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of medication-assisted treatment, and strategic planning to improve interorganizational linkages.Together, it is hypothesized that these staff- and organizational-level interventions willdemonstrate benefits to offenders as measured by referral rates, treatment receipt, drug useoutcomes, and recidivism. The implementation strategies may provide a model for broaderuptake of MAT, and for balancing public health and public safety priorities in resourceconstrainedsystems. This paper will deliver preliminary findings from the MATICCE study.Organizational- and staff-level findings associated with the implementation of MATICCE willbe discussed. This presentation will focus on the use of a strategic planning intervention and theimpact of organizational- (e.g., commitment from the top) and staff-level (e.g. attitudes towardmedication) factors on achieving interorganizational linkages between community correctionsand local treatment provider agencies31. Conflict and Compromise: Research and Practice inImmigration Assessments in AustraliaPost-Trauma Growth in Middle Eastern Refugees in Sydney, AustraliaCarine Bento, Australian College of Applied Psychology (bento.carine@gmail.com)Chris Lennings, Australian College of Applied Psychology (clennings@lscpsych.com.au)Processing of distress due to traumatic events can result either in psychopathology or personalgrowth or both, depending on socio-cultural and cognitive-emotional factors. However, traumaresearch has given little emphasis to protective factors against mental disorders and the morecommonly reported cases of psychological development in the aftermath of trauma. It was onlyrecently that positive psychological and personal transformation following trauma – betterknown as posttraumatic growth (PTG) – has received much attention. The current study reportson the relationship between posttraumatic growth, intensity of PTSD and the degree of support ina group of 40 Middle Eastern refugees in Sydney, Australia. This study controlled forpsychological morbidity using the K-10 and contrasted case worker and refugee self-assessmentsof growth, trauma symptoms and case management needs. The study also provided Australianvalidations of both the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory and the Arabic version of the K-10, andas far as we know the first Arabic version of the Impact of Events Scale-Revised for adults.Family Violence or Marriage Breakdown – Visa ImplicationsJohn Howard, University of New South Wales (john.howard@unsw.edu.au)Rima Nasr, LSC Psychology, Sydney, Australia (rnasr@lscpsych.com.au)80