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Australia's leading event to improve mental health access & services in regional and remote communities
Wednesday 9 – Friday 11 November 2022
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide SA

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Creating Change for

Our Communities

Each year, around one in five, or 960,000 remote and rural Australians experience a mental disorder.

Limited services, fewer available professionals, and poor access to primary and acute care all contribute to inequality in mental health support for those in rural and remote areas.

Combined with a reluctance to seek help due to stigma, cultural barriers in service access, distance, and cost, these factors will continue to have a detrimental impact on the wellbeing of remote and rural Australians.

The Australian Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium is the platform for change.

Hear from mental health experts, network with service providers, and unite with fellow workers to provide greater mental health accessibility, support, and services to rural and remote communities.

What Makes This Symposium Different?

We are committed to providing practical outcomes for you to utilise, adapt, and adopt into everyday practice.

Our program committee members have been specially selected for their vast knowledge and experience in rural mental health care. From academia through to lived experience, each member offers a unique insight into the challenges and opportunities faced across many sectors of service care, accessibility, treatment, and recovery.

This results in a program designed by the sector, for the sector.

Our program is carefully curated for professionals and industry workers to share best practice, encourage multi-sectoral collaboration, facilitate meaningful connections, and give real solutions to advance mental health in rural and remote areas.

By focusing on early intervention, prevention, and improving service accessibility, we will provide you with the tools to progress mental health and wellbeing for all rural and remote community members.

Present in 2022

Championing Stories of Innovation, Resilience & Endurance

 

The Symposium Program Advisory Committee are seeking presentations of varying styles, whether case study examples, emerging research, project or program analysis and learnings, as well as calls for action.

In 2022 will be exploring the theme Championing Stories of Innovation, Resilience & Endurance.

We want to hear how you're paving the way for change in our rural and remote communities. Share your latest workplace developments, case study findings, lived-experience learnings or industry developments in rural and remote mental health care.

In-person & virtual presentation options are both available. 

Every successful presenter will be offered a discounted in-person registration rate of $799 + GST.

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Presentation Topics

Resilient & Empowered Families

  • Preventative wellbeing initiatives and strategies for children and young people 
  • Mental health risk factors such as social and economic determinants 
  • Differing community support for CALD communities and people with disabilities 
  • Holistic care – physical health, nutrition and mental illness 
  • Crises preparedness and response including drought, fire, flood, health pandemics 
  • Community driven initiatives and upskilling of family and support networks 
  • Overcoming stigma and embracing change

Embedding Lived Experience Expertise and Engagement

  • Consumer & carer participation and leadership in solution-based discussions and practices 
  • Building the peer workforce  
  • Supporting mental health carers 
  • Co-production of programs and projects with lived experience and understanding the value of each individual's journey in the development of systems and differing approaches 
  • Building family focused practice knowledge and skills to support families where a parent has a mental illness 
  • Support for children of parents with a mental illness 

Service Excellence

  • Challenges, opportunities, lessons and disruptors of COVID-19 
  • Impacts of COVID-19 
  • Innovative approaches to overcome accessibility  
  • Customisation and adaptation of technologies and online health 
  • Prioritising wellbeing in the workforce, preventing burn-out and fatigue 
  • Culturally responsive and safe services and support for CALD communities 
  • Suicide prevention programs and research for high-risk rural industries including mining and agriculture 
  • Equity of funding across rural and remote Australia 
  • Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency strategy collaboration including housing, alcohol and other drugs, and family violence services 

First Nations Social & Emotional Wellbeing

  • Identifying and dismantling racism and discrimination 
  • Designing, implementing and evaluating culturally safe services with First Nation people 
  • Positive results driven by the First Nation workforce 
  • Addressing barriers to access and delivery for First Nations’ people in rural and remote locations 
  • Opportunities to improve mental health and prevent mental ill health in the youth cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Presentation Styles

Oral

Present to the audience in a 20-30 minute speaking session, with incorporated time for questions.

