Excellence in recovery
Major David Pullen and Gerard Byrne of The Salvation Army’s Recovery Services accept a National Drug and Alcohol Award for Excellence in Treatment and Support from Mr David Quilty, Executive Director of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia (award category sponsor). (Photo courtesy of the National Drug and Alcohol Awards)
The Salvation Army has won a prestigious National Drug and Alcohol award for its recovery services programs.
At an awards ceremony at parliament house in Canberra on 20 June, The Salvation Army’s Bridge Program won the Excellence in Treatment and Support award.
“This is a statement that our program is a program of excellence and has been voted by our peers as being a program of excellence,” says Territorial Mission and Resource Director – Recovery, Major David Pullen.
“To our funding bodies and our supporters it gives confidence in the fact that what we are delivering is of an excellent standard and an excellent quality.”
The Salvation Army’s Recovery Services has been working with people in addiction since the early 1900s. Over the past 12 months, more than 3,000 people have accessed Recovery Services through its centres, corps-based-recovery or other treatment models on offer.
Last year the Recovery Services Bridge Program method of treatment won a National Drug and Alcohol award for Excellence in Research. The joint award was presented to The Salvation Army and its research partner, Illawarra Institute for Mental Health.
“I think this new award will help us to continue to develop and improve on a program that is at the cutting edge,” says Major Pullen. “We can continue to improve and develop and we’re confident that what we are doing is going in the right direction.”
Major Pullen has thanked all members of the Recovery Services team: “They are the people that work every day at the cutting edge.”
The National Drug and Alcohol Awards celebrate Australian achievements to prevent and reduce alcohol and other drug use and harm. Its principal sponsor is the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
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