From Mission’s Australi’s website:
A program aimed at tackling homelessness among Sydney men has delivered dramatic results while producing significant public savings, according to a Mission Australia report being launched today.
Mission Australia’s Michael Project – a three-year initiative funded by a private donor – provided the men with quick access to a [...]
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Blog Post by Michelle Everett, Tuesday 6 September 2011 – Consumer Forum Program TheMHS 2011 – Adelaide
Helen began by acknowledging the struggle and triumph of lived experience around the world. She acknowledged that there has been a long history of abuse, discrimination and “doing to”, and that people before us have fought the battle still [...]
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Are you coming to our TheMHS mental health conference? it is only weeks away and these are some of the featured Symposia.
1. Early Intervention supporting resilience
Building resilience in young people, families and communities is the focus of this symposium which brings together several important early intervention strands. There is solid evidence to indicate that better outcomes [...]
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In case you missed it you may be interested in a report by the Australian National Audit Office into the Department of Health and Ageing’s ATAPS program. Well worth reading for anyone interested in how DoHA manages ATAPS and how effective it is.
Access the full report ANAO ATAPS report June 2011
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Did you know our annual mental health (non profit) conference is being held in Adelaide this year? From 6-9 September.
This is our 21st conference and this year the theme is Resilience.
View more about the topic
Read about our keynote speakers
Interested in having a booth at the theMHS conference get in fast!
Interested in registering online to secure [...]
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With about 45 per cent of Australians experiencing a mental illness in their lifetime, there is little doubt that we all will be affected – directly or indirectly – by a mental health problem, while at work.
SANE Australia, the national mental health charity, wants to hear about the experiences of people with mental illness, [...]
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Posted in TheMHS on Feb 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Speaker: Ron Diamond
Personality Disorder
we talk about personality characteristics
what is a personality disorder? means it routinely gets them in trouble, its problems in all areas and ongoing and its pervasive
there is a stigma around Borderline Personality Disorder more so than other labels such as schizophrenia etc
when we look at the DSM IV thrree of the characteristics [...]
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Posted in TheMHS on Feb 24th, 2011 3 Comments »
Chair: Leonie Manns
Speakers: Penny Coombes and Gavin Adams
Attendees being seated… session will begin soon
Starting with Penny Coombes – from The People for Places and Spaces
Gavin and I share a passion to get the built environment as supportive as possible. We want to inspire you to make these environments better.
Shows a building in Townsville for children [...]
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Posted in TheMHS on Feb 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Speaker: Kathleen Brady, Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences.
Says she enjoyed the Ron Diamond talk then goes on to talk about nicotine replacements are important (re the last question in last session).
Different Types of Aggression: pre meditated and impulsive aggression. Impulsive aggression provoked by emtional [...]
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Posted in TheMHS on Feb 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
TheMHS Mental Health Summer Forum: Tackling Aggression, understand, respond and prevent.
Speaker: Ron Diamond Medical Director of the Mental Health Centre of Dane County; Prof of Psychiatry at the Uni of Wisconsin and Consultant to the Wisconsin Bureau of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Chair: Professor Maree Teesson
Maree: We have had to turn people away we [...]
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