CSW Weekly Update
Carer Events, Newsletters, Reports & Articles
EVENTS
Well Ways Snap Shot for
Carers – Peer Education
for Mental Health Carers
9th and 16th May 2015
In partnership with MI Fellowship Victoria, this course is
a two session education program. The program is designed
to assist carers develop skills on how to help those they
care for who have a mental illness as well as themselves.
Click here for further details.
Governance Workshop
for Community
Organisations
21st April 2015
This workshop is ideal for anyone from small community
organisations, management committee members and office
holders, the community or Not-for-Profit sector interested
in learning about good Governance and why it is essential
for their organisation’s viability and future. Click here for
further details and to register.
“Staying Connected
When Emotions Run
High” – A FREE
Introductory Workshop
for Professionals
5th May 2015
This workshop aims to introduce professionals to the
“Staying Connected When Emotions Run High”
frameworks. It can help you as a professional to develop
strategies to become a resource to someone who has
changeable and overwhelming emotions; who displays
impulsive and destructive behaviour or is diagnosed with
marked emotion dysregulation (including personality
disorder). Click here for more details and to register.
Moving into a Person
Centred Practice World –
NCOSS and IncludeUs
Symposium
15th May 2015
You are cordially invited to attend an information and
discussion symposium brought to you by NCOSS and
IncludeUs. Click here for more further information and to
register.
The Centre for
Volunteering – 2015
Ignite Volunteering
Conference
1st June 2015
You are invited to attend The Centre for Volunteering’s
annual conference, Ignite Volunteering, to be held on
Monday, June 1 2015. The day will comprise a mixture of
plenary sessions, interactive workshops, panels and case
studies. Click here for further details and to register.
Commonwealth Respite
and Carelink Centre’s
“Carers Gala Dinner”
1st May 2015
The Inner West, South East Sydney, South West Sydney,
Northern Sydney, Nepean and Cumberland Prospect
Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centre will be
holding a FREE Carers Gala Dinner for ALL Carers. Click
here for more information.
BEING in the country
27th May 2015
The Recovery Conference is an annual statewide event run
by BEING. It is an opportunity for people with lived
experience of mental illness to learn from each other by
sharing stories and skills. This year’s recovery conference
is focusing on Whole of Health. Mental health is
connected with physical, emotional, social, environmental
and spiritual health. Click here for further details.
Side by Side – Advocacy
and Human Rights
Information Session
29th April 2015
Side by Side Advocacy is organising an information
session to meet with you and to inform you of what
the agency does. They will also provide a chance for those
who would wish to promote their agency/service and/or
inform about their upcoming events. Click here for more
details and to view the flyer.
Carers NSW – Summary
of Mental Health Carer
Events
April 2015
Click here to view a summary of upcoming events being
held by the Mental Health Respite: Carer Support program
(MHRCS), which supports family and friends of people
with a mental illness.To register for or find out more
information about any of these events please call the Carer
Line on 1800 242 636 and ask to speak to someone from
the Mental Health Respite: Carer Support Program.
NALAG – Loss &
Grief Volenteer Training –
Mid North Coast Branch
4th May 2015
This is a joint initiative of NALAG Mid North Coast &
HNE Mental Health. The NALAG Loss & Grief Volunteer
Training course will assist participants to provide support
to grieving adults. During the course you will look at some
of your own losses and hear other participant’s stories of
loss. The course aims to provide participants with an
understanding of normal grief. Click here for more
information and to register.
The 7th Australian Rural
& Remote Mental Health
Symposium
26th October 2015
Save the date for the 7th Australian Rural & Remote
Mental Health Symposium being held from the 26 – 28
October 2015 at the Novotel Forest Resort. Click here to
read more about this conference.
Let’s Talk About S..
Conference 2015 |
Registrations Now
Open!!
8th September 2015
Alzheimer’s Australia Vic and COTA Victoria wish to
invite you to join us for the Let’s Talk About S..
Conference taking place at the Pullman on the Park,
Melbourne on the 8-9 September 2015. This inaugural
conference aims to challenge many of the assumptions,
taboos and stereotypes when it comes to older people and
sexual intimacy. Click here for further details.
1st Endoactive National
Endometriosis
Conference
16th May 2015
This is “a forum for doctors, clinicians and health
professionals as well as patients and their families alike –
we want both sides to share their perspectives.” (Sylvia
Freedman). Health Consumers NSW (HCNSW) are giving
away four (4) FREE Registrations to this event!! To go
into the draw, please write to info@hcnsw.org.au by 15
April with your name and contact details and explain why
you would like to attend the forum. Click here for more
details and click here to view the offer from HCNSW.
