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WELLINGTON PRIMARY CARE PARTNERSHIP Upcoming Events Event Date Location Details Lung Health 2011 The Alfred Lung Health Resources available at www.lunghealth.org Education Program Information on courses or seminars please contact the: 2011 Lung Health Promotion Centre, The Alfred Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Email: [email protected] LivingWorks ASIST Half day: Latrobe Valley For further information contact: 23 June Applied Suicide CMHS, LVCMHS Jessica Gannon, Phone: 5128 0050 8 August Intervention Skills 20 Washington St, Email: [email protected] Training 6 October Traralgon Two Days: Lifeline Gippsland Rose Bettinelli Phone: 5136 3500 19 & 20 May Email: [email protected] 25 & 26 August 24 & 25 November Alcohol and your 27 April Quality Inn LaTrobe community: what YOU Convention Centre can do 5601 Princes Hwy, Alcohol and your Traralgon community Finding Funding 2 May Loch Sport Hall This free series of presentations will include: Roadshow 7pm - 8:30pm  What you need to think about before applying 31 May 7pm - Gormandale Comm  Tips for writing good applications 8:30pm House  What grants are currently on offer 22 June 1pm Maffra Hall - 2:30pm Sale, Wellington 29 June Room 7pm - 8:30pm Finding Funding Yarram, Pelican Roadshow 5 July Room 1pm - 2:30pm Yarram, Pelican 5 July 7pm - Room 8:30pm Maffra Hall 28 September 7pm - 8:30pm Motivational 2 May Training Room Professionals who work with young people aged 12-25 Interviewing – Central West are invited to attend an interactive workshop. This Headspace Central Gippsland Division workshop is designed to develop your ability to use West Gippsland of General Practice Motivational Interviewing in order to resolve a young 16 Kirk Street, Moe persons ambivalence about changing behaviours, engaging in treatment, thus improving the young person’s intrinsic motivation and maintaining low levels of treatment resistance. Participants will be able to practice these skills by role- playing Motivational Interviewing assessment and behavioural change strategies based on a case study example. For enquiries please contact Liz Jones on (03) 51368300 Carer Retreat — 2- 4 May Phillip Island Eco Carers of people with a mental illness are invited to miRespite options Resort attend a 2-night retreat.

Wellington Primary Care Partnership Page 1 of 5 21 April 2011 This activity is jointly funded by Latrobe Community Health Service and MI Fellowship Vic and only a $10.00 booking fee will be charged. Please contact Michelle on: 03 56224 103 for more information or to book your place. Tuning in to kids Wednesdays UnitingCare Would you like to learn to: Emotionally intelligent from May 4 – Gippsland  Be better at talking with your child? parenting June 8 126 Raymond  Help your young child better manage their 9.30–11.30am Street, Sale emotions? or  Teach your young child to deal with conflict? 7.00—9.00pm Tuning in to Kids is a free group parenting program that teaches parents skills to help their young children begin to understand and regulate their emotions. Parents who complete the program find improvements in their children’s emotional competence, social skills and behaviour. Please phone Damon Piercy on 0428 620 470 or 5662 5150 by 22 April if you would like to attend This program is for parents and carers only. Unfortunately no child care is available. Aged Mental Health 4 & 11 May Caulfield Assessment 9am – 5pm Aged Mental Health Assessment Integrated Chronic 11 May 50 Lonsdale Street, Disease Management Melbourne Forum Advance Notice Health Literacy Through a Child’s 11 May Jasper Hotel, Council to Homeless Persons, in partnership with Eyes – a forum on Elizabeth Street, Housing Sector Development, Department of Human Children and Melbourne Services and the Statewide Children’s Resource Homelessness Program Network is presenting a one day training and professional development forum for those who work with children and their families who are experiencing homelessness. Contact North West Regional Children’s Resource Program on 03) 9359-5493 Life Skills Information 19 & 23 May UnitingCare Program Gippsland Raymond St, Sale Life Skills Flyer

Mental Health 23 May Monash Uni School This is an open network meeting for mental health Network Meeting - 6-8:30pm of Rural Health, practitioners in Bairnsdale and surrounding areas. Mental health in infancy Bairnsdale Hospital Speakers will be Dr Julie Stone: Psychiatrist Latrobe holds the key to mental Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and Gill health through the life Kerr: Mental Health Nurse Latrobe Hospital. Please span RSVP via email to Bronwyn Simpson at [email protected] by Wednesday 11th May. www.mhpn.org.au Disability, 24 May Morwell Bowling Complex clients are becoming more common and often Homelessness and Club, Hazelwood require support from more than one service sector. Mental Health Referral Road Morwell Workers from disability, homelessness and mental Pathways Forum health service sectors are invited to participate in forums

Wellington Primary Care Partnership Page 2 of 5 21 April 2011 to learn about the suite of client services available in Latrobe and referral pathways into these programs. Registrations close: 16 May 2011 (via registration form) This is a free event. Please contact Beryl Parker 5136 2566 for more information The Wagner Model in 26 May Nowa Nowa Practice 10am-3pm Community Health, Bridge Street, Nowa Wagner Model Nowa You Can 27 May Wellington Workshop is designed to assist adults with complex Communicate Community communication needs to participate in the design of You can make your Connect, their own communication aid. People with little or no own communication George Gray speech or speech that is difficult to understand will be aid! Centre Inc., Sale part of the design team. This workshop is being (above Dimmeys) presented by staff from the Communication Resource Centre at Scope in Box Hill.

