The symposium is about the the impact of inequality on community and individual mental wellbeing.

Program

9:00-9:30am Welcome to Country/Welcome and Housekeeping

9:30-10:30am Fran Baum Flinders University and Karen Walsh CEO Shelter NSW

10:30– 11:00am Morning Tea

11:00-11:30am I have the power Evelyne de Leeuw -Director Centre for Health Equity Training Research & Evaluation

Making Change 1
3 20 minute concurrent sessions
Room1 Discrimination
1. Peer Led Experiences- Living Hearing Voices Network – Carrie Miller
2. Sexuality and Mental illness One Door - John Downie
3. Carer Advocacy - One Door Kim McCausland
Room 2 Outreach Service Provision
1. Institutional Child Sexual Abuse- Knowmore Legal Centre Prue
2. The Law & Young Refugees-Legal Aid- Christopher Daniels
3. Queer out West -Inclusive Communities Network – Gavin Prendergast& Turkan Aksoy
Room 3 Food Security and housing
1. Community Kitchens South Western Sydney LHD Ben Chahola and Cindy Cheng
2. The Power of Food Our Community Pantry -Paula Zrilic.
3. Housing Advocacy TBC
Lunch
Mental Health Impact Assessment launch of Report CHETRE Fiona Haigh
Making Change 2
4 20 minutes concurrent sessions
Room 1 Work
1. Empowering Women Workers Asian Women at Work Lina Cabaero-Ponnambalam
2. Get a Job! Settlement Services International- Leanne Hung
3. The Job Market and Disability Afford Employment- Loan Nittel
4. Why does she stay? Fairfield Domestic Violence Committee Claudia Guajardo
Room 2 Emerging Challenges
1. Climate Change Advocacy Edmund Rice Centre – Vincent Sicari
2. Wellbeing in Rural Australia Rural Minds Debbie Smith
3. Psycho social disability & the NDIS One Door John Downie
4. Working with Intergenerational trauma SWSLHD Karen Beetson

Room 3 Social Inclusion

1. The Cultural Exchange Program - African Women’s Group Rosemary Kariuki-Fyfe
2. Youth Development Through Sport Creating Chances Mark Busby
3. Reclaiming Claymore Julie Jarrett and Jan Campbell
4. Doing It Differently SESLHD Health Promotion Myna Hua

3:00- 3:30 pm Afternoon tea

3:30-4:30 Panel Discussion- How Do we Make Change Happen?

Chair Graham Bradshaw

Speakers Peter Sainsbury Past President Climate and Health Alliance

Fran Baum Flinders University

Rob Ramjan CEO One Door

Karen Walsh CEO Shelter NSW