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AICAFMHA E-News in Brief Issue #3.03

News in Brief - Issue #3.03 (15/02/2002)

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AICAFMHA News

The revised AICAFMHA website is now online! The address remains the same so no need to change your bookmarks. Viewers may need to 'refresh' pages to view new content. Persistent old pages (those with a blue side banner) can be removed by using 'Control' + 'Refresh'. Have a visit and let us know what you think?

The Feb 14 issue of the COPMI Project Update is now available.
**Note: regarding the COPMI Project 'Green Paper' - Draft Principles and National Practice Guidelines for Services and People Working With Children Of Parents With A Mental Illness - this document was expected to be released in early February for extended public consultation and feedback. Due to delays experienced in Canberra, this document is now expected to be released in mid-March 2003.

What?s On?

Last chance?
Helping Families Change Conference 2003: from clinical trials to population health 19-21 February 2003
Manly Pacific Hotel, Sydney
For registration enquiries email hfc@triplep.net

** Note: approaching conference?
Beyond the Rhetoric in Early Intervention: Bridging the Gap Between Education, Health and Crime Prevention
26-28 March 2003, Hilton Hotel, Adelaide, South Australia
http://www.voc.sa.gov.au/EI_Crime_Prevention/EI_Home.asp

Carers Australia First Announcement and Call for Papers leaflet for the national carers conference. The conference will be held at Rydges Canberra 18 & 19 September 2003.
Download PDF of announcement and call for abstracts.

2003 National Conference: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists + Faculty of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
9-11 October, 2003, Carlton Crest Hotel, Melbourne
Strategies for Young Minds: Emotions, Behaviour & Development
in association with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Division of Paediatrics and Child Health
Download PDF of announcement and call for abstracts.

Building Better Beginnings: Perinatal and Infant Initiatives in Context - Joint Conference
The Marcé Society & Australian Association for Infant Mental Health, Inc
Announcement & Call for Abstracts.
Closing Date for Receipt of Abstracts: Tuesday, 15 April, 2003
24-26 July, 2003 (Helen Mayo House Workshops: 23 July) Adelaide University
Download PDF of announcement and call for abstracts.

The 3rd National Homelessness Conference "Beyond the Divide" 2003 is being held under the auspices of the Australian Federation of Homelessness Organisations (AFHO). AFHO is the national peak body for homelessness. The Conference will be held in Brisbane from the 6-8 April, 2003.
The link to the conference site is www.afho.org.au/NationalConference/9.02NHCindex.htm
The registration brochure can also be downloaded from www.afho.org.au/NationalConference/Registration%20Brochure.pdf

Mental Health News

Dear Mental Health Consumer or Carer,
The Consumer and Carer Participation Workgroup, a sub-group of the National Consumer and Carer Forum (NCCF) here at the Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA), aims to produce a consumer and carer participation policy to be applied nationally.
The workgroup is currently undertaking research for the participation policy. Janet Meagher has produced the attached questionnaire and has asked me to distribute this as widely as possible. The aim of the questionnaire is to tap into the wealth of experience of the last 25 years of mental health advocacy in order to assist the development of the consumer and carer participation policy.
We are asking consumers and carers to please complete the attached questionnaire* and return it to me at either steve.morris@mhca.com.au or PO Box 174, DEAKIN WEST, ACT 2600. We are also asking you to forward this questionnaire to anyone who is likely to have significant historical input on consumer or carer activities in Australia. Your assistance in this matter is most appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Steve Morris
Policy Officer
Mental Health Council of Australia
*Download questionnaire (word doc)

SANE Australia media release:
Telstra Foundation funds new SANE website for 'Generation Y'
View release.

A selection of papers presented at the Auseinet Forum in September (2002) is now available for download on the Auseinet site at:
http://www.auseinet.com/resources/auseinet/forum02/index.php

TITLE: NATIONAL YOUTH ROUNDTABLE 2003 MEMBERS
Family and Community Services Portfolio
URL: http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/MinCS.nsf/b9bf24f0f06605bdca2567140011b79c/
3456a509af70581fca256cc9007db6bf?OpenDocument
SNIPPET: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today announced the 50 young Australians chosen to be members of the fifth National Youth Roundtable.

The National Rural Health Alliance website has had a face-lift.
It can still be accessed at www.ruralhealth.org.au, so no need to change your bookmark. Just be sure to click the 'Refresh' button on your browser if you do not see anything new!

Resources

The latest National Rural Health Alliance E-Forum (14/2/03) is available at http://www.ruralhealth.org.au/nrhapublic/Index.Cfm?Category=EForum . In this issue:
* 7th National Rural Health Conference
* Final wrap up for 7th Conference
* Vivian Schenker to Chair 7th National Rural Health Conference
* Drought at the 7th Conference
* Symposium seeks to keep services in the bush
* Continuing Professional Development Points for 7th National Rural Health Conference
* Medical Advisor - Position available
* Rural and Regional Australians - Want to Write for ABC?
* Study "confirms Medicare is failing rural patients"
* RIRDC Report on Government Responses to Farm Poverty
* RHEF Videos 2 for 1 offer
* Deals fail to lure medicos to bush
* Almost 9,000 nurses "turned away" from uni - ALP
* Contribution and subscription information and disclaimer
* Keynote Speakers for 7th National Rural Health Conference

RTC Updates - Feb 2003 issue
CONTENTS OF THIS UPDATE:
** SUCCESSES--Impacts of the RTC's work
** RTC PUBLICATIONS & PRODUCTS--Recently produced
** FORUMS--Post Your Opinions
** NATIONAL EVENTS CALENDAR
** DATA TRENDS--Recent research summaries
** FROM THE WEB--Online information and sites of interest
View here.

The Media Monitoring Project: A Baseline Description of How the Australian Media Report and Portray Suicide and Mental Health and Illness
http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/resources/other/pa6568media.pdf
By Jane Pirkis, R. Warwick Blood, Catherine Francis, Peter Putnis, Philip Burgess, Belinda Morley, Andrew Stewart, and Trish Payne. Canberra, Mental Health and Special Programs Branch, Dept. of Health and Aged Care, 2002?

Reporting Suicide and Mental Illness: A Resource for Media Professionals
http://www.mindframe-media.info/rsmi_full.pdf
Canberra, Mental Health and Special Programs Branch, Dept. of Health and Aged Care, 2002

Suicide and the Media: A Critical Review
http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/resources/other/med_suicide.pdf
By Jane Pirkis, and R. Warwick Blood. Canberra, Mental Health and Special Programs Branch, Dept. of Health and Aged Care, 2001

Psychological Well Being of Child and Adolescent Refugee and Asylum Seekers: Overview of Major Research Findings of the Past Ten Years
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/children_detention/psy_review.html
A literature review undertaken by Trang Thomas, Professor of Psychology and an assistant commissioner to the National Inquiry, and Winnie Lau, a Clinical Psychology Researcher, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention, May 2002.

From ABC Health Updates:
DEPRESSION (Ockham's Razor: 09/02/2003)
Author of 'The Insatiable Desire of Injured Love', Sally Morrison, tackles the growing phenomenon of depression in young people, which has trebled in the last 30 years. Despite the many luxuries and enabling technologies available to them, young people are becoming less happy and secure. We are an educated society, yet what do we do for our children when they are down?
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s776451.htm