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title: Leading Reform Summit 2024 Program
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## Leading Reform Summit 2024 27–28 November | Sofitel Brisbane Central
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## Summit program
We've got a thought-provoking program lined up for you - take a look below!
## 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** | | | |
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