Assertive Outreach Plus Service

The Assertive Outreach Plus Service (AO+) supports people who use alcohol and/or drugs and have backgrounds of offending or other particularly challenging behaviour, to access existing services by helping to identify the individual's needs and help to steer them into the correct services at that point of need.

The AO+ model complements the work of existing agencies/services by supporting people to interact with services when their complex needs (such as substance use, homelessness, mental health illness, learning disability, welfare benefits issues, social isolation and/or family dysfunction) present barriers for their access to care.