Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use service non-residential/follow-up/aftercare episodes of care cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Set Specification

METEOR identifier:

677131

Registration status:

Indigenous, Standard 07/12/2017

DSS type:

Data Element Cluster

Scope:

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 service non-residential/follow-up/aftercare episodes of care cluster describes the number of episodes of non-residential/follow-up/aftercare episodes of care provided by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use services.

The four data elements are used together to provide a count of non-residential/follow-up/aftercare episodes of care by the Indigenous status, age ranges and sex of clients.

Episodes of care for non-residential/follow-up/aftercare

	Male	Female	Total
Indigenous 0-18 years	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Indigenous 19-35 years	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Indigenous 36 years and over	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Total Indigenous	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Non-Indigenous 0-18 years	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Non-Indigenous 19-35 years	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Non-Indigenous 36 years and over	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Total Non-Indigenous	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Total	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Includes:

follow-up/aftercare for clients who have been discharged from residential care
family/relationship counselling for clients who have their own file/record.

Excludes:

residential care
group programs
Mobile Assistance Patrol/night patrol that are taken to your shelter.

Collection methods:

If figures are not available for the full year, an estimate can be made based on a representative part of the year.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use service is required to provide numbers of non-residential/follow-up/aftercare episodes of care for male, female and total clients by Indigenous status and age group (0–18, 19–35 and 36 years and over), as detailed in the Scope, Episodes of care for non-residential/follow-up/aftercare table. The total Indigenous and non-Indigenous episodes may include unknown or not reported sex. Total sex may include unknown or not reported Indigenous status.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use services DSS Indigenous, Standard 07/12/2017

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2011 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2012

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