Accelerating change

Translating science into policy and practice

Leading experts in alcohol and other drug responses

How we help

As a leading specialist alcohol and other drug consultancy in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, we provide a full suite of advisory services to help governments and services accelerate change.

Service improvement

Get practical solutions to health service delivery barriers that work in the real world and accelerate change that lasts.

Program evaluation

Ensure that your program is meeting best practice so it has the right impact and outcomes.

Workplace health and safety

Ensure your workforce is safe, healthy and productive, and your legal obligations are met, with effective workplace alcohol and other drug policies that align with world’s best practice standards.

Workforce development

Be confident that your service has the right people with the right skills in the right jobs to ensure best outcomes for your clients.

Health systems development

Understand funding and system effectiveness to ensure best outcomes and effective resource allocation

Schools of substance

Deliver best practice alcohol and other drug education for your school that will have real impact on students, parents and teachers.

What our clients say

Excellent training sessions from knowledgeable, professional, focused and attentive educators. They encourage and allow exploration and discourse to optimise change and learning of sometimes intense and difficult material I have attended a few sessions with 3 different trainers and they have all been excellent. Attentive to the group dynamic and its interactions and able to help navigate the whole group through a sustainable learning.

Dimitra Tsucalas, AOD service provider

We work with you full circle

We work collaboratively and holistically work with you at every stage, wherever you are in the cycle of change. Our team of experienced pracademics takes a 360 approach, looking from multiple perspectives. We show you exactly what you need to do in a way that works.

Combining three decades of national and international academic expertise with extensive clinical experience, we deliver pragmatic, evidence-based, and practical advice that is easy to understand, implement and sustain in the real world. Understanding constraints facing organisations, we distill the data and cut through the jargon.

For change to be effective you need solutions that are right for your circumstances. We connect the research with our knowledge of how services work in the real world to create inspiring innovative programs that actually work.

We understand what can be counted and what counts. Our streamlined approach to evaluation demystifies the process, gets everyone on board, and gets the best job done.