Improving Collaboration - Yarra Mental Health Alliance

YARRA MENTAL HEALTH ALLIANCE - IMPROVING COLLABORATION

A Dual Diagnosis Forum aimed at improving Collaboration & Shared Care between Mental Health, AoD, Housing & Employment Services. This Forum is for Yarra-based professional workers to consider a complex case study of a client with issues around medication abuse, non-prescribed meds + alcohol abuse. All workers from Yarra Alliance agencies are invited to attend.

Where: Turning Point, 142 Gertrude St, Fitzroy (Training room next to Charcoal Lane)

When: Tues, 9th Nov 2010, 9.30 – 11.00 am Registration at 9.15am & Refreshments

Catering supplied by Drug Responsive Outreach Program (DROP), Turning Point.

RSVP by 1/11/10: Joan Clarke, joan.clarke@svhm.org.au

Homelessness and Human Rights - VCOSS

The following was received from the Victorian Council of Social Service:

VCOSS in partnership with the Council to Homeless Persons invites you to:

Homelessness and Human Rights

Using Human Rights as an advocacy tool for ending homelessness: ‘doing rights’ in casework, organisational change and law reform

Tuesday 16 November 2010

9.30am for 10am-1.00pm

Karstens at CQ Conference Centre, Level 3, 123 Queen Street Melbourne

Join us to explore how human rights can be used as an advocacy tool to end homelessness through:

• better outcomes for individuals;
• supporting practice and systems change in order to imbed a human rights culture in policy and practice in community sector organisations;
• ensuring increased consumer participation; and
• achieving policy and legislative change.

Panel presentations will be made by:

James Farrell, Manager/Principal Lawyer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic;

Tiffany Overall, Advocacy and Human Rights Officer, Youthlaw;

Jason Rostant, Manager, Community Engagement, Planning and Development, Western Region Health;

Michelle Burrell, Chief Executive Officer, Council to Homeless Persons;

Consumer (TBC).

To register – please complete the attached registration form and return by Thursday 11 November to Jennifer Heaney at VCOSS on

Fax: (03) 9654 5749 or E: jennifer.heaney@vcoss.org.au.

For all forum enquiries, please contact Michelle Lane at VCOSS on

E:michelle.lane@vcoss.org.au or T: 9654 5050.

Please feel free to contact Christiane Gurner, Human Rights Resource Officer, regarding VCOSS work on Human Rights,

E: Christiane.gurner@vcoss.org.au or T: 9654 5050

Community Services and Health Industry Consultation Meeting

The following was received from Community Services & Health Industry Training Board Inc (Vic):

You are invited to a consultation on workforce development, skills needs, challenges and future directions.

When: 14th October

Time: 10:15 for 10:30 start finish at 12:30pm (light morning tea provided)

Where: Ground floor meeting room, 134 Cambridge Street, Collingwood 3066

This meeting is to be held with key Community Services and Health industry representatives and the national industry skills council and the state community services industry training board.

It forms part of the gathering of information for the national ISC e scan and the state industry skills needs report.

Issues to be covered include:

• How has the demand for or nature of services changed – what are the drivers of these changes; how is demand for services likely to evolve; what new or changing work roles are emerging; what are the expected broad workforce trends for the next five years?
• Workforce development challenges – what are the current and emerging occupational shortages; what inhibits improving workforce development in the community services and health industry; what workforce development trends exist?
• Addressing workforce development challenges – what is needed to address the workforce development challenges faced by our industries now and into the future; what are the policy or funding leverage mechanisms to address them; what are the barriers and opportunities?
• The role of training packages – how effectively are the training packages for community services and health supporting workforce development needs; what critical changes are needed to assist the industry in meeting its skills needs?
• Responding to the new workforce development policy environment – how can the community services and health industry best respond to the new workforce development policy environment informed by Skills Australia’s Australian Workforce Futures: A National Workforce Development Strategy; where are the most effective/needed areas of focus for workforce development policy e.g. employment and job design, recruitment and planning, as well as skills, education and training?

To register, please email cshitbv@intraining.org.au with your name, position and organisation details.

'Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws' Book Launch

Invitation to a book launch by the Honourable Justice Marcia Neave AO of 'Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws' edited by Professor Bernadette McSherry & Dr Penelope Weller.

Date: Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Time: 5.30 for 6pm – 7.30pm

Venue: Rendezvous Hotel, 328 Flinders Street, Melbourne

RSVP: Thursday, 30 September 2010

Email: marketing@law.monash.edu.au

Phone: (03) 9902 0041