Notice Board
Mental Health Foundation's Fourth National Mental Health Promotion Hui
Presented by the Mental Health Foundation in association with SPARC, Mid Central and Hutt Valley Public Health Units and Te Oranganui.
A Holistic Approach to Mental Health Promotion – 'Mind, Body, Spirit and Physical Activity'
The theme for the hui is based on the interconnected nature of all of these components in mental health promotion.
24th and 25th May, 2006
Palmerston North Convention Centre, Palmerston North.
The National Centre for Youth Mental Health, Ireland
The National Centre for Youth Mental Health aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people in Ireland. Funded by a private foundation, the Centre will promote world class standards in mental healthcare for young people and support service providers to meet these standards.
The Centre's primary target group is young people aged 12–25 years.
We are looking for an outstanding leadership team whose vision, passion, knowledge and achievements confer them with the significant moral and intellectual authority required to lead the new National Centre for Youth Mental Health.
Mental Health Recovery Online Toolkit
The Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health are pleased to announce the launch of an online toolkit of recovery resources. The toolkit (developed in consultation with key stakeholders) aims to assist policy makers, service providers, consumers and carers with the implementation of recovery oriented services and activities.
The toolkit contains:
Policies & Strategies: current Australian and key international policy documents;
Care Planning: a guide to care planning processes with links to examples;
Publications: covering a wide range of recovery topics (most free to access online);
Factsheets: summary style information available on the Internet;
Site Links: organisations that provide recovery oriented activities, research and resources;
Good Practice Examples: Australian initiatives that demonstrate good practice;
Service Directories: agencies that provide services for those affected by psychiatric disability;
Online Discussion Forum: promoting the sharing of ideas and information around recovery.
www.auseinet.com/toolkit
Free legal service for mental health consumers
The Wellington Community Law Centre runs a monthly free legal advice service for mental health consumers on a variety of legal issues (not just mental health related) at the Clubhouse in Newtown, Wellington. The service runs on the last Tuesday of each month between 12-1pm. Appointments are not necessary, but can be made if wished. The Clubhouse, a drop in centre for mental health consumers, is at 168 Riddiford St, Newtown (the building is called "Tin Palace"), ph 04 389 2740.
Building Bridges, Community Mental Health National Conference
30 October – 1 November 2006
Hotel Grand Chancellor, Christchurch
Challenging Concepts of Risk – Peril or Potential?
Risk is an inherent reality in any healthcare system – and also in life itself. But does minimising risk also remove or greatly reduce opportunities for system and service innovation and personal recovery? How can the apparently competing imperatives of risk and recovery sit side by side?
Our vision is for a Mental Health and Addictions sector that can allow the natural tensions, concerns, and sense of responsibility of care givers and the community, to coexist with the hopes, dreams and choices of people who experience mental illness and addictions without impeding their progress towards wellness and recovery.
This conference seeks a path forward, recognising risk for what it is – a natural part of any change or progress in society, to move beyond a stigmatising or blaming culture to a society and sector that can rise to the challenges inherent in putting a recovery approach in mental health and addiction services into action.
Join us to debate the issues and to help build bridges between reducing risk and maximising recovery.
For further information and to register your interest in attending or submitting an abstract, please contact:
Rachel Cook
Conference Manager
Conference Innovators Ltd
Tel: 03 379 0390
Fax: 03 379 0460
Yoga Classes
Oasis Network run Yoga Classes for Mental Health Consumer/Survivors
Time: 6pm Thursdays
Venue: Stokes Valley Marae, Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt
Cost: $2
Transport: Pick up and drop off available
Contact: Debbie on 566 1601 10-2pm
Central Potential Inc
Te Rito Mäia
He ratonga kötuitui tautoko
The Sponsorship Fund administered by Central Potential Inc – Te Rito Mäia is currently accepting applications from Tangata Whaiora/Consumers residing in the Central Region for assistance to attend conferences or similar events in New Zealand, Australia or the South Pacific, which offer potential benefits for themselves and/or groups they may be associated with.
This is to ensure people who have experience of mental illness are given the opportunity to network and participate in discussions and conferences relevant to mental health so that 'our voice is heard'.
Any user or survivor of mental health services or of services for people who misuse alcohol or other drugs who lives in the Central Region, (i.e. from Wairoa to Whanganui and all points South to Cook Strait), is eligible to apply.
Applications must be received by 5pm on the closing date. Closing dates in 2006 are July 28 and October 27.
Detailed information on the criteria for acceptance and on the areas of priority for the allocation committee is available by contacting:
The Administrator,
Sponsorship Allocation Committee
PO Box 9762, Marion Square, Wellington
Telephone: (04) 382 9600 or 0800 837 486
Coaching Folks with AD/HD to Success
A seminar by Michele Novotni Ph.D, presented by the Learning & Behaviour Charitable Trust NZ.
Michele Novotni, Ph.D. is a psychologist, coach and inspiring speaker who lectures throughout the world to both professional and general audiences. She is the Immediate Past President and former CEO of the National Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA).
Dr. Novotni is an author of 'What Does Everybody Else Know That I Don't?' and 'The Novotni Social Skills Checklists'. She co-authored 'Adult AD/HD: A Reader Friendly Guide' and two faith-based books: 'Angry with God' and 'Songs of the Soul'. She is a regular columnist for 'ADDitude Magazine' as their social skills expert and has written numerous articles for leading AD/HD publications. She has appeared on a number of television shows and in hundreds of radio interviews.
Dr. Novotni has experience as a college professor, high school teacher, and consultant for education, business and mental health organisations. Both her father and one of her sons have AD/HD. She maintains a private practice at the Wayne Counseling Center, Wayne, PA, primarily working with people who tend to colour outside the lines.
Auckland – 22nd May 2006 - Grand Chancellor, Auckland Airport
8.30am – 4.00pm
Contact Jan Brown on 09 6279275 or granny007@xtra.co.nz or Marion Bower on 09 4267675 or mariongeebee@yahoo.com.
Rotorua – 24th May 2006 - Rydges Hotel, 272 Fenton St
8.30am – 4.00pm
Contact Jan Brown on 09 6279275 or granny007@xtra.co.nz or Marion Bower on 09 4267675 or mariongeebee@yahoo.com.
Palmerston North - 26th May 2006 – Rydges Hotel, Fitzherbert St
8.30am - 4.00.pm
Contact: Philippa Brunn on 06 3537039 or wp.brunn@clear.net.nz.
Wellington – 29th May 2006 – Angus Inn, Waterloo Rd, Lower Hutt
8.30am – 4.00pm
Contact Moira Buchanan on 04 5678786 or lbctnz@slingshot.co.nz.
Christchurch –1st June 2006 – Grand Chancellor, Cashel St 8.30am – 4.00pm
Contact Moira Buchanan on 04 5678786 or lbctnz@slingshot.co.nz.
See www.lbctnz.co.nz for more information.
Identifying and Caring for people with PTSD resulting from childbirth
Presented by the Trauma and Birth Stress - Support and Education Group.
Friday, 2nd June, 2006, 8.30am – 4.30pm
Willow Park Convention Centre, 1 Hostel Rd, Eastern Beach, East Auckland
- "What is Post Partum PTSD?" – Christine Hight (Therapist, Kumeu)
- "Treatments For PTSD" – Pauline Griffiths – (mmh, Akld)
- "Hearing from Tabs" - Sue Watson (Chairperson of Tabs & Childbirth Educator)
- "Implications for Care" – Nimisha Waller (Senior Lecturer Midwifery, AUT)
- "Human encounter with death - at birth - hearing from fathers" - Gregg Lahood (Anthropologist,Therapist)
- "Who reads the notes and what do they mean?" - Glenda Stimpson (Midwife, National Womens Health)
- "Birth trauma: Mopping up the aftermath" - Cherie Moran (Midwife & Counsellor)
- "Homoeopathy and emotional wellbeing around Childbirth" Naturo Pharm Ltd (Resident Homoeopath)
- "Open Forum & Panel Discussion" – attendees speak
Approved by NZ Midwifery Council, 10 points
Cost $90pp, all refreshments included. Refunds subject to a $45.00 administration fee being retained. No refunds after 2nd May 06. Late Registration (after 16th May) $115.00.
Visit www.tabs.org.nz for more information
Youth Week 2006
Youth Week 2006 is 15-21 May. The focus is on RE:DEFINE – challenging youth stereotypes. This builds on the 2005 RE:DEFINE campaign that highlighted some typical stereotypes and challenged the public to think again. The RE:DEFINE campaign aims to raise general awareness around Aotearoa New Zealand and act as a specific challenge to media, policy-makers and educators, whose influence over young people is often profound.
The value and importance of young people's meaningful involvement in their communities is a key message of the campaign.
RE:DEFINE is about celebrating young people for who they really are.
Find out more about Youth Week and order resources at www.youthweek.co.nz, or contact matt@nzaahd.org.nz, or phone (04) 3829944.
Involve 06
Is your passion the health and development of young people? Would you like to share your passion with like-minded people?
Involve 06 aims to reflect and connect the diversity of people who work with and for young people. The conference themes are: creativity, diversity and connection. Central topics of differing ability, culture, and local versus global will help to focus the discussions and workshops.
Involve 06 will be held at Lincoln University from 1 – 3 November, with an additional, optional one-day workshop on 4 November on motivational interviewing. The workshop will be run by internationally renowned UK practitioner Deborah Christie. Another international speaker is Michelle Dagnino from Canada. Michelle is a young social justice advocate, speaker, and author. She used to work as a child labour coordinator for an international union organisation, and her first book on hip hop and activism will be published this year.
Involve 06 is organised by the New Zealand Association for Adolescent Health and Development (NZAAHD) with support from the Ministry of Youth Development, and in partnership with the National Youth Workers Network. NZAAHD is an association for people working with 12-24-year-olds.
If you are also interested in presenting, submissions are already open.
For more information, contact matt@nzaahd.org.nz, or phone (04) 3829944.
