Mental Health Carers Weekly Digest
Carer Events, Newsletters, Reports & Articles
EVENTS
WayAhead – Anxiety
Disorder Support Groups
Weekly
Woolloomooloo
WayAhead Mental Health Association currently runs Anxiety
Disorder Support Groups in NSW. These groups are open to
people living with an Anxiety Disorder and their family and
friends. Come along and learn more about Anxiety Disorders,
listen to the experiences of group members and find out where to
get help. Click here for more details.
ARAFMI Illawarra – Family
Connections Programme
Wollongong
Contact Arafmi Illawarra
The Family Connections program is designed to provide parents,
spouses, adult children, and siblings the knowledge and skills
that will be helpful to them for their own wellbeing in living with a
relative with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Click
here for further details.
ARAFMI Illawarra: Mental
Health Support Group for
Carers– What’s On
Various Dates and
Locaitons
Click here to view various support groups from ARAFMI Illawarra
including dates, times and locations.
ARAFMI Illawarra – “My
Sanctuary” Carer Support
Group Dates
1st and 3rd Tuesday of
each month
Wollongong
Personality Disorders Support Group for Carers and Family
Members. Is held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month in
the Hyams room – Ground Floor South Coast Private Hospital
112 Burelli Street Wollongong. Click here for more details.
ARAFMI Illawarra – Me
and My Relationships
12 week program
Wollongong
What is it? A 12 week group program aims to assist carers to
overcome interpersonal problems and build stronger and
healthier relationships with others. Participants in this program
will learn a range of skills that can increase their capacity and
willingness to experience rather than avoid unpleasant thoughts
and emotions, in order to experience healthier relationships and
live life in the way that they value. Click here for more details.
Carers NSW Events
Various Dates
and Locations
Click the following links to view upcoming event from Carers
NSW:
Carers NSW – Mindful Movement
Carers NSW – Wills and Future Planning
Carers NSW – Newcastle Jets Game!!
CMHDARN Webinar
Invitation: Effective
Models of Care for
Comorbid Mental Illness
and Illicit Substance Use
11th February 2016
Webinar
CMHDARN would like to invite you to our upcoming webinar
titled, “Effective Models of Care for Comorbid Mental Illness and
Illicit Substance Use”, hosted by Frances Kay-Lamkin. Click
here for more details.
One Day Cadre Connect
Training
9th February 2016
Erskineville
You are invited to attend the pilot One Day Cadre Connect
Training. The Cadre training offers participants an opportunity to
better understand mental health and the impacts it may have in
their community and ways to mitigate those impacts. Click
here for further details.
Project Uncover - A
Consultation for Family &
Friends Affected by
Hoarding
25th February 2016
Parramatta
This consultation is for family & friends affected
by hoarding. PROJECT UNCOVER is a 12 month project funded
by Western Sydney Partners in Recovery, and focused on better
supporting the recovery of people affected by hoarding and
squalor. Click here for more details.
The Benevolent Society –
Launch of new research
for wellbeing of older
Australians
10th February 2016
Sydney
New research on geographic indicators of well-being for older
Australians - they are doing it tough. By 2050 around one-quarter
of Australians will be 65 years or older; resulting in greater
demand for services and support such as health and community
care; aged care facilities; income support and accessible and
affordable housing. Click here for more details.
SANE Australia – Mental
Illness and Bereavement
Workshops
Various locations across
Australia!
Early 2016
Have you ever wondered how best to support the family or
friends of a client who has died by suicide? Drawing on the
personal stories of people with lived experience, the SANE
Mental Illness and Bereavement Workshop explores these
issues. Click here for more information.
New Meetup Group: The
Healthy Mind Project –
Overcome Your Negative
Thoughts
Online
The Healthy Mind Project – Overcome Your Negative
Thoughts. Click here for more details about this new Meetup
group.
NSW Aboriginal Mental
Health and Wellbeing
Workforce Forum 2016:
Celebrating Success
22nd June 2016
Pokolbin
You are invited to to the NSW Aboriginal Mental Health and
Wellbeing Workforce Forum 2016: Celebrating Success. Hunter
New England Local Health District (HNELHD) will be hosting the
forum (funded by the NSW Ministry of Health) in partnership with
the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW
(AH&MRC). Click here for further information.
ANZAP – Saturday
Workshop: Perinatal
Depression
13th February 2016
Glebe
The aim of the workshop is to increase participants’
understanding of why women (men) present in the perinatal
period with mental health issues and to provide a basis for
considering the nature and type of intervention that is appropriate
for a particular client/patient.Click here for more details.
Central and Eastern
Sydney PHN (CESPHN)
Community Forums –
Have your say in health
Various Dates and
Locations
Central and Eastern Sydney PHN (CESPHN) is the newly
established primary health network for your area. They are
reviewing the local health needs and service needs of their region
to prioritise their activities for the future. In partnership with the
local health districts, they are holding six forums across
their region to discuss health needs, local services, and the
improvements you would like to see. Click here for more details.
New Meetup Group: The
Healthy Mind Project –
Overcome Your Negative
Thoughts
Online
The Healthy Mind Project – Overcome Your Negative
Thoughts. Click here for more details about this new Meetup
group.
Call for abstracts: 2016
Patient Experience
Symposium
5th May 2016
Eveleigh
The event is targeted at NSW Local Health District and Speciality
Network staff and consumers. Health Consumers NSW is
collaborating to inform program content. Submission deadline is
Friday 5 February, 2016. Click here for further details.
