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South Western Sydney PHN’s Mental Health Symposium 2024 will highlight a range of innovative local programs, initiatives and supports to address the needs faced within South Western Sydney as we work towards improved mental health outcomes.
Hear about practical approaches in the areas of:
- Suicide prevention
- Men’s health
- Peer workforce within mental health
- Engaging men with mental health services
- Indigenous wellbeing practices that improve mental health
- Understanding mental health and substance misuse
- Eating disorders
- Family, sexual and domestic violence
- Mental health and comorbidity
Please note: due to fixed seating capacity, registrations are limited to a maximum of three people per organisation.
There is an additional opportunity for organisations to hold information stalls at the event and share their details with other symposium attendees. Stall numbers are limited, and further details can be found and downloaded in the Expression of Interest (EOI) document below.
Emcee Adam Holstein
Adam Holstein is a disability and mental health professional with over 25 years’ experience in the community sector. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Western Sydney University and holds qualifications in Disability and Management.
Adam has worked in a variety of roles including being a front line staff member supporting people with a disability and people who are living with a mental health condition. Most recently he has been working as a trainer for a registered training organisation that focuses on the disability sector. Adam is also an emcee and retail spruiker as well as being a husband, father and avid sports and music buff.
In 2017, Adam started a mental health and suicide awareness initiative called “How you going mate?”. The aim of the initiative is to encourage people to check in on their friends and family who are managing a mental health issue. We call this Active Support for Mental Health. Adam also produces and hosts a podcast about mental health also called “How you going mate?” that he started in 2019 and has had over 17,000 listens and has been listened to all over the world.
Keynote speakers
Dr Evelyne Tadros
During the course of her career, Evelyne’s work has benefited thousands of individuals and families by developing and implementing a range of quality homelessness, mental health, housing, drug and alcohol, disability, child, youth and employment programs.
Evelyne brings a wealth of governance, compliance and leadership experience from her role as former Chair Homelessness NSW and current position as CEO, Mental Health Coordinating Council.
Evelyne said “I am fuelled by my desire to make a difference and passionate and committed to sustainably empower individuals to thrive and flourish. This in turn will boost community managed organisations and the work they do to support people with lived experience of mental health conditions.”
Bronwen Edwards
CEO, Bronwen Edwards founded Roses in the Ocean in 2011 following the suicide of her brother Mark a few years earlier.
A fierce advocate for the development of lived experience designed and led, non-clinical alternatives to care, Bronwen is passionate about empowering others with a lived experience of suicide to contribute their unique insights to its prevention. She strives to keep her feet in the grassroots, her head in the strategic influencing space, and her heart very much on her sleeve.
Bronwen is a personal trainer in the wee hours of some mornings, just for fun, and loves escaping to her favourite beach and travelling to interesting places.
Event details
Date: Friday, 1 November 2024
Time: 9am to 3:30pm (Registrations start from 8.30am)
Location:
Campbelltown Arts Centre
1 Art Gallery Road
Campbelltown NSW 2560
Registration closing date and RSVP: 18 October 2024
Attendee numbers: maximum 150
Please note: due to fixed seating capacity, registrations will be limited to a maximum of three people per organisation.
Cost: free
Lunch and light snacks included.
Download event documents
Plan your trip
Public transport
Campbelltown Arts Centre is about a 17-20 minute walk from Campbelltown Train Station. You can catch a bus from the station to Hurley Street, at Koshigaya Park where it will take approximately 3 minutes to walk to the Art Centre. Visit transportnsw.info to plan your trip, or download a Transport NSW travel app.
Driving
Free parking is available onsite and near the venue.
Need to contact us?
Luke Swain, Suicide Prevention Program Coordinator
Email: luke.swain@swsphn.com.au
Ph: 4632 3011
Kate Johnson, Mental Health & AOD Team Lead
Email: kate.johnson@swsphn.com.au
Ph: 4632 3073
Damien Burke, Mental Health and Psychosocial Program Coordinator
Email: damien.burke@swsphn.com.au
Ph: 4632 3077