Carer Events, Newsletters, Reports & Articles
EVENTS
ARAFMI Illawarra
18th December 2014
“All About Me”Christmas Workshop for Carers
This seminar will help you to better understand yourself and others, and to develop strategies to enhance self-esteem and confidence.The seminar offers realistic and practical strategies for taking time out for yourself and developing relationships that nurture you. For more information, please see attached flyer.
Mental Health Support Group for Carers
Please find a flyer outlining 'what’s on' for the ARAFMI Illawarra carers support groups
Narcissistic Personality Disorder -Guest Speaker: Heidi Jarman
Heidi Jarman is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist working in private practice, at Project Air Strategy for Personality Disorders, and South Coast Private Hospital. Heidi has a special interest in working with people with personality disorders, and her clinical practice and research has a specific focus in this area. Heidi has previously conducted research on narcissistic personality disorder, and will present to the ARAFMI carer support group on narcissism and how carers can best support themselves and their loved ones with this condition.
Venue South Coast Private Hospital- 6.30pm /RSVP Essential—42 541699. For more information, please see the attached flyer.
Me & My Relationships
A new program ARAFMI Illawarra is running in partnership with the University ofWollongong. This program aimsto assist people who are providing care to a family member who is living with a mental illness, to overcome interpersonal problems and build stronger and healthier relationships with others in particular the person they provide support too. Me and My Relationships aims to increase our awareness of strongly held beliefs that contribute to our interpersonal problems and unpleasant emotions, and the current ways in which we try to cope with these (e.g. avoidance, drinking alcohol, arguing, and depending excessively on others). We will support group members to explore their values and consider how their current ways of coping complement or stand in the way of what they want for their relationships.For more information, please see attached flyer.
Inner City CADRE
Ron Coleman is visiting the Inner City on Monday December 8, 2014
Ron Coleman will be visiting the Inner City to delivery Recovery Leader Training and on the 8 December there will be an opportunity for people to hear Ron talk about Recovery and what he has witnessed has changed since his first visit in 2006.
- The first session is for NGO's from across the Inner City at 10.00 am
- The second session is for Staff for St Vincent’s at 12.00 pm, and
- The third session is for Consumers and Carers from the across the Inner City from 2.00 pm
The Inner City SUPER Group Forum:Change The World Forum -7th & 8th May 2015
This Forum will bring together experts (by experience and by profession) from the Kansas Consumer AdvisoryCouncil for Adult Mental Health Inc. together with others from across NSW. They will showcaselatest international research, about Trauma Informed Care and innovative programs for improvingthe ways mental health services could be delivered inNSW to improve the experience of peoplewho have had Adverse Childhood Experiences.The forum will ask us to reflect, to listen and to work towards a healthier future for all peoplecoming into contact with services who have had Adverse Childhood Experiences in NSW. For more information, please see attached flyer.
Partners in Recovery
4th December 2014
Atlas for Service Planning
An atlas of mental health services will provide detailedinformation on social and demographic characteristicsand needs as well as data on service availability,accessibility and capacity.The project will use an international instrument for thestandardised classification of services, used in a numberof countries such as England, France and Spain, amongstothers.The information is combined with geographic informationsystems to produce an atlas for use by service planners. RSVP -Stephanie Isvik || 1300 179 765. For more information, please see attached flyer.
Mental Health Commission of NSW
& Mental Health Coordinating Council
16th December 2014
Hunter NDIS and Mental Health ‘Community of Practice’ Forum
The Mental Health Coordinating Council in partnership with the Mental Health Commission of NSW invite you to attend the next Hunter NDIS and Mental Health ‘Community of Practice’ (COP) Forum.This will be held on Tuesday 16 December 2014, 10:00 AM to 1.00 PM at Newcastle Jockey Club, Darling Street Broadmeadow NSW 2292 (ie, Newcastle).Click herefor the draft program & to register.At this event we will be reflecting on the first 18 months of design and implementation of the NDIS and exploring what Tier 2 services might look like for people with psychosocial disability.
Generation Next
24th July 2015
The Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young People Forum
Topics and Speakers
- Could it be Asperger’s?
- Nurturing Children and Brain Development
- Child Sexual Abuse – Teaching Self Protection Skills
- Novel Forms of Smoking: Sheesha and E-Cigarettes
- Willpower, Impulse Control And Success In Life
- Strategies to Deal with Cyber Harassment and Online Trolls
- Gorgeous to Grumpy – The Developing Teen
REPORTS & ARTICLES
SANE
MEDIA RELEASE:The global depression crisis: Australian mental health experts at conference seeking an urgent, united response
Australian mental health leaders Pat McGorry and Jack Heath joined a gathering of international policy makers, health and business leaders and academics in London to examine the urgent need for a global response to the growing impact of depression.
‘Depression is biggest mental health challenge among people of working-age, and the leading cause of disability worldwide,’ explains Jack Heath, CEO of the national mental health charity, SANE Australia. to read this entire media release, pleaseclick here.
Mental Health Australia
MEDIA RELEASE: NDIS Uncertainty threatening the delivery of services topeoplewith mental illness.
Mental Health Australia has today called for governments to ensure the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) does not reduce services for people with mental illness.At the Integrating Mental Health into the NDIS conference today, Mental Health Australia described the experiences of consumers with a psychosocial disability at the trial sites across the country.
“While it’s true that some people have received good support under the Scheme, we are consistently hearing feedback from the trial sites that people with a disability relating to mental illness are too often being left confused and disheartened,” Mental Health Australia CEO Frank Quinlan said.“The NDIS is too important to be rushed without proper planning and design. Good intentions are not enough. To read this entire media release, pleaseclickhere.
Victor Dominello MP
MEDIA RELEASE:First New Advocate for Children & Young People
Acting Secretary General of the ChildFund Alliance Andrew Johnson has been appointed as NSW’s first Advocate for Children and Young People, the Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello announced today.Mr Johnson, who is currently based in New York, will represent the interests of all young people under the age of 25, giving them a strong voice on government policies, programs and decisions which impact on their lives. He begins his appointment on 9 January 2015. To read the entire mediarelease, pleasepleaseclick here.
NEWSLETTERS & UPDATES
ARAFMI NSW Inc.
Mental Health Carers ARAFMI NSW'sAmended Constitution,voted for at the AGM & registered by the Department of Fair Trading -click hereto view theconstitution.
National Eating Disorders Collaboration
NEDC E-Bulletin-the twenty-sixth edition of the NEDC e-Bulletin. In this month’s edition we are exploring safe and appropriate communication around eating disorders.If you are interested in getting more involved in the NEDC we encourage you to join the collaboration and become an NEDC member.
Contents
1. Glamorisation & Reporting On Eating Disorders in the Media
2. The role of media when reporting mental illness
3. Opportunities to get involved
4. NEDC Resource Highlight
To view this e-bulletin, pleaseclick here.
Private Mental Health Alliance
Private Mental Health Alliance -18th Edition December Newsletter, please seeattached.
MHC ARAFMI NSW &
SANE AUST.
SANE Carers Forum - Have your say!
- ARAFMI NSW "Carer Community Connections"new service -click hereto know more & have your say
- What do you think of the term carer? -click hereto have your say
Mental Health
Commissionof NSW
Mental Health Commission of NSW -Update, pleaseclickhere.