Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium

5th Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium 2013

The conference will be held in Geelong from the 14th to the 16th of October 2013

Visit the Conference website here: http://www.anzmh.asn.au/rrmh

The 4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Conference in November 2012 was a great success, thanks to the support of our Partners, Sponsors, Presenters and Committee. We would like to highlight the efforts of Lee Martinez from, Country Health SA / Spencer Gulf Rural Health School and the outstanding support from the SA Government and the University of SA.

Hon Mark Butler MP Minister for Mental Health & Ageing

We were fortunate to have The Honourable Mark Butler MP – Minister for Mental Health and Ageing and The Honourable John Hill MP, Minister for Health and Ageing and Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, SA Government, deliver keynote addresses during the conference.

 Feedback from delegates has been outstanding;

“Excellent keynote speakers, challenging and informative. Workshops were great learning experiences and motivators”

 “It is engaging and designed for practitioners. The issues covered are stimulating and have traction for people working in the mental health field, particularly in rural and remote locations.”

 “The whole event was excellently organised and there was insightful and challenging input from all presenters”

Hon John Hill with Dr Keith Miller, Conference Co-Chair

 “Absolutely amazing to have a speaker like Michael Hourigan with that amount of experience and integrity. Made me want to go and enrol in a human rights degree and work for an aid organisation. Very inspiring indeed and I came back to my workplace raving how lucky I was to hear someone like that”

 “The content was very relevant to people living and working in country and the content was also very diverse. It was a great opportunity to network with others from across Australia”

 “I would recommend it to fellow peers interested in rural and remote mental health; a wonderful networking opportunity”

 “The quality of speakers, presentations and the contacts made were invaluable!”

The audio podcasts of the conference program will be available to delegates in late January, while the Book of Proceedings will be published in softcopy in early February

The 5th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Conference will be held in Geelong in October 2013, we hope to see you there.  The new website will be published in January 2013.

Visit the Rural and Remote Symposium here: http://www.anzmh.asn.au/rrmh