Navigate Mental Health and Family Relationship Service are presenting a free workshop for parents about maintaining mental health during the teenage years entitled On Track!
Tuesday April 27th 7-9pm
Centacare
Fennescey House Ground Floor Training room
Wakefield Street
Adelaide
Friday 23rd April
You can read the flyer or contact Centacare on 8159 1400.
This national conference over two days will explore the emerging agenda of consumer-centred health care.
It is an event not to be missed for anyone with a passion for reforming our health system so that consumers and their families are at the centre of the system – in practice as well as in rhetoric.
The venue is Angliss Conference Centre in Melbourne’s CBD, corner of LaTrobe and Kin Streets, close to public transport and a range of accommodation options.
Click here for the program.
Click here to register.
The Australian Institute for Loss & Grief P/L promotes a holistic approach to dealing with loss and grief, promoting personal wellbeing as a basis for community wellbeing.
The institute is presenting its inaugural 2010 course entitled Using Loss and Grief to Address Social Challenges in Aboriginal Communities. The 5 days Accredited Course is based on the successful ‘Seven Phases© to Reconciling Loss and Grief©’ model, which has been developed by Rosemary Wanganeen and successfully used in personal counselling and training for more than 16 years.
For more detailed information about the course click here.
To register for the course please complete this form.
At the Adelaide Fringe this year Neami will display an art exhibition entitled Familiar.
The exhibition will showcase new work by artists who access Neami and their partner organisations’ studio programmes across South Australia.
The exhibition will be a group presentation of visual artwork inspired by aspects of the familiar.
Lisa Philip-Harbutt, Director of the Community Arts Network will open the exhibition on Thursday February 18th at 5pm.
School of Practical Philosophy
Crosby Hall
69 Prospect Road
Prospect
February 18th – March 14th.
Alex Bickford NEAMI Arts Coordinator 8240 25 66
Please also view the exhibition flyer.
The Migrant Resource Centre of South Australia invites you to attend a community health training seminar on ‘Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of New Arrival Humanitarian Entrants’
Registrations close on Monday 21 September 2009
Seminar Registration Forms can be obtained by contacting Ms Matti Spellacy at admin@mrcsa.com.au or (08) 8217 9556
Additional information about the seminar can also be obtained from Dr Joseph Masika on (tel) (08) 8217 9510
Date: Wednesday 23 September 2009
Time: 9.30am to 2.00pm
Place: 59 King William Street, Adelaide
GPs, community health services, immunisation clinics, school psychologists, and providers of women’s health, youth health, children’s health and mental health services are welcome to register for the seminar
Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of New Arrival Humanitarian Entrants Seminar Program
Facilitator: Joseph Masika, Manager, Multicultural Health Advocacy, MRCSA
9 – 9.15am Registration, welcome and introductions
9.15am Overview of health initiatives for humanitarian entrants
Ms Eugenia Tsoulis, CEO, MRCSA
9.30am Presentations
Humanitarian entrants’ health status and referral system in South Australia
Joseph Masika, Manager, Multicultural Health Advocacy, MRCSA
Short term torture and trauma assessment, counseling and referrals for humanitarian entrants
Mr. Tindaro Fallo, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Multicultural Health Advocacy, MRCSA
Mental health services for children and young people
Monica McEvoy, Multicultural Mental Health CAMHS Western Region
10.30am Morning Tea
11.00am Presentations
How the care workers can identify and work with humanitarian entrants with history of torture and trauma
Anne Bourne, Psychologist, Survivors of Torture and Trauma Assistance & Rehabilitation Services
(STTARS)
Preventative health and health services for the newly arrived migrants in South Australia
Ms Jan Williams, Clinical Services Coordinator, Migrant Health Service
Women’s health in new and emerging communities
Ms Rene Weal Women’s Health Statewide
12.30pm Panel Discussion of service providers
Mr. Tindaro Fallo, Ms Rene Weal, Ms Jan Williams, Ms Anne Bourne and Monica McEvoy
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Close
The Family Support and Carer Respite Project being conducted by the Mental Health Coalition of SA Inc is due to be wound up in October 2009. They are seeking to evaluate the project and are seeking feedback from organisations involved to this point. Please give them a call on 8212 8873.
They are also offering free training to respite workers. For further details keep reading.
As part of the project, we are able to offer mental health training to respite workers as this has been identified as a clear need.
Normally this would cost $190 for a full day or $95 for a half day, but with this project we are able to offer this training free of charge for respite workers.
We can offer a limited number of full day or half day training sessions between now and the end of September 2009. Please see the attached flyer for more information. free training for respite workers We can arrange other dates as required.
In order to organise this we need to know how many staff or volunteers you would like to attend the training, whether full day or half day suits your requirements better and the location of staff. We are also keen to organise sessions outside the metro area, to ensure that this training is reaching the widest possible audience.
Also if there are any particular days or weeks when attendance would be difficult, please let us know.
Regards
Geoff Harris
Tracy Leavesley
Office Manager
Mental Health Coalition of SA Inc
408 King William Street
Adelaide 5000
P 08 8212 8873
F 08 8212 8874
www.mhcsa.org.au
Mental Health – What do you know?
A letter from Carer’s SA supporting the State Government’s Mental Health Bill 2008
Dear Friends
The Government has introduced the Mental Health Bill 2008 to replace current Mental Health Act 1993 and provide a contemporary framework.
Carers SA has sought for some years now provisions in mental health legislation that recognise the role of Carers in the care and treatment of people with a mental illness.
Carers frequently take responsibility for the care of the consumer in the community including medication and medical appointments, social and living arrangements, pre and post acute care in the community and emergency assistance.
The strongest message from family Carers has been that legislation needs to recognise the role of family Carers as partners in care by:
· Providing Carers with relevant information.
· Including Carers in the development of ongoing treatment plans and discharge planning.
We are therefore pleased to see, in particular, that this Bill:
· Defines a Carer within the meaning of the Carers Recognition Act 2005.
· Acknowledges in its Guiding Principles the role of Carers in the development of treatment and care plans.
· Includes within its Guiding Principles that Carers, along with the consumers and others, be provided with comprehensive information about the illnesses, orders, legal rights, treatments and other services.
· Provides for Carers to receive copies of statements of rights and detention and treatment orders and to be able to exercise appeals concerning orders.
· Provides for Carers to receive information about consumer transfers.
· Includes Carers, along with others, in the preparation of treatment and care plans.
· Provides for Carers to be able to support consumers in communications with and examinations and treatments by medical practitioners.
· Allows for the disclosure to the Carer of information related to the treatment, care or rehabilitation of the consumer.
Carers SA believes that this Bill is an important step in the continuing improvement of attitude to, and treatment of, people with mental illness in this state, and in particular in the acknowledgement of the role of the family Carer in these processes.
Carers SA has written to our state parliamentarians urging their support for this important legislation..
You can help by also contacting your local MP and the members of the Legislative Council to indicate your support for the Bill.
Carers SA
Ph: 8291 5600
To see a copy of the legislation follow the link to
MENTAL HEALTH BILL
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Monday - Friday
9am - 5pm
The Disability Information and Resource Centre
195 Gilles Street, Adelaide SA 5000 Australia
Phone (08) 8236 0555 Fax (08) 8236 0566 TTY (08) 8223 7579 SA only 1300 305 558
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