Updated : 18/11/08

 

Day One – Wednesday 26^th November 2008

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9.30am            Registration

 

10.45am         Black Dog Institute Workshop         Pipette, Cypress Lakes Resort                    Chair: Barry Hunter

 

4.30pm           Close

 

6.00pm           WELCOME RECEPTION                                                                                      Harrigan’s Irish Pub

                      Sponsored by Hunter Institute of Mental Health

 

Day Two – Thursday 27^th November 2008                             

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8.00am                       Registration

  

Session 1 – Plenary           Event Centre                       Chair:  Judy Stephens

 

8.30am           WELCOME TO COUNTRY - Representative of Local Aboriginal Community

 

8.35am           WELCOME ADDRESS - Dinesh Arya – Area Director, Mental Health, Hunter New England Area Health Service

 

8.45am           OFFICIAL OPENING – Tracey McCosker – Director, Clinical Operations, Hunter New England Area Health Service

 

9.00am           KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health - Helen Stain

 

9.50am           MORNING TEA & TRADE DISPLAY

 

 

10.20am         KEYNOTE ADDRES

                      Jennie Parham - Working together across sectors to enhance mental health and wellbeing: The importance of a shared language

  

 Session 2 – Concurrent

ROOMS	Event Centre	Bimbadeen	Sugarloaf	Pipette
	2A  - Theme- Youth Chair - Teresa Stone	2B  - Theme – Partnerships Chair  - Trish Blackman	2C  - Theme – Consumers, Carers and Families Chair – Julie Millard	2D – Workshops Chair – Barry Hunter
11.10am	Jaelea Skehan A working model to build capacity: Mindframe and Headspace	Danny McCulloch The NGO and the Clinical Team: Partners in community based mental health services	Clare Coleman Living in the rural community: the Australian Rural Mental Health Study	Therese Fitzpatrick Managing Depression in Rural Communities
11.30am	Helen Stain Recruitment and engagement  of rural youth in an intervention study	Carolynne Holdsworth & Alex Couley “Working together towards recovery” Implementing a staged recovery process at SNAP Gippsland	Sandi James Recruiting carers to educational and therapeutic workshops in rural and remote areas: difficulties and successes.
11.50am	Warren Bartik Developing new areas in postvention services through understanding the experience of suicide-bereaved young people in rural areas.	Carolynne Holdsworth & Alex Couley Continued	Cindy Turner A Consumer Feedback Process in a Recovery Oriented Mental Health Service
12.10pm	Peter Krabman, Wendy Gordon & Jann De Feu A city/ country partnership I: One regional family’s experience of the augmentation of ongoing local child and adolescent mental health services with a city-based brief intensive residential family intervention	Jeff Johnston Partnerships to better serve the needs of same sex attracted people with co-morbid conditions	Kyp Boucher Community Peer Worker Program – The Value of the Lived Experience.	Jaelea Skehan Beyond the Headlines: A practical workshop about Media and Mental Health Issues
12.30pm	Peter Krabman, Wendy Gordon & Jann De Feu A city/ country partnership II: Enhancing support, collaboration, and continuity of care through the provision of routine videoconference follow-up of country families attending a city-based brief intensive residential family intervention.	Barbara Stacy & Megan Turrell Defining Partnership Responsibilities: Clinical Services Working in Partnership with Non Government Organisations	Donna Clancy & Angela Milce NSW Family and Carer Mental Health Program: Partners in Care - Working with Families in Hunter New England
12.50pm	Question Time	Question Time	Question Time

 

1.00pm                       LUNCH & TRADE DISPLAY

 

 Session 3 - Concurrent

ROOMS	Event Centre	Bimbadeen	Sugarloaf	Pipette
	3A  - Theme - Behaviours Chair  - Tracy Robinson	3B  - Theme – Recovery Chair – Gina Sartore	3C  - Theme - Capacity Chair – Jaelea Skehan	3D – Workshops Chair – Craig Hart
2.00pm	Emily Saurman MHEC-RAP: Providing round the clock emergency mental health services to the bush	Elizabeth Martin & Vanessa Smith Heard It On The Grapevine - Communication and continuity of care	Elizabeth Wakeford 'Access to Mental Health Information' Initiative: Establishing mental health resource collections in local libraries	Margaret O’Sullivan How early can Infants show signs of mental illness? Putting the Big E into Early Intervention
2.20pm	Pamela Stanford Measuring the effectiveness of a DBT program in a rural setting	Robert Wood & Nell Gaff Out of the Cellar and onto the Table - Reaffirming the efficacy of groups in recovery work as an effective and exciting clinical intervention	Julie Millard “There’s no information drought here.” Mapping the Difference We Make - The Mental Health Coordinating Council’s Statewide Outcome Monitoring Program
2.40pm	Lynn Davies Mental Health Staff Attitudes and Understanding Of  Seclusion Use	Fiona Beston Improving Physical Health for People with a Mental Illness within existing resources	Julie Millard Continued
3.00pm	Teresa Stone Language uncorked: Swearing, demystifying a taboo	Catherine Bunton Using evidence to create sustainable change within health services: What matters?	Patricia Armstrong Grieve with Grace: Inverell Memory Garden	Chris Gibbs The Mental Health Professionals Network
3.20pm	Kellie Goldsworthy, Helen Searle & John Mowatt Radical Acceptance and Mindfulness: The core principles in implementing and maintaining a Dialectical Behavioural Therapy program for Borderline Personality Disorder in regional NSW	Chris McCrory Hope and Recovery - Learning from the Real Experts	Karynne Hicks Flanno Weekend
3.40pm	Question Time	Question Time	Question Time

