[Commpsych] FW: 4th WA Transcultural Mental Health & 2nd Australasian Refugee Conference 31/10-1/11 - Standard Registration Extended and Closing Panel Theme Finalised

Fri Oct 18 19:16:02 WST 2013

From: Wright, Bernadette (RPH) [mailto:Bernadette.Wright at health.wa.gov.au]
Sent: Thursday, 17 October 2013 8:13 PM
Subject: Standard Registration Extended and Closing Panel Theme Finalised

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Standard Registration Extended
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The phones have been ringing off the hook! Due to popular request we are pleased to advise of an extension of the Standard Registration deadline by one week. To secure the standard registration rate register by 5.00pm (WA time) on Wednesday 23 October. Click here<http://transrefugee2013.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a33b44bf12515dbbd29ee92db&id=d32946ed07&e=8a8d86674d> to register now. Registrations can be made onsite at the conference at the late registration price.

Registration Type

Standard
(from 08/06/13)

Late
(from 24/10/13)

Not For Profit

$780

$980

Government & Corporate

$995

$1,195

Student

$480

$580

Not For Profit – Day Only

$395

$595

Government & Corporate – Day Only

$515

$715

PANEL DISCUSSION

Updated Closing Panel theme

“A new political and economic landscape - where to now for clients and services?”

Join us in the closing session as facilitator Tim Rolfe engages Dr Annie Sparrow, Dr Frederic Bemak, Prof Harry Minas, Dr Nathan Gibson and Akram Azimi in this very topical issue that will explore the best ways to move forward in this uncertain time.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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Dr Annie Sparrow, MBBS, MRCP, FRACP, MPH is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Human Rights Program in the Department of Global Health, teaching human rights and humanitarian aid in complex emergencies.

An Australian,  Annie spent most of her first ten postgraduate years practicing paediatric critical care in London and her native Perth. She began focusing more on refugee health and human rights after a brief visit to Afghanistan whilst under Taliban control. She served as a lead public advocate for refugees detained in punitive conditions in Australia and worked in several remote Aboriginal communities before obtaining a Masters in Public Health at Harvard. She then joined Human Rights Watch, focusing on HIV and sexual violence in conflict and working mainly in refugee camps in Sudan and Chad. On one trip to Darfur, she gave displaced children crayons and paper, which they used to draw pictures about the atrocities they had witnessed and escaped. These pictures became the much-acclaimed “Darfur Drawings” exhibit that travelled widely and was used by the International Criminal Court as evidence of systematic war crimes by the Sudanese government.

Most recently, Annie spent three years based in Nairobi working in various complex humanitarian emergencies (Timor Leste, Somalia, Zimbabwe) for the Emergency Response Team of Catholic Relief Services and a further year as director of UNICEF’s malaria program in Somalia for the Global Fund against Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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Dr Fred Bemak is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education and the Director of the Diversity Research and Action Centre at George Mason University in the United States.  He is also the Founder and Director of Counsellors without Borders, a non-profit organization that provides counselling support following post-disaster and post-conflict situations.

Fred has previously held administrative and faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins University and Ohio State University as well as visiting faculty appointments at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), the University of Queensland (Australia), National Taiwan Normal University, and the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico). Prior to his university work Fred directed public sector national and state funded mental health and human services programs in the United States serving youth and families. He also served as the Clinical Director of a U.S. National Institute of Mental Health funded training consortium based at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Fred has done extensive consultation, training, and supervision work and given invited presentations throughout the United States and internationally in 55 countries.  His work has focused on transcultural mental health, refugee and immigrant mental health, social justice, and post-disaster and post-conflict trauma with extensive publications in these areas including a recent book entitled, “Social Justice Counselling: The Next Steps Beyond Multiculturalism”. Most recently, Fred has been providing mental health training for staff working in Uganda with former child soldiers. He has received Fulbright awards to work in Scotland, Brazil, and Turkey. A World Rehabilitation Fund International Fellow in India, a Kellogg Foundation International Fellow in Latin America and the Caribbean, Fred is also a former American Psychological Association Visiting Psychologist.  He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and has received numerous awards including the American Counselling Association Kitty Cole Human Rights Award and American Counselling Association Gilbert and Kathleen Wrenn  Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person.

PANEL SPEAKERS

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Professor Harry Minas is Director, Centre for International Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne; Director, Victorian Transcultural Mental Health Unit, St Vincent’s Health Melbourne; Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Research and Training in Mental Health and Substance Abuse.  As a psychiatrist, Harry works in three broad areas:  mental health system development, particularly in low-resource and post-conflict settings; culture and mental health, with a focus on mental health of immigrant and refugee communities and the development of services for culturally diverse societies; and the human rights of people with mental illness.  Harry’s current honorary positions include Head of the Secretariat, Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH), Honorary Lecturer on Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Visiting Professor, Taipei Medical University, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Mental Health Systems Member, World Health Organization International Expert Panel on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, International Advisor to the ASEAN Mental Health Taskforce and Regional Vice-President for Western Pacific Region, World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation.

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 Akram Azimi is, in his own words, 'the luckiest primate on the planet'. Indeed, he compares himself to Charlie from the Willy Wonka movie; however, unlike Charlie, Akram thinks he has won all five Golden Tickets.

