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WA Mental Health

3rd WA Transcultural Mental Health Conference

2–4 September 2009, Perth Convention Exhibition Centre

Hear a range of experts across the areas of refugee health, general mental health service delivery and transcultural mental health. See details of invited speakers for all three partner conferences (external website).

This is an opportunity to come together to collaborate and share knowledge, for:

  • clinicians
  • government and non-government service providers
  • policy makers
  • educators
  • researchers
  • consumers and carers from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds

Goals

  • Share and explore innovations in holistic management of mental health care. These need to be culturally sensitive, culturally responsive, innovative and culturally appropriate for Western Australia’s new and emerging communities.
  • Inform policy makers about how to best design and develop a mental health service for an increasing multicultural population.
  • Broaden our knowledge about the availability and accessibility of mental health resources to pass on to CALD consumers and carers.
  • Highlight proven and effective strategies for culturally appropriate community development and engagement for promoting mental health.

Conference themes

We will focus on several key themes including but not limited to:

  • CALD young people and older adults
  • trauma issues
  • capacity building and community development among CALD communities
  • innovations in transcultural mental health service delivery
  • mental health promotion in CALD communities
  • cultural competency and workforce development
  • resourcing
  • consumer and carer issues
  • spirituality and mental health
  • effective partnership with interpreting services

Abstracts

Abstracts should be submitted online via TheMHS (new window).

Organisers

  • WA Transcultural Mental Health Service
  • ISHAR Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health
  • Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors (ASeTTS)
  • Migrant Health Unit, WA Health
  • Public and Community Health, WA Health
  • Refugee Clinic, Princess Margaret Hospital
  • Curtin University of Technology
  • Mental Health Division, WA Health

This conference is presented in partnership with The Mental Health Services (THeMHS) 19th Annual Conference and the 1st Australasian Refugee Health Conference. The common theme is "You, your family, your community, your mental health: the path ahead".

Contact us

For all enquiries about all three partner conferences:

Conference Secretariat, TheMHS Conference
PO Box 192
Balmain NSW Australia

Phone: +61 2 9810 8700
Fax: +61 2 9810 8733
Email: info@themhs.org

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