Conference Themes
Self: Understanding Me
The challenges of wellbeing, the significance of a personal belief structure and the fundamental nature of being 'me'.
Sessions exploring the building blocks of health, wellbeing and recovery and the notion of personal perception. Examining self in the context of our relationships with others and how to live well with mental illness of addiction.
Services: Analysing our Successes
The Government's focus on primary level care has broadened the ways to access services. What has been the impact of those changes? Have we got it right? And can all people who need the services afford it?
This stream analyses the lessons learned and the challenges still to be resolved. it looks at the need to continue improving access to both mental health and addiction services. It explores the relationship between primary and secondary health provision and funding. It focuses on the growth of peer-run services and asks how can we ensure that a real choice of culturally specific and socially oriented service is available to all?
Partnerships: Creating New Possibilities
How do we create better and more effective partnerships between service providers? And what about those not typically identifying with the mental health and addiction sector? The links between welfare, education, housing, employment, youth, religious, physical health and other sectors that help those in need get the right support at the right time.
This stream explores some of the innovative approaches to shared services and collaboration. Its focus is both within and beyond what we currently consider as mental health and addiction services to explore how our communities and the threads that connect us all can lead to powerful and sustaining approaches to wellbeing.
Beyond: Developing the Pathway
How can we help create a stronger and healthier community into the next 10 years? Are community attitudes to mental health and alcohol, other drug and gambling problems changing? Are we an enabling society or one still afraid of what we don't know?
Increasingly youth health services are showing us a new approach and attitude towards maintaining wellbeing. What other changing trends are already shaping our practices and policies and how do we capture these changes and the transformational opportunities that we might need to embrace?
An opportunity to be challenged, provoked and to contribute to how the sector and the issues are evolving.