Queensland Mental Health Commission Leading Reform Summit 2022

 



The Queensland Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs, and Suicide Prevention Leaders' Summit


23-25 November 2022, Hotel Grand Chancellor Brisbane

Leading Reform Summit 2022

Program

Key themes

  • Queensland’s reform agenda: past, present, future
  • Embedding lived experience-led reform
  • Building a truly community-centric system
  • Strengthening Queensland’s harm reduction responses to alcohol and other drugs
  • Driving multi-faceted and compassionate suicide prevention approaches
  • Shifting upstream: through prevention, promotion and early intervention within and beyond the health system
  • Addressing critical whole-of-system workforce issues

Extra events

Day one of the Summit will conclude with:

  • QMHC Lifetime Achievement Awards
  • Networking drinks

The Leading Reform Summit is sold out.

Please click the WAITLIST button above to register for the waitlist.

Lived Experience Workforce Day - Tuesday 22 November 2022

FULLY SUBSCRIBED – join the waitlist to be notified of any cancellations.

Hosted by Brook RED and QLEWN

The Lived Experience Workforce will gather together to define key priorities and opportunities to strengthen the future direction of our existing and emerging workforce.

Key priority areas we will be exploring with you are: 

  • Lived experience workforce skills and development
  • Lived experience workforce leadership and supervision
  • Lived experience workforce networks and pathways
SUMMIT DAY 1 - Wednesday 23 November 2022

GRAND BALLROOM
Level 1 Conference Centre
Hotel Grand Chancellor 
23 Leichhardt Street SPRING HILL

 

 TIME

ITEM

TOPIC

SPEAKER

 


 


 

8.00am

Registration opens

 

 

8.45am

Opening

Welcome to Country by Traditional Owners and Smoking Ceremony

Tribal Experiences

9.15am

Welcome to delegates

Master of Ceremonies

Emma Griffiths
Queensland Alliance for Mental Health

 

 


 


 


 

SESSION :: DRIVING ONGOING REFORM

9.20am

Lived experience welcome

Lived experience hopes for Summit and for reform

Jordan Frith, lived experience representative Abi Cooper, carer representative

9.35am

Address

Post inquiry: Queensland’s immediate and long-term reform priorities

Ivan Frkovic
Commissioner QMHC

9.55am

Keynote address 40 years of reform Professor Harvey Whiteford
Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research
West Moreton Health

10.25am

Audience Q&A

Master of Ceremonies

Emma Griffiths
Queensland Alliance for Mental Health

 

10.30am

MORNING TEA

 


 

11.00am

Address

Better Care Together and government response to inquiry recommendations

Associate Professor John Allan
Queensland Health

11.20am

Address

Health equity: What are we trying to achieve, and how will it impact on the social and emotional wellbeing of First Nations peoples?

Haylene Grogan
Chief First Nations Health Officer
Queensland Health

 

 


 

SESSION :: EMBEDDING LIVED EXPERIENCE ACROSS THE SYSTEM

11.40am

Address

Embedding lived experience across the system - international and interstate approaches

Mary O’Hagan
Executive Director of Lived Experience
Department of Health, Victoria

12.00pm 

Panel discussion + audience Q&A 

Where are our opportunities for integrating lived experience reform in Queensland?

Eschleigh Balzamo, Brook RED (Chair)
Mary O'Hagan, Dept of Health Victoria
Jorgen Gullestrup, Mental Health Lived Experience Peak Queensland 
Irene Clelland, Arafmi
Jaye Murray, QuIVVA

 

12.30pm

LUNCH

 

 


 


 


 

SESSION :: PROGRESSING ESSENTIAL ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG REFORMS

1.30pm 

Address

Achieving balance: Setting the context for new policy directions in alcohol and other drugs

Ivan Frkovic
Commissioner, QMHC

1.50pm

Address

Path towards drug checking in Queensland Cameron Francis
The Loop Australia

2.10pm

Address

How do we make the system more responsive to take forward Achieving balance?

Rebecca Lang
Chief Executive, QNADA

2.30pm

Panel discussion + audience Q&A

What does a responsive system look like to facilitate implementation of Achieving balance?

Rebecca Lang, QNADA (Chair)
Cameron Francis, The Loop Australia
Dr Jeremy Hayllar, Queensland Health
Naraja Clay, QNADA
Emma Kill, QuIVAA

 

3.00pm

AFTERNOON TEA

 


 


 

SESSION :: RENEWING QUEENSLAND'S MENTAL HEALTH REFORM AGENDA

3.30pm

Address

Evaluation of Shifting minds

Brianna Page
Nous Group

3.50pm

Address

Shifting minds renewal

Amelia Callaghan
Executive Director QMHC

 


 


 

4.10pm

Audience Q&A

Audience Q&A and reflections on Day One

Emma Griffiths
Master of Ceremonies

4.25pm

Award Presentation

QMHC Lifetime Achievement Awards

Emma Griffiths Master of Ceremonies
Ivan Frkovic Commissioner QMHC

4.55pm

Address

Wrap of Day One

Ivan Frkovic
Commissioner QMHC

 

5.15pm

NETWORKING DRINKS

 

6.15pm

CLOSE DAY 1

 

SUMMIT DAY 2 - Thursday 24 November 2022

GRAND BALLROOM
Level 1 Conference Centre
Hotel Grand Chancellor 
23 Leichhardt Street SPRING HILL

 

 TIME

ITEM

TOPIC

SPEAKER

 

 

 

8.00am

Registration opens

 

 