Panel

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 90 minutes.

Workshop

Keep the attention of attendees via engaging, hands-on learning experience in a 90 minute workshop.

20 x 20

20×20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images. Each presenter has approx. 7 minutes to present, with 20 accompanying imagery slides that automatically progress.

Poster

Visually showcase your research or services via a printed poster, displayed in the conference exhibition area.

Important Dates

Presenter applications close Friday 15 July 2022 
Successful presenters notified  Monday 1 August 2022
Program available Thursday 25 August 2022
Scholarship applications close Friday 9 September 2022
Early bird pricing ends Friday 16 September 2022
Conference dates Wednesday 9 November – Friday 11 November 2022 

 

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Committee

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Professor Russell Roberts

Professor, Charles Sturt University

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Professor Russell Roberts

Professor, Charles Sturt University

Dr Russell Roberts is professor of mental health, and leadership at Charles Sturt University, and Clinical Associate Professor at University of Sydney. He is national director of Equally Well Australia,  tasked to oversee the national implementation of actions to improve the physical health of people living with mental illness. He is also Chief Investigator on the Rural Universities Network (RUN) mental health research collaborative.

He is a board member of ANZ Mental Health Association, and has previously served on the NSW Mental Health Commission Advisory Council, as Director of Clinical Training at Griffith University, Queensland, as Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of Rural Health and as Chair if the Workplace Mental Health Symposium. He is referenced as one of the 50 most influential rural Australians.  

Russell has extensive experience as a clinician, rural mental health service director and academic. He has worked as Clinical Psychologist in rural SA, Qld and NSW. As the director of a mental health service in western NSW, leading an organisation of over 1,000 staff, and $110m pa budget delivering comprehensive services across the spectrum of care. Facilities in his organisation ranged from Australia’s largest integrated mental health hospital, to teams in Australia’s most remote locations such as Bourke, Lightning Ridge and Wilcannia.  

With state, national and international awards in E-mental health and Aboriginal workforce development, Russell has over two decades of experience in developing, implementing, and consolidating new and innovative health services across a range of complex service environments. He has led the development of several of innovative, programs such as the Mental Health Emergency Care Rural Access Program, the Mental Health Rural Outreach Service, and the Aboriginal Workforce Development Program. He has published over 90 refereed journal articles, books and book chapters, over 60 conference presentations, 15 keynote speeches, with $9.725 Mill in research grant funding and over 4,600 citations of his research work. 

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Jo Rasmussen

Consultant

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Jo Rasmussen

Consultant

Jo Rasmussen is a national award-winning mental health advocate. Jo’s most recent role was the Mental Health Data Analysis and Engagement Lead at Murray PHN.

In this role Jo lead engagement with mental health consumers and carers, which also had a strong focus on addressing the stigma of mental illness, which includes designing and leading the Stop Stigma project.

Jo also has strong background in data analysis, with many years spent in the geospatial data field, combined with her recent role in primary mental health data. 

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Rochelle Hine

Lecturer, School of Rural Health, Monash University

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Rochelle Hine

Lecturer, School of Rural Health, Monash University

Dr Rochelle Hine is a social worker and academic with over 25 years of practice experience in a range of sectors including foster care, women’s health promotion, community and clinical mental health, education and research.

Rochelle's research is grounded in social justice and identifying and addressing inequality. Her research focuses predominantly on critical qualitative approaches to exploring the circumstances of people’s lives, collaborating with lived experience experts and other stakeholders. 

Specific areas of research interest and expertise include social and emotional wellbeing and healing, rural communities, women's health, parenting, gender, promoting antiracist policy and practice in healthcare and family violence prevention. 

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Sandra Batistich

CEO, Moving A Head

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Sandra Batistich

CEO, Moving A Head

Sandra founded mental health charity organisation Moving a Head in South Australia.

