Program

2nd Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium
Novotel Brighton Le Sands - Sydney 2010
Tuesday 28th September 2010
12.00 - 1.00pm	Registration (Note: workshops are included in your fees)
1.00 - 3.00pm	Workshop 1 Sirius 1 Youth Suicide In Rural & Remote Areas Dr Keith Miller Flinders University SA	Workshop 2 Sirius 2 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid Training and Research Program Mr Len Kanowski and Ms Donna Stanley	Workshop 3 Discovery Easing the Tyranny of Distance. The promise of e-mental health applications for rural and remote settings Julia Reynolds The Australian National University Canberra
3.00 - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
3:30 - 4.30pm	Workshops Continued...
Wednesday 29th September 2010
7.30 - 8.30am	Registration - Level 1 Pre Function Area
8.30 - 9.00am	Official Opening of Symposium
9.00 - 9.45am	Mr David Crosbie, CEO, Mental Health Council of Australia Topic: Reaching further – it is all about values
9.45 - 10.30am	Prof Vaughan Carr, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales at St Vincent's Hospital, CEO & Scientific Director Schizophrenia Research Institute Topic: Psychosis and the rural environment
10.30 -11.00am	Morning Tea
	Room: Endeavour 1 Chair: Dr Judith Crockett	Room: Endeavour 2 Chair: Annmaree Wilson	Room: Endeavour 3 Chair: Dr Robyne Le Brocque
11.00 -11.30am	Jan Gudkovs, Psychologist, Warwick, QLD	Elaine Dunn, Principal Network Advisor, Australian General Practice Network, Canberra, ACT	Catherine Musico, Mental Health Clinician Psychiatry, South West Healthcare, Warrnambool, VIC - Anna Vander Aa, Mental Health Clinician, South West Healthcare
	Promoting Recovery with Intentional Teams – The Warwick Chronic Disease Project for Patients with Complex Needs	Mental Health Support for Drought Affected Communities Initiative	Frustration and Rewards: Mental Health Services in Rural Australia
11.30 -12.00pm	Renee Williams, Project Manager, No Wrong Door Project Counselling & Support Team, Wangaratta, VIC	Carol Purtell, National Manager for the Perinatal Depression Initiative, beyondblue, Hawthorn, West VIC	Lynne Henderson, Royal Flying Doctors, Alice Springs, NT
	Creating A No Wrong Door Service System - Integrating rural mental health and alcohol & other drug services	Early Intervention, A Nationwide Response to Improving Mental Health in the Perinatal Period	Meeting Primary Mental Health Care Needs of the people who live in the Rural and Remote Areas of Central Australia
12.00 - 12.30pm	Sharyn McGee, University of Western Sydney, Penrith South, NSW	Jennylee Wood, E-CYMHS Coordinator/Psychologist, Child and Youth Mental Health Service, Brisbane, QLD	Dr Tristram Duncan, Psychiatry Trainee, Bloomfield Hospital, Orange, NSW
	Mental health and cannabis use: What do young people with a mental illness say about the links and the role of health promotion?	Expansion Of Telepsychiatry Services In Queensland	Working in Partnership: A collaboration between NSW Health and the NSW Branch of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists to support rural psychiatrists and rural psychiatry training in NSW
12.30 - 1.30pm	Lunch
	Room: Endeavour 1 Chair: Dr Sonja March	Room: Endeavour 2 Chair: Edwina Cowdery	Room: Endeavour 3 Chair: Fiona Little
1.30 - 2.00pm	Michele Sapucci, Transcultural Rural and Remote Outreach Project Coordinator, Transcultural Mental Health Centre, Parramatta, NSW	Terri Carlton, Senior Rehabilitation Consultant, CRS Australia, VIC	Alan Morris, Director, Drought Response - Mental Health, Country Health, Port Augusta, SA
	Delivering a Complex Four-Year Transcultural Mental Health Community and Capacity Building Project in Rural NSW	Addressing Barriers to Employment in Rural Australia: A Tailored Approach	Rural Community Counsellors - an evaluation of the effectiveness of providing counselling, primary prevention and early intervention to rural and remote individual families and communities in drought affected South Australia
2.00 - 2.30pm	Dick Kearins, Drought Support Workers, Industry and Investment NSW - Dianne Gill, Nurse Specialist in Rural Mental Health based in Condobolin, NSW	Stephen Toon, Coordinator, Country Health, Port Augusta, SA	A/Prof Lyn Fragar, Australian Centre for Agricultural Health & Safety, Moree, NSW
	Rural Service Networks - developing community resilience and capacity in the face of rural adversity	Engaging Rural Men in Preventative Mental Health	Promoting mental health - are we focussing on the most needy sector of our rural communities?
