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CAAPS is a community-based substance misuse service that supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families who are experiencing alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues. CAAPS has an all-Indigenous Board, with members currently from Darwin, Galiwin’ku, Bathurst Island, Wadeye (Port Keats), Maningrida and Groote Eylandt; and an 80 per cent Indigenous staff body. CAAPS has been operating for more than 25 years with the support of the Northern Territory’s remote communities and, importantly, the dioceses of the Northern Territory’s Catholic, Anglican and Uniting Churches.
Our Clients
Our clients and students come all the way from Pirlangimpi to Mutitjulu, and from Derby in Western Australia to Cairns in Queensland. We are proud to work with a number of Northern Territory and also national organisations, including Community Corrections, Mission Australia, Red Cross, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, Curtin University and St Vincent De Paul.
Our Mission
Our mission at CAAPS is to focus on providing an effective continuum of service provision through intervention, assessment, treatment after-care and follow up support to urban and remote communities in the Northern Territory.
We work in partnership with other associated service providers to deliver effective cost efficient services, providing families, clans and community based groups with the training and support to establish their own services.
We believe in promoting Indigenous community control, having clearly defined realistic objectives meeting community needs, providing good governance and social accountability, having clearly defined management structures, providing staff development and support, providing interagency collaboration and providing culturally effective programs and service delivery.