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promoting mental health for young Australians
Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association Ltd
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News in Brief - Issue #15 (05/02/2002)
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Third ICCAMH now only 4 weeks away – time to get your registrations in and flights
booked! With well over 400 registrations, this promises to be an exciting conference!
Download a registration booklet from http://www.iccamh.com/
. A limited number of hard copies are available from AICAFMHA
– email secretary@aicafmha.net.au with your address
details.
***Don’t forget free registration for consumers/carers/young people on Sat 15 June
– contact AICAFMHA for details (ph 08 8132 0786 or emailsecretary@aicafmha.net.au
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What’s On?
The NIftEY conference call for papers has been
extended to
Emotional Availability Scales
Seminar
Venue: Thomas and Rachel Moore Education Centre,
Registration fee is $105.
Further enquiries: Frances Gibson PhD: Phone:
02 94134389, Fax 02 94134574 Email: frgibson@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
. Flyer/registration form available
Australian and
New Zealand Society of Criminology 16th Annual Conference
Theme: Preventing Crime and Doing Justice
This conference will interest anyone concerned with the prevention of violence and
crime, including child maltreatment. It will also interest researchers and practitioners
in other fields related to criminology, such as adolescent mental health, public health,
forensic psychology, and special education.
The Society welcomes contributions or attendance
from prevention researchers and practitioners from any discipline or field – anyone
who can contribute to a better understanding of the causes of crime, abuse and violence,
and how to reduce their incidence.
Further information available from http://www.rsointernet.com/anzsoc/ .
The Critical Early Childhood Years: Rethinking
current interventions and strategies
8th &
Download PDF or Word
doc here.
Further information can be requested from gini@bigpond.com .
World
Federation for Mental Health Biennial Congress 2003, Melbourne Convention Centre,
The World Federation for Mental Health
Congress Biennial 2003 is hosted by the Mental Health Foundation of Australia. The
objective of the Congress is to provide a forum for practitioners and researchers from
around the world to communicate current developments and advancements in the field of
mental health and psychiatry. Further details available at http://www.icms.com.au/wfmh2003/ .
Mental Health News
ALP Media Release: 9 May 2002
Labor today commits to establishing a National Commissioner for Children and Young People
that will play a proactive and positive role in improving and protecting the general
welfare and well-being of our nation's children, including indigenous children.
http://www.alp.org.au/print.html?link=/media/0502/scmsncc090502.html
Resources
New website gives quick access to the latest
Australian research.
Locating reports and other research material on Australian social, economic, cultural and
political issues can be difficult and time-consuming. A new website, Australian Policy
Online, aims to change all that. With sixty member centres and institutes,
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