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Culture and Diversity
12 December 2024
Topic: What is Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Presenter: Mr Camuran Albanoi, Team Leader, High Priority Discharge Program, Goulburn Valley Health
Resources:
5 December 2024
Topic: Take Home Naloxone Multicultural Resources
Presenter: Mr Edward Stott, Senior Policy Officer | AOD Policy Mental Health and AOD Strategy and Policy, Mental Health & Wellbeing Division
Resources:
28 November 2024
Topic: Women and Children’s Mental Health
Presenter: Dr Rajlaxmi Khopade, Consultant Psychiatrist, Specialist Women’s Mental Health Service and Aged Psychiatric Assessment & Treatment Team (APATT), GV Health
Resources:
21 November 2024
Topic: Every Yarn Counts
Presenter: Mr Troy Combo, Aboriginal health Program Manager, Burnet Institute
Resources:
14 November 2024
Topic: African Community Attitudes to Drugs and Mental Health
Presenter: Dr Francis Acquah, Founder & Credentialed Mental Health Nurse, Positive Wellness Recovery Centre
Resources:
7 November 2024
Topic: Path2Home – African Australian Communities
Presenter: Ms Nyachan Nyak
Resources:
31 October 2024
Topic: Why Lived Experience Matters
Presenter: Ms Anna Guthrie, Lived Living Experience Worker, North East Metro Mental Health & Wellbeing Connect
Resources:
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect Shepparton
- Mental Health & Wellbeing Locals
- Peer Support Work by Daryl Mahon, Hardcover, 9781837530199 | Buy online at The Nile
24 October 2024
Topic: A Brief Exploration on the Issues and Challenges of New and Emerging Communities
Presenter: Mr Sam Atukorala, Manager, Ethnic Council, Shepparton & District
Resources:
17 October 2024
Topic: First Nations Traditional Attitudes to Health & Healing
Presenter: Aunty Suzanne Nelson – Goulburn Valley Alcohol & Drug Service, Goulburn Valley Health
Resources:
10 October 2024
Topic: LGBTQI+ Inclusive Services
Presenter: Ms Ruthi Hambling Manager, Sector Development and Engagement – Rainbow Health Australia
Resources:
- Rainbow Tick Information Session – 14th November 2pmIs your organisation considering Rainbow Tick accreditation? Do you want to find out more about what it looks like to embed LGBTIQ inclusion at your workplace? Come along to one of our Rainbow Tick information sessions to find out more about this world-first quality framework, designed to help health and human services organisations become safe and inclusive for the LGBTIQ community.Rainbow Health Australia training options:How2 Training program – flyer attached and subsidy availableThe How2 Program guides and empowers participants to lead the way within their organisations in developing services and a culture that is inclusive for LGBTIQ staff and clients, empowering prospective accreditation. Designed around the six national standards that make up the Rainbow Tick this group program involves a series of live workshops and self-paced online modules that coach participants through practical steps in embedding LGBTIQ+ inclusive practices in their organisation.Expression of interest here – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEMKM0ek3uU_M4Lh-5W6vHdTun9g8sqj2bawVanY7AzTTbig/viewform?usp=sf_linkTrue Colours – elearning (flyer attached)
- Build knowledge and understanding about sex, gender and sexuality.
- Consider the experiences and needs of LGBTIQ+ people and what this might mean for service provision.
- Understand steps to creating safe and inclusive services and workplaces for LGBTIQ people.
Work with Pride – interactive workshop via ZoomFollowing completion of True Colours: Introduction to LGBTIQ Inclusive Practice, staff teams will be guided through a series of activities to apply affirming practice in their own role and organisational context. This workshop has been developed by Rainbow Health Australia to support organisations working towards LGBTIQ inclusive practice and seeking to create safe, welcoming services.
Links to relevant research:The health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ people in Australia, 2020Research Matters – This series aims to deliver accessible and concise briefings on current research relevant to LGBTIQ health and wellbeing.
19 September 2024
Topic: Working with Families and Supporters
Presenter: Ms Jennifer Bite, General Manager Connect Coordination Victoria & Workforce Supports & Ms Kelly Stuart, Education Lead/ Lived Experience Advisor, Tandem
Resources:
- The Compassionate Friends Victoria – peer to peer support services for people bereaved of a child, sibling, or grandchild – 24 hour grief support line https://www.compassionatefriendsvictoria.org.au/
- https://grow.org.au/
12 September 2024
Topic: The Mental Health Consequences of Seeking Asylum
Presenter: Professor Suresh Sundrem, Chair & Head, Department of Psychiatry, Monash University School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences & Director of Research, Mental Health Program.
Resources:
- https://www.dss.gov.au/about-the-department/longitudinal-studies/building-a-new-life-in-australia-bnla-longitudinal-study-of-humanitarian-migrants-overview
- https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-018-1660-8
- https://refugeehealthnetwork.org.au/resource/star-mh/
5 September 2024
Topic: An Introduction to Refugee and Asylum Seeker Mental Health
Presenter: Professor Suresh Sundrem, Chair & Head, Department of Psychiatry, Monash University School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences & Director of Research, Mental Health Program.
Resources:
29 August 2024
Topic: Perceptions of Drug Use and Mental Health
Presenter: Professor Shalini Arungiri, Clinical Director, Turning Point Statewide Services & The Hamilton Centre
Resources:
Professor Shalini Arungiri has shared the following resources
LaTrobe – The BBV & sexually transmissible infections stigma reduction toolking
The community shared the following resources
Hamilton Centre – Opioid pharmacotherapy – module 3
22 August 2024
Topic: Diversity, Families and Community
Presenter: Manal Shehab – SHARC
Resources:
- Manal is the author of ‘The Faith Leader’s Practice Guide and Toolkit on Preventing and Responding to Family Violence in Faith Settings’ published in 2022 on behalf of State Government of Victoria.
https://www.wire.org.au/preventing-and-responding-to-family-violence-a-faith-leaders-practice-guide-and-toolkit
The impact of a police crackdown on a street drug scene: evidence from the streetMental health and wellbeing localGreater Shepparton, Strathbogie and MoiraOpen for walk-ins or call for supportTel. 1300 000 559151-155 Maude Street,Shepparton VIC 3630 - Anglicare Vic- Beyond The Violence
15 August 2024
Topic: Viral Hepatitis, HIV, and STI’s among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
Presenter: Professor James Ward – Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
Resources:
Attitudes and Stigma
8 August 2024
Topic: Bring your whole self to work, did you mean that?
Presenter: Mr Andrew Tomlinson, MindSpark.life
Resources:
1 August 2024
Topic: Universal Precautions Approach to Stigma Reduction
Presenter: Professor Nicola Reavley, Principal Research Fellow, Mental Health Literacy Program, Melbourne School of Population & Global Health – University of Melbourne
Resources:
25 July 2024
Topic: Parenting in the Shadows: Stigma when supporting someone experiencing substance use & mental health challenges
Presenter: Ms Emer Diviney: Advocacy Lead & Lived Experience Advisor & Ms Kelly Stuart: Education Lead & Lived Experience Advisor – Tandem
Resources:
18 July 2024
Topic: Self Stigma
Presenter: Ms Swantje Lorrimer – DoingDoingDone Coaching
Resources:
27 June 2024
Topic: Peer Workers in Drug Court
Presenter: Mr Farouk Mitri, Workforce Development Officer for Peer Projects – SHARC
Resources:
20 June 2024
Topic: Stigma and Lived Experience Workforce
Presenter: Mr Antony Alder, Peer Worker, Department of Addiction Medicine – St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Resources:
- Stigma Snapshot Health care workers 2022
- Article: Alcohol and other drug use: A qualitative exploration of staff and patients’s experiences of langauge use as a means of stigma communication in hospital and primary care settings
- Medical Provider Stigma Experienced by People Who Use Drugs (MPS-PWUD): Development and Validation of a Scale Among People Who currently Inject Drugs in New Your City
- Stigma and Discrimination as Barriers to Health Service Access for People Who Use Drugs
- Stigma Snapshot: People who inject drugs 2021
13 June 2024
Topic: Language Matters
Presenter: Ms Bella Anderson, Manager, APSU-SHARC
Resources:
6 June 2024
Topic: Mental Health Wellbeing Connect Centres – For Families
Presenter: Miss Carla Benci & Ms Kelly Molloy- Gateway Health
Resources:
30 May 2024
Topic: Hamilton Centre’s Work on Stigma and Culture
Presenter: Associate Professor Shalini Arungiri, Clinical Director, Turning Point Statewide Services & the Hamilton Centre Associate Professor, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Eastern Health Clinical School
Resources:
23 May 2024
Topic: Not in my practice! We don’t have people like that here!
Presenter: Professor Edward Ogden PSM, Addiction Medicine Specialist – GV Health & Austin Health
Resources:
16 May 2024
Topic: Peer Support
Presenter: Mr Dean Grasselli, Senior Peer Worker/ Mentor -SANE
Resources:
9 May 2024
Topic: Stigma Watch – Taking the stigma out of how mental health and AOD are reported
Presenter: Ms Gayle McNaught, Manager, Public Affairs and Advocacy & Ms Madeleine Starling, StigmaWatch Program Lead -SANE
Resources:
Hepatitis C and other Infections among consumers of drug, alcohol & mental health services
2 May 2024
Topic: Improving hepatitis C detection and access to care in GVH addiction and mental health programs (facilitated discussion)
Presenter: Dr Vinay Menon, Clinical Lead, Goulburn Valley Public Health Unit
Resources:
18 April 2024
Topic: Hepatitis C and contemporary practice – What we can do differently
Presenter: Dr Jacqui Richmond, Program Manager Burnet Institute & CNC Barwon Health
Resources:
28 March 2024
Topic: Viral hepatitis health promotion: services and resources
Presenter: Mr Adrian Hubble, Senior Manager Health Services – LiverWell
Resources:
21 March 2024
Topic: Drug use in custody – Remand and Prison – ‘The using doesn’t stop’
Presenter: Panel discussion
Resources:
14 March 2024
Topic: Needle exchange and harm reduction (including COPE) in the community
Presenter: Ms Bee Brown – Senior Workforce Development Coordinator – Penington Institute
Resources:
Weblinks below may be helpful for people wanting to know where to access free naloxone under the Take Home Naloxone program.
7 March 2024
Topic: Advocating for the needs of patients with hepatitis in Victoria ‘Lived Experience Perspective of Viral Hepatitis C + Q&A
Presenter: Ms Pearl Prabal Health Promotion Knowledge Officer & Lived Experience Worker – LiverWell
29 February 2024
Topic: Improving testing and treatment for blood-borne viruses among patient in the addiction/mental health space: Experience from the Barwon Southwest region
Presenter: Amanda Wade – Burnet Institute
Resources:Australia’s progress towards hepatitis C elimination:annual report 2022
22 February 2024
Topic: Improving testing and treatment for blood-borne viruses among patient in the addiction/mental health space: Experience from the Barwon Southwest region – Amanda Wade – Burnet Institute
Presenter: Dr Dave Evans – PhD Senior Health Promotion Manager – University of Melbourne
Resources:
15 February 2024
Topic: Improving testing and treatment for BBV’s among people who inject drugs: Experience from the Richmond Medically Supervised Injecting Room
Presenter: Mr Bradley Whitton – Integrated Community Hepatitis CNC Medically supervised Injecting Room Richmond
Resources:
8 February 2024
Topic: Sexual Health in the GV region: How to Speak to Your Patient About Hepatitis C testing & treatment
Presenter: Katelouise Howard, Sexual Health CNC, GV Health Liver Clinic & Community Sexual Health
Resources:
1 February 2024
Topic: Blood-borne Viruses Among People who Inject Drugs: The Public Health Context
Presenter: – Dr Vinay Menon – Clinical Lead, Goulburn Valley Public Health Unit
Resources:
- Where to refer, Who to test for BBV’s, ideas for BBV care JAMH0702 EvidenceUpdateVM ‘Cheat Sheet’ BBVs Feb24
- JAMH0702 EvidenceUpdateVM
Families
14 December 2023
Topic: Marram-Ngala Ganbu (Koori Family Hearing Day)
Presenter: Kristen Bell – Children’s Court Victoria
7 December 2023
Topic: FaPMI and CHAMPS
Presenter: Peta Kelly – GV Health
Resources:
- FaPMI brochure
- FaPMI queries/ secondary consultation
- Peers support al -anon
- Satellite Foundation for young carers Satellite Foundation for Young Carer
30 November 2023
Topic: Parenting With a Mental Illness
Presenter: Shantell Smith – GV Health
23 November 2023
Topic: Healthy Mums, Healthy Babies
Presenter: Debhrina Fuller – GV Health
16 November 2023
Topic: Understanding the Benefits of Including Families in Practice
Presenter: Rowena Jonas – Wellways
Resources:
- Family inclusive practice work place audit
- Deadly Thinking Family Forest – Deadly Story‘
- Bouverie Centre Genogram (bouverie.org.au)
9 November 2023
Topic: Growing Up with a Parent who has a Mental Illness (Young carer lived experience)
Presenter: Jodie Hinton
Resources:
- https://smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au/
- https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/bundles/support/cardiac-rehabilitation
- https://www.gvhealth.org.au/our-services/community-health/health-coaching/
2 November 2023
Topic: The Trusted Voice of Families, Carers and Supporters
Presenter: Andrew Tomlinson – Tandem
Resources:
- Hume Connect Centre Phone 1800 527 129 humefclc@gatewayhealth.org.au
- At SHARC we provide Family Support Groups which are extremely beneficial, where families can be with like minded people. We run Breakthrough Online Sessions and a Program called InFocus for education purposes. Call our Helpline on 1800 660 068
26 October 2023
Topic: Protecting Children with Parents who use Drugs
Presenter: Ms Judith Wilson – DFFH Child Protection
Resources:
19 October 2023
Topic: Supporting Families to Have the Conversation About Addiction
Presenter: Mr Robert Campbell – SHARC – Self Help Advocacy Resource Centre
Resources:
- Supporting Families to Have the Conversation About Addiction
- https://www.breakthroughforfamilies.com/
- 1. MHFA_psychosis_guidelines_A4_2020
- 2. Pocket Guide 5 Step Method and Steps to Cope
- 3. Children affected by sub dependence
- 4. Talking with children about parental substance use
- AFINet (Addiction and the Family International Network) is https://www.afinetwork.info
- https://adf.org.au/insights/understanding-dual-diagnosis/
12 October 2023
Topic: Community Child Protection – Unborn Child
Presenter: Ms Judith Wilson – DFFH – Child Protection
5 October 2023
Topic: Putting Families First
Presenter: Ms Gemma Russo – OzChild
14 September 2023
Topic: Families Where a Parent Experiences Mental Illness (FaPMI)
Presenter: Ms Hanna Jewel – The Bouverie Centre LaTrobe University
Resources:
7 September 2023
Topic: Mental Health and Families
Presenter: Associate Professor Brendan O’Hanlon – The Bouverie Centre LaTrobe University
Benzodiazepines
31 August 2023
Topic: Alcohol Withdrawal – Do I Have to Use Diazepine
Presenter: Professor Edward Ogden – Goulburn Valley Health
24 August 2023
Topic: – My Benzo Story
Presenter: Ms Natalie Corrigan – Reconnexion
Resources:
- https://www.reconnexion.org.au/ – Treatment, support and information about benzodiazepine dependency and withdrawal, anxiety, insomnia and depression.
- https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2021/6/report-highlights-public-health-risks-and-increasing-availability-designer-benzodiazepines-europe_en
17 August 2023
Topic: Benzodiazepines Do They Cause Cognitive Impairment?
Presenter: Associate Professor Ravi Bhat – Goulburn Valley Health
10 August 2023
Topic: Reconnexion’s Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Program
Presenter: Mr Henrique Salles – Reconnexion
3 August 2023
Topic: Benzodiazepam & their Equivalence Conversion and Impact on Patient Care
Presenter: Dr Andrew Lam – Goulburn Valley Health
27 July 2023
Topic: Benzodiazepines Which One When and Why?
Presenter: Associate Professor Ravi Bhat – Goulburn Valley Health
20 July 2023
Topic: New Model of Care for Victorian Adult Prisoners
Presenter: Ms Penny Francis – Department of Justice & Corrections Services
13 July 2023
Topic: Statewide Centre of Addiction and Mental Health
Presenter: Dr Shalini Arunogiri – Statewide Centre of Addiction and Mental Health
Complications of Intravenous Drug Use
22 June 2023
Topic: Infecting Your Heart
Presenter: Dr Shane Nanayakkara – Interventional and Structural Cardiologist
15 June 2023
Topic: Homelessness and Outreach
Presenter: Ms Heather Loryman – Goulburn Valley Health
8 June 2023
Topic: – Needle and Syringe Program
Presenter: Ms Stephanie Tzanetis – Penington Institute
1 June 2023
Topic: Hep C Marching Forward!!
Presenter: Ms Christine Biesiekierski –Goulburn Valley Health
25 May 2023
Topic: Stigma and Advocacy – The Power of Words
Presenter: Matthew Corbett – Self Help Addiction Resource Centre SHARC
18 May 2023
Topic: Drug Induced Psychosis
Presenter: Dr Andrew Lam – Goulburn Valley Health
11 May 2023
Topic: – Severe Substance Disorder Treatment Act
Presenter: Professor Edward Ogden – Goulburn Valley Health
4 May 2023
Topic: The Feel of the Steel
Presenter: Ms Amelia Berg – Self Help Addiction Resource Centre SHARC
27 April 2023
Topic: Blood Borne Virus
Presenter: Ms Suzanne Wallis – Goulburn Valley Health
Patients and the System
- Date 6th April 2023
- Didactic – Introduction to Complex Needs Program Goulburn – Ms Carolyn Tremellen – Department of Families, Fairness and Housing
- Date 30th March 2023
- Didactic The Role of the Public Advocate – Eleanore E Fritz – Office of the Public Advocate
- Date 23rd March 2023
- Didactic – Statewide Specialist Women’s Clinic Shepparton – Ms Kalina Clarke
- Date 16th March 2023
- Didactic Consumer and Carer Experience and Journey – Ms Mary O’Hagan –Lived Experience Branch Mental Health & Wellbeing Division
- Date 9th March 2023
- Didactic – Drug Court – Miss Jessica Dunne – Shepparton Drug Court
- Date 2nd March 2023
- Didactic – Motivational Interviewing – A User Friendly Approach to Facilitate Change – Ms Helen Mentha – Mentha Consulting
- Date 23rd February 2023
- Didactic Peer Workers in Public Health – Substance Use – Mr Antony Alder – St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
- Date 16th February 2023
- Didactic Peer Workers in Public Health – Mental Health – Julie Anderson
- Resources –Mental Health Commission lived experience Workforce Guidelines
- email livedexperienceworkforce@dhhs.vic.gov.au
- Date 9th February 2023
- Didactic – Three Sides of the Coin – Judy Advisar
- Date 1st February 2023
- Didactic – GVADS Specialist Addictions Clinic – A Collaboration AOD/Mental Health Approach – Cheryl Sobczyk
JAMH’s Greatest Hits – Back By Popular Demand
- Date 15th December 2022
- Didactic – Relief From Trauma – Dr Greta Moon
- Date 8th December 2022
- Didactic – An Overview of Justice Health – Wendy Lawrence
- Date 1st December 2022
- Didactic – Suicide and Self Harm in Prison Settings – Brian Tyrell
- Date 24th November 2022
- Didactic – ADHD and Substance Use – Dr Dianne Grocott
- Date 17th November 2022
- Didactic – ADHD and the Lived Experience – Jack O’Toole
Novel Drugs
- Date 10th October 2022
- Didactic – Vaping – Dr Adam Pastor
- Date 3rd November 2022
- Didactic – Petrol Sniffing and Other Inhalants – Dr Adam Straub
- Date 27th October 2022
- Didactic – Plants That Get You High – Professor Edward Ogden
- Date – 13th October 2022
- Didactic – Ayajuasca – Dr Greta Moon
- Date 13th October 2022
- Didactic – Magic Mushrooms and the CIA – Professor Edward Ogden
- Date 6th October 2022
- Didactic – Opium – Kamini – Dr Andrew Lam
- Date 15th September 2022
- Didactic – Kava and Mental Health – Dr Jerome Sarris
- Date 9th September 2022
- Didactic – “Synthetic Cannabis” and Mental Health – Joseph Carey
- Date 1st September 2022
- Didactic – GHB Use and Withdrawal – Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones
- Date 25th August 2022
- Didactic – The Nature of Addiction – Rob MacKenzie
Theme: Forensic Mental Health and Substance Use
- Date 18th August 2022
- Didactic – Leaving Prison – Georgia Mosely
- Date 11th August 2022
- Didactic – A Psychiatrists Reflection on a Life Working in Prison – Dr Douglas Bell
- Date 4th August 2022
- Didactic Mental Illness in Victoria’s Criminal Justice System – Dr Douglas Bell
- Date 28th July 2022
- Didactic Experience of Jail, Mental Illness and Drugs – a personal view – Timothy Ridgeway
- Date 21st July 2022
- Didactic – Mental Health Behind Bars – Anthea Lemphers
- Date 14th July 2022
- Didactic – Custodial Medicine – Dr John Guymer
- Date 23rd June 2023
- Didactic – Mental Illness and Crime – Professor James (Jim) Ogloff
Theme: Borderline Personality Disorder
- Date 16th June 2022
- Didactic – Personality Disorders in Old Age – Associate Professor Josephine Beatson
- Date 9th June 2022
- Didactic – Emerging Personality Disorder and Substance Use – Melissa Bradshaw & Kalina Clarke
- Date 2nd June 2022
- Didactic – Antisocial Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorder – Kalina Clarke
- Resources –
- ASPD Psychotheraphy cochrane IJPsyM-40-517
- IJPsyM-40-517
- Date 19th May 2022
- Didactic – Neurodiversity and Personality Disorders – Dr Lukas Cheney
- Date 12th May 2022
- Didactic – Borderline Personality Disorder – The Lived Experience – Courtney Goldberg
- Date 5th May 2022
- Didactic – Borderline Personality Disorder – Treatment 2 – Dr Harry Constantinou
- Date 28th April 2022
- Didactic – Borderline Personality Disorder – Treatment 1 – Kalina Clarke
- Date 7th April 2022
- Didactic Borderline Personality Disorder – Course and Outcome – Dr Joe Wei
- Date 31st March 2022
- Didactic – Borderline Personality Disorder – Dr Shiromi Karunaratne
- Date 24th March 2022
- Didactic – Overview of Borderline Personality Disorder – Associate Professor Sathya Rao
Theme: Young People and Drugs
- Date 17th March 2022
- Didactic – Long Term Prenatal Exposure to Methadone or Buprenorphine – Dr Connie Chong
- Date 10th March 2022
- Didactic – Mental Health and Drug Use in LGBTQI Community – Dr Tanja Takala
- Date 3rd March 2022
- Didactic – Young People, Gender and Substance Use – Dr Tanja Takala
- Date 24th February 2022
- Didactic – Emerging Psychosis and Dual Diagnosis – Sheeraj Moorolia
- Date 24th February 2022
- Didactic – Early Psychosis – Dr Tejas Golhar
- Date 10th February 2022
- Didactic – Youth, Unstable Housing, Out of Home Care and Substance Use – Heather Loryman
- Date 3rd February 2022
- Didactic – Youth, Autism, Trauma and Substance Use – Associate Professor Soumya Basu
- Resources
- jamapediatrics ASD and Substance abuse
- Systematic review of risk and protective factors
- Date 27 January 2022
- Didactic – Youth, Autism and Trauma – Associate Professor Soumya Basu
2021 Curriculum and Resources
- Date 16th December 2021
- Didactic – Treatment of Substance Use in Adolescents – Associate Professor Yvonne Bonomo
- Date 9th December 2021
- Didactic – Experience of Drug Use in Young People – A Lived Experience – Christie Rohr
- Date 2nd December 2021
- Didactic – Harm Reduction in Young People – Focus on CoVID – Associate Professor Gillinder Bedi
- Date 25th November 2021
- Didactic – Brief Interventions for Drug Use in Young People Using Drugs – Dr Eddie Mullen
- Date 18th November 2021
- Didactic – Mental Illness and Drug Use in Young People – Dr Shalini Arunogiri
- Presentation – Mental Illness and Substance Use in Young Poeple
- Date 11th November 2021
- Didactic – Early and Earlier Intervention in Young People Using Drugs – Associate Professor Gillinder Bedi
- Date 4th November 2021
- Didactic – Developmental and Social Determinants of Drug use in Younger People – Dr Eddie Mullen
- Date 28th October 2021
- Didactic – Mood Disorders – The Lived Experience – Jacinda Ryan
- Date 21st October 2021
- Didactic – Mood Disorders and Substance Use Disorders – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
- Resources LETSACT
- Date 14th October 2021
- Didactic – Managing Depression in Primary Care – Dr Caroline Johnson
- Date 7th October 2021
- Didactic – Depression in Primary Care – Dr Caroline Johnson
- Date 16th September 2021
- Didactic – Mood Disorders Part 3 – Bipolar Disorders – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
- Resources
- McIntyre_BipolarDis_Lancet2020
- Bayes_BPAD-BPD_CurrPsychRep2019
- Date 9th September 2021
- Didactic – Mood disorders Part 2 – Thinking about how to help – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
- Presentation – Mood Disturbances
- Date 2nd September 2021
- Didactic – Mood Disorders Part 1 – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
- Resources – Cuijpers PsychotherapiesDep WorldPsych 2021
- Date 26th August 2021
- Didactic – Intranasal Naloxone for Overdose – Varin Eddy
- Resources –
- How to use naloxone (Prenoxad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_eQ53Ttssg
- How to use nasal spray (Nyxoid) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIubISZpwQA
- Date 19th August 2021
- Didactic – Long Acting Injectable Buprenorphine – Dr Adam Straub
- Date 12th August 2021
- Didactic – Opioid Substitution – Professor Edward Ogden
- Date 5th August 2021
- Didactic – Opioid Withdrawal – Professor Edward Ogden
- Date 29th July 2021
- Didactic – Medically Supervised Injecting Rooms – Dr Nicolas Clark
- Date 22nd July 2021
- Didactic – Maximising Opioid Effectiveness – Professor Edward Ogden
- Date 15th July 2021
- Didactic – Opioids and Pain – Trina Grant
- Date 24th June 2021
- Didactic – Pharmacology of Opioids – Dr Debby Darmansjah
- Date 17th June 2021
- Didactic – Milk of Paradise – The Opium Poppy, Opiates and Opioids – Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones
- Date 6th June 2021
- Didactic – ADHD and Comorbidity – Dr Shelley Gray
- Date 3rd June 2021
- Didactic – Medication and ADD – Dr Peter Heffernan
- Date 27th May 2021
- Didactic – ADHD and Adverse Childhood Experiences – Dr Luis Riebl
- Date 20th May 2021
- Didactic – Non Medical Approaches to Managing ADHD – Jack O’Toole
- Date 13th May 2021
- Didactic – ADHD Training for Primary Care – Dr Carmel O’Toole
- Date 6th May 2021
- Didactic – ADHD in Children and Adolescents – Dr David Coghill
- Date 29th April 2021
- Didactic – Impulsivity and Substance Use – Dr Mark Bellgrove
- Publication:Young_J_2021 Assessment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Date 22nd April 2021
- Didactic – ADHD and Drug Use – Dr Dianne Grocott
- Date 1st April 2021
- Didactic – Recognising ADHD – Dr Peter Wright
- Date 25th March 2021
- Didactic – Why Talk About ADHD? – Peter Scholem
- Date 18th March 2021
- Didactic – Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicide Framework – Stefan Anderson
- Date 11th March 2021
- Didactic – Managing the Agitated Patient – Dr Shiromi Karunaratne
- Date 4th March 2021
- Didactic – Acute Alcohol Intoxication – Professor Edward Ogden
- Date 25th February 2021
- Didactic – Stimulant Intoxication – Dr Debbie Darmansjah
- Date 18th February 2021
- Didactic – Hangover – Dr Sarah Benson
- Date 11th February 2021
- Didactic – Overdose – Dr Trushna Trivedi
- Date 4th February 2021
- Didactic – Assessing Risk of Suicide – Dr Sid Dutta
- Date 28th January 2021
- Didactic – Perinatal Mental Health Disorder – Psychological Treatment – Dr Raju Lakshmana
- Date 21st January 2021
- Didactic – Perinatal Mental Health Disorder – Pharmacological Treatment – Dr Raju Lakshmana
2020 Curriculum and Resources
- Date 16th December 2020
- Didactic – Perinatal Mental Health Disorder – Risk Assessment – Dr Raju Lakshmana
- Date 9th December 2020
- Didactic – Perinatal Mental Health Disorder – Diagnosis – Dr Raju Lakshmana
- Date 2nd December 2020
- Didactic Mental Health in the Time of COVID – 19 Pandemic – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
- Date 28th October 2020
- Didactic – Neurobiology of Addiction – Professor Edward Ogden
- Date 14th October 2020
- Didactic – Fetal Alcohol Spectrum – Kim Cowen
- Date 16th September 2020
- Didactic – Drug Induced Psychosis – Dr Stuti Jindal
- Date 2nd September 2020
- Didactic – Talking to Patients About Childhood Abuse – Dr Julie Stone
- Date 19th August 2020
- Didactic – What Can We Do About Adverse Childhood Experience? – Dr Vibhay Rayker
- Date 5th August 2020
- Didactic – ACEs and Youth Mental Health (Adverse Childhood Experience) – Dr Tejas Golhar
- Date 22nd July 2020
- Didactic – Introduction to JAMH – Professor Edward Ogden
- Date 24th June 2020
- Didactic – Safe Script – Professor Edward Ogden
- Date 10th June 2020
- Didactic – What Patients Want – Eliciting Patient’s Perspectives – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
8 August 2024
Topic: Bring your whole self to work, did you mean that?
Presenter: Mr Andrew Tomlinson, MindSpark.life
Resources:
- ADDRESS
Goulburn Valley Health
Graham Street
Shepparton, 3630
- CONTACT
Emergency: 000
Phone: 03 5832 2322
Nurse on call: 1300 60 60 24
for non life threatening injury/illness
- DOCUMENTS