Mental Health Coordinating Council

NSW NGO Conference

The Mental Health Coordinating Council (MHCC) holds a New South Wales (NSW) Non-Government Organisation (NGO) Conference every two to three years.

'Count-Me-In'

The last NSW NGO Conference, 'Count-Me-In', was held at the Sydney Masonic Centre on 1 - 2 March 2007. The MHCC organised this Conference in partnership with the NSW Health Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Office.

The conference theme, 'Count-Me-In', was chosen to promote the importance of inclusiveness in all aspects of community life for people with mental health problems. It also promotes the need for inclusiveness in the planning and delivery of the services needed for better mental health. Click here for Conference brochure.

Conference Evaluation Report 
 Conference Outcomes by Session

Papers:

• Jenna Bateman CEO MHCC - 'In from the margins - NGOs working in mental health' 
• Ann De-Belin, Wendi Etherington and Anne-Lyse De Guio, Tresillian Family Care Centre - ‘Parenting between cultures: Family school readiness as a mental health early intervention activity 
• Carol Berry - 'Mental Illness in NSW Prisons'
• Mark Buckingham, Kedesh Rehabilitation Services - MISA 
• Ann Chamberlain, Mission Australia - ‘Strategies for implementing outcomes measurement in a men’s SAAP service’ 
• Brett Collins, Justice Action - Count prisoners too 
• Eva Cox, University of Technology Sydney - Social inclusion and third sector activism 
• Pedro Diaz, Aftercare - ‘Promoting recovery at Aftercare through people friendly systems’ 
• Sean Fielder, LifeForce - 'In communities, with communities, for communities’ 
• Barry Frakes, Watts McCray Lawyers - Some practical implications of the family law amendment 
• Abigail Gray and Emily McCarron, Law and Justice Foundation - ‘On the edge of justice: The legal needs of people with a mental illness in NSW’ 
• Debbie Greene, MISA Pilot Project 
• Cliff Hawkey, On Track Community Programs - ‘Amalgamations and mergers’ 
• Nicola Hensler, Mission Australia - ‘Young People Connected’ 
• Mark Jackson, Kaiyu Enterprises - ‘Community inclusion / community recovery’ 
• Michael Mason and Maureen Fitzgerald, Uniting Care - ‘Ponderings of a cultural nomad’ 
• Jenni Mazlin-Law, Northern Sydney and Central Coast - ‘Reaching out for recovery’ 
• Dennis Meijer, AIDS Council of NSW (ACON) - ‘ACON’s mental health promotion strategy ’ 
• Chris McCabe, Education Centre Against Violence (ECAV) 'See me, hear me': Mental Health service provision and sexual Corinthian Room assault trauma ' 
• Jonine Penrose Wall - Implementing Routine Consumer Outcome Monitoring in NSW NGOs
• Cindi Petersen, South Eastern Sydney & Illawarra AHS - ‘Kings Cross Youth at Risk project’ 
• James Pitts, Odyssey House - MISA 
• Felicity Reynolds and Liz Giles, City of Sydney, Peter McGeorge, St Vincent’s MH Service, and Jenny O’Mahony, St Vincent’s Accident & Emergency - ‘Help the homeless: spend less money’ 
• David Rich, MIDAS, Sydney South West Area Health Service - MISA 
Janet Walk - Garden Group Council
• Mary Waterford, Miriam Bevis, and Julianne Abood, Mountains Community Resource Network - small NGOs’ role in responding to mental illness’
West Sydney Drug and Alcohol Resource Centre Inc - 'Reducing harm through education and community development'

 Workshops 

• Professor Robyn Richmond, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of NSW and Jon O’Brien, Tobacco Control and Social Equity Strategy, The Cancer Council NSW - ‘Smoking and mental illness: What can be done to meet the Tuscan Room challenge? 
• Liz Sanders, NEWPIN - ‘NEWPIN: A whole family approach to parental mental ill health’  
• Penny Milson & Jaelea Skehan, Hunter Institute of Mental Health - Mental health promotion and the media: Buuilding the capacity of the mental health sector

Thank you to our major sponsors for supporting this event: 

• North Coast Area Health Service - NSW Health
• City of Sydney
• NSW Cancer Council
• Community Sector Banking

PAST NSW NGO MENTAL HEALTH CONFERENCES

The Mental Health Coordinating Council (MHCC) holds New South Wales (NSW) Non-Government Organisation (NGO) Conferences every two to three years

2004 - Mental Health, NGOs and the Community: Turning the Tide 

Keynote speakers:
Leone Crayden - Turning the Tide – what is the future of mental health service delivery and what can we learn from the past?
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
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.
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?
Holt and Margrie
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

 

 

 

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