2009 Conference Presentations
6 – 8 May 2009
Dockside, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour, Sydney
Co-hosted by the Mental Health Coordinating Council (MHCC) and the Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies (NADA)
Conference Presentations are in alphabetical order by first listed author under the day it was presented
(Note that some Powerpoint presentations were very large files and cannot be loaded on this website - please contact us in relation to any missing presentations)
Wednesday 6 May
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Keynote John Mendoza - Where to for mental health reform?
- Alpert - HASI for Kooris. A new model for Aboriginal Services: Walking Together (3.8Mb)
- Badry - HASI Step Up: promoting well being (2.3Mb)
- Bochynska - Principles for development and implementation of youth mental health services
- Bosi - Housing Sans Frontieres
- Boyle - Breaking new ground: clients as guides in the recovery journey
- Bryant - Media and mental health issues: building the capacity of the mental health sector
- Burke - Conceptualising complex needs with a trauma based model
- Butt - The high and complex needs of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness (1.4Mb)
- Church - A social inclusion agenda - Where to start?
- Cowlin - Developing pathways between boarding house managers and service agencies to engage and access tenants with multiple, complex health and welfare needs
- Cripps - Travelling the road home - let's make sure that we don't lose our way
- Devlin - Does methamphetamine use have an impact on the mental health of a consumer and if so what are we going to do about it? (1.2Mb)
- Donato-Hunt - Pathways to treatment for cannabis comorbidity
- Dowse - Disbling criminology: conceptualising the complexity of disability in the criminal justice system
- Dua - Predictors of reduction in drug intake and improvement in mental health
- Farrell - Enhanced Primary Care: a unique way of working with complexity
- Fawcett - Building an evidence base to inform practice
- Garvey - Researching and connecting with LGBT diversity
- Golovchenko - Breathing space project: background to the development and use of a smoking cessation program for women
- Graham - Collaborative working to support those experiencing severe domestic squalor (1.5Mb)
- Greene - The NGO Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Research Grants Program (2.6Mb)
- Haswell-Elkins - Listening, sharing, understanding and facilitating consumer, family and community empowerment through a priority driven partnership in Far North Queensland (1.3Mb)
- Heininger - Utilising interactive theatre, art-based mediums and gaming to explore issues and engage young people
- Maddrell - Young people connected: a corporate and community partnership keeping young people connected (1.6Mb)
- Martin - Culture clash: residential rehabilitation and the criminal justice system (2.6Mb)
- Milton - Responding to smoking issues in non-government mental health services: assisting consumers to choose life (not cigarettes) (1.2Mb)
- Mullinar - An effective way to heal from childhood trauma, recognising that child abuse is a major causal factor for mental health disorders and addictions
- Parsons - From hospital to community: evaluating the outcomes of a co-ordinated Step-Down program
- Ponzio - NSW Integrated Services Project
- Rich - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy at Jarrah House (1.2Mb)
- Rose - Illness perceptions, attitudes and adherence. What are the links?
- Rota-Bartelink - Developing behaviour management strategies for older people living with alcohol related brain injury (ARBI)
- Stewart - Aboriginal mental health support initiative: a collaborative partnership
- Townsend - Establishing a therapeutic community in Canberra's new prison (1.5Mb)
- Watkins - Art Resilience Tools (ART) Project: responding to the mental health needs of school aged children (1.4Mb)
Thursday 7 May
- Keynote Margaret Hamilton - Working with complexity: Lessons from the Victorian Multiple and Complex Needs Initiative
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Keynote David McGrath - What brings us together
- Bamborough - Reflective practice
- Bateman - Recovery oriented workforce development (1.8Mb)
- Byrne - Providing an integrated approach for people with complex and diverse needs in a variety of human service settings
- Cameron - No Wrong Door: the mental health drug and alcohol Change Management Project
- Crawford - The iatrogenic effects of drug treatments such as methadone (3.3Mb)
- Flynn - Mental health skills articulation between vocational education and training (VET) and higher education sectors
- Jacbsen - CHC08 Community Services Training Package
- Kelly - Benchmarking in the non-government sector
- Kelly - The dual diagnosis capability of residential adiction treatment centres: The usefulness of DDCAT as an index
- Khoo - Do you do data darling? - A great debate
- Lee - Solving our workforce shortage CARE Campaign
- Leonard - The Multiple and Complex Needs Initiative in Victoria: the challenge of systems change for improved outcomes for individuals
- Meagher - Back on Track Health (BOTH) Project
- Montgomery - Leadership in Action
- Pawsey - Using evidence to create sustainable change health services: What matters?
- Perez - Building collaboration into development (4.4Mb)
- Reifels - Developing leaders within a community based health service
- Retel - Duty of care and risk situations: non-statutory outreach service provision: working with people presenting complex needs in a risk-laden context
- Sandford - Peer education based brief interventions increase safer injecting practices in street based sex workers
- West - Making your funding go further using freebees and networks
- Willmott - Keeping children & young people safe: the complexities of working with substance using parents
- Zimmerman - Developing a research and evaluation framework for a practice based psychosocial rehabilitation service
Friday 8 May
- Allcock - Responsible gambling
- Blake - Can Do and Building on Can Do for the Australian GP Network
- Bull - The development of a code of ethics for the AOD sector
- Filladites - The role of the family and culture in working with youth of a Greek background
- Jakupec - Psychosocial rehabilitation services for Immigration Department detainees
- Kirton - Psychological treatment and vocational education assistance for adolescents
- Loo - The NSW Mental Health Act (2007) and physical treatments: practical and ethical implications (4.5Mb)
- MacQueen - Developing a better way of engaging rural people with complex health problems
- Matalon - Quitting cannabis: a brief intervention for cannabis use disorder
- Maybery - Families with complex needs: developing an evidence base model of care
- McDonald - Moving from the inside out: using dance/movement therapy in the treatment of addictions and other mental health conditions
- McGee - What works: health promotion campaigns for people living with mental illness who use cannabis
- McInnes - OUThere group: promoting a healthy approach to complex clients and how exercise assists in a recovery process
- Murugeson - Collaborative approach to comorbid drug and alcohol and mental health in drought affected communities in NSW (1.6Mb)
- Patfield - The mentally disordered provisions of the NSW Mental Health Act, irrationality and an approach to compulsory care
- Priest - International Approaches/Issues in Consumer Worker Roles and Workforce Development
- Robertson - The moral basis of involuntary psychiatric treatment
- Stirling - Family: friend or foe?
- Toms - Maximising opportunities: collaboration with carers (1.1Mb)
- UnitingCare Mental Health - Understanding mental health from the Arabic community perspective
- Vet - Work practice issues in delivering a family systems approach
- Yip - Rethinking models of respite and service delivery in response the diverse and complex needs of mental health carers (2.9Mb)