Diploma of Alcohol and Other Drugs

Are you currently working in the alcohol and other drugs sector (AOD)? Would you like to develop your skills through further study? This course is ideal for team leaders and staff with sufficient work experience within the community services sector.

You will learn through a combination of workshops and field trips.

If you are working in the AOD sector, this course may assist you to advance to a team leader or coordinator role, or work in specialist AOD services.

Formal training in Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is short, accredited training included within the course.

Our teaching staff are experienced professionals currently working in the AOD and complex care sector. Once graduated, you might gain work in a range of contexts including community mental health and AOD organisations, residential rehabilitation services and outreach services.

With the current shortage of skilled workers in the community services AOD sector, RMIT graduates are highly sought after for a wide range of positions, including those in:

• detox and rehabilitation services
  
  
• psycho-social support services - including residential, day program and outreach
  
  
• recreational programs
  
  
• justice
  
  
• housing
  
  
• local government
  
  

Successful completion of this course may provide pathway opportunities into undergraduate and postgraduate studies in social work, youth work and psychology.

Job titles include:

• case manager
  
  
• community support worker
  
  
• drug and alcohol clinician
  
  
• intake and assessment worker
  
  
• outreach worker
  
  

If you are not working in the AOD sector, completion of the Diploma of Alcohol and Other Drugs can assist you in gaining employment.

If you are working in the AOD sector, this program may assist you to advance to team leader or coordinator roles, or work in specialist AOD services.