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Summit program

Summit program

Day 1

Session 1

8.50am

Scene setting

8.50am

Welcome to Country

Welcome to Country by Traditional Owners and smoking ceremony

Tribal Experiences

9.20am

Welcome to Delegates

Welcome to Delegates

Liz Minchin

Master of Ceremonies

Executive Editor, The Conversation

9.25am

Address

Message to Leaders: Why lived experience must be central to everything we do

NMHCCF consumer and carer Queensland representatives

  • Tanya Kretschmann, Consumer representative
  • Dr Stefanie Roth, Carer representative

9.35am

Address

The Queensland Government vision, priorities and platform for mental health

The Hon. Dr Steven Miles

Minister for Health and Minister for Ambulance Services

9.45am

Commissioner in conversation

The status of reform in Queensland

Ivan Frkovic

Queensland Mental Health Commissioner

 

10.00am

Address

Vision 2030 and national reform priorities

Christine Morgan

CEO of the National Mental Health Commission and National Suicide Prevention Advisor to the Prime Minister

10.15am

Audience Q&A

Are the priorities right?

Christine Morgan and Ivan Frkovic

10.40am

MORNING TEA

Session 2

11.10am

Whole of system improvement / Suicide prevention

11.10am

Session intro

Suicide prevention

Liz Minchin

Master of Ceremonies

11.15am

Snapshot

Indigenous lived experience perspective

Leilani Darwin

Head of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lived Experience Centre, Black Dog Institute

 

11.25am

Address

Co-design of suicide prevention with Indigenous communities

Prof. Maree Toombs

Director of Indigenous Health, University of Queensland

11.40

Address

Transforming the health system’s approach to suicide

Janet Martin

Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs Branch

Department of Health

11.55am

Address

How do we beat male suicide?

Prof. John Mendoza

Director

ConNetica

12.15am

Session wrap and table discussion

Where should we focus to end men dying by suicide?

Ivan Frkovic and audience

12.35pm

LUNCH

Session 3

1.25pm

Better lives / Lived experience

1.25pm

Session intro

Culture and commitment: valuing lived experience

Liz Minchin

Master of Ceremonies

1.30pm

Address

Stretch2Engage: Does your organisational engagement culture need a good stretch?

Helen Glover, Enlightened Consultants

S2E Partnership

1.50pm

Table exercise

Embedding lived experience engagement in organisational culture

Helen Glover, Enlightened Consultants

S2E Partnership

2.00pm

Video

Maximising the value of the lived experience workforce

Dr Louise Byrne

Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Management, RMIT University

2.05pm

Panel discussion

Establishing the peer workforce as an integral part of the system

  • Eschleigh Balzamo, QLEWN
  • Janet Martin, MHAODB, Queensland Health
  • Julie Quicke, QuIHN
  • Bronwen Edwards, Founder and CEO, Roses in the Ocean
  • Michelle Edwards, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service

2.35pm

Snapshot

Queensland’s Social Enterprise Strategy

Peter McKay

Acting Deputy Director-General, Department of Employment, Small Business and Training

 

2.45pm

Snapshot

Why social enterprises are a better way

Luke Terry

Co-Founder and CEO, Whitebox Enterprises and QUT Resident Social Entrepreneur

3.00pm

AFTERNOON TEA

Session 4

3.30pm

Better lives / Human rights, person-centred care, youth perspectives

3.30pm

Session intro

Human rights, person-centred care and youth perspectives

Liz Minchin

Master of Ceremonies

3.35pm

Panel discussion

Human rights and mental health: what needs to be done next?

  • Natalie Siegel-Brown Queensland Public Guardian
  • Mary Burgess Public Advocate
  • Rebekah Leong, Principal Lawyer, Queensland Human Rights Commission

4.05pm

Address

 

People before paperwork

Dr Peggy Brown

Consultant Psychiatrist

Limen Health Care Consulting

4.20pm

Panel discussion

Young peoples’ expectations of the modern mental health, AOD and suicide prevention system

  • Lane Brookes, Youth Ambassador - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Youth, Health, Mental Health, Education, Child Safety, Culture, Tourism & Sport
  • Caroline , Youth Champion, QFCC
  • Willow Brown
  • Matthew Caruana

4.50pm

Wrap up and close

 

Liz Minchin and

Ivan Frkovic

5.00pm

NETWORKING EVENT

Day 2

Session 1

8.30am

Whole system improvement / Indigenous and community perspectives

8.30am

Performance

 

Upbeat Arts Absolutely Everybody Choir

 

9.00am

Commissioner in conversation

Themes of Day 2

Liz Minchin and Ivan Frkovic

9.05am

Panel discussion

Self-determination: What does this look like for mental health, AOD and suicide prevention?

