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Opportunities Not Vulnerabilities: An Australian agenda for social inclusion. Anglicare National Conference 2008
31 August 2008
Sydney, AUSTRALIA

SPA Indigenous Gathering: 'Live Long, Live Strong'
1 September 2008
Sydney, AUSTRALIA

TheMHS 18th Annual Conference: BE the change you want
2 September 2008
Auckland , NEW ZEALAND

Latest additions to the calendar Full list.

New Horizons Mental Health Support Workers Conference: Building resilience, tools for recovery
10 November 2008
Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Factsheets

A range of factsheets and summary style information available on the internet. Check out the full list

Caring for teenagers
(full details)
A range of factsheets with tips and expert advice on how to cope with the teenage years.

Links

These lead to a range of reliable information available on the internet relating to the promotion, prevention and early intervention for mental health (PPEI) and suicide prevention. The full list is available here.

Mensline: Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men
(Go to website)
A dedicated service for men with relationship and family concerns. This site contains information about relevant resources, events, services and an online forum for indigenous men.

Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research
(Go to website)
Informs, promotes and supports through state-wide leadership in research, education and evaluation around domestic violence issues.

National Homelessness Clearinghouse
(Go to website)
A site to facilitate the sharing of homelessness research, information and good practice examples across the sector, and provide opportunities for collaboration, interaction and discussion.

Bullies out
(Go to website)
Provides help, support and information to individuals, schools, youth and community settings affected by bullying. Based in the UK, but the online support forum is available world-wide.

Headroom: the family room
(Go to website)
This section of the Headroom website has a wide range of information for parents.

Disability News (InfoXchange)
(Go to website)
InfoXchange is a not for profit organisation that facilitates communication and networking via technological tools. This noticeboard provides information about activities and resources for the disability sector.

Media

Latest transcripts of Australian based print, television and radio media. Full list.

Let's get to work
Date Published: Thursday, 21st August 2008
Source: ABC - Life Matters
Full story: online here

The latest research on helping people with mental illness to get a job shows there are specific strategies that really work. The Mental Health Council of Australia believes this is a group of people in the community whose skills are simply being wasted by current employment policies.

The wealthy healthy: wellbeing's social determinants
Date Published: Friday, 15th August 2008
Source: ABC - The National Interest
Full story: online here

What makes us healthy, and what keeps us well? And can societies be made healthier? In this special broadcast from the 2008 Fulbright Symposium in Adelaide, the National Interest explores the social factors underpinning health. So, we're examining how things like public transport or housing policy, the tax system or education spending, can all add up to improve our health.

What are you doing?

Details of relevant activities and programs from around Australia. Complete list.

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Well Ways: Helping families and friends find better ways
Well Ways is an educational program delivered by experienced carers of someone with a mental illness to other carers and/or relatives of a person with a mental illness. Well Ways is designed to increase the capacity of families, carers and friends to care effectively for themselves, other family members and the relative living with mental illness.

Duration: Initial 8 consecutive weeks with four follow-up sessions over the ensuing 12 months.

Rock and Water: Teaching boys self-confidence, self-control and self-esteem
Rock and Water is presented by The Family Action Centre in collaboration with The Gadaku Institute. Workshops are delivered all over Australia. So far more than 11,000 teachers have received some form of training to deliver the program.

Rock and Water was devised to offer teachers a new way to interact with boys through physical-social teaching. The program is also excellent for girls. Physical exercises are constantly linked with mental and social skills. In this way, the program leads from simple, self-defence, boundary and communication exercises to a strong notion of self-confidence.

Adult Mental Health First Aid Courses
Mental Health First Aid is a 12 hour course which teaches first aid skills for mental health crisis situations and the early stages of mental health problems. Contact Margaret for session times.

Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)
Tuesday 14 October 2008, Newcastle. Presented by Dr David A Jobes (USA).

This one day workshop will provide clinicians with a firm understanding of the CAMS model and how to apply it in their day to day clinical work. Designed to give participants a sense of confidence in the assessment and management of suicide, Jobes offers an antidote to haphazard and personalized views of working with suicidal patients, integrating the theoretical constructs of Edwin Shneidman, Aaron Beck, and Roy Baumeister into a comprehensive and evidence-based treatment strategy. Firmly grounded in science, this flexible, commonsense model provides essential tools for clinicians of every persuasion and level of expertise.

The CAMS approach has achieved best-practice status and, as more clinical trials are completed, is destined to be sufficiently evidence-based to become a 'must' in every clinician's repertoire. This workshop will demonstrate how this deceptively easy approach teaches clinicians to listen to and align with their patients, to consistently target suicide risk, and to effectively reduce that risk.

David is well known as an excellent presenter, passionate about his subject with ability to motivate clinicians of all disciplines to achieve best clinical practice around suicide assessment and management.

