NUAA Social Media Guidelines:  

Active / applicable from: 03/03/2021

Domains where these guidelines apply:  

  • NUAA Facebook account  

  • DanceWize NSW Facebook account  

  • NUAA Instagram  

  • DanceWize NSW Instagram 

  • NUAA website  

  • DanceWize NSW Website  

NUAA’s social media accounts exist to connect, communicate with, and build the various arms of the NUAA community, to support NUAA’s mission and goals. 

When sharing posts, videos, photos and articles that we think are relevant and helpful to you, we want you to be able to engage in our content and give us feedback through comments.  
We also want to hear from your in our inbox about issues you care about, and questions you have about drugs, services and harm reduction. We want to ensure that we can do this in a way that is safe for you and for our wider community.  

We are:

  • A peer led harm reduction organisation  

  • A place for information, resources, support and service information

We are not:

  • A counselling or ongoing support service - we cannot provide you with help ongoing.  

  • A crisis service – do not contact us in an emergency or urgent situation. 

  • A substitute for a health professional - we cannot provide individual health advice. 

  • A legal advice service – we are not lawyers, and we cannot provide you with legal advice. 

How you can engage, and what we can provide to you in each format:  

We may remove your comment if:

  • It contains language that is discriminatory, inflammatory, stigmatizing, or disrespectful  

  • It contains explicit details of overdose, suicide, or self-harm  

  • It contains information that may be incriminating for you, or someone else  

  • It is something more appropriate for private messaging (eg. An individual request or question, or related to an individual matter that is not relevant to the post you’re commenting on)  

If we remove comments from the same community member regularly (more than 3 times in a 6-month period), we may block or ban your account from being able to post on our social media. This will apply across all of our social media platforms, regardless of which account you posted on. In this case, we will send you a private message to communicate this decision and why it has been made.  

Mandatory Reporting:

  • We are service for people over the age of 16  

  • We will keep your information confidential and private  

  • We will share your information ONLY if we are concerned for your safety or for the safety of someone else 

  • As an organization we are mandatory reporters which means if a young person or child is at risk of harm we have to make reports to Child Protection and/or emergency services (eg ambulance). By harm we mean physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse or psychological abuse. You can read more about this here: https://reporter.childstory.nsw.gov.au/s/mrg