Member Organisations

ACT’s peer-based drug user and drug treatment consumer organisation. The Connection is CAHMA’s Aboriginal program run by and for the Aboriginal community of Canberra. CAHMA and The Connection seek to engage people with the alcohol and other drug (AOD) sector and related community and social services to improve health and well being of people who use drugs. CAHMA runs a drop-in centre offering the community peer education and health promotion activities, naloxone training, case management and related programs.

Harm Reduction Victoria is powered by the strength of the living and lived experience of their team, members and board. Founded in 1987 as part of the community response to the threat of HIV, HRVic aims to bring together our communities to improve the rights and wellbeing of people who use drugs. Peer education and community development are as important in their work today as they were when they formed. Harm Reduction Victoria also undertake health promotion, develop resources and offer practical support, services and advocacy for our communities.

SA Harm Reduction Peer Services is a team of peers who are able to draw on their lived and living experience to engage with people who inject drugs and provide accurate, relevant harm reduction information and services without stigma or judgement. SAhrps harm reduction peers can be accessed at a range of NSPs across metropolitan Adelaide.

NTAHC is the key non-government organisation working in the area of BBV’s, education and support in the NT, with offices in Darwin and Alice Springs. Also delivers a range of programs aimed at preventing the transmission of BBV’s in urban and remote communities via health promotion and one on one care and support. NTAHC staff are recruited from within the priority populations with which the organisation works.

The NSW Users and AIDS Association (NUAA) is a peer-based drug user organisation that is governed, staffed and led by people with lived and living experience of drug use. NUAA provides education, practical support, information and advocacy as well as innovative harm reduction services for people in NSW, working with a broad range of stakeholders and partners to support system change. NUAA has a dedicated team of Aboriginal Peer Support Workers located in the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District.

Peer Based Harm Reduction WA (formerly known as WASUA) provides non-judgmental peer-based support, information and education, and health and harm reduction services aimed at reducing the transmission of Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections, and preventing overdose and other harms associated with drug use in WA

Operating on a peer-based philosophy, QuIVAA encourages and supports current and former People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) to be active and provide input into strategic responses and policy development in relation to drug use in Queensland.

QuIHN is an independent not-for-profit providing a range of specialist social and medical services relating to alcohol, other drug use and mental health. Operating Queensland-wide, QuIHN provides programs across a continuum of care comprising of harm reduction programs, therapeutic programs and primary medical care.

Is an unfunded, peer-based, community organisation, member of TUHSL work to advance the health of people who use drugs across Tasmania through both individual and systematic advocacy activities. TUHSL has a strong harm reduction focus and aims to prevent BBV transmission, address stigma and discrimination, provide practical support, education and advocacy.