Day 1 - Tuesday 19th March 2019

Time	Subject	Speaker
8:30-9.00am	Registration - Coffee and Tea
9.00am	Housekeeping
9.15am - 9.45am	Official Opening
	Acknowledgement to Country	Faye Clark, Community Elder and Registered Nurse, Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-operative.
9.45-10.30am Keynote Speaker	More than listening - Co-designing better care plans and health systems	Lucy Fraser
10.30–11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00am- 1.00pm Keynote Speaker	Methamphetamine and the Transition of Research to Practice and Policy	Nicole Lee
1:00–2:00pm	Lunch
2:00–3:10pm	Breakout Sessions
	Topic	Presenter
Room 1 25 minute presentations then 10 minutes of questions at the conclusion of both sessions	You're No Good To Anyone if You're Not Well Yourself: Self Care Tips from Positive Psychology	Ellen Jackson
Room 2 25 minute presentations then 10 minutes of questions at the conclusion of both sessions	Supporting Isolated Staff - Management and Self-Managment Supporting Young Carers Supporting Parents with Mental Illness to Improve Attachment with their Children - Circle of Security Program Collaboration	Petra Hinch (Uniting) Courtney Guy (Wellways) Cheree Cosgriff (ballarat Health Services)
3:00–3:20pm	Afternoon Tea
3:20–3:50pm	Breakout Sessions
	Topic	Presenter
Room 1 25 minute presentations then 5 minutes of questions at the conclusion of both sessions	Well Together - Transforming Lives and Communities by Sharing our Lived Experience in 2016	Kate Higgins - Regional Manager Western Victoria, Wellways Australia
Room 2 25 minute presentations then 5 minutes of questions at the conclusion of both sessions	Parental Mental Illness Support Team - A Demonstration Project	Keela Borron, Jo Snibson and Lisa Jakiel (BADAC)
Room 3 25 minute presentations then 5 minutes of questions at the conclusion of both sessions	The Expanded Post Discharge Support Program(EPDSP)	Donna Matthews (Barwon Health)
4.00–5.00pm Keynote Speaker	The role of the Mental Health Complaints Commissioner - what we can all learn from complaints about people's experiences in mental health services	Dr Lynne Coulson Barr

Conference Dinner 19th March 2019

Time	Speaker	Order of Events
6.30pm		Pre-dinner Drinks
7.00pm	Sweet Mona's Choir	Entrée
7.30pm		Main Course
8.00pm	Jules Allen	Dinner Speaker
Approx 8:45pm		Dessert and Coffee to follow speaker.

Day 2 - Wednesday 20th March 2019

Time	Subject	Speaker
7:30-8.30am	Madeleine Fernbach	TERF Wars - New Developments in the Transgender Landscape in 2019
8:30-9.00am	Registration - Coffee and Tea
9.00-9.10am	Housekeeping
9.10-9.20am	Welcome and Acknowledgement to Country	Faye Clarke
9:20–10.15am Keynote Speaker	Building futures of hope and possibility: A life of working, connecting and learning in diverse spaces with children, young people and families where a parent has mental illness.	Rose Cuff
10:15–11:00am Keynote Speaker	Perinatal Mental Health - Beyond PND	Dr Harish Kalra
11am–11:30am	Morning Tea
11:30am–12.30pm	Breakout Sessions
	Topic	Presenter
Room 1 25 minute presentations then 10 minutes of questions at the conclusion of both sessions	Student Led Clinic for Mental Health Assessment STEPMI - Innovation for Enduring Mental Healthp	Janelle Johnson and Michelle Graffeo (Headspace and Ballarat Community Health) Nathan Broom and Leanne Duggan (Headspace and Uniting)
Room 2 25 minute presentations then 10 minutes of questions at the conclusion of both sessions	Grampians Health Justice Partnership - Uncovering hidden legal issues in the client welfare context	Lisa Buckland (Ballarat and Grampians Community Legal Service) and Bronte Maddaford (Grampians Community Health)
12:30–1.30pm	Lunch
1.30–2.30pm Keynote Speaker	Consumer Centered Care in Mental Health	Ali Pain
2.30pm	Reflection and Close

Call for Abstracts

Call for abstracts for the Grampians Mental Health Conference has been extended. Submission now close: Friday 9th September 2016.

In 2017 the Grampians Mental Health Conference will be presenting a conference focussed on Resilience across the lifespan. The Committee invites submissions that focus on better outcomes for consumers, carers, staff and organisations, under the following key concepts:

• Resilience across the lifespan focusing on 5 key age groups
  • Conception to 2 years of age
• • 2 years to 12 years of age
  • 12 to 25 years of age
  • 25 to 64 years of age
  • 64 years and beyond

• The impact of mental health concerns and/or AOD use on a person’s resilience or;
• Building the resilience of the health and welfare sector workforces or;
• Key theories/concepts/research conducted on what contributes to a person’s resilience, such as:
  • Attachment theory
• • The impact of trauma on resilience
  • Grief/loss
  • Community/cultural resilience
  • Lived experiences of resilient people/communities

Submissions can consider the key concepts in any number of settings including, but not limited to:

• working with individual consumers or carers
• being a carer or person with lived experience
• program development, delivery, and review
• staff and organisational development
• system and policy development
• advocacy at any level
• research and applied research.

Authors are invited to submit abstracts for presentations (30 minutes including question s unless there is a proposal for a group/interactive session to run across two session times, acceptance of these will be limited).

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts submission closes: Friday 9th September 2016
Notification of authors: Friday 14th October 2016
Author acceptance due: Friday 4th November 2016

For information download the document below or contact admin@gmhc.org.au

Conference Call for Abstracts June 2016.pdf - Download