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Summit program

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Summit Day 1 - Wednesday 27 November 2024

 

Time Item Topic Speaker
8.00am Registration opens
Opening
9.00am Welcome to delegates Welcome to country Tribal experiences
9.30am Commissioner address Building the new Ivan Frkovic
Queensland Mental Health Commission
9.50am Address Lived experience address Jordan Frith
10.00am Address Carer address Marina Cover
10.10am Opening keynote Strategic, systemic and structural options for mental health reform in Australia Professor Ian Hickie
Brain and Mind Centre
The University of Sydney
Morning Tea
SESSION 1 - WHOLE OF SYSTEM REFORM
11.00am Address Reforming mental health services for First Nations people in Southeast Queensland

Adrian Carson

11.20am Address First Nations Reform: Gold Coast Health
  • Kristy Hayes
    First Nations Executive Director, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services
  • Malcolm McCann
    Executive Director, Mental Health and Specialist Services
11.40am Address Lived-living experience driven whole of system reform

Dr Louise Byrne

12.00pm Discussion panel + audience participation  
  • Prof. Ian Hickie
  • Adrian Carson
  • Kristy Hayes
  • Malcolm McCann
  • Dr Louise Byrne
Lunch
Upbeat Arts Absolutely Everybody Choir
SESSION 2 - PSYCHOSOCIAL AND COMMUNITY SUPPORTS
1.40pm Address Better managing complex mental illness in the community Dr Sebastian Rosenberg
Brain and Mind Centre
The University of Sydney
2.00pm Address The NDIS Reforms 

Dr Gerry Naughtin
National Disability Insurance Agency 

2.20pm Address How Queensland is addressing psychosocial needs Sandra Eyre
Queensland Health
2.40pm Discussion panel + audience participation  
  • Dr Sebastian Rosenberg
  • Dr Gerry Naughtin
  • Sandra Eyre
  • Farina Murray, QAMH
Afternoon Tea
SESSION 3 - COERCIVE AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICE
3.30pm Address Navigating the path to elimination

Jannette Newell and Kobie Hatch Queensland Health

3.50pm Address 'Shining a light' report Dr Rebecca Bear and Cate White, MHLEPQ
4.10pm Address Targeting zero restrictive interventions

Dr Kerryn Rubin
Peninsula Health Mental Health Service

4.30pm Discussion panel + audience participation  
  • Dr John Reilly Queensland Health
  • Cate White
  • Dr Kerryn Rubin
WRAP UP AND SUMMARY

 

Summit Day 2 - Thursday 28 November 2024

Time Item Topic Speaker
8.00am Registration opens
SESSION 4 - ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS
9.00am Address Overdose prevention priorities in QLD Geoff Davey
Quihn
9.20am Address 'Nobody dies here' – learning from the Victorian experience of medically supervised injecting rooms
  • Simone Heald
    CEO North Richmond Community Health
  • Dr Nathan Stam
    North Richmond Community Health
9.40am Address Harm minimisation in Australian prisons – the reform agenda Liz Barrett
Drug Policy Modelling Program, UNSW
10.00am Discussion panel + audience participation  
  • Geoff Davey
  • Simone Heald
  • Liz Barrett
  • Emma Kill – QuiVAA
Morning Tea
SESSION 5 - LIVED LIVING EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIP
11.00am Address At what cost? The cost of caring report Sue Goodwin
Arafmi
11.15am Address Western Australia’s First Nation Peer Workforce Guide
  • Sara Walsh
    Western Australia Mental Health Commission
  • Tony Lee
    BlackDog Institute
11.30am Address Lived-Living Experience Commitment
  • Ellie Hodges
    LELAN
  • Michelle Sanders & Karen Conlon
    Queensland Mental Health Commission
11.45am Address Emergence of Lived-Living Experience Leadership Craig Worland
Queensland Health
12:00pm Discussion panel + audience participation  
  • Sue Goodwin
  • Sara Walsh
  • Tony Lee
  • Craig Worland
Lunch
SESSION 6 - SUICIDE PREVENTION
1.20pm Address Veteran Suicide Prevention Royal Commission Findings report Dr Peggy Brown AO
1.40pm Address The Buoy Project

Dr Kylie King

Monash University

2.00pm Address Yarns Heal expansion across Queensland

Rocky Byrne

Yarns Heal

2.20pm Discussion panel + audience participation  
  • Dr Peggy Brown AO
  • Dr Kylie King
  • Rocky Byrne
Afternoon Tea
SESSION 7 - INNOVATION
3.20pm Address Early intervention - Socialising multisystemic therapy (MST) Dr Mark Porter
Western Australia MST Therapy Program
3.40pm Address Preventing gambling related suicide and harm Assoc. Professor Angela Rintoul
Federation University
4.00pm Address Lifestyle Medicine in Mental Health Care Dr Sam Manger
Closing
4.20pm LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
4.45pm Closing remarks Lived experience perspective Jordan Frith
4.55pm Closing remarks Carer perspective Marina Cover
5.05pm Closing remarks Commissioner Ivan Frkovic
5.15pm NETWORKING EVENT
END OF SUMMIT