The National Network of Adult and Adolescent Children who have a Mentally ill parent/s
A network of children young people and adults who cope with and manage the behavior and demands of a parent with mental illness.

Provides support, counselling, webbased support,email support, telephone counselling, advocacy, resources, bulletin boards, forums and more.

A National Peak Body informing government of our needs.
with world wide reach via WAYMI: World Association of young people and others who have a mentally ill parent.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s health and wellbeing community consultation
15th September, Paddington, Sydney
A one day consultation to discuss the health and wellbeing issues affecting Indigenous women in NSW. An interactive workshop will provide an opportunity for everyone to contribute to the discussion and share successful initiatives.

ARAFEMI: new mental health carer and consumer services
Carers Counselling Service:
The confidential counselling session will:
- Explore your concerns, needs and strengths as a carer
- Provide emotional support,
- Increase your knowledge about mental health and caring

Carers are entitled to 6 free sessions, on Thursdays 9am-5pm. For more information please contact the ARAFEMI helpline on 1300 550 265.

Carers’ Message Board:
ARAFEMI’s online Carers’ Message Board is open next week for testing at www.arafemi.org.au. It aims to provide a forum for carers to share knowledge and information. For any carers interested in helping test the message board, please contact Frances Sanders on 98109300.

Flexible Respite Options Program (East):
Aims to support families and carers to take time out through the provision of high quality respite to their family member or friend. We recognise that all families and carers have different needs when planning care for their loved one. Therefore our Respite workers can help develop a tailored respite program that takes into consideration the whole family, including the specific needs of the person with a mental illness. We are very excited about our new respite house and welcome carers and consumers to take a break in this supportive environment.

Our specialist mental health workers can deliver high quality support for people with a mental illness:
- Planned home-based outreach support with a one to one mental health support worker
- Emergency home-based outreach support with a one to one mental health support worker
- Planned accommodation based respite with 24- hour support worker or active outreach support
- Emergency accommodation based respite with 24 hour support worker or active outreach support
- Recreation respite days and tailored 4 day camps.

Resources Catalogue

The database provides details of a wide range of resources relating to mental health and wellbeing. The full database can be searched here.

For more details click on title.

A Strategic Policy Framework for Older Men’s Health
2008, Council on the Ageing (COTA) Victoria, Melbourne Vic.
It is anticipated that this policy framework will become a blueprint for the development of policies and programmes that meet the physical, psychological and social wellbeing needs of older male Victorians.


Inequalities in Young People’s Health: HBSC international report from the 2005/2006 survey.
2008, World Health Organization, Geneva, SWI.
The document presents a status report on health, health-related behaviour and the social contexts of young people’s health.


National Indigenous Public Health Curriculum Framework
2008, Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Research Unit, Melbourne, Vic.
A guide for university public health teaching programs to include key Indigenous health content into their Master of Public Health (MPH) programs. Contains six core Indigenous public health competencies and relevant resources.


Sustaining Grassroots Community-Based Programs: A toolkit for community and faith-based service providers
2008, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Washington, DC.
Designed to help grassroots community and faith-based organizations develop sustainable organizations and program services for individuals and families affected by substance abuse and mental health disorders.


What's the Story? Reporting mental health and suicide - a resource for journalists and editors
2008, Shift, London, UK.
Useful facts, figures and contacts designed to help the media, the police, mental health charities and psychiatrists to challenge misconceptions about mental illness and suicide.


Community Wellbeing in an Unwell World: Trends, challenges and opportunities
2007, The McCaughey Centre, Melbourne, Vic.
Examines the meaning and importance of community wellbeing, local and global trends, and indicators of measurement.


Cracking the Nut of Health Equity: top down and bottom up pressure for action on the social determinants of health
2007, Commission on Social Determinants of Health, Geneva, SWI.
Considers the factors that are necessary to encourage governments to adopt policies that aim at improving population health equitably, responding to social determinants.


Declaration of Hobart
2008, Primary Health Care Research and Information Service, Adelaide, SA.
The Youth Health Research Interest Group workshop of the Australian National GP & PHC Research Conference (Hobart, 2008) wrote this "Hobart Declaration" for Health for all young Australians. The workshop aimed to ascertain what is ideal primary health for young Australians.


Good Starts Study for Refugee Youth
2008, Refugee Health Research Centre, Melbourne, Vic.
This study directly addresses the gap in the research on the social determinants of health and well-being among refugee communities with a specific focus on young people and the settlement process.


Realising Recovery Learning Materials
Scottish Recovery Network (SRN), Glasgow, UK.
Provides further learning to enable mental health workers to work alongside service users as they create their own unique recovery journeys. Also useful for mental health service users and carers either in their role as trainers involved in delivering the learning or as learners exploring and developing their understanding of recovery focused practice.