Zoom details:
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83022849824?pwd=SVRaUVNVN3c2bHRFMXdSN21PNnpkZz09
Meeting ID: 830 2284 9824
Passcode: 341548
Human rights in Mental Health: From the United Nations to the local mental health service mental health can be seen as a human rights issue. This workshop will introduce you to how human rights can inform a better mental health system after the Royal Commission. This informative workshop will have you thinking differently about the mental health system and what could be achieved if it was founded in the human rights of people with mental distress instead of services that.
Presenters: Simon Katterl and Hamilton Kennedy
Simon is a consumer advocate and policy consultant, having worked at different human rights, regulation and advocacy agencies across Victoria. Until recently he was Chair of the Human Rights and Ethics sub-Committee, which oversees VMIAC's key strategic advocacy policies.
Hamilton is a consumer academic at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Psychiatric Nursing. They have worked in roles as a consultant and educator with the intention of supporting the rights of consumers and developing staff’s understandings of human rights.
We will be sharing Zoom details nearer the time via email, so please ensure you register if you wish to participate. There is a maximum capacity of 30 consumer per workshop.
