AICAFMHA:
promoting mental health for young Australians
Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association Ltd
ABN 87 093 479 022
COPMI Project Update - 05/12/2003
Queensland Child Protection and Mental Health Project - participants wanted
We recently received the newsletter of a child protection and mental health project being undertaken by a team at The University of Queensland. The 'Developing Best Practice at the Intersection of Child Protection and Mental Health Services' project has been funded for three year (2002-2004) by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC). It aims to identify and examine current practices of mental health workers and child protection workers in cases where there are protection concerns for children and a parent has either a diagnosed mental illness or a mental health problem.
The team is still looking for participants for interviews (workers and clients) who live anywhere in Queensland. See their newsletter for more details.
Scandinavian network focusing on prevention, research and collaboration
Vicki Cowling has just returned from presenting at a conference in Stockholm and kindly forwarded details of the CIC network's website in development there, www.cic-network.com
CIC (Caring for the Invisible Children) is a European network established to
give professionals and researchers an opportunity to share knowledge, information
and methods concerning children with mentally ill parents. Its goals are:
* to spread information about preventive interventions
* to exchange information about programs, practice, and
research in the field
* to develop multi-disciplinary cooperation in the field
* to develop multi-disciplinary research in the field
Elizabeth Fudge
Project Manager,
COPMI Initiative
Ph (08) 8161 6859
Fax (08) 81616983
fudgee@wch.sa.gov.au
PO Box 387, Stepney SA 5069
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