REPORTS & ARTICLES
UNSW School of
Psychiatry – Call for
Research Participants
Researchers within the UNSW School of Psychiatry and
affiliated organisations are conducting investigations into
a variety of factors involved in the development of Bipolar
Disorder, Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder.
Click here for more details.
Hunter PIR and the NDIS:
Building a Stronger
Partnership
The Partners in Recovery (PIR) Initiative provides
coordinated support for people with severe and persistent
mental illness and complex needs. As well as improving
health outcomes for consumers, Hunter Partners in
Recovery (PIR) is striving to improve the mental health
system for all those affected by severe and persistent
mental illness by encouraging collaboration and the
development of innovative and collective responses to the
challenges presented. For a full copy of this report click
here.
MHCC Certificate IV in
Mental Health Peer Work
– Sydney Group
Commencing 28 APRIL
The peer workforce is arguably the fastest growing
workforce in mental health in Australia. The Certificate IV
in Mental Health Peer Work (CHC42912) has been
specifically developed to meet the needs of this
emerging workforce. APPLY NOW – PLACES ARE
GOING FAST!! Click here for further details and to
register.
How NOT to talk to
someone with
Depression
Click here to view an interesting article on how NOT to
talk to someone with depression…
Australia’s drug policy
led the world 30 years
ago. Now politics holds
us back
On the 30th anniversary of a drug summit that led to the
adoption of harm minimisation in drug policy, it’s
disconcerting to note that this field is now more politicised
than ever. Read the full article here.
Mindframe Media Alert:
Reminder to media about
continued coverage of
Germanwings incident
With continued coverage of the Germanwings air crash in
the Australian media, theMindframe National Media
Initiative encourages media professionals to consider the
guidelines for reporting mental illness and the advice
provided in its most recent national alert to media. Click
here to view the full media release.
New post on City of
Sydney Narratives
Project - A message from
the Minister
Mental Health services will have their funding renewed in
a move to give them certainty, Minister for Heath Sussan
Ley announced today. Click here to read more...
AMHOCN Update –
Abstracts for 5th
Australasian Mental
Health Outcomes and
Information Conference
Still Open
“Rising to new heights” is the theme of the 5th
Australasian Mental Health Outcomes and Information
Conference (AMHOIC 2015) which is being held from 11
– 13 November 2015 at the Millennium Hotel,
Queenstown, New Zealand. Click here to view this update
in full.
Prevention First: A
prevention and
promotion framework for
mental health
Prevention First is a plain language document that
provides a new national framework for strategic action to
prevent mental ill-health and promote mental health
and well-being. For more information and to obtain a full
copy of the framework, click here.
Community Justice
Coalition – Media release
26 March 2015: Lack of
access to education for
prisoners in NSW
“Education in prisons has been proven to have a positive
impact on recidivism, reintegration and employment
outcomes upon release” said the Community Justice
Coalition President the Hon John Dowd AO QC. Click
here to view the media release in full, including a video
excerpt of the event.
SANE Media Release:
Regional and rural
Australians are turning
to mobile technology for
mental health care
Australians are turning increasingly to mobile technology
to access the support and mental health care they need,
overcoming isolation and the stigma surrounding
mental illness. Click here to read the full media release.
Fantastic new resource:
Flipbook – Psychosis?
Me?
Click here to view this fantastic new resource – an
electronic Flipbook by Creative Commons, titled
‘Psychosis? Me?‘
NEWSLETTERS & UPDATES
Mental Health
Coordinating Council –
‘FYI e-news’ April 2015
Click here to view the Mental Health Coordinating
Council’s FYI e-news for April 2015.
Disability Council of
NSW: 'i-CONTACT' –
March 2015
Click here to view the Disability Council of NSW latest e
Newsletter.
National Eating
Disorders Collaboration
e-Bulletin
Click here to view the latest National Eating Disorders
Collaboration e-Bulletin.
ISPS News and Updates
Click here to view the latest updates and news from the
International Society for Psychological and Social
Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS).
National Disability
Insurance Agency:
March 2015 e-Newsletter
Click here to view the National Disability Insurance
Agency’s March 2015 e-Newsletter.
NSW Health Advanced
Care Planning and End
of Life Implementation
Update- Newsletter 4
March 2015
Click here to view the latest update from the NSW
Ministry of Health.
@arafmi Newsletter 13 –
17 April 2015
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