PCLI Practice Network Day

8.30am – Registration

Start 9am – 4.30pm

The day will provide learnings and practical strategies to help you navigate these complex areas of need, including:

• Assessing when additional intervention may be required.

• Exploring how current service cultures influence care delivery and outcomes.

• Identifying actions you can take to support positive change within your service and the broader treating team, promoting the least restrictive and most evidence-based approaches to care.

• Increasing your awareness of, and confidence in accessing existing services and supports.

9am-12:15pm

Keynote: Suzie Hudson

Clinical Advisor, Centre of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Ministry of Health. Adjunct Associate Lecturer, National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Medicine

Workshop 1: Pathways to Recovery: Supporting People with Significant and Persistent Mental Illness and Co-occurring Alcohol and Substance Use

Multiple facilitators – more information to come!

12:15pm - Lunch

1pm-4:30pm

Workshop 2: Supporting people experiencing hoarding disorder and issues related to squalor.

Facilitated by:

• Professor Jessica Grisham - Clinical Psychologist, international authority on hoarding disorder with extensive clinical experience (University of New South Wales).

• Dr Graeme Halliday - Senior Staff Specialist, Psychiatrist with expertise in squalor (SLHD)

• Judy Nicholas - Lived Experience Advisor

• Danielle Perkes – Former Program Manager, Hoarding & Squalor Service (SLHD)

PLEASE NOTE REGISTRATION CLOSES ON 3 NOVEMBER 2026