8.30am

Choir

Choral performance

Absolutely Everybody Choir
Upbeat Arts

9.00am

Welcome to delegates

Master of Ceremonies

Ivan Frkovic
Commissioner QMHC

 

 9.05am

Opening address

The Queensland Government mental health and alcohol and other drugs package

The Hon. Yvette D'Ath
Minister for Health and Ambulance Services

 

 

 

 

SESSION :: SHIFTING TO COMMUNITY

9.15am

Keynote address

Building a community-centric system: Fifty years of learning from Trieste

Dr Roberto Mezzina

9.50am

Address

Wellbeing First, and why a community approach is so important 

Jennifer Black, Qld Alliance for Mental Health
Helen Glover, Enlightened Consultants

10.10am

Address

The Indigenous model of community service delivery and the learnings for the mainstream mental health and AOD system

Adrian Carson
Institute of Urban Indigenous Health

 

10.30am

MORNING TEA

 

 

 

 

11.00am

Address

What approaches are PHNs employing to support the development of a community mental health front door?

Paul Martin
Brisbane North Primary Health Network

11.20am

Address

The Head to Health model and rollout in Townsville

Karen Thomas, Neami National
Leigh Kennedy, Neami National
Stephen Baker, Lived experience representative

11.40am

Address

What growth, development and sustainability measures are required by the NGO sector to support a move to community-based care?

Paul Harris, Griffith University
Justin Chapman, QIMR Berghofer

12.00pm

Panel and Audience Q&A

What are the challenges and barriers here in Queensland to implementing a community-based model?

Jennifer Black, Qld Alliance for Mental Health
Paul Martin, Brisbane North PHN
Leigh Kennedy, Neami National
Stephen Baker, Lived experience representative

 

12.30pm

LUNCH

 
 

 


 


 


 

SESSION :: INNOVATION IN SUICIDE PREVENTION
1.30pm

Address

Building lived experience into the suicide prevention system

Bronwen Edwards
Roses in the Ocean

1.40pm

Address

Changing mental health models, culture and systems

Dr Manaan Kar Ray
Metro South HHS, Queensland Health

2.00pm

Address

Systemic review of male suicide in Queensland

Dr Samara McPhedran
Researcher/Academic

2.20pm

Address

Crisis response – Shifting minds Suicide Prevention Flagship initiatives - What has been achieved and what are the learnings so far? 

Janet Martin
Queensland Health

2.40pm

Address

STaY Program Cherbourg – Suicide prevention done our way

Clowry Pennell, STaY, Darling Downs Health
Brianna Park, STaY, Darling Downs Health

 

3.00pm

AFTERNOON TEA

 

 


 


 

SESSION :: SHIFTING UPSTREAM

3.30pm

Address

National Stigma Reduction Initiative

Michelle Blanchard
National Mental Health Commission

3.50pm

Address

What are the critical systemic shifts required in prevention, promotion, and early intervention

Dr Stephen Carbone
Prevention United

4.10pm

Panel discussion + audience Q&A

Industry and sector-led approaches to enhancing mental health and wellbeing

Heidi Cooper, Queensland Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Brady Sullivan, Caloundra Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Ross Leggett, Rural & Small Business Financial Counselling Service Sthn Queensland
Maria Karatzis, Dept of Employment, Small Business and Training

 

4.40pm

Closing thoughts

Lived experience closing thoughts

Jordan Frith, Consumer representative
Abi Cooper, Carer representative

 

4.55pm

Closing address

Wrap of Day 2

Ivan Frkovic
Commissioner QMHC

 

5.00pm

CLOSE DAY 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SUMMIT DAY 3 - HALF DAY - Friday 25 November 2022

WICKHAM & LEICHHARDT ROOM
Level 1 Conference Centre
Hotel Grand Chancellor 
23 Leichhardt Street SPRING HILL

 

 TIME

SESSION

TOPIC

SPEAKER

 

8.00am

Registration opens

 

 

 

8.45am

Opening

Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to Delegates

Jan Archer, Facilitator

 


 


 

SESSION :: WORKFORCE CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES

8.50am

Address

Setting the scene

Ivan Frkovic, Commissioner QMHC

9.00am

Address 

A renewed approach: National Mental Health Workforce Strategy

Dr Ruth Vine
Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Mental Health

9.20am

Address

Urgent & important: AOD workforce development in Queensland

Sean Popovich
QNADA

9.40am

Address

Queensland Health Workforce Planning

Sandra Eyre, Queensland Health

10.00am

Address

Outcomes from the Queensland Alliance Jobs and Skills Summit

Sarah Childs & Sally McLeod
Queensland Alliance for Mental Health

10.15am

Address

Outcomes: Lived Experience Workforce Day

Eschleigh Balzamo, Brook RED

 

10.30am

MORNING TEA

  SESSION :: HARNESSING CROSS-SECTOR KNOWLEDGE

11.00am

Facilitated roundtable discussions

Topics to address:

  1. Building the workforce supply
  2. Building workforce skills, knowledge and capability
  3. Supporting the wellbeing and retention of the workforce
  4. Creating a sustainable rural and remote workforce
  5. Building system enablers

Jan Archer, Facilitator

  SESSION :: IDENTIFYING SOLUTIONS

11.45am

Roundtable summaries

Outcomes from the roundtable discussions

Jan Archer, Facilitator

 

12.55pm

Closing address

Summary and closing remarks

Ivan Frkovic, Commissioner QMHC 

 

1.00pm

NETWORKING LUNCH

 

1.30pm

CLOSE DAY 3