Communication Aids workshop Managing 6 June Downstairs Meeting Professionals who work with young people aged 12-25 Challenging Room are invited to attend an interactive workshop. This Behaviour - Central West workshop is designed to advance practitioners skills in; Headspace Central Gippsland Division Managing barriers to engagement, such as reluctance; West Gippsland of General Practice Understanding aggression and managing aggressive 16 Kirk Street, Moe situations; Developing the ability to recognise signs of VIC 3825 self-harm and suicidal thoughts, the ability to talk about these topics, respond in a crisis and develop a safety plan for someone at risk of self-harm or suicide; Minimising the impact of stress and burnout for practitioners working with young people with challenging behaviours. For enquiries please contact Liz Jones on (03) 51368300 Heart Foundation 6 June Heart Foundation This session will provide recruited Area Coordinators Walking Area 10.00am Level 12 training on Heart Foundation Walking program Coordinator Training 2.00pm 500 Collins Street implementation, and also an opportunity to network with Melbourne each other and respective local organisations who share similar aims in encouraging more people to walk. To register for Area Coordinator training or for more information, please contact: Tara Henderson, Walking Project Officer Heart Foundation (Victoria) Tel: (03) 9321 1515 Email: [email protected]

Trauma and Sexual 8 June The Alfred AMREP For more information please email: Debbie Lang from Health Seminar Day 9am – Seminar Room Southern Cluster Training 4:30pm [email protected] Tel: 9902-9696 ‘An Introduction To 9 & 10 June Latrobe Valley Working With Community Mental Individuals Who Self- Health Service Individuals who self Abuse’ Conference Room 1 abuse

Wellington Primary Care Partnership Page 3 of 5 21 April 2011 20 Washington Street Traralgon Girls & Women with 18 June Karstens This 1 day presentation will focus on and celebrate the Asperger’s Syndrome 9.00am – Conference Centre, unique presentation of girls and women on the autism 4.30pm 123 Queen Street spectrum. The seminar is designed to increase Mall, Melbourne awareness and knowledge of the female presentation of Asperger’s syndrome and share strategies and ideas found to be useful in clinical practice. Whilst paying careful attention to the many strengths that women on the autism spectrum share, the presenters will also explore the challenges that many of these women are faced with. REGISTER ONLINE: www.mindsandhearts.net or TELEPHONE: (07) 3844 9466 Health Promotion 20 – 24 June Monash Conference Click on the following link for dates and registration Short Course Centre details: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/healthsci/future- Level 7, 30 Collins students.html Street, Melbourne, Victoria SenseAbility day 29 June LRH:MHS, 20 SenseAbility is a strengths based resilience program Washington Street, Youth Beyond Blue and Latrobe Regional Hospital Traralgon Mental Health Service (LRH:MHS) are partnering to host a Professional Development Day on planning and implementing the program.

SenseAbility Day

Consumers 18-20 July 11 Melbourne Priority Conference Themes: Reforming Health Public forum Exhibition &  The case for participation on Sunday 17 Convention Centre  Consumers and health services as equal July partners  Consumers in research  Human rights, health and health care  Strategic Partnership between consumers and community and quality improvement For more information: www.consumersreforminghealth.org Health Literacy 18 – 20 July Monash University Click on the following link for dates and registration Course Caulfield Campus. details: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/healthsci/future- Building H, Level 2, students.html Room A1.34. Evaluation Short 20 - 22 July Monash University Click on the following link for dates and registration Course Caulfield Campus details: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/healthsci/future- Building H, level 2, students.html Room H2.20 Strong Foundations 22 July Monash Churchill The 2011 ‘Strong Foundations for Early Childhood’ for Early Childhood Conference themes are Language, Literacy and Inclusion. Keynote Speakers: Andrew Daddo, Author and Television Presenter Anthony Semann Director, Semann & Slattery

Wellington Primary Care Partnership Page 4 of 5 21 April 2011 More information to follow. Working with Children 9 & 10 Melbourne For more information phone: Emily Nelson, Bouverie and Young People August Centre, 9385 5100 with Acquired Brain Email: [email protected] Injury and their families: A 2 day workshop Australian Disease 25 & 26 Canberra The 2011 conference will include presentations on; Management August services and programs for indigenous, younger and Association: older people with chronic illnesses; integration of “Partnerships for primary care and tertiary services; workforce issues; and Chronic Care – lessons from practice. Patients, Services, For the conference program go to: Policy” http://www.adma.org.au/Conference2011/2011ADMACo nferenceFlyer.pdf PHAA 41st Annual 26 – 28 Brisbane This conference will examine: sustainable populations, Conference September supportive environments for health and public health Sustainable systems. How should a clear population policy for population health Australia look like? Share your expertise by presenting a session or paper. For conference program go to: http://www.phaa.net.au/41stPHAAAnnualConference.ph p Gippsland Health 11 October Auditorium, Monash Join us to recognise the achievements made by Promotion University, organisations and partnerships in evaluating and Conference 2011 Gippsland Campus sustaining health promotion action. Take the Next Step – Contact: Debbie Mitchell 5177 2610 Share Experience and [email protected], Sustain Action Taryn Collins 5177 2629 [email protected]

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