Write –
presentations and papers
Rural and remote mental health symposium
Abstracts
now open for the symposium and this year’s topic is Innovation and OpportunityConference topics include:
-
Working smarter: overcoming the challenges and innovative solutions
- Developing programs that build resilience, reduce stigma and offer accessibility to services
- Service delivery strategies, development, implementation, management and evaluation
- Child and youth mental health: prevention and early intervention
- e-Health, tele-Health, technology and social media
- Suicidal and self-harming: behaviour and prevention
- Aboriginal health and engagement
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) community programs, support and education
- Recovery in the Bush
- Building healthy communities: policy, practice, community innovation
- Employment opportunities for better health outcomes
- The voice of the lived experience
Submissions due: 17th July 2015
The 2015 Australian Stop Domestic Violence
Conference
Abstracts
now open for this year’s conference on the topic of “Connecting the dots…”
Presentation
topics include:
- Community (e.g. Educational Programs, Homelessness, Intervention, Helplines)
- Communication and Interstate Collaboration
- Law Enforcement, Protection and Legal System
- Government and Policy Making
- Mental Health (e.g. Impact on service provider personnel, Preventative care, Access to services, Identification of core issues and diagnosis)
- Indigenous Communities
- Special Topics/Open (e.g. Children, CALD, Disability, Elder Abuse, IPV and Sexual Assault, LBGTI, Parental Violence)
- Research
Authors or
organisations interested in speaking at the Conference, are invited to submit
an abstract or paper of no more than 300 words outlining the aims, contents and
conclusions of their paper or presentation; or about their intended role in a
workshop.
There are
spots available for oral presentations, workshops, and poster presentations.
Submissions due: 29th August
Read –
professional reading
Gorman, D. M. (2015),
‘Everything works’: the need to address
confirmation bias in evaluations of drug misuse prevention interventions for
adolescents. Addiction, doi: 10.1111/add.12954.
Darvishi N,
Farhadi M, Haghtalab T, Poorolajal J (2015) Alcohol-Related Risk of Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempt, and
Completed Suicide: A Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126870.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126870
Morandini,
J. S., Blaszczynski, A., Dar-Nimrod, I. and Ross, M. W. (2015), Minority stress and community connectedness
among gay, lesbian and bisexual Australians: a comparison of rural and
metropolitan localities. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public
Health, 39: 260–266. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12364
Attend –
informal learning sessions, journal club, seminar series
Journal club (available to Healthy Options
workers only)
Journal club
for this month is yet to be finalised.
Below date is tentative only.
Details will be provided as soon as possible.
When: Thursday, 16th July, 2pm
The addicted brain – Emory University
This is a
course about addiction to drugs and other behaviours. It will describe what
happens in the brain and how this information helps us deal with and overcome
addiction. It will also discuss other topics such as government policy and our
vulnerability to take drugs. Course is
delivered in 7 online modules
When: Available anytime
Attend -
conferences
Aboriginal Health Conference
The
conference theme Healthy families - healthy futures will be addressed through
presentations, clinical updates, practical workshops, hands-on concurrent
sessions and case study learning opportunities that are professionally
accredited and delivered by expert specialists and speakers. Includes optional family program/child care.
When: 4-5th July
Where: Perth
Cost: $320-450
http://www.ruralhealthwest.com.au/professional-development/conference/2015/07/04/default-calendar/aboriginal-health-conference-2015
Australian Winter School Conference
Now in its
28th year, AWS aims to support health care professionals in developing skills
and knowledge in responding to and treating alcohol and drug related issues,
including mental health. It brings together practitioners, researchers, policy
makers and workers from across the sector including community and private
practice and all levels of government and provides a forum for cross-disciplinary
dialogue. The conference suits those working in alcohol and other drugs,
including nurses, allied health, GPs and other support agencies. It also
appeals to those working in EDs and mental health care.When: 22-24 July
Where: Brisbane
Cost: See website for costs (and for the clever names they’ve given the various ticket types)
http://winterschool.org.au/
Listen –
podcasts, webinars
Dovetail webinar: Practical harm reduction
This webinar
will include an overview of the types of harms that young people using substances
might experience and practical strategies that young people can use to reduce
these harms. The webinar will cover
cannabis, MDMA (ecstasy), LSD and methamphetamine, with strategies that can be
applied at any stage of a young person's engagement with a service from intake
/ assessment, through to treatment and relapse prevention.When: 9am – 10am (AEST) Friday, 3rd July.
http://www.dovetail.org.au/latest-news/2015/june/dovetail-webinar-practical-harm-reduction-friday-july-3rd-9am-10am.aspx
Everyday racism – Podsocs
Everyday
racism is alive and well in Australia. But do we know what it is, how it
manifests and how it affects people in our community. Jessica Walton talks
about everyday racism.Duration: 23mins
http://www.podsocs.com/podcast/everyday-racism/
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