Mental Health First Aid –
The Rotary Clubs of
Maroubra and Randwick
4 - 5 March 2016
Maroubra
The Rotary Clubs of Maroubra and Randwick are proud to offer
a subsidised Mental Health First Aid course to improve
understanding of mental health in the community. Click here for
more details.
REPORTS AND ARTICLES
@arafmi Newsletter 18 –
22 January 2016
Click here to view @arafmi – Arafmi’s weekly newsletter for 18 –
22 January 2016.
Mental Health
Commission of NSW –
Perspectives on
Medication and Mental
Illness
While psychological and social interventions are available for
people experiencing mental illness, too often the first-line
treatment is medication. Read this important paper from
the Mental Health Commission of NSW outlining Perspectives on
Medication and Mental Illness and also watch a moving short film
by clicking here.
Position Vacant – Project
Support Officer – Arabic
Mental Health Resource
Project
Are you Arabic, and can speak, read and write Arabic
fluently? Do you have a passion for working with people and
helping the community? BEING | MENTAL HEALTH &
WELLBEING CONSUMER ADVISORY GROUP IS LOOKING
FOR A CASUAL PROJECT SUPPORT OFFICER – ARABIC
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE PROJECT. Click here for
further details.
National Ice Action
Strategy
Ice use in Australia is a complex problem, and deeply
concerning. In April 2015, the Commonwealth Government
established a National Ice Taskforce to report on actions needed
to address increasing ice use in Australia. Click here to view the
National Ice Action Strategy.
Mental Health
Commission of NSW –
Opportunity to apply for
Lived Experience Project
Steering Group
The Mental Health Commission of NSW is seeking responses to
an Expression of Interest for 7 consumer members and 1 carer
observer to participate in a Lived Experience Steering
Group. The group will lead a six month project to identify gaps
and opportunities for consumer participation, influence and
leadership and develop solutions and strategies for greater
involvement. For more information about this exciting opportunity
please click here.
CMHDARN 2016
Community Research
Mentoring Project
APPLICATIONS INVITED
NOW!
WOULD YOU LIKE SUPPORT WITH YOUR
RESEARCH? WOULD YOU LIKE TO DEVELOP NEW
RESEARCH SKILLS? Initial support is available for up to 6
months with potential for extension. There is no cost involved, but
you will need to make time for your research and working with
your mentor. Click here for more details
New Horizons – ECT Let’s
Talk About It! Project
New Horizons is conducting a research project in partnership with
Sydney Local Health District Mental Health Services on
education and support needs during Electroconvulsive Therapy
(ECT). We are looking for people who have had ECT to take part
in an interview about their treatment. The interviews will run 45
minutes to an hour and are completely confidential. Click
here for more details.
IWSPIR Consumer and
Carer Projects 2016
Click here to view the many Consumer and Carer Projects 2016
from Inner West Partners in Recovery.
NSW Ministry for Health –
Translational Research
Grant Scheme
The NSW Ministry of Health has recently announced
the Translational Research Grant Scheme (TRGS) which may be
of interest to you and/or your networks. Click here to more
details.
Mental Health Carers
ARAFMI Illawarra –
February/March
Newsletter
Click here to view Mental Health Carers ARAFMI Illawarra
February/March Newsletter.
MHCC eNewsletter FYI
update 15 Jan 2016:
Clarification on Funding
extensions for
Commonwealth Mental
Health Programs
Click here to view the Mental Health Coordinating Council's
Clarification on Funding extensions for Commonwealth Mental
Health.
REACHOUT – Skill up for
2016 with free online
training
Did you know that ReachOut Professionals offers free and
accredited online training that you can complete in the comfort of
your own home or office? Click here for further details.
Mental health patient sues
Box Hill Hospital for
assault after ‘shock
therapy’ against his will
A Melbourne mental health patient is suing a hospital and two
doctors for assault, restraint of freedom of movement and
trespass on his person after he claims they administered
electroconvulsive treatment (ECT), once known as “shock
therapy”, against his will. Click here to view this full article
published in ABC News.
Karli Mitchell: A life ruined
by her mother’s drinking
during pregnancy
Kathy Mitchell wants to share something. She’s not proud of it,
but it’s the truth: As a teen, Kathy drank alcohol while pregnant
with her daughter, Karli. It was a perilous if unwitting mistake that
has defined both of their lives. Read more in this interesting
article published in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Clinical perfectionism:
when striving for
excellence gets you down
- Article in The
Conversation
We all know a perfectionist – the person we live with, share an
office with, or are friends with, who has agonisingly high
standards and is disappointed when things fall short. It might
even be you. It’s often harmless enough. But for some people,
this perfectionism is taken to an extreme level, and interferes with
their ability to work, study or maintain relationships. This is known
as clinical perfectionism. Click here to read more....
Depression hits a third of
young doctors, but stigma
is waning – Article in the
Medical Observer
ALMOST 30% of trainee doctors show signs of depression, a
systematic review of 50 years of research has found, but there
are signs professional stigma may be waning. Click here to read
more...
NEWSLETTERS & UPDATES
Mental Health Magazine
Click here to view the latest Mental Health Magazine.
MHCC FYI e-newsletter 19
January 2016
Click here to view the Mental Health Coordinating Council enewsletter for 19 January 2016.
‘yaprap ‘ – January 2016
Click here to view ‘yaprap‘ – the January newsletter from Youth
Action.
Sydney North Health
Network eNews January
2016
Click here to view Sydney North Health Network's eNews for
January 2016.
Suicide Prevention
Australia Newsletter
Click here to read Suicide Prevention Australia's
January Newsletter
Every Australian Counts
Newsletter
Click here to view the latest newsletter from Every Australian
Counts.