Having worked in the mental health field for over 14 years she realised that early intervention was a key aspect of combating mental health issues. Sandra has designed and implemented early intervention courses for people experiencing depression.

She has a BA and Grad Dip in Counselling and has worked previously in private practice. She has also worked in individual psychosocial rehabilitation support services, as well as in the Headspace program.

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Lyn English AM

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Lyn English AM

Originally from Sydney, residing in South Australia for 23 years, 9 years living and working in regional and remote SA. Lived experience role for 6 years with Country Health SALHN Mental Health Services.
Chair, SA OCP Lived Experience Advisory Group; MH Coalition SA Board Member:
Co-Chair Governance Committee, Urgent Mental Health Care Centre: National Consumer & Carer Forum consumer representative: Equally Well Australia lived experience member.
People with lived experience (including carers/family members) are central to driving mental health reform through leadership, growth of the peer workforce, codesign and inclusion at all levels. A human rights based approach to care is needed to improve experiences and outcomes for consumers and addressing equity and access remains a priority.
My 2020 Australia Day Honour as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia. “For significant service to mental health and consumer support organisations.” is a huge sense of pride.

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Barb Walters

Chief Executive Officer, Rural Alive & Well Inc

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Barb Walters

Chief Executive Officer, Rural Alive & Well Inc

Barb is the current CEO of Rural Alive & Well, a Tasmanian not for profit which builds healthy and resilient rural communities to reduce the prevalence of suicide in ages 14yrs and above.

Barb is steadfast in not taking mental health and wellbeing for granted and uses her lived experience in mental health and wellbeing which has seen RAW become the leading organisation in Tasmania for rural mental health and wellbeing support.

Having lived in a remote Tasmanian towns all her life, Barb understands first-hand the complexities and joys experienced from remote and rural areas, and is excited to be able to bring her knowledge and passion to this year’s Program Advisory Committee.

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Associate Professor Martin Jones

Research, UniSA Allied Health & Human Performance, University of South Australia

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Associate Professor Martin Jones

Research, UniSA Allied Health & Human Performance, University of South Australia

Martin Jones is a Registered Nurse in Australia and the United Kingdom. He holds a Doctorate Degree in Nursing. He currently works as the Director and Associate Professor with the University of South Australia Department of Rural Health. He is interested in rural health workforce development, which includes supporting health care workers to extend their roles in the absence of other health care professionals and rural health workforce recruitment and retention. He has led on the development and implementation of an online professional certificate program to support non specialist mental health workers to treat depression. He is an Associate for the Australian Journal of Rural Health.

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Cecelia Gore

Executive Director, Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs BranchNT Health

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Cecelia Gore

Executive Director, Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs BranchNT Health

Cecelia Gore is the Executive Director Mental Health and AOD for NT Health. She has more than 25 years’ experience developing, commissioning and evaluating service systems and projects, and crafting policy solutions in complex environments.  This has included roles in both government and non-government sectors, and in QLD, NSW and the NT.

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Nathan Lee

Mental Health and Wellbeing Manager, Centacare FNQ

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Nathan Lee

Mental Health and Wellbeing Manager, Centacare FNQ
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Dr Keith Sutton

Department of Rural & Indigenous Health, Monash University

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Dr Keith Sutton

Department of Rural & Indigenous Health, Monash University

Keith is Lecturer in Rural Mental Health, Monash Rural Health (Warragul). He has extensive experience as a clinician, manager, bureaucrat and researcher in the rural behavioural health sector.

Keith’s research work spans rural nursing and allied health workforce issues, the confluence of mental health issues and methamphetamine use, rural behavioural health workforce issues, suicide prevention in the rural context, and improving access to behavioural health services in rural and remote communities. 

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Professor David Perkins

Conjoint Professor, University of Newcastle and Adjunct Professor at University of Canberra, Centre for Mental Health Research

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Professor David Perkins

Conjoint Professor, University of Newcastle and Adjunct Professor at University of Canberra, Centre for Mental Health Research

David Perkins is a Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, Centre for Mental Health Research.  He was previously Director of the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health. 

