Wednesday 12th October 2011
Time / Event / Speaker/s / Room
08.30-09.00 / Registration
09.00-09.30 / Opening / Dr Elizabeth Moore
09.30-10.30 / “We All Solid” / Dr Juli Coffin
10.30-11.00 / Morning Tea
11.00-12.00 /

Co-Caring With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People who have Intellectual disability, mental health or acquired brain injury

/ Yvonne Orley
11.00-12.00 / Guardianship and Administration Act 1990 / Sandra Boulter
Principal Solicitor, Mental Health Law Centre
12.00-12.30 / No Justice Without Healing / Dorinda Cox
12.00-12.30 / Healing Spaces Program / Joyce Dimer
12.30-13.30 / Lunch / Atrium
13.30-14.30 / Getting the Best Out of Online Knowledge Resources: A Workshop for those working in Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing / Belinda Urquhart
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
13.30-14.30 / Reflections on Working in Alice Springs Prison; Cultural Immersion, Crime and Redemption / Brent Mansell
Clinical Nurse Consultant, Forensic Mental Health Service, Central Australia
14.30-15.00 / “Street to Home”; How Successful Service Collaboration Can Work for Rough Sleepers / Tracy Young
MCOT, “Street to Home”
14.30-15.00 / A Mother’s Story; A Journal of Survival / Lindy Moffat
15.00-15.30 / Afternoon Tea / Island Suite
15.30-16.30 / Social Exclusion; The Forgotten Variable in Aboriginal Mental Health / Aunty Kerrie Doyle
15.30-16.30 / Mental Health Act 1996- Civil Detention / Sandra Boulter
Principal Solicitor
MHLC
16.30-17.00 / Wellways “Building a Future”
A peer facilitated Family education program for carers. / Kim Loader
Bunbury Pathways.
16.30-17.00

DRAFT
DRAFT

Thursday 13th October 2011
Time / Event / Speaker/s / Room
08.00-08.30 / Registrations
08.30-09.30 /

State-wide Specialist Aboriginal Mental Health Services 2010 -2013

/ Michael Mitchell
09.30 -10.00 /

Engaging Aboriginal Men in Wellbeing Centres: Some lessons from the frontline

/ Dr Joe Fleming
10.00 -10.30 /

“WA Mental health Laws: Time for Reform”

/ Sandra Boulter
10.30-11.00 /

Morning Tea

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11.00-12.00 / Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act1996. “Forensic Detention in WA” / Sandra Boulter
Principal Solicitor
MHLC
11.00-12.00 / Developing Skills to Heal the Past, Manage the Now, Prepare for the Future / Tracy Pollett
UnitingCare West
12.00-13.00 / Researching in Aboriginal Communities- How to Manage Inside Out and Upside Down / Auntie Kerrie Doyle
University of Canberra
12.00-13.00 / Journey Towards healing; Strategies for Conceptualising a Healing Gathering / Janine Dunleavy
Queensland Link Up
13.00-14.00 /

Lunch

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Atrium

14.00-15.30 /

Men’s Meeting

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14.00-15.30 / Women’s Meeting /
18.00-21.00 /

Conference Dinner

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DRAFT

Friday 14th October 2011
Time / Event / Speaker/s / Room
09.00-10.00 /

Madjitil Moorna, Singers of Aboriginal Songs

10.00-10.30 /

Morning Tea

10.30-11.30 /

Indigenous Mentoring Programs

Workshop / Dr Peter Reynolds
Manager WA Youth Mentoring Reforms
Department of Communities
10.30-11.30 /

Social Concepts: Back to the Watering Hole and Push the Button

/ Joshua McDonald
11.30-12.00 / Being a Moorditj “Coach”- Helping Aboriginal People Achieve Social and Emotional Wellbeing / Vicki Coyne
Noongar Know-How
11.30-12.00 / The Mobile Clinical Outreach Team; Bringing Mental Health to the Streets / Tracey Young and Russell Oliver
MCOT
12.00-13.00 /

Lunch

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Atrium

13.00-14.00 / A Different Role, A Different Hat. What Would My Hat look Like? / Carol Linton Rudd
Relationships Australia /
13.00-14.00 /
14.30-15.00 / Taking Aboriginal Wellness to the Internet / Reg Henry
14.30-15.00 / Cherbourg Dormitory; What Was, What Is / Matthew Malone
Queensland Link Up
15.00-15.30 /

Afternoon Tea

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Island Suite

15.30-16.30 /

We Got the Answers to Our Own Healing; A Peer Mentoring Program

/ Lee-Anne Smith
HALO /
16.30-17.00 /

Closing Ceremony