Forum: Promoting a Mentally Healthy Workforce - 27 June 2013

Dear Readers

The CDNet Working Group is pleased to promote its upcoming forum on Building a Mentally Healthy Workforce. This event is targeted at community sector workers and employers however is open to all who wish to attend.

About the Forum:

Date : Thursday 27 June 2013
Time : 10am-4:30pm
Venue : Apollo Room, Hellenic Club Woden Cost : $35 per participant What you get : Continuous tea and coffee throughout the day, morning and afternoon teas, lunch and the experience of attending this fantastic networking opportunity where you will be immersed in what it means to be mentally healthy within your workplace and the community

Focus : What is a mentally healthy workforce? How is it achieved?


The forum will include interactive sessions responding to the needs of some specific groups within the workforce:

Session 1 : Mental health in the workplace - What's your problem?
S ession 2 : Promoting self-care
Session 3 : Cultural Conversations for a healthy workplace

Each session is presented by community sector professionals in interesting ways to promote mental health in the workforce and the strength of the local community.

Guest Speaker:
Tricia Eldridge - OzHelp Foundation

Session Facilitators/Panelists
Jeanette Purkis - Author of ' Finding a Different Kind of Normal '
Julia Bocking - Consumer Consultant of ACT-wide Mental Health Services, ACT Health
Andrew Hore - Cartoonist & Owner, FunnyworksOz
Ben Matthews - P rogram Manager, Mental Illness Education ACT
Vieli Choka - Community Development Project Officer, Companion House Panellist from - Closing the Gap, Medicare Local
Jancye Winter - Senior Manager, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Community Services Directorate A link to the forum flyer is also contained below - feel free to pass it around your networks. If you have any trouble opening the flyer please let me know by return email and I will be happy to send it to you directly.

For further information and to register for this exciting opportunity please go to: http://buildingamentallyhealthyworkforce.eventbrite.com.au/. We look forward to seeing you there!