Dalgarno Institute
Rehabilitation Drug in Greater Dandenong

AODstats provides information on the harms related to alcohol, illicit and pharmaceutical drug use in Victoria. They sought to change the landscape, and they did. In fact it took the concerted effort of these altruistic folk to nudge’ the Government of the day to start making changes. However, prior that, there wasn’t much that stood between the society and destruction from the systemic problem of alcohol abuse. Mrs Dalgarno was involved at a Melbourne Complete Abstinence Society Meeting in 1844 at Scots School, when a bunch of drunken thugs led by Phillip Anderson from the Commercial Inn break into the meeting and with a violence inflamed by alcohol tore the meeting apart and trashed furniture, broke windows and assaulted, what Anderson and his mob called, the water demons’. To increase insult to injury when Mr Anderson was brought to the courts to present account for his reckless, violent and shocking behavior, he was confronted by an ally on the bench. So here we have an neat meeting attended by sober people wanting to see change for a society being wrecked by alcohol, be violently destroyed by drunken thugs, then tomorrow to a key purveyor of the very substance that is destroying not only properties, but individuals and families. Your guess to what happened next? For this ferocious and malicious attack he was fined a laughably low amount.Such was the sway definite elements of the Alcohol industry and indifferent and egocentric government had over the culture. The Dalgarno Institute is a growing coalition of groups, agencies and individuals, all founded on over 150 years of heritage in social and cultural impact. This community based and community empowered lay Institute continues to construct on the splendid service of previous groups, organizations and unions across the nation. A growing coalition of apprehensive community groups and individuals who seek to shift the community and particularly adolescent, young adult and family attitudes about alcohol and drugs away from the cultural expectation of participation, toward the proactive and protective option of not having to’. Through our Education, Advocacy and Resource process we seek to relevantly engage, educate and re calibrate cultural perceptions and values through Fence building’ processes including curriculum delivery, strategic partnerships and sponsorship of other proactive community based hurt prevention 'don't need to' strategies. Our endeavor is to assist Australian Governments, Communities, Schools, Sporting Clubs, Churches and Service Clubs to rediscover the proactive and protective options of best practice prevention models in the alcohol and other drug arena. In so doing to donate society and the emerging generation in particular, with definite and viable prevention and demand reduction options around alcohol and substance use and abuse. Through our Education, Advocacy and Resource process we seek to relevantly engage, educate and re calibrate culture values through Fence building’ processes including curriculum delivery, strategic partnerships and sponsorship of other proactive prevention based community strategies. Hosting by PresData Services office use only. We are beginning and foremost Fence Builders’ not Ambulance Drivers’. We seek to deliver intervention and preventative processes based on well thought through prescriptions. Appropriate and workable prescriptions matter, generous students not only direction and clarity, but also safe foundational life motivators such as hope and meaning, are also key in allowing the effective Domain education to stick’. Assisting young people and communities to look beyond the pop culture’ and often intimidating peer solidarity, to little considered but crucial psycho social health benefits and elements including values formation and worldview calibration. We focus beyond symptoms and Bandaid’ approaches and endeavor to skill young people and communities to investigate causal and huge picture reasons behind the noisy’ and very messy’ symptoms. Avon dale is now a virtual campus of Dalgarno, which brings together people to move attitudes about alcohol and other drugs away from the cultural expectation of participation to consider the option of not having to.’. And that’s not a good thing because I feel young adults are more inclined to be lenient to the idea that alcohol in moderation is OK. Avon dale will maximum apt aid with research. Young adults need options about drug use and alcohol consumption, says Shane, but they don’t have many at the moment. Dave's unusual no, marvelous story, is a must read for anyone caught in dependency, despair, rebellion or honest plain sense their lives aren't as 'unmessy' as they'd like.