David's career spans academic research and health services management in Australia and the UK.  He is the coordinator of the Orange Declaration on rural mental health services and a member of the International Institute of Mental Health Leadership.  His interests focus on mental health systems and integration in rural contexts. 

David is widely published and sits on a range of national and international advisory committees.  He is a past editor-in chief of the Australian Journal of Rural Health. 

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Dr Daniel Rock

Principal Advisor and Research Director, WA Primary Health Alliance

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Dr Daniel Rock

Principal Advisor and Research Director, WA Primary Health Alliance

Dr Daniel Rock is the Principal Adviser and Research Director at the WA Primary Health Alliance who have the contract to operate the three WA Primary Health Networks.  He is an epidemiologist and an Adjunct Professor in the Disciple of Psychiatry, the University of Western Australia and at the Faculty of Health, University of Canberra. 

Prior to joining WAPHA Daniel was Deputy Executive Director at North Metropolitan Health Service Mental Health and Director of Clinical Research in Perth. During his time at North Metro he was also a co-joint Clinical Professor in the School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences and the School of Population Health, the University of Western Australia and Co-Director of the UWA Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry. 

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Venue & Accommodation

Venue

Adelaide Oval
War Memorial Drive
North Adelaide SA 5066 

The William Magarey Room, Adelaide Oval’s flagship event space, is located in the Riverbank Stand, Level 3. 

 

Accommodation

Oval Hotel, Adelaide
King William Road,
 North Adelaide SA 5066
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A destination hotel at the heart of the city of Adelaide.

Set at the iconic Adelaide Oval, our unique address places you within minutes of the vibrant city centre, while enveloping you in the tranquillity of the surrounding parklands.

At Oval Hotel, the moment is yours.

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Room Details

Parkland King - $269.00 per room, per night
Parkland King with breakfast for one - $294.00 per room, per night 
Parkland King with breakfast for two - $319.00 per room, per night 

Accommodation can be booked during the registration process. If you have any questions, please use the contact form below.

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Meet & Greet

Date: Thursday 10 November 2022 
Time: 5.00pm - 6.00pm 
Location: MTX Club John Halbert Room, Level 3, Adelaide Oval 
Cost: Included in your delegate registration. $66 for guests. 
Catering: Drinks and canapes will be provided. 

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Registration Options

In-Person

3 DAY PROGRAM

$999 + GST

Early Bird

  • All keynote presentations
  • All concurrent presentations
  • Discounted accommodation rates
  • Access to symposium app
  • 5 star symposium catering package
  • Access to exclusive networking functions
  • Complete online access to audio and visual presentations for 30 days post-event
  • Printed symposium materials
  • Over 10 hours towards CPD points
  • Your personalised certificate of attendance
  • Exposure for your organisation
  • Plus, chances to win great prizes!

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Virtual

2 DAY PROGRAM

$399 + GST

Early Bird

  • Live streaming of all keynote presenters
  • Live streaming of all sessions in the plenary room over two day symposium period
  • Virtual presentations
  • Complete online access to audio and visual presentations for 30 days*
  • Over 10 hours towards CPD points
  • Your personalised certificate of attendance

    *Access to all audio and visual presentations will be made available 5 business days after the symposium has taken place, and will expire 30 days after access has been granted. Options to extend access will also be made available after 30 days.

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    As an association that is a leader in mental health, we stand beside our First Nations people in both Australia and New Zealand to empower their people and communities to improve their wellbeing. We support our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia and Maori people in New Zealand/Aotearoa and acknowledge the beauty, strength and uniqueness in their people and cultures. We celebrate their diversity and acknowledge that we work, walk and talk on your lands and we thank and pay yindyamarra/whakaute/respect to your ancestors, Elders and people. Our association will work to continue to amplify voices and empower communities to improve the mental health within First Nations people in both countries.