 

 

3.50pm                       AFTERNOON TEA & TRADE DISPLAY

 

SESSION 4 – PLENARY               Event Centre                                               Chair – Lisa Brankley

 

4.20pm                       KEYNOTE ADDRESS

                                   Ken Burnett – Managing Mental Health Services to Achieve “Best Practice” Clinical Outcomes: Is there a process? Are there real outcomes?

 

5.10pm                       Questions

 

5.20pm                       Close of Day Two

 

 

DAY THREE – Friday 28^th November 2008

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8.30am           Registration (for 1 day delegates)

 

SESSION 5 – PLENARY               Event Centre                                               Chair – Tracy Robinson

 

9.00am           Introduction

 

 SESSION 6 - Concurrent

ROOMS	Event Centre	Bimbadeen	Sugarloaf
	6A – Theme – Indigenous Mental Health Chair -  Warren Bartik	6B  - Theme – Substance Chair – Elizabeth Martin	6C  - Theme - Drought Chair – Krystina Micke
9.05am	Jenny Regan Involving Aboriginal Community Members in Anger Management Courses	Meg Smith What works? Research into cannabis use by young mental health consumers: examining the effectiveness of health promotion campaigns	Helen Stain “Still Like a Pebble in my Shoe” – Continuing stress on children and families in times of drought
9.25am	Jenny Regan Continued	Etty Matalon Brief Overview of Cannabis Intervention	Caroline Long “The Many Faces of The Farm Family Gathering”
9.45am	Tom Brideson Sound Practice in the Development of an Aboriginal Mental Health Workforce	Brendan Pawsey Integrated Treatment for Dual Diagnosis:  The Collaborative Therapy Managing Mental Health & Substance Use Project	Craig Hart NSW Health Drought Mental Health Assistance Package (DMHAP) 2008-09 – an Overview
10.05am	Tom Brideson Continued	Ross Colquhoujn The Nature Of Addiction	Brien Ledger The Mental Health Intervention Project
10.25am	Question Time	Question Time	Question Time

 

10.35am                     MORNING TEA & TRADE DISPLAY

 

 SESSION 7 - Concurrent

ROOMS	Event Centre	Bimbadeen	Sugarloaf
	7A  - Theme – Access Chair – Trish Blackman	7B  - Theme - Promotion Chair – Lisa Brankley	7C  - Theme – Resilience Chair – Judy Stephens
11.05am	Justine Fletcher & Bridget Bassilios Evaluation of primary mental health care in rural Australia: The Access to Allied Psychological Services program	Michele Sapucci The Transcultural Rural and Remote Outreach Project; dealing with diversity in rural areas	Gina Sartore Social Connecteness, Rurality, And Depresssion: Associations With Suicidal Ideation And Attempt In Rural NSW
11.25am	Anne-Marie Holley Farm-Link : Improving the Health and Well Being of people on NSW Farms	Echo Morgan Co-Exist NSW: Diversity Health Comorbidty Service. A new statewide service for culturally and lingusitically diverse communities who have mental health problems and substance abuse	Tracy Robinson Introduction to Rural Mental Health Practice: An Evaluation of an online orientation to rural mental health
11.45am	Sarah McMahon Rural Engagement: Supporting the rural community impacted by eating disorders	Amanda Shaw Proactive Media - Building Capacity for Proactive and Appropriate Media Coverage of Mental Health Issues	James Bishop A Stay Well Plan, Not Just a Mood Diary
12.05pm	Sarah McMahon Continued	Tim Saal Rural and Remote Mental Health and Environmental Change in Queensland	Louise Holdsworth The importance of community connectedness to mental well-being
12.25pm	Jan Sidford Notes from the Outback: lessons in conducting mental health research in a remote region	Janet Austin Healthy, Wealthy & Wise: a smoking reduction program with mental health clients.	Warren Bartik Supporting early psychosis intervention in rural NSW
12.45pm	Question Time	Question Time	Question Time

 

12.55pm                                 LUNCH & TRADE DISPLAY

 

SESSION 8 – PLENARY                           Event Centre                                                           Chair – Judy Stephens

 

2.00pm                       KEYNOTE ADDRESS

                                   Euan Hails – Mental Health Nursing - Moving into the 21st Century.
 

 

2.50pm                       Presentations and Announcements for 2009

 

                                   CONFERENCE CLOSE

 

3.10pm                       AFTERNOON TEA

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