Details

The Alcohol and Other Drugs Skill Set provides valuable skills for and AOD-specific capabilities for providing services to clients with AOD issues. The Skill Set is particularly suitable for those who have existing qualifications in a related fields such as health/allied health, counselling, or other human services fields and is recognised by the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing and agencies in the AOD sector, as the minimum qualification for working in the Victorian AOD sector.

Competencies

Assessment

Odyssey’s courses are assessed using a variety of assessment methods, including question banks, other written tasks, case study analysis and observation of simulated role plays.

The Alcohol and Other Drugs Skill Set qualification has no practical placement requirements.

Please note that Odyssey’s resources and assessment tasks may include case scenarios that depict real life experiences and that some students may find this confronting or triggering. 

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

All students may apply for recognition of prior learning based upon formal, informal, and non-formal experience and learning, and may indicate this in the application form.

If you have successfully completed a course with another provider, then credit transfers will be applied upon provision of a verified statement of attainment for the same unit/s of competency.   Assessment only pathways are available on a fee for service basis.  For more information on our RPL processes, please click here.

Fees and charges

Government subsidised fee: $200.00 (includes non-refundable $75.00 administration fee)
Concession fee: $100.00 (includes non-refundable $75.00 administration fee)
Full fee: $1,575.00 (includes a non-refundable $75.00 administration fee)

This training is delivered with Victorian and Commonwealth Government funding. The student tuition fees as published are subject to change given individual circumstances at enrolment. Students successfully enrolling in Skills First training may not be eligible for further Skills First funding.

View our full statement of fees for 2026

Basic skills required to participate

1.  Language and literacy skills for reading and listening to course materials, writing responses to short answer questions, case notes, conducting comprehensive client assessments (completed on industry approved templates).
2. Students need intermediate computer literacy and good time management skills. If you need to improve your computer skills, then please consider undertaking a basic computer skill course with an adult learning centre by following this link.

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