2004 Conference - Turning the Tide
NSW NGO Conference 2004
NGOs Mental Health and Community:
''Turning the Tide''
About the Conference
The 2nd biennial NSW NGO Conference was held at Novotel Northbeach Wollongong on 25-26 March 2004. The Mental Health Coordinating Council (MHCC), Illawarra Area Health Service and NSW Health (Centre for Mental Health) together facilitated the conference designed to review opportunities for both mental health and mainstream non-government organisations and to promote stronger relationships between NGOs and government agencies and services.
387 registered for the conference including a good range of stakeholders from the non-government and government sectors as well as carers and consumers.
Conference Themes
The themes of the conference focused on the role and operation of NGOs in the future, individually
and in partnership.
Tidal Flows
• Achieving Outcomes: demonstrating your service works
• Current Research: a range of recent projects
• Consumer and Carer Advocacy: what’s happening?
• Performance Management: some positive initiatives
Rising Tide
• Mental health is Everybody’s Business: capacity building in mainstream NGOs
• Social Capital: valuing community
• Connections: social relationships
• Collaborative Caring: support initiatives
High Tide
• Away From the Big Smoke: rural initiatives
• Interagency Collaboration: meeting the needs of survivors/victims of sexual assault
• Life Matters: suicide prevention
• Taking a Break: the importance of leisure
Tsunami
• More Than Just a Roof: partnerships in housing support
• The Right to Work: vocational and employment services
• Dual Diagnosis: working with people who have complex needs
• Where’s the Justice?: mental illness and the criminal justice system
To view the Conference program, download program.pdf.
Conference Papers
Below are some of the presentations from the NSW NGO Conference. If you were a presenter and your paper is not listed, and you would like it to be, please contact MHCC to arrange this.
Papers presented at the NSW NGO Conference are available in PDF format. Get the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
Keynote speakers:
- Leone Crayden - Turning the Tide – what is the future of mental health service delivery and what can we learn from the past?
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Pearl Fernandes - ‘Pluck from the mind a rooted sorrow’: Understanding the psychological impact
of displacement, war/trauma, and acculturation in a new country. - Hegarty, M - Mind the Gap – Children Whose Parents Have a Dual Diagnosis
- Allan Owen - Population Approaches to Mental Health
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Teresa Petric NSW Transcultural Mental Health Centre - Mental Health in a Multicultural
Society - Robert Wheeler Mental Health Advocacy Service - Changes to the Mental Health Act.
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Keith Wilson, MHCA - The Way Forward For NGOs in Mental Health Services
Papers
- Badry, T - Active Linking Initiative (ALI)
- Baur, M., Deane, F. P., Perkins, D., - Perceived Mental Health Needs of Callers to `Lifeline’s Just Ask’
- National Rural Mental Health Information Service: Is there a rural/Metropolitan difference?
- Jacqueline Brophy - Surfing the tide of change: Collaborative Caring
- Jane Bullen, Julia Jacobs, Lou Lou Le Pont, Michelle Martin, Constance Smith - A Collaborative Approach to Working with Women who have Experienced Sexual Violence as Children – Stepping Out Housing Program
- James Condren - Justice Action
- Carolyn Dixon - NSW Statewide Community & Court Liaison Service
- Foskey, R - Mature Men Matter in North West NSW – Drama and Collaboration in a rural men’s wellbeing program
- Prof David M Greenberg & Carolynn Dixon - NSW Statewide Community &Court Liaison Service
- Assoc Prof Jim Greenwood - A Non-Government Organisation Turning The Tide on High Prevalence Disorders”
- Harris, M RSJ - The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia
- Gillian Holt, Gabriella Holmes and Linda L Viney - Seeing Through the Mist: An intervention for young people with mental health and substance use issues
- Rhoda Immerman and Angela Siggens - Charting the Waters
- King, Patricia, Hope Unlimited - Much More Than Coffee and Cake
- Lifeline -Life Matters Suicide Intervention Program Suicide Intervention Program
- Gillian L Malins and Phil Escott - MH-CoPES
- Marshall, R - Working with Families Education
- Maron, S & Maitland M – Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative in the Illawarra
- Mark McMahon - The Right to Work: Vocational & Employment Services
- Joanne Millington - Matching Philosophy with Practice in Psychiatric Rehabilitation
- Henriette Norath - Including Everyone: Helping your Recreational Group understand Social and Emotional Difficulties
- Henriette Norath and Emma Petersen - Becoming Part of the In Crowd
- Larry Pierce, NADA - Workforce Development - Practical solutions to improving skills
- Anthony Sell - Innovations in Post Vention Services - An Intersectoral Partnership Auspiced by an NGO.
- Angela Siggens & Rhoda Immerman, ARAFMI - Charting the Waters
- Katy Smith - Helping Hands
- Waterford, M & Clark K - Blue Mountains Community Resource Network
- Watson, S - Tsunami or Tiddler? Consumer advocacy from a trainer''s perspective