Purpose
The bi-annual Gippsland Mental Health Conference provides an opportunity for rural/regional consumers, carers, professionals, managers and academics/researchers to share ideas, access professional development and engage in networking and debate. The conference aims to encourage debate that will challenge current knowledge and ideas about mental health care in a rural/regional setting by promoting a better understanding of mental illness and mental wellbeing.
Aims
- Promote a better understanding of mental illness and mental wellbeing
- Promote the active involvement and inclusion of all members of the community, consumers, carers, professionals and academics/researchers with an interest in mental illness and mental wellbeing
- Explore and showcase what works, innovation and good practice in a rural/regional setting and beyond
- Provide an opportunity for consumers, carers and practitioners to share practice and lived experience knowledge and wisdom
- Promote networking, collaboration and inter-disciplinary learning
- Provide a professional development opportunity for all mental health consumers, carers, professionals and academics/researchers in Gippsland.
Target Participants
- Private and Public Mental Health Workforce: General Practitioners, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Primary Health Service Counsellors, Drug & Alcohol Workers, PDRSS Workers, Managers (Health Service & PDRSS)
- Consumers
- Carers
- Public Servants/Policy Makers
- Academics/Researchers
- Education Sector Support Services: Public & Private Schools, TAFE, University
- Vocational/Educational /Housing Support Services: Managers, Workers
- Board Members of organisations providing mental health services
