AsPac Mental Health Conference

Hosted by Richmond Fellowship Queensland (RFQ) and in partnership with the Queensland Mental Health Commission, the 12th Biennial Asia Pacific International Mental Health Conference will be held between October 24 - 26, 2016 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland, AUSTRALIA.

The conference program and pre-conference workshops feature some of the world’s most progressive and influential mental health thought leaders, together with leading-edge thinkers with lived experience and from clinical and rehabilitation services, primary health and human services, research and evaluation, public and social policy sectors.

The program explores the concept of Recovered Futures: People, Practice, Partnership and Policy across the key themes of:

PEOPLE: Building self-managed recovery – transformed lives

PRACTICE: Building evidence – practice, service models, research, outcome measurement

PARTNERSHIPS: Building connections – public, private, community sectors

POLICY: Building hopeful and cost effective mental health and wider human service systems.

Headlining the event is internationally reputed US Psychiatrist Dr Daniel Fisher, who through his experience of a diagnosis of schizophrenia developed the Empowerment Model of Recovery and the PACE/Recovery program that helped shift the US mental health system to a recovery orientation. He is joined by renowned keynote speaker Dr Manaan Kar Ray, a UK psychiatrist who is joint lead for PROMISE, a framework transforming the nature of day to day interactions at the front-line, Australian political strategist Dr John Mendoza and Psychologist and Research Specialist at the Parenting Research Centre, Dr Laura Hayes.

ABC journalist and presenter, Sarah Ferguson, will facilitate a Q&A Panel featuring the conference keynote speakers, and the program includes very special performances by the Nunukal Yuggera Dance Group and the Malu Kiai Mura Buai Dance Group at the opening and closing ceremonies.