3rd Australian Rural & Remote Me

	Monday 14^th November 2011
12.00 – 1.00pm	Registration
	Workshop 1 Convention Centre Room 1	Workshop 2 Convention Centre Room 2	Workshop 3 Victoria Room 2	Workshop 5 Eureka Room
1.00 – 3.00pm	Erin Evans - Health Promoting School Nurse, Taminmin College & Catelyn Boulter - Taminmin College & Charity McAleer - Taminmin College Creating a platform for safe and effective suicide prevention in schools and empowering young people to take a lead role	Prof Sue Kilpatrick - Research Chair in Regional Communities, Deakin University Staying Healthy: Guidelines for best practice health and wellbeing services and resources for the farming and fishing industries	Dr Rosemary Anderson - Research Fellow, University of Melbourne & A/Prof David Pierce - Director of UDRH, University of Melbourne & Dr Andrew Crowden - Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne Developing creative solutions to overlapping relationships	Stephanie Wilks - National Coordinator, The Salvation Army Hope for Life Providing Immediate Responses to the issue of Suicide Prevention and Postvention across rural and remote areas
3.00 – 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea and Trade Displays
3.30 – 5.00pm	Workshop 1 …Cont	Workshop 2 …Cont	Workshop 3 …Cont	Workshop 5 …Cont
	Free Night

	Tuesday 15^th November 2011
7.30 – 8.30am	Registration
8.40 – 8.50am	Convention Centre Opening Symposium – Welcome to Country
8.50 – 9.00am	DVD Welcome - Hon Mark Butler MP – Minister for Mental Health & Ageing
9.00 – 9:45am	Prof Patrick McGorry AO - Australian of the Year 2010 – Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne A 21st Century Approach to MH Care
9.45 – 10.30am	Adjunct Prof Joseph Reser - Griffith University, Psychology The psychological and mental health impacts of climate change
10.30 – 11.00am	Morning Tea and Trade Displays
11.00 – 11.45am	Jaelea Skehan - Program Manager Mindframe National Media Initiative The role of media in the mental health of rural communities
11.45 - 12.30pm	Dr John Setchell - General Manager, Health Services Royal Flying Doctor Service The Role of RFDS in Remote Mental Health Services
12.30 – 1.30pm	Lunch and Trade Displays
Each session includes 10min Q&A	Research Convention Centre Room 1 Session chair: Gary Green		Building Capacity Convention Centre Room 2 Session chair: Allan Murphy		Planning & Prevention Victoria Room 2 Session chair: Chris McDougall	Open Stream Eureka Room Session chair: John Reilly
1.30 – 2.00pm	Nancy Grevis-James - Queensland University of Technology, QLD Policing people experiencing mental health issues: mapping key issues according to non-government organisations in Queensland		Merilyn Limbrick - Rural Mental Health Promotion Officer, Murrumbidgee Local Health District, Narrandera, NSW Bringing 'Burnt' to the Bush		Anne Galloway - Clinical Team Leader, North West Slopes Division of General Practice, Tamworth, NSW Early Years Outreach Clinic: A perinatal model of care demonstrating collaboration and partnership in a primary mental health care service	Liz Wortham - Executive Manager, National Programs, Carers NSW, Sydney, NSW Connecting with Carers
2.00 – 2.30pm	Charlotte Brewer - Mental Health Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, VIC Barriers limiting community access to mental health services in a rural area of Australia		Dr Alan Avery - Team Leader, Mental Health Promotion & Prevention, Hunter New England Health Service, Tamworth, NSW Creating a Carer Culture through Positive Mental Health and Community Building		Chris Platania-Phung - Research Fellow, CQUniversity, Melbourne, VIC Nurses' views on physical care for people with serious mental illness in Central Queensland	Chris Gibbs - CEO, Mental Health Professionals Network, Melbourne, VIC Mental Health Professionals Network, working together, working better
2.30 – 3.00pm	Carlene Hurst - Project Worker/ Mental Health Nurse, South Gippsland Hospital, Foster, VIC Meeting Spiritual Needs in general inpatient facilities within rural communities. More than just asking about religion		Jem Mills - Mental Health Academic/Senior Lecturer, University Centre for Rural Health, NSW The Role of Mental Health Academics with the University Departments of Rural Health in Australia: Increasing Access to Rural Services and supporting Mental Health Workforce Development		Connar McShane - James Cook University, School of Arts and Social Sciences, James Cook Uni, Townsville, QLD Preventing family relationship breakdown and disharmony on family farms	Ros Darracott - Queensland University of Technology, Toowoomba, QLD But that's what fits here: geography, meaning of place and the shape of practice
