AICAFMHA:
promoting mental health for young Australians
Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association Ltd
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News in Brief - Issue #19 (13/07/2002)
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The AICAFMHA Board of Directors is delighted to announce that AICAFMHA has been granted full membership of IACAPAP (International Association for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions). This is a highly prestigious group for the association to be associated with and we look forward to further developing this international relationship.
Go to the most recent update on the Children of Parents with a Mental Illness National Initiative. The latest version (12/7) of the COPMI Project Resource list is now online. Subscribers are welcome to review and comment. Also contains links to the literature review and launch of the COMIC Supporting Families Kit.
The Registration Booklet for the Auseinet Forum scheduled for 15 - 17 September, is now available to download from the Auseinet web site at: http://www.auseinet.com .
Fifth Annual Conference for Carers of People with a Mental Illness
Melbourne, 26 October 2002
http://www.carersconference.info
The 7th National Rural Health Conference is to be held at the Grand Chancellor in Hobart Tasmania from 1 - 4 March 2003. Registration for the Conference will be available in September 2002. This will include online registration for the first time. The Conference website is at http://www.ruralhealth.org.au/seventhconf/seventhconf.htm
The World Child & Youth Health Congress 2003, being held May 11-14, 2003 in
Vancouver, Canada.
View the announcement. Further
information can be found on the website www.venuewest.com/childhealth2003, including Preliminary Program and
Call for Abstracts.
On Wednesday 10th July, parents, carers, children, friends, family members and service
providers attended the launch of the COMIC Family
Support Kit at the Adelaide Botanical Gardens, where they heard via poetry, song and
personal stories of the journey of COMIC (Children of Mentally Ill Consumers/Parents) and
the development of the Kit.
The kit contains helpful checklists for both mental health workers and parents, which
covers all the key issues, a resource list and an evaluation sheet.
The Supporting Our Families Kit is downloadable from the COMIC website: http://www.angelfire.com/home/comic/
You may have already received a hard copy of the latest issue of Auseinetter. For those of you who haven't, Issue 15 is now available online as downloadable pdf files from http://www.auseinet.com/resources/auseinet/netter.php
National Mental Health Week 2002 will take place from Sunday October 6 - Saturday
October 12. Stress Less Day will be on Wednesday October 9 and World Mental Health Day
will be on Thursday October 10.
The press release about Mental Health Week NSW
2002 and a range of more detailed information including forms to apply for small grants,
awards, calendar entries and promotion materials orders can all be found on the website at
http://www.mentalhealth.asn.au.
There has been a delay in getting the "Supporting Children after Suicide"
booklet from the Better Health Centre.
We're happy to announce that you can now download the booklet at the NALAG website: http://www.nalag.org.au/ . When you go
to the website the booklet is in the document section.
New website:
The Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth and Family Policies at
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
The Clearinghouse provides cross-national, comparative information about the policies,
programs, benefits and services available in the advanced industrialized countries to
address child, youth, and family needs. Coverage focuses on 23 advanced industrialized
countries. Expansion to other countries and other parts of the world is planned.
http://www.childpolicyintl.org
Recognising Mental Illness In Young People Could Prevent Suicides
(Familial, psychiatric, and socioeconomic risk factors for suicide in young people: nested
case-control study) http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7355/74
Recognising mental illness in young people and dealing with it appropriately could help
prevent suicides, concludes a study in this week's BMJ.
Criminal Justice-Mental Health Consensus Project
The Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project is a broad-based, national effort to
improve the response to people with mental illness who come into contact (or are at risk
of coming into contact) with the criminal justice system. This report provides
policymakers, practitioners, advocates, and others determined to address this issue with
an array of options and ideas, many of which have emerged in communities across the
country. http://www.consensusproject.org/
PHARMACOLOGIC TREATMENT OF ATTENTION-DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER IN CHILDREN
A comprehensive review of the pharmacologic agents currently available for the treatment
and management of children with ADHD. medscape.com/viewprogram/1927?srcmp=psy-070502
http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/flo?y=hPm20EPJVR0DjK0FIyh0AE>
GROUPS SEEK PROACTIVE APPROACHES FOR OFFENDERS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
The issue of people with mental illness coming in contact with the criminal-justice
system. Mental Health Weekly 12(24) 2002 medscape.com/viewarticle/436918?srcmp=psy-070502
http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/flo?y=hPm20EPJVR0DjK0FIyi0AF>
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