The first Golden Ticket arrived with him in Afghanistan, when he was born to his brilliant and beautiful university educated mother. His second he received as a visa to Australia; his third became incarnate in the form of his inspiring teachers at Warwick Senior High School; his fourth he won as a full scholarship to the best academic institution in Western Australian, St George's College; and, the fifth - but hopefully not last - ticket was becoming Young Australian of the Year despite other, and far more worthy, nominees (in Akram's eyes).

Akram is deeply aware that he never chose any of his good fortune; as such, he is no more deserving of it than anyone else. But he has chosen what to do with these blessings: be absolutely grateful, let gratitude fill his heart and indiscriminately give back to others in his community.

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Dr Nathan Gibson is a medical graduate of the University of Queensland, who trained in Psychiatry in Tasmania, Scotland and Western Australia.  He was the Head of Clinical Service at Graylands Hospital for 8 years and is currently the Chief Psychiatrist of Western Australia.

Nathan has previously been the Chair of the WA Branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

Nathan's interests have been within the area of mental health legislation, service development, quality improvement, medical education and he has previously worked in refugee mental health. As an administrator, he has remained an active clinician until the commencement of his current role recently.
PANEL FACILITATOR

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Tim Rolfe was born in hot and humid Madras in southern India, raised in wet and gloomy England, lives in wonderful WA specifically beautiful Broome and plans to retire to Rottnest when it becomes an off-shore detention centre for the elderly.

He has worked in mental health, alcohol and drug and social justice settings since 1967 in the UK and Australia and been a nurse, social worker, drug counsellor, Probation Officer, Training Officer, University lecturer and for 10 years was a clinical advisor to the Chief Psychiatrist of Western Australia. He now works for he Mental Health Commission primarily tasked with education around the new Mental Health Bill. He lives with his wife in Broome having abandoned his adult children and runs the Broome Ukulele Band.

Mental Health in Multicultural Australia (MHiMA) Session Panel Discussion:

Effectively meeting the CALD inclusion and equity challenge in mental health services

Nicole O’Keefe is the Executive Director of The Office of Mental Health. The Office of Mental Health was formed in February 2013 as part of the implementation of the recommendations of the Stokes Report, Review of the admission or referral to and the discharge and transfer practices of public mental health facilities and services in Western Australia. Nicole has a long association with the Department of Health, having held a number of positions with the Department in Perth and Albany, including the role of Director, Analysis and Performance Reporting from January 2005 to August 2007.

Nicole earned her undergraduate degree in Applied Science at Curtin University and went on to complete  post-graduate qualifications in Dietetics, Health Promotion, Health Economics, a Masters degree in Public Health, and is currently undertaking a Doctorate.  She was awarded an Associate Professorship in Health Science at Curtin in 2008. She is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Nicole then moved to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA), where she served as Western Australian Manager between 2007 and 2011 – responsible for various programs in aged care, mental health, drug and alcohol, rural health, primary care and Aboriginal health. Nicole was also based in Darwin, serving as a DoHA Senior Advisor for the Northern Territory and focusing on the implementation of reforms under the Closing the Gap National Partnership Agreement.

Hamza Vayani is the Executive Officer for Mental Health in Multicultural Australia (MHiMA). MHiMA provides a national focus across Australia on issues relevant to Culturally & Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities in relation to mental health and suicide prevention. MHiMA is committed to delivering practical and evidence-based advice and support to government, non-government providers, primary health care professionals, consumers, carers and their families. MHiMA’s vision is for an open and inclusive society committed to human rights and diversity in which everyone requiring mental health services is able to access culturally responsive services irrespective of cultural or linguistic background. MHiMA is committed to achieve this vision by developing effective and respectful collaborations across all sectors to address the mental health needs of Australia’s CALD populations.

Hamza leads a team that is working together across Australia to turn this vision into practical action. Hamza has an extensive background in public policy development in the areas of youth, health and social policy spanning more than ten years in the not for profit and government sectors both in Australia and the UK. Hamza is passionate about enabling effective community development and engagement approach to bring about innovative and lasting change in terms of improved policy outcomes resulting in improved culturally responsive service access for CALD consumers, carers and families. Hamza has significant experience of working in diverse, multicultural and rapidly changing communities facing a range of social and economic challenges.

Manjit Kaur has been involved as a consumer advocate/consultant in the mental health sector for almost 20 years. She first became involved in mental health advocacy work with respect to the inadequacy of mental health services for CaLD consumers, a group who are vulnerable and disenfranchised. Her participation in the mental health sector is in a variety of roles. Manjit has extensive networks in the community and with community-based mental health organisations and works closely with them at all times to ensure there is a balanced and impartial viewpoint concerning the mental health issues of ethnically diverse groups. She has written several articles concerning CaLD mental health issues and has a strong interest in, and good understanding of policy and legislation. Her valuable contribution to draft Mental Health Bill 2011 and the draft Green Mental Health Bill 2012 ensure that issues for ethnically diverse groups are not forgotten.

Welcome Reception Guest Speaker:

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Eddie has extensive experience in the community services sector, including as Acting Director General of the Department for Communities. He has held senior management roles across a range of WA government agencies, including leadership roles in policy, funding and state wide service delivery with the Disability Services Commission.

KEY DATES

Standard Registration:               Saturday, 8 June 2013
Late Registration:                       Thursday, 24 October 2013

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