4 April 2013
UWA Club
Perth Western Australia
Official opening: Mr Eddie Bartnik
Mental Health Commissioner, WA
Welcome to Country:
May McQuire
SARC Manager: Tania Towers
Director WNHS: Paula Chatfield
Keynote speaker: Dr Cathy Kezelman, ASCA
Mental Health Commissioner: Eddie Bartnik
Keynote speaker: Dr Pam Stavropoulos, ASCA
Symposium MC: Tania Towers,
SARC Manager
April Pearman: Association for Services to Torture & Trauma Survivors
(ASeTTS)
Rape as a Weapon of War: Guidelines for practice
Trudi Ruane: CEO Waratah Support Centre, Bunbury
A Country Practice and Trauma Informed Care
Waiting to take the stage
Workers from Waratah Support Centre, Bunbury
Dr Ali Marsh: Clinical Psychologist
Trauma Informed Treatment for People with Complex
Trauma and Alcohol & Drug Issues
John Van der Giezen
Senior Social Worker.
Specialist Aboriginal Mental
Health Service
200 Years of Continuous Trauma;
Intergenerational Trauma in the
Aboriginal Community
Kellie Goes: Senior Learning &
Development Facilitator,
Department for Child
Protection
Emergent Trauma Informed practice: An
overview from the Sanctuary Networking
Conference hosted in Philadelphia USA
December 2012
Rose Parker: ambassador for ASCA
From Survivor to Thriver
“It’s the relationship that heals, the
relationship that heals, the relationship
that heals- my professional rosary.”
Love’s Executioner, Irvin Yalom (2000)
“Change will not come if we wait for some
other person or some other time.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama
Trauma Informed Treatment Guide for Working
with Women with Alcohol and Other Drug Issues
Dr Ali Marsh (Clinical Psychologist), Tania Towers (Clinical Psychologist)
To order contact Women’s Health and Family Services: 6330 5400 or via website
The guide: http://www.whfs.org.au/resources/tools
Podcasts: http://www.whfs.org.au/resources/podcasts
New Guidelines for Complex Trauma (clinical) &
service-delivery (organizational)
The Last Frontier: Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Complex Trauma & Trauma
Informed Care & Service Delivery’
Dr Cathy Kezelman & Dr Pam Stavropoulos; Adults Surviving Child Abuse (‘ASCA’) 2012
Guidelines available for download at www.asca.org.au/guidelines