TAFE Mental Health Symposium Industry Workers: Session 1 Mental Health Reform

1. TAFE QLD Southwest – Mental Health Symposium for Industry Workers
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2.  Session 1: MENTAL HEALTH (MH) REFORM
(9-11am)
 Session 2: DIGITAL MH RESOURCES (11-12nn)
LUNCH & NETWORKING
 Session 3: RECOVERY-ORIENTED SYSTEMS OF
CARE (12:30 – 1:30pm)
 Session 4: CASE WORK DISCUSSION (1:30 –
2:15pm)
 Session 5: SELF-CARE, RECOGNITION OF PRIOR
LEARNING and Q&A
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Reference: National Commision of Audit: http://www.ncoa.gov.au/report/appendix-vol-1/9-11-unemployment-benefits-minimum-
wage.html

5.  Contributes to
depression,
anxiety and
substance use
 Takes away
person’s
autonomy and
rights to
contribute
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Table 2. Newstart Allowance recipients by duration on income support
Current expenditure on Newstart Allowance is $8.4 billion per year, expected to
increase to $8.7 billion by 2016-17 at a growth rate of 1.4 per cent each year in
nominal terms (see Chart 9.11.1).
Reference: National Commision of Audit: http://www.ncoa.gov.au/report/appendix-vol-1/9-11-unemployment-benefits-minimum-wage.html

6.  Psychotic
episodes at all
time high with
around
<300,000
Australians
receiving
Disability
Support
Payments for
psychiatric
impairment
(2013) 6
Table 1. Disability Support Pension (DSP) Recipient Condition and Gender in 2013

7.  Domestic Violence Courts in Darling Downs region
received 160 – 490 DV Court orders weekly
 Qld Police declared 30-40% of work is now DV related
(AOD), 2.9 hours spent on each case (USQ Postgraduate
Students)
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10.  Substance Use
Disorders is now at
1 in 2 (current, 2017)
 291 disease-burden
in 187 countries
 Behavioural
addictions is now
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AddictionHelpQLD YouTube Channel:
Addiction and Mental Health Findings
from the Global Burden of Disease Study
2010 at: https://youtu.be/mdyk7NiwzYI

11.  Bankcruptcy:
150 closed
businesses
 9814 people
went bankcrupt
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Expert Reference Group to Council of Australian Governments (COAG)
Working Group on Mental Health Reform: Final Report at:
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov.au/media/80181/250913%20-
%20ERG%20final%20report%20to%20WGMHR.pdf

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15.  Vision is blurred
 Brain is ‘sick’
 Heart is clogged or cold
 Purpose is lost
 Disease is rampant
 Body isn’t ‘sexy’
 Relationships are ‘rocky’
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16.  Human Behaviour and
Psychological Shifts Needed
www.emmanuelanthony.com.au
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Mental Health and AOD Health Needs
Assessment by GC Primary Health Network:
https://www.slideshare.net/MariaPauMPHBestSelli/
mental-health-and-alcohol-and-other-drugs-needs-
assessment-gold-coast
Mental Health Reform Working Group (GC Primary Health Network): Minutes of Meeting:
http://www.coachingwithsubstance.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MEETINGS-MENTAL-Health-
Working-Group-August-2016.docx

19.  Giveaway books with perception
exercise (count how many times
the ball bounced)
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20.  National Mental Health Commissioner
 Experience with youth or work in high schools
 How Love out Loud was created
 Experiences that are relevant to MH for industry workers to hear
 How Ted Talk went: Why Love is the Ultimate Life Hack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8lctfMr8IY&feature=youtu.be
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21. MH Reform
from an
ER doctor
lenses
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 Talk about her own experience
 Mental health and role as young,
first-time parent

23.  Maria Pau
 Nicole Gibson
 Leandi Booysen
 Dr Gid Diamond
(discussion of audience Q’s)
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