3.00 – 3.30pm	AJ Williams-Tchen - National Co-ordinator: AMHFA Program, Orygen Youth Health University of Melbourne & Manager – Girraway Ganyi Consultancy Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid: Impact on communities		Maurie O'Connor - Education Manager, Rural Health Education Foundation, Curtin, ACT “For flood and fire and famine”: Developing a Professional Development Program On Responding to Natural Disasters and Trauma In Rural and Remote Australia		Lee Martinez - Director, Knowledge Translation & Exchange MH Acad, Country Health SA & Spencer Gulf Rural Health School, Whyalla, SA & Ms Leigh Peterson - Nurse Practitioner Candidate in Consultation Liaison based, Mount Gambier District Hospital & Ms Sarah Lynn - co-ordinated psychosocial rehabilitation programs of UnitingCare Wesley Port Adelaide Inc Implementing best-practice care in both Physical and Mental Health using innovative tele health and care planning /support programs	Jane Woolmer - Perinatal MH Clinical Nurse, Country Health SA, Port Augusta, SA “GROWN FROM COUNTRY” : Effective delivery of perinatal mental health care in the context it is being delivered
3.30 – 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea and Trade Displays
Each session includes 10min Q&A	Research Convention Centre Room 1 Session chair: Keith Sutton	Building Capacity Convention Centre Room 2 Session chair: Frank Hughes		Cultural Mental Health Issues Victoria Room 2 Session chair: Jo Drayton			Youth Services & Suicide Eureka Room Session chair: Julie Rowse
4.00 – 4.30pm	A/Prof Gelaye Nadew - Mental Health Academic, Combined Universities Centre For Rural Health, UWA, WA The Impact of Events Scales (IES): applicability and relevance in the study of traumatic events in Aboriginal Communities	Betty Kitchener - Director, Mental Health First Aid Program, University of Melbourne, VIC Building Capacity of Communities to Help People with Mental Health Problems		Dr Kahu McClintock - Research Te Rau Matatini (National Maori Health Workforce) & Prof Graham Mellsop - Prof Psych, Waikato Clinical School, Hamilton, NZ Development of a Culturally Sophisticated Psychiatric Outcome Measure			Sarah Hardy - Live4Life Program Coordinator, Macedon Ranges Shire Council, Kyneton, VIC ‘LIVE4LIFE’ SCHOOLS’ Imitative – A Victorian rural community's response to youth suicide
4.30 – 5.00pm	Bernadette Solomon - Lecturer (mental health Nursing Studies), Waiariki Insitute of Technology, Rotorua, NZ What Factors influence & shape professionals' attitudes towards the mentally ill: complexities and stigma attached to working with forensic and generic mental health clients	Morton Rawlin - Chair, GPMHSC, South Melbourne, VIC The benefits of Mental Health Skills Training to the role of rural GP as coordinator of health care		Danny Hills - Lecturer, Rural Mental Health Education, NSW Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, Orange, NSW Build the capacity of the rural mental health workforce in cross-cultural care			Trevor Briedis - Deputy Principal, Hospital School Services, Perth, WA Expanding CAMHS and Education Liaison Team to Rural and Remote WA
5.00 – 5.30pm	Jackie Burke - NSW Rape Crisis Centre "It’s about talking about resilience": A qualitative study of psychologists’ experience of supporting rural and remote area health professionals	Jennifer O'Connell - Mental Health Social Worker/Program Co-ordinator, Leading from Within, VIC A Rural Community; a Clinician; a Case Study in Trauma Recovery and Associated Mental Health Implications		Jon Benham - Social and Emotional Manager NT, Australian Red Cross, Darwin, NT A two way approach is the only way forward			Carmen Garrett - Clinical Coordinator, headspace VIC eheadspace - online youth mental health service
5.30 – 7.30pm	Welcome Cocktail Function – Pre- function Lobby Area

	Wednesday 16^th November 2011
8.00 – 8.30am	Registration
Each session includes 10min Q&A	Research Convention Centre Room 1 Session chair: Lee Martinez		Building Capacity Convention Centre Room 2 Session chair: Jem Mills	Cultural Mental Health Issues & Policy & Funding Victoria Room 2 Session chair: Carlene Hurst		Community Resilience Eureka Room Session chair: Ros Darracott
8.30 – 9.00am	Fiona Little - Mental Health Academic, University Department of Rural Health, Tamworth, NSW Disengagement from care: A pilot study determining client trends for leaving treatment in a rural primary mental health care practice		Dr John Reilly - Clinical Director, Townsville Institute of Mental Health Services, Townsville, QLD Queensland's Rural and Remote Mental Health Project	Christine McDougall - Program Manager Adult Mental Health, Goulburn Valley Health, VIC Natural Disaster Impact on Area Mental Health Service		Dr Julie Rowse - Manager, Youth Mental Health Service, Ballarat Health Service Building an Interagency Mental Health Service System to meet the needs of young people with mental health difficulites: A collaborative approach
9.00 – 9.30am	Dr Rosemary Anderson - Research Fellow, University of Melbourne & A/Prof David Pierce - Director of UDRH, University of Melbourne & Dr Andrew Crowden - Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne Rural Practitioners’ creative solutions to overlapping relationships		Dr Jan Orman - GP Services Consultant, Black Dog Institute, Randwick, NSW The Black Dog Institute’s online MAP - Using the Internet to help GPs Diagnose and Treat Mood Disorders	Keith Sutton - Researcher, Monash University Department of Rural & Indigenous Health, Moe, VIC Bring them home: A Gippsland mental health workforce recruitment strategy		Cristina Iizuka - The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD Evidence-based resilience program for rural, remote, and regional Queensland: Effectiveness of an online train the trainer model
