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 This conference provided a significant forum for discussion and debate on the current situation for people experiencing mental health issues across NSW. Keynote speakers, panel discussions and workshops provided information on different ways of giving mental health issues a higher priority, of options about the integration of services and the challenges that Government and the non government sector face in developing effective responses to this growing social reality.
Conference discussions highlighted indicators that assisted in shaping future NCOSS policy agenda on issues that affect people with a mental illness.
Conference Papers
Where a conference paper has been provided by the speaker it is available for download as a PDF document. Click on the name of the paper/speaker and it will open in your Acrobat Reader application and/or save to your disk.
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- A Government View
Dr. Grant Sara - Director, Mental Health Central Coordinating Unit, NSW Health
- Key Note Speaker: The New Zealand Experience
Arana Pearson, Consumer Advisor, New Zealand Mental Health Commission
- Key Note Speaker: Social Exclusion and Poverty: the Consumer perspective
David Abello, University of NSW Social Policy Research Centre [210kb pdf]
- Place Management
Denise Henry, Project Manager, Priorities Regional Communities Project Nowra [87kb pdf]
- Negotiating the System
Simon Watts, Executive Officer, Bobby Goldsmith Foundation: Floating Care Project. [119kb pdf]
- Working towards integration across the sectors
Melissa Gibson - Executive Director, Human Services CEOs.
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| Workshop Sessions |
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The Issues
- Justice: Police, Courts and Prison
- Case Management
- Mid to longer term Housing System Issues
- Adam Farrar, Executive Director, NSW Federation of Housing Associations
- Mark Nutting, Dept. of Housing [453kb pdf]
- Debbie Evans, Office of Community Housing
- Workshop outcomes [65kb pdf]
- Family/Child Protection and Youth
- Warren and Gillian Holt, Carers
- Kathy Horne, Education Centre Against Violence (Child Protection) [90kb pdf]
- Angela White, Coordinator, NSW Parenting Program for Mental Health
- Bernadette Dagg, Acting Manager, Prevention, Centre for Mental Health
- Workshop outcomes [67kb pdf]
- Aboriginal Services
- Jodi Broun, Deputy Director General, Department of Aboriginal Affairs [127kb pdf]
- Faye Nelson, AM, Director, Aboriginal Unit, NSW Department for Women
- Workshop outcomes [63kb pdf]
Intersection of Service Types
- Mental Health and Intellectual Disability
- David Coyne, Regional Manager, Service Development and Planning Metro West, Dept. of Ageing, Disability and Home Care [97kb pdf]
- Jim Simpson, NSW Council for Intellectual Disability
- Associate Professor Stuart Einfeld
- Workshop outcomes [65kb pdf]
- Mental Health and SAAP Services
- Mental Health and Alcohol and other Drug Services
- Mental Health and HACC
- Mental Health and Sexual Assault Services
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