Kimina Anderson (Facilitator), Queensland Mental Health and Drug Advisory Council

  • Aunty Boni Robertson, Director, Indigenous Community Engagement, Griffith University
  • Napau Pedro Stephen AM, Chair Torres Strait Regional Authority
  • Neil Willmett, QAIHC Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council
  • Lane Brookes, Youth Ambassador - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Youth, Health, Mental Health, Education, Child Safety, Culture, Tourism & Sport

9.40am

Address

Tracks to Treaty as a vehicle to change the future

Dr Chris Sarra, Director-General, Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships

 

9.55am

Table discussion

How do organisations embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership into mental health systems and structures outside of just having identified roles?

Audience

10.10am

Snapshot

100 Voices of Hope

Madonna King and David Fagan, Senior Journalists

10.30am

MORNING TEA

 

 

Session 2

11.00am

Invest to save / Promotion, prevention and early intervention

11.00am

Session intro

What is ‘invest to save’, and why is it important?

Liz Minchin

Master of Ceremonies

11.05am

Address

New Zealand’s wellbeing evolution

Jessica Hewat

Manager, Health 

NZ Treasury

11.25am

Address

 

Promoting mentally heathy environments

Georgie Harman

Chief Executive Officer, Beyondblue

11.45am

Address

Loneliness and social isolation: is our society breaking down?

Professor Alex Haslam

School of Psychology, The University of Queensland

12.00pm

Session wrap and Table discussion

How do we successfully shift the focus upstream to wellbeing and prevention?

Ivan Frkovic and Audience

Session 3

12.15pm

Whole of system improvement / Alcohol and Other Drugs reform

12.15pm

Session intro

The AOD reform imperative

Liz Minchin

Master of Ceremonies

12.20pm

Address

The broader impacts of Queensland’s drug law policies

Kim Wood

Principal Commissioner, Queensland Productivity Commission

12.40pm

 

Lunch

 

 

 

1.30pm

Address

What might drug policy reform look like in Queensland?

 

Prof. Alison Ritter

Director Drug Policy Modelling Program, The University of New South Wales

1.50pm

Address

Independent evaluation of the second Canberra pill testing trial

Dr Anna Olsen and David McDonald,

Social Foundations of Medicine, Australian National University

2.05pm

Panel discussion

Can we have a sensible conversation about drug policy reform?

Jeff Buckley Director, Insight (Panel Chair)

  • Mick Palmer, Former AFP Commissioner
  • Cameron Francis, Queensland Convenor, The Loop Australia
  • Rebecca Lang, Chief Executive Officer, QNADA
  • Eddie Fewings, QAIHC

2.40pm

Session wrap and Table discussion

How do we progress AOD reform?

What should the priorities be?

  • Ivan Frkovic and Audience

3.05pm

Afternoon tea

 

 

 

Session 4

3.30pm

Whole of system improvement / Community mental health system

3.30pm

Address

The vision for publicly-funded community mental health services in Queensland

Dr John Wakefield

Director-General, Department of Health

3.50pm

Address

Mental health reform: The importance of community mental health

Prof. Patrick McGorry

Executive Director, Orygen

 

4.10pm

Spotlight

The future of the NGO sector in a changing funding world

David Crosbie

CEO, Community Council for Australia

4.20pm

Spotlight

The post-NDIS world for community mental health

Bill Gye

CEO, Community Mental Health Australia

4.30pm

Audience participation

Audience open mic

Audience

4.50pm

Wrap and close

Looking forward

 

Ivan Frkovic, Tanya Kretschmann and
Dr Stefanie Roth

5.00pm

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