Present at the
Frontline Mental Health Conference
in 2024
The Power of Collaboration: Working Together to Create Lasting Change.
Why Present at FMHC?
Shine a light on the work you do to make the lives and workplaces of frontline workers safer, happier and more supportive.
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Share your expertise and knowledge with the wider, frontline mental health community. |
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Have your voice at the front of the conversations shaping the future of our sector. |
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Inspire your peers with your ideas, insights, research, stories and case studies. |
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Presenting is an excellent opportunity to build your reputation and enhance your professional profile. |
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Boost your professional presentation skills, build your self-confidence and grow in leadership and influence. |
Apply to present at FMHC24 now
Applications for presenters are open form August 8th for three weeks only and close on August 31st.
You can choose to present solo or with a co-presenter.
Applications to present are now closed.
In 2024, our conference theme is:
The Power of Collaboration: Working Together to Create Lasting Change
We will explore into the topics:
- Combatting Empathic distress fatigue (compassion fatigue) and cultivating healthy empathy
- Nurturing Resilience: Promoting Mental Health and Building Coping Skills
- Navigating Vicarious Trauma and Embracing Post Traumatic Growth: Moving from darkness to thriving.
- Fostering Compassionate Communities: Creating Safe and Inclusive Cultural
- Tech-Enabled Wellness: Supporting and Empowering Mental Health through Technology
- Promoting Wellbeing: Integrating Risk Assessment, Work Health, Mitigation, Health and Safety Disciplines
- Holistic Wellbeing: Exploring the Interplay of Nutrition, Sleep, and Mental Health
- From Theory to Practice: Implementing Effective Strategies
- Empowering Voices, Embracing Change: Co-creating New Knowledge and Collaboration for Frontline Mental Health Transformation
- Preserving the flame: Preventing burnout and empathic distress fatigue
- Navigating Workplace Challenges: Fostering Supportive Environments
- Crisis Care: Effective Procedures and Compassionate Approaches during crisis situations
- Thriving Beyond Trauma: Supporting Successful Return to Work with Mental Health Injuries (PTSD etc)
- Empowering Frontline Champions: Creating Healthy Workplaces and Inclusive Environments for Lived Experience, Peer Workers, and Volunteers
- Healing the Invisible Wounds: Addressing Moral Injury
- Caring for Our Caregivers: Navigating the Challenges and Supporting the Families of Frontline Workers
- Breaking Barriers: Empowering Frontline Workers, Families, and Challenging Mental Health Stigma
- Lifecycle of frontline workers from recruitment, employment, training, transitions, retirement and beyond
- Psychosocial Risk and the implementation of processes within organisation
- Responding to Tragedy: Addressing Critical Incidents, the Impact of Line-of-Duty Deaths and Deaths by Suicide
- Shaping the Future: Student Engagement and Equipping Entry-Level Professionals
- Healing from Within: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Response, Intervention, and Practices
- Collective Guardianship: Uniting for Suicide Prevention
- Prioritising the Protectors: Supporting First Responders and Nurturing Support Systems
- Community Strength: The Vital Role of Family and Support Networks in First Nations Communities - Collaborative Approaches
- Creating Safe Spaces: Promoting Inclusion, Safety, and Belonging for LGBTQIA+, People with Disabilities, and Other Marginalised Communities
- Words Matter: Exploring Language and Ethical Communication
- Charting New Territories: Exploring Recent Work Health and Safety Legislation Changes in NSW and Queensland
- Setting the Bar: National Standards for Mental Health Training and Innovative Care Models
- Rights Empowerment: Ensuring Legal Rights and Accountability in Frontline Mental Health Services and Employment
What’s best suited to share at FMHC?
If your work or your team's work supports the mental health of our frontline and emergency workers, and your insights, ideas, research, results are making a difference in the sector - please apply to present now.
The conference committee is looking for presents who are ready to passionately share:
- Research findings, data and information which could inspire changes in service delivery and help create a sustainable future for frontline workers.
- 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 frontline mental health initiatives and projects which deliver long term success.
- Culturally responsive solutions for Indigenous, First Nations people within our frontline worker community.
Apply to present at FMHC24 now
Applications for presenters are open from August 8th for three weeks only and close on August 31st.
You can choose to present solo or with a co-presenter.
Applications to present are now closed.
Presenters are encouraged to share their powerful experiences that address the conference topics with originality and flare.
Presentation Styles
Take the stage and present to the audience in a 15 or 25 minute speaking session with 5 minutes for questions.
Keep the attention of attendees via engaging, hands-on learning experience in a 90 minute masterclass.
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.
Visually showcase your research or services via a printed poster, displayed in the conference exhibition area for the duration of the conference. A dedicated 10 minute poster session is included in the conference program.
Important Dates
| Presentation applications open | Tuesday 8 August 2023 |
| Presentation applications close | Friday 31 August 2023 |
| Notifications to presenters | Monday 18 September 2023 |
| Acceptances and registrations due | Wednesday 27 September 2023 |
| Program launch | Thursday 5 October 2023 |
| Super early bird open | Thursday 5 October 2023 |
| Scholarships close | Friday 19 January 2024 |
| Conference dates | Monday 4 & Tuesday 5 March 2024 |