Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use services non-residential/follow-up/aftercare client numbers cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone drug and alcohol services offer follow-up care for clients who have been discharged from a residential rehabilitation service and non-residential care. This includes counselling, assessment, treatment, education, support or follow-up from residential services.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use services non-residential/follow-up/aftercare client numbers cluster describes the number of clients that received non-residential/follow-up/aftercare during the reporting period.

The four data elements are used together to provide a count of clients by their Indigenous status, sex and age ranges.

Clients in non-residential treatment/follow-up/aftercare

Collection and usage attributes

Each person is only counted once, no matter how many times that they were admitted into residential care during the year.

Includes:

• clients who received non-residential care in the form of counselling, assessment, treatment, education, support and/or home visits
• clients who received follow-up after discharge from residential services
• clients who received family/relationship counselling (for people who were officially clients of the service, i.e. they have their own file)
• clients who received Mobile Assistance Patrol/night patrol clients who were taken to a sober-up shelter run by another service.

Excludes:

• residential clients unless they also received non-residential care such as telephone follow-up after discharge
• clients who only attended groups and did not receive individual care
• Mobile Assistance Patrol/night patrol clients who were taken to a your sober-up shelter.

Source and reference attributes

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes