Training and events calendar

Join us in a comprehensive overview of Methamphetamine use and its impact. Emphasis is on evidence-based approaches to reducing associated acute and chronic risks. This training fosters a compassionate and informed response to methamphetamine use with a focus on harm reduction.

Topic: Challenging the ‘youth crime’ narrative – Building support for evidence-based change in a ‘tough on crime’ environment. Speakers: Anoushka Jeronimus (Co-convener), Eva Lazzaro (Policy and Advocacy Lead), and Mallika Murthy (Campaign Manager) from Smart Justice for Young People.

People with intellectual disability experience high rates of mental illness yet often have difficulty in accessing services and getting appropriate treatment. This workshop will explore the reasons for this and cover some of the modifications to practice that can be made to account for this.

For 25 years the Collab brings together Mental Health Nurses, lived experience advocates, and industry leaders to share breakthroughs, inspire change, and celebrate the everyday heroes of mental health care. It is the largest conference of practice-facing Mental Health Nurses and consumer workforce in Australia. This year’s theme is ‘Ordinary People doing Extraordinary Things.’

This workshop will explore how to recognise when a person may have co-morbid autism that may complicate the diagnosis and management of serious mental illness.

This advanced workshop uses a diversity lens to explore contemporary approaches to recovery-oriented practice in mental health settings. It also introduces ways to conduct person-centred assessments that understand cultural and social context and the powerful determinants of health and wellbeing.

Join us for a Lived Experience led project update on the Factors Affecting Community Treatment Orders Research Study (FACTORS).

Join us for a highly engaging, skills-focused forum designed to provide simple and practical ways to integrate ACT-based principles into your everyday role in public mental health.

The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule Second Edition (ADOS-2) is a semi-structured, standardised assessment of communication, social interaction, and play. It provides a series of standardised contexts in which the individual's social communication, and repetitive, stereotyped behaviours can be observed. It has been designed to assist in the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and is a complementary instrument to the Autism Diagnostic Interview Revised (ADI-R). Standardised toys and activities are used to present opportunities for social and communicative interaction with the examiner. A diagnostic algorithm consistent with DSM-V and ICD-10 clinical diagnoses is generated.

This one-day online workshop focuses on the child and adolescent age group and encompasses skill development in the following areas: - Using Positive Behaviour Support within a neuroaffirming framework - Understanding behaviours of concern and how to create a supportive environment for neurodivergent people - Collaborative problem solving with the young person and carers - Creating an autism specific profile and behaviour support plan - Finding the function of a behaviour of concern - Supporting the development of new skills to promote independence and quality of life.