Conference Day 2

8:00

Combined - Sovereign

Liberate the inner artist, learn to draw and be mindful

Brett McDermott

Director of CAMHS

Co-Director of TCMHSI

9:00

Combined -

Sovereign

Lived experience panel - Chair: Amanda Quealy

Lived experience panel

Trudy Schmitzer

Mental Health Council Tasmania

Tash Smyth

Flourish

Glen O’Keefe

Family and friends

Gregory Taylor

Alcohol, Tobacco & other Drugs Council

9:45

Marina & Gretel

Peacock Centre Panel - Chair: Mel Nichols

Integration Hub

Jane Cooper & Ryan Davie

Allied Health Professional Lived Experience Worker

Safe Haven

Barbara Lloyd & Doug Cooper

Social Worker, Peacock Centre Lived Experience Worker

Peacock House

Mel Nichols & Claire Browning

Manager, Peacock Centre Senior Lived Experience Worker

Recovery college

Maree Tambasco

Education Coordinator & Implementation Lead

9:45

Sovereign

Forensic Mental Health - Chair: Sonny Atherton

Wifred Lopes Centre

Sonny Atherton

Psychiatrist, Forensic Mental Health

Correctional Forensic Mental Health Service

Raj Darjee

Psychiatrist, Forensic Mental Health

Risdon Prison

Meredith Gray

Psychiatrist, Forensic Mental Health

Fixed Threat Assessment Centre

Mike Jordan

Psychiatrist, Forensic Mental Health

11:05-11:35

Morning Tea

11:35

Marina & Gretel

Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAHMS) - Chair: Dominica Kelly

Report Card: Reform progress

Brett McDermott & Simone Caynes

Statewide Director, CAMHS Program Manager, CAMHS

After-hours team

Sam Turnbull

Regional Director North/Northwest, CAHMS

Multi-systemic therapy (MST)

Ingrid Altena

Manager, MST

Distance and disadvantage challenges for reform

Iggy Kim & Kent Jackson

CNC, CAMHS South Team Leader of Core CAMHS NW

11:35

Sovereign

Drug & Alcohol Services (ADS) - Chair: Nicolle Ait Khelifa

Detox@Home

Ian Guinan & Abby Hills

Medical Officer, Inpatient Withdrawal Unit & Clinical Nurse Consultant, Detox@Home program

Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine- administration by Pharmacists

Nicolle Ait Khelifa & Darren Turner

Statewide Specialty Director, ADS Group Director, ADS

Continuing care: ATOD treatment for people in, entering and existing secure facilities in Tasmania

Nina Manning & Daniel Stebbeings

Principal Service Development Officer, ADS

Clinical Nurse Consultant, Consult and Liaison, Secure Facilities

ACT for ICE

David Castle

Prof of Psychiatry, Co-Director of TCMHSI

12:55 - 13:40

Lunch

13:40

Combined -

Sovereign

Intro: Tony

I can “C” the future: Challenge, collaboration and compassion in Tasmania’s MH service sector

Kimberley Norris

Director of Postgraduate Psychology Programs at the University of Tasmania, School of Psychological Sciences

14:25

Marina & Gretel

Partnerships - Chair: Jane Austin

Hand-in-Hand peer support

Tahnee Bridson

Hand-in-Hand CEO

Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Strategy 2023-2027

Al Brown

Policy and Project Officer, CMHW

Aboriginal Health Worker Traineeship Program

Sarah Jones

Principal Program and Project Officer, Health Workforce Planning Unit

14:25

Sovereign

Youth Psychiatry - Chair: Amanda Quealy

Introduction – planning the new Youth Mental Health Service in Tasmania

Ana Lusicic

Consultant Psychiatrist, Youth

Youth Mental Health – Y-HiTH

Dion Butler

Team Leader, Y-HITH

Engaging and Teaching – current priorities of Tasmanian Youth Mental Health Service

Ana Lusicic & Dion Butler

Consultant Psychiatrist, YMHS; Team Leader, Y-HiTH

LGBTQIA+ discussion

Andrew Badcock

Working It Out

15:45

Combined - Sovereign

Concluding remarks

Brett McDermott

Co-Director of TCMHSI Professor of Psychiatry