culture of respect that reaches right through the business...

It is a privilege to work with the ETU on a national level and to be part of their consistent efforts to support the health and wellbeing of their membership base: their members always come first.

At ADA Australia, we strongly support the rich and diverse culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and of their long history and connection to Country...

Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month is held to raise community awareness around domestic and family violence, and its broader impact on people, on families and on communities.

Today, we recognise International Firefighters Day (IFFD) and the brave firefighters all over the world who dedicate their careers and lives to protecting the community...

Today, on World Day for Safety and Health at Work (and Worker’s Memorial Day) we are provided with an opportunity to recognise the importance of safe and healthy working environments...

We are pleased to announce that we will be delivering our BEST LIFE: BEST WORK Apprenticeship Development program over the course of the year ahead to plumbing industry apprentices...

Most of us give our best selves to our work – we all want to do ‘a good job’. So, it’s reasonable that we might expect our workplace to be also at its best...

The silly season is almost here. With it comes a well-earned break; time to relax and to de-stress from the year that was. But beware the risks in “letting the hair down”...

Let’s face it, our work worries should not follow us home and into our lives after work. Work should not ‘bust our brains’.

ADA Australia has recently completed a project working with VACC, the Fine Tuning Automotive Mental Health (FTAMH) Program, funded through Worksafe Victoria’s Workwell initiative...

‍Ever walked away from someone thinking to yourself “they seem a little off”?‍

Over the past few weeks, we have been in Sydney and Brisbane (and in Adelaide next week) for the Toyota Material Handling National Apprenticeship Development Day roll-out...

‍From time to time, all of us will have our bad days... And, when caught in the lingering cold of a wet August, the winter blues can exacerbate these feelings.

Going alcohol-free in this month (or any month), brings a whole lot of health benefits. A whole month ‘breather’ for the liver...

ADA Australia is pleased to announce a brand new range of five-minute videos which are now appearing on the ADA Worker Wellbeing Hub. 

ADA Australia’s facilitation team recently visited the Oxygen Youth Space at Moreland City Council, to provide training and education for their team of youth workers.

It may surprise you, or it might not, that 48 per cent (or one-in-two) of Australian workers believe their workplace is mentally unhealthy.

ADA Australia’s Apprenticeship Development Days for 2022, being conducted at ETU Victoria’s Centre For U, are now well underway.

Recently, five members of the ADA family, from both the Friendly Ear Support Services team and the training/facilitating team, completed the LivingWorks Australia ASIST program.

Former AFL champion and legendary coach Kevin Sheedy has joined the ADA Australia team as brand ambassador.

ADA Australia’s facilitation team recently visited Donvale Christian College to provide training and education around drugs and alcohol for Years 10 and 11 students. ‍

Last week, I heard some deeply unsettling news. Harley Balic, a young guy I played junior football against, had lost his life at the age of 25.

One benefit of this amazing adaptable brain we have, is that we can train it. We can train it, and ourselves, to “think” in certain ways.

In an unjust world, Human Rights Day provides us with hope for a better world, represented by core values such as shared humanity, simple connection and the shared bounty of this planet.

Here’s a thought: why not make ‘the festive season’ a time to think about your drug and alcohol policy and the culture around drinking and respect in your workplace? 

Put simply, it is good for us – and good for society – to be generous and kind, to ‘give back’.

But the beauty of Movember – growing a moustache for men’s health – is that no matter how underwhelming our facial hair may be, it doesn’t actually matter.

Among the unwelcome ‘by-products’ of extended lockdowns and the pandemic has been the alarming spike in alcohol and drug use among Australians, young Australians in particular. 

A bed to sleep in, a hot shower and a home cooked meal. For many of us, these everyday luxuries are taken for granted... So, what can we do to make a difference?

There is still a clear stigma in Australia around mental health and vulnerability, despite the progress of recent years. That stigma is perhaps most prevalent in young Australian men.

Dry January, Dry July and now Sober October - going alcohol-free for the month is catching on. So why not give it a shot?

World Suicide Prevention Day provides us with an opportunity to create change around alarming suicide rates, with a hope of one day, working together towards a world without suicide.

The driving force behind the campaign is to raise awareness of overdoses, to remember those lost, and to reduce stigma surrounding overdose deaths.

August marks Tradies’ National Health Month, a great opportunity to check in on the physical and mental wellbeing of the workers in your crew.

More than just ‘a good cause’, Stress Down Day is an initiative to promote happiness, reduce stress and to encourage help-seeking behaviours

If someone were to ask: “What significant week in the Australian calendar begins the first Sunday in July?”, would you be able to give the correct answer? It is, of course, NAIDOC Week...

Although many believe that having a few drinks is a part of the Australian culture, we need to remember the simple facts. Alcohol in large doses is toxic...

Since its foundation in 2011, every year on the 25th of June we celebrate the “Day of the Seafarer” which recognises the contribution of seafarers to international trade and the world economy.

It’s a story of a struggle with mental health disorder and addiction and of its impact on my life.

There is a clear stigma in this country about mental health and vulnerability.

The coronavirus pandemic, the stress and dislocation of ‘lock-down’ and the economic uncertainty that has followed in its wake, presents serious challenges to the mental health..

Why does a problem gambler continue to gamble? Why would a person choose to repeat doing something that repeatedly demonstrates that doing it is a bad idea?...

For people working in customer service, in front counter or sales roles, the likelihood is high that they will encounter or be engaged in interactions with drug or alcohol-impaired customers...

ADA Australia’s alcohol and drug awareness training programs, with a range of associated services, is now being delivered to ETU members and their families; some hundreds have now gone through...

A young footballer and a positive drug test? We can hardly claim to be shocked or surprised (without blushing to the roots of our hairs)...

There is a quiet crisis in Australian workplaces that, for many workers, can too easily pass unrecognised… until too late...

Alcohol and Drug Awareness Australia was invited to provide input to the draft National Treatment Framework (NTF), being developed by UNSW Social Policy Research Centre...

The Flinders University report recognised that workplaces were “largely overlooked” as places to influence behaviours and to effect cultural change around the misuse of alcohol (and drugs)...

ADA Australia has released its new training guide – A HANDBOOK OF ALCOHOL, DRUGS AND WORKPLACE RISK...

Australian research into the scourge of family violence shows a strong causal link between the misuse of alcohol and drugs, and violence committed against partners and other family members...

According to the Victorian Coroner (Victorian Overdose Deaths, J Dwyer, C Miller, 2017), pharmaceutical drugs contribute in an astonishing 81 percent of overdose deaths in that state...

If you’ve drunk too much, there is no quick-fix to sobering-up...