9.30 – 10.00am	Tass Holmes - University of Melbourne, VIC ‘Starting Somewhere’ – how rural residents benefit their mental and general wellbeing using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)		Carolyn Griffin - Senior Indigenous Research Officer, Menzies School of Health Research BEAT Depression (Best Practice in Early intervention, Assessment and Treatment for depression and substance misuse)	Mr Ian Boyson - Acting Branch Manager, Mental Health Branch, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs How FaHCSIA is supporting mental health service provision to optimise benefits for rural and remote communities		Mark Cartwright - Family Gouring Elder, Darug, Booroobirrongal, Broken Hill , NSW Warriors not victims. The Social, emotional and Spiritual wellbeing of Aboriginal men
10.00 – 10.30am	Morning Tea and Trade Displays
Each session includes 10min Q&A	Research Convention Centre Room 1 Session chair: Merilyn Limbrick	Building Capacity Convention Centre Room 2 Session chair: Anne Galloway			Community Resilience Victoria Room 2 Session chair: Liz Wortham		Youth Services & Suicide Eureka Room Session chair: Alexandra Hall
10.30 – 11.00am	Gary Green - Community Engagement Coordinator, Australian Men's Shed Association, Sisters Beach, TAS Community Men's Sheds - Making a REAL Difference!	Allan Murphy - Health Promotion Manager, Australian Drug Foundation, VIC A new team for rural mental health promotion – linking sports clubs and local services			Alexandra Hall - General Manager Disability Services, Wimmera Uniting Care, Horsham, VIC The Rural and Remote Engagement (RARE) Program		Genevieve Sinclair - Manager, Youth Empowered Towards Independence (YETI), Bungalow, QLD & Marcia Hedanek - Specialist Wellbeing Counsellor, YETI Casting nets: the development of culturally safe service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people
11.00 – 11.30am	Nyree Hutchins - La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC Substance use among urban and regional university students: Testing the convergence hypothesis	Dr Jenny Kelly - Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD Improving mental health literacy in the University setting: the role of Mental Health First Aid			Jo Drayton - Project Coordinator, Rural Community Support Service, Narrogin, WA ‘From Little Things, Big Things Grow…’ Showcasing best practice of a primary mental health service		Sarah Dwyer - Project Officer Youth, beyondblue, VIC beyondblue/Indigenous Hip Hop Projects partnership and evaluation
11.30 – 12.00pm	Keryn Hodder - Clinical Nurse Consultant, Burdekin Community Mental Health Queensland Health, Ayr, QLD Rural and Remote Mental Health Service Clinical Review: Innovative developments incorporating use video-conference facilities and e-technology	Frank Hughes - Team Leader, Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre, Parkville, VIC Get online, Get informed, Get connected An Interactive Website for Early Psychosis Clinicians: Development & Description			Rebecca Kok - Manager, Advocacy Services, Queensland Aged and Disability Advocacy Inc., Qld WISE-UP – Skilling the HACC Workforce to identify and support older people experiencing or at risk of experiencing mental health problems
12.00 – 1.00pm	Lunch and Trade Displays
1.00 – 1.45pm	Susan McLean - Cyber Safety Expert, Cyber Safety Solutions, East Doncaster, VIC What Rural and Remote Health Practitioners need to know about Cyberbullying and Sexting?
1.45 – 2.30pm	Darryl Wade - Director Education and Training (Acting), Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne Mental health response following natural disaster: an evidence-informed approach
2.30 – 3.00pm	Afternoon Tea and Trade Displays
3.00 – 4.00pm	Live Performance - 'My Dog has Stripes' - HealthPlay Play by Alan Hopgood (Sponsored by beyondblue) Case workers meet to discuss their patients, unaware that one of their own team is in need of help
4.00 – 4.15pm	Close of Symposium

Poster Presentations - will be available to view in the foyer for the duration of the conference Phillipa Low, Diabetes Nurse Educator, Diabetes Australia-VIC, Melbourne, VIC Diabetes Online Learning Program for Mental Health Workers William Mack, Mace Energy Method Practitioner, Macarthur, NSW Improving mental health in rural regions of depopulation, a new theory Kerry Dawes, Lecturer in Mental Health University of Wollongong, NSW The role of longitudinal placement of medical students in regional, rural and remote areas: An experiential account Ali Nori, Research Fellow, National Poison Centre, University Science, Malaysia The association between stress and academic performance among university students