My name is Ro Goold formerly Sinclair.
BSc (Gen Sc) Dip Ed Sydney University.

I worked in the Alcohol and Other Drug field for over a decade in the 1970s and 1980s in the following roles:

1. Community Alcoholism Counsellor
   1977 to 1980
   Role - Community educator / counsellor and mental health team leader for 18 months,
   NSW Health Commission
   
   

2. Staff Trainer/ Senior Health Education Officer
   NSW Division of Drug and Alcohol Services
   1980 to 1983
   Role - Facilitating and consulting of staff development training programs on Alcohol and Other Drugs for professionals in a variety of settings.
   NSW Division of Drug and Alcohol Services
   NSW Health Commission
   
   

3. Founding Director CEIDA
   NSW Centre for Education and Information on Drugs and Alcohol
   Role - Facilitating the development of CEIDA , providing leadership for all aspects of CEIDA’s state-wide services, and providing consultancy to the NSW Alcohol & Drug Authority and the NSW Health, other departments and community organisations.
   1983 to 1988
   NSW Health Department
   
   
   Note: Until 2000 when its services were to be reabsorbed into central administration from its base at Rozelle Hospital, CEIDA provided the following state wide services:
   
   NSW State Drug and Alcohol Specialty Library
   
   Connexions Magazine on Alcohol and Other Drugs for Professionals - bi-monthly issues with national as well as state subscribers
   
   NSW Information Services - state-wide service providing information, fact sheets and other literature to D&A workers, schools and the general public.

   
   NSW Resource Development Unit - producing fact sheets, pamphlets, resources kit, videos etc. for a variety of target groups. e.g The AIDS epidemic required specialist resources for IV Drug users.
   

   NSW Training Services - state-wide service providing seminars, workshops, courses and consultancy to D&A workers, government department and non-profit organisations

   
   PACE Community Education Project - state-wide service providing community development and awareness programs and resources for a variety of target groups.
   

   QUIT FOR LIFE - Anti-smoking mass media project (from 1988)
   
   STAY IN CONTROL - Alcohol Awareness mass media project (from 1988)
   
   Most of these services were lost in this administrative move in 2000.
   
   
   Other roles: I have worked as a High School Science Teacher, Community Disability Coordinator, Frail Aged and Disability Carer Support Coordinator and as a Civil Marriage, Family and Funeral Celebrant.

   
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