Share your work with your peers at CAMH25
Present at the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Conference in 2025
- Share your expertise and knowledge with the wider CAMH community.
- Have your voice at the front of the conversations shaping the future of the CAMH sector.
- Inspire your peers with your ideas, insights, research, stories and case studies.
- Build your reputation and enhance your professional profile.
- Build your self-confidence and grow in leadership and influence.
Presenters come from all areas of the CAMH sector, mental health sector, education, government, academia and research, culture and community.
Apply To Present
Presenter submission deadline:
September 13th, 2024.
Applications are now closed.
Share insights on our core topics;
Empowering futures, transforming young people's mental health together.
CAMH25 Topics
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School-Based Interventions
- Teacher well-being and child mental health: Practical tips for promoting emotional wellbeing and addressing compassion fatigue
- Managing social media and online safety in schools: Resources for teachers
- Handling disclosures of abuse: Best practices for teachers handling disclosures and creating safety
- Empowering student success through self-care
- Early intervention and support: Using literacy and language to reduce stigma and strategies for identifying and supporting anxiety
- Trauma-informed practice in schools: Supporting mental health in education through trauma-informed teaching practices
- The role of early childhood education in supporting mental health and development
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Embracing Neurodiversity: Understanding and supporting the mental health of neurodivergent young people
- Advancing mental health services for young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): Harnessing special interests and navigating social, academic, and personal challenges
- Fostering self-esteem, identity and purpose in neurodivergent young people: Inclusive practices and cultural changes
- Restrictive eating disorders (ARFID) and autism
- Aggressive behaviours and ADHD symptoms in childhood
- ADHD and risk for subsequent adverse childhood experiences: understanding the cycle of adversity
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Trauma: Understanding and Addressing the Impact
- Addressing racism and enhancing cultural competency: Improving mental health outcomes for First Nations and Indigenous young people
- Understanding the range of impact and treatment options for trauma and traumatic bereavement
- Resilience, posttraumatic growth and community-based support: Nurturing positive mindsets recovering from trauma
- Creative therapies for trauma: Incorporating music, art and somatic play therapy in the treatment
- Utilising fiction to support grieving young people
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Navigating the Digital Age: Social Media, Technology, and Mental Health Outcomes
- Social media and mental health: Expert insights, user types and the impact of digital engagement on wellbeing
- Online pornography: perspectives on mental health impacts
- Cyber-bullying and online safety: Preventing and addressing sextortion and its impacts
- The impact of social media on eating disorders, sleep and affective wellbeing
- Gambling and gaming: Mental health implications and prevention
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Emerging Threats & Innovative Approaches to Mental Health
- Preventing suicide and self-harm: Latest research, evidence-based interventions and support strategies
- Understanding and supporting young people with OCD and anxiety: Prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment
- Examining the mental health effects of climate change and ecological crises, housing crisis and economic instability
- Addressing bullying and harmful sexual behaviours: Dynamics, prevention strategies and support
- Eating disorders, disordered eating: Addressing prevalence, diagnosis, treatment and prevention
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From Theory to Practice: What’s Helping and Hindering
- The application of music therapy to improve mental health outcomes
- The role of sleep and nutrition
- Addressing the impact of stress on mental health in secondary school-aged students
- Understanding and addressing body image issues
- Promoting positive youth development and wellbeing through strength-based and outdoor activities
- Brain-Based Coping Strategies: Activating the brain for change and wellbeing
- Assisting family support workers: Integrated Family Services, working with families of young people with mental health concerns
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Family Matters: Family dynamics and mental health outcomes
- Smartphone use and its impact on parenting and young people’s mental health
- Fostering strong connections and understanding family dynamics to promote mental wellbeing in young people
- Strategies to support with school avoidance
- The impact of domestic violence on mental health and strategies for intervention
- Parenting practices, mood and anxiety disorders: Understanding the impact on young people of depressed parents
- Skills and strategies for parenting young people with intense emotional needs
- LGBTQI+ and multicultural mental health: Affirming support and diverse cultural approaches
- Parental coping strategies in the context of young people’s mental health
- Addressing the stress and frustration experienced by caregivers in the context of young people's mental health treatment
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Embracing Equity in Mental Health Care
- Addressing disparities and socioeconomic challenges: Promoting equitable mental health care and preventing homelessness
- Supporting gender identity and LGBTQ+: Addressing mental health challenges and debunking myths
- Improving mental health outcomes for those with intellectual and physical disabilities
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The First 2000 Days: Foundations of Early Childhood Mental Health
- The importance of early childhood mental health: Critical impact, early identification, and intervention
- Attachment, bonding, and the role of play in early childhood mental health
- Nutrition, parental mental health and their impact on early brain development
- Integrating mental health support into early childhood education
FAQs
What if I don't see a presentation topic I'd like to speak on?
You can apply to present on the above range of important sector topics, which our conference committee has curated. If you don't see a topic that exactly fits your application, you can apply under an 'open topic'.
Can I present with a colleague?
You can choose to present solo, or with a co-presenter. In your application, you'll see a section for adding in your co-presenter details.
What are the conference dates and location?
The 2025 CAMH Conference will be held on the Gold Coast at the JW Marriott Resort & Spa, from March 24th - March 26th.
Does my application secure me a presenting position?
Once the applications have closed (Friday, September 13th), our conference committee reviews all the applications and the notification to presenters will be sent a week or so after that. Your application does not secure you a spot.
Do I need to pay to apply?
No, there is no fee to apply to present. If you are selected as a presenter, you gain the best possible rate to attend the conference plus you gain a discount code to share with your colleagues and network so they can attend with you (and support you) at a special rate.
What are you waiting for?
What to present at CAMH25
What content is best shared at CAMH25?
If you are passionate about creating services and programs to support the mental health of our young people and you have insights, ideas, research, results or future plans to share - please apply to present now.
The conference committee is looking for presenters who are ready to share:
- Research findings, data and information which could inspire changes in service delivery and help create a sustainable future for our youth.
- Case studies which inspire innovations across digital solutions, service delivery models and community connections.
- Best-practice applications to create immediate improvement for services and platforms.
- Successful CAMH initiatives and projects which deliver long term success.
- Culturally responsive solutions for Indigenous, First Nations people and solutions tailored for the youth within CaLD communities.
Presenters are encouraged to share their powerful experiences that address the conference topics with originality and flare. You can choose to present solo or with a co-presenter.
Youth presenters are encouraged to attend with professional peers.
PRESENTATION STYLES
Oral Presentation
Take to the stage and present to the audience in a 20-minute speaking session with 5 minutes for questions.
Workshop Presentation
Keep the attention of attendees via engaging, hands-on learning experience in a 60-minute workshop.
Panel Presentation
Panel presentations bring together views from a group of presenters into a discussion of innovative ideas, current topics, and relevant issues. Each panel session will run for 60 minutes and will consist of at least 3 panel members.
Poster Presentation
Visually showcase your research or services via a printed poster, displayed in the conference exhibition area for the duration of the conference. A dedicated 15-minute poster session is included in the conference program. Posters also displayed virtually to e-delegates.
Important Dates
| Presenter Applications Closing | Friday 13 September 2024 |
| Notification to Presenters | Monday 28 October 2024 |
| Presenter Acceptance and Registration Due | Friday 8 November 2024 |
| Program Launch | Tuesday 19 November 2024 |
Registrations will open Thursday 30 November 2023.