AICAFMHA:
promoting mental health for young Australians
Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association Ltd
ABN 87 093 479 022
News in Brief - Issue #13 (06/04/2002)
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The first (of many to come) update on the Children
of Parents with a Mental Illness National Initiative (COPMI Project) is now
available.
We are in the process of re-designing the COPMI
homepage to make finding information easier on this topic and the project easier for you.
Updates will be located on this section of the site when online. Stay tuned to News in
Brief for details.
The registration brochure for the Third
International Conference on Child & Adolescent Mental Health (
Youth in Mind
is a one day conference preceding the 4th Annual National Divisions of General Practice
Forum
Where?
When?
Why? To
provide the opportunity for the Divisions Network, Youth Mental Health Service providers,
and other Stakeholders to come together and discuss issues affecting youth Watch for
updates and registration information on the ADGP Website www.adgp.com.au . Flyer
available online.
“FROZEN FUTURES?”
A Conference Exploring the Effects of Early Stress on Later Outcomes
Australian Association for Infant Mental Health Inc and National Investment for the
Early Years
Please send abstracts to:
AAIMHI/NIFTeY Conference Secretariat
Conference Action Pty Ltd,
Email: confact@conferenceaction.com.au
Abstracts submission deadline:
Quality of life - for All of
Life
Suicide Prevention - its social political and developmental contexts
2002 Suicide Prevention Australia Conference, 21-23 June, Darling Harbour, Sydney
Abstracts have technically closed but….Jonine Penrose-Wall has been handling the
abstracts jonine@eisa.net.au
Details on the conference from Alan Staines (National Secretary) alanstaines@optusnet.com.au
Tel: 02-9211-1788, Fax: 02-9211-0392, SPA: PO Box K998 Haymarket NSW 2000
After next week you can consult the website http://www.suicidepreventionaust.org
Mental Health News
FYI – Mr Des Graham has resigned from the
Mental Health Council of Australia. A copy of his final MHCA letter to the board can be
viewed online.
TITLE: MEDIA RELEASE - 2002 -
CHILD PROTECTION AUSTRALIA 2000-01 (AIHW) Health and Ageing Portfolio
URL: http://www.aihw.gov.au/inet/media/2002/mr020404.html
SNIPPET: Child Protection Australia 2000-01
shows that 19,783 children were on care or protection orders in June 2001 compared with
15,718 children in 1997. Overall, Indigenous children were over-represented in the child
protection system. The report is available at: http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/cws/cpa00-01/index.html
A hotlink to the March edition
of the Kids Help Line Newsletter.
This newsletter looks at Kids Help Line statistics for 2001 and what tough issues kids are
tackling. Kids Help Line increased the
proportion of calls answered in 2001, responding to 410,336 calls. http://www.kidshelp.com.au/research/newsletters.html
Auseinet are keen to receive
articles of between 3000 and 5000 articles for the second edition of the Australian
electronic Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health. Anything to do with Promotion of
Mental Health and Prevention of, or Early Intervention with, Mental Ill Health. All articles will be reviewed by 2
assessors.
http://Auseinet.flinders.edu.au
SANE
Resources
Westnet provides information
technology services to the community sector and one of our projects is the NSW Community
Services Directory which is available on the Internet 24 hours a day at no cost to the
user. The website address is www.tricomm.org.au/directory
if you would like to have a look at the directory.
Westnet is a non-profit community organisation partly funded by Western Sydney Area
Assistance Scheme.
Special
Notice – RE: Hoax Virus Warnings
For decades now, hoax virus
warnings have been passed on from one unsuspecting person to everyone in that unsuspecting
person's address book and so on. Funnily enough this behaviour is identical to the
behaviour of a real virus, but instead of using security holes in software to propagate
emails, these use people to spread them across the globe. That's right: hoax virus
messages are the problem, NOT the warning!
We may not be able to stop the
millions of people who continue to pass on these so-called virus warnings, but we can help
the situation by not passing them on ourselves.
If you suspect a hoax message,
we advise you confirm it at one of the many hoax virus sites, (like http://www.datafellows.com/news/hoax/)
and then pass this on to whoever sent you the hoax (and ask them to do the same). This way
we may all help halt the needless spread of worry, and concern.
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