Hosted by Carers NT on Friday 9 June 2017.
The Darwin Mental Health Network is an information sharing and networking opportunity for Workers within the Mental Health Sector.
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23rd May in Darwin.
Do you have a friend or family member who has at one time experienced suicidal thoughts and behaviour or had a mental health crisis?  If yes, then We Need You!
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Workshop on the 5th May 2017 in Alice Springs.
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Seminar on 4th May 2017 in Alice Springs.
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28th April in Katherine
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This initiative has involved 8 workshops during March – April 2017 (one in each capital city) aimed to get jurisdictional input to better understand the national picture of housing, homeless and mental health in order to develop pol icy and research directions by injecting ‘housing affordability and supply’ into the national mental health debate. The workshops included highly participative exercises and were based on a discussion paper developed by the Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute (AHURI) .
To view a summary version of outputs captured during the workshop, click here

Workshops for music, health and education practitioners and carers of people experiencing mental health challenges. Saturday 6th May 2017 at Charles Darwin University. For more information or to register by April 24 email: nt@austmta.org.au

To view Carers NT – Program Update – Mental Health Education and Carer Support Programs, click here

Registrations for the Towards Elimination of Restrictive Practices 11th National Forum (formerly Seclusion & Restraint Reduction forum) are now open.
The forum will be held at The University of Western Australia in Perth on  4 – 5 May 2017, with the theme, Working together, a culture of care.
Register here

The Coalition would like to congratulate our member organisation Mental Health Association of Central Australia (MHACA’s ) Suicide Story program which receive The Northern Territory Fitzgerald Human Rights award for Social Change on 7 December 2016.

MHACA is very proud of ‘Suicide Story – Our Way’ and its way of using cultural practices to guide participants through the process of understanding suicide and reducing stigma so communities can help one another in times of crisis.

Suicide Story would not have been possible without the hard work and commitment of many brothers, sisters, aunties, uncles and elders throughout the NT who provided their wisdom in its development and implementation.

MHACA would like to acknowledge the work and dedication of all the Suicide Story team members from Central, Barkly and Top End regions both past and present. This includes, Suicide Story Facilitators, Program Managers, Project Officers, Trainers, past SSAAG members and all community members who have welcomed our program into their lives and contributed to its growing strength.

Finally, they gratefully acknowledge their sponsors, the Northern Territory Department of Health and the Northern Territory Primary Health Network.

For more information about Suicide Story please call 8950 4600 or visit the MHACA website.

Click here to download the list of events for Mental Health Week 2016

CVP is organising a youth mental health training facilitated by Orygen/Victoria, the national Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health. Feel free to send it to other relevant people in your organisation. We will send out a flyer with further details shortly, but if you are interested, keep this date free:

Content:

Free online discussions moderated by SANE, for people living with a mental illness and for carers.

Anyone can register and join in by visiting the Forums page on the MHACA website, or by following the links below.

Lived Experience forum:

Carers forum:

Click here to download the final report about the Event held in both Alice Springs and Darwin 

Speakers and attendees provided the local perspective; the aim of the forums was to support the work of Coalition members in improving the mental health system for consumers across the Northern Territory.

Click here to listen to the speeches

Click here to download the final report about the Event held in both Alice Springs and Darwin 
 

Did you miss out on attending the Opportunities in Community Mental Health in the NT forum in Alice Springs?

Click here to listen to all the speeches

Click here to download the final report about the Event held in both Alice Springs and Darwin