2.30 - 3.00pm	Dr Jan Orman, GP Services Consultant, Black Dog Institute, Randwick, NSW	Sally Coates, Education and Training Manager, National Workplace and Social Enterprise, beyondblue	Anna Britton, Clinical Psychologist, Capacity Building, Project Officer, Weigelli Centre Aboriginal Corporation - Amos Hee, Consultant, The Buttery, NSW & Sarah Morrison, Project Officer, Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies, NSW
	A MAP for Treatment Planning in Depression- revolutionising the way rural and remote doctors diagnose and manage mood disorders.	Community Recovery Following Disaster: the Community Support Training Program	Improved Services Initiative: NSW Rural Partnership Experiences
3.00 - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
	Room: Endeavour 1 Chair: Lynne Henderson	Room: Endeavour 2 Chair: Jennylee Wood	Room: Endeavour 3 Chair: Renee Williams
3.30 - 4.00pm	Troy Matisons, Life Care Worker Member Services, Incolink, Carlton, VIC	Kate Gunn, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA	Genelle Sharrock, Senior Project Officer, Hunter Institute of Mental Health, Newcastle, NSW
	Suicide prevention: Early intervention programs delivered to young working men in rural and regional Victoria	Farmers’ stress and coping in a time of drought	Mental health issues and the rural media: opportunities and challenges
4.00 - 4.30pm	Vyv Alomes, Executive Officer, Rural Alive & Well Inc, Melton Mowbray, TAS	Stephen Monsiegneur, Senior Advisor Disaster Recovery, Mental Health Directorate, Qld Health, QLD	Dr Sally Hunter, Senior Lecturer in Health School of Health, University of New England, Armidale, NSW
	Primary Interventions, The Benefits of Rural Outreach	Responding To The Human-Social Impacts Of Disaster	Improving mental health workforce capacity in rural and remote Australia and for working with Indigenous Australians
4.30 - 5.00pm	Dr Sonja March, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre of National Research on Disability & Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Queensland, QLD	Greg Eustace, Principal Advisor Emergency Management, Mental Health Directorate, Qld Health, QLD	Joyce Broughton, Snr Project Officer Workforce Capacity Building, Multicultural Mental Health Australia, NSW
	Online therapy for youth anxiety works! An overview of the evidence for BRAVE-ONLINE	Community resilience following natural disasters – the Queensland experience	A national cultural competency tool – for enhancing cultural integrity in the delivery of mental health services
5.30pm - 7.30pm	Welcome Cocktail Function - Novotel Brighton le Sands, Exhibition Area, Level 2
Thursday 30th September 2010
8.30 - 9.00am	Registration
	Room: Endeavour 1 Chair: Elaine Dunn	Room: Endeavour 2 Chair: Lyn Fragar	Room: Endeavour 3 Chair: Dr Sally Hunter
9.00 - 9.30am	Dr Judith Crockett, Charles Stuart University, Orange, NSW	Dr Keith Miller, Lecturer Dept of Social Work & Social Planning, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA	Edwina Cowdery, Psychologist, Narrabri, NSW
	The role of rural and remote Central and Secondary Schools in the provision of mental health and drug and alcohol education and care to adolescents	Evaluation of the Spirit of Men's Program	From Contracted to Employed Clinical Staff A Technology Story
9.30 - 10.00am	Melanee Smith, Clinical Manager Lower Hume Community Mental Health, Seymour, VIC & Ms Lisa Pearson Deputy Regional Manager Mental Illness Fellowship	Anne-Marie Holley, Coordinator Farm Link, Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health NSW, Callaghan, NSW	Fiona Little, Mental Health Academic, University Dep of Rural Health, Tamworth, NSW
	PARC-Prevention and Recovery Care. A new service delivery model addressing the needs of mental health consumers in their own environment within rural communities	Farm-Link: The right care at the right time for people who live and work on NSW Farms. How accessibility, service delivery and networks are improved in a contemporary agricultural setting	Growing your own mental health workforce"-The development and implementation of a unique Primary Mental Health Internship Program
10:00 -10:30am	Mark Sheldon-Stemm, Chair/President, Kentish Regional Clinic Inc, Sheffield, TAS & Coralanne Walker, Executive Officer Kentish Regional Clinic Inc	Dr Robyne Le Brocque, Senior Research Fellow Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston, QLD	Dr Annmaree Wilson, Senior Clinical Psychologist, Bush Support Services, Alice Springs, NT
	How a community can build capacity and inclusion to produce a sustainable suicide prevention program	Risk assessment, prevention and early intervention of posttraumatic stress in children	Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance: Challenges Faced by the Bush Support Service in Developing Flexible Service Delivery to Support Remote Area Health Workers
10.30 -11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00 -11.45am	Prof Alison Yung, Professor/Consultant Psychiatrist, Orygen Research Centre and The University of Melbourne Topic: Prediction & Prevention of Schizophrenia – is it possible?
11.45 -12.30pm	Mr Len Kanowski, Area Coordinator, Aboriginal Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol Services, Greater Western Area Health Service, NSW Health Topic: Improving Mental Health Literacy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
12.30 -1.30pm	Lunch
1.30 - 2.15pm	A/Prof. David Pierce, Director - University Dept of Rural Health School of Rural Health , The University of Melbourne Topic: Addressing depression in rural Australia
2.15 -3.00pm	Prof Richard Bryant - Scientia Professor, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales Topic: Developing Indigenous Research Partnerships: An Ongoing Lesson
3.00 - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
3.30 - 4.15pm	Prof Mark Creamer, Director - Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne Topic: Psychological Recovery From Trauma and Disaster
4.15 - 5.00pm	A/Prof James Bennett-Levy, Department of Rural Health, Northern Rivers University Topic: The Coming Revolution of Low Intensity CBT: Will it make a Difference for People living in Rural Communities?
5.00 - 5.15pm	Official Close of Symposium