Connecting for Impact Conference

Bridging gaps and building futures

The Queensland Alliance for Mental Health is hosting the Connecting for Impact Conference from 28-29 July 2025.

The agenda features expert speakers and sector-led innovation across topics including: 

Workforce innovation and sustainability

• Pathways to a sector that offers rewarding careeers
• Lived experience project - supporting staff to take back their stories
• What we learnt from co-designing a co-design training - real insights from lived experience
• Resilience and risk - understanding psychosocial hazards in trauma-impacted workplaces
• Building the capability of child mental health workforce across Australia
• From threads to frameworks - designing the future of the community mental health workforce

Community wellbeing and social connection

• The value and effectiveness of social prescribing in Brisbane North PHN communities
• Enhancing mental wellbeing for migrants and multicultural communities
• Transformational training - delivering holistic wellbeing in communities

Rights-based service delivery

• Integrating clinical and wellbeing services and the power of lived experience in transforming mental health care
• Empowering carer leadership - MHCA's lived experience expertise capability framework
• Through both lenses - lived experience and independent insights on mental health feedback
• I see you and you are welcome here - reflections on intersectional practice with queer identifying refugees and asylum seekers
• A complex trauma-informed practice framework - a 2024 research outcome.

Learn more and secure your spot: https://www.qamh.org.au/conference-agenda/