Program

Program

DAY 1 – TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER - 8 th NATIONAL ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER MALE HEALTH CONVENTION
8:00 Registrations open - Arrival tea and coffee Hawkesbury Lobby
9:00 Opening of the 8 th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Male Health Convention
1. Traditional Welcome to Country: Gavvy Duncan, Elder
2. Welcome address and conference opening: The Identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Males, Dr Mick Adams,
Senior Research Fellow, Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, Edith Cowan University
3. Keynote: Freedom: What does it mean to act as a strong and healthy black man? Associate Professor Gregory Phillips, Baker IDI
Heart & Diabetes Institute
Henry Kendall Ballroom
10:30 Morning tea - Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors Hawkesbury Lobby
11:00 Plenary Session: Aboriginal youth engagement |Chair Stuart McMinn
Henry Kendall Ballroom
1. Traditional dance performance by the Mingaletta Aboriginal Corporation Dance and Didgeridoo Group
2. Addressing and responding to male youth suicide: Healing Holistically - Keeping our Campfires burning forever, Robert Eggington,
Director of the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation
3. I-bobbly – using technology to prevent Aboriginal youth suicide, Joseph Tighe, Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales
12:30 Lunch - Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors Hawkesbury Lobby
13:30 Concurrent Session 1
1.1 AOD interventions
Chair: Matt Stubbs
Room: Henry Kendall Ballroom
“The Glen” - We don’t only talk about the problem, we
offer a solution.
Matthew Simmons, The Glen
Glen Collis, The Glen
60 minutes
1.2 Working with young males and community
Chair: Stuart McMinn
Room: Macmasters
It’s a sad day: broken dreaming, young males and
community response
Sharn Bergan, Regional Youth Support Services Inc.
1.3 Cultural workshop
Chair: Kim Hopkins
Room: Avoca Terrigal
Respecting our past, securing our future – intergenerational
trauma and healing in an Aboriginal community
Roy Ah-See, Deputy Chairperson, New South Wales
Aboriginal Land Council
Two arms – one service
Gerard Byrne, Salvation Army
30 minutes
Something that’s working! A program to keep Indigenous
youth out of detention
Chris Krogh, Evaluator, Indigenous Justice Support Program,
Regional Youth Support Services Inc.
Good Sports – working to help create healthier men,
healthier clubs and healthier communities
Marc Glanville, Northern NSW Regional Manager – Good
Sports, Australian Drug Foundation
15:00 Afternoon tea - Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors Hawkesbury Lobby
15:30 Panel Session: How do we ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male health is everyone’s business?
Panel Chair: Steve Ella, Manager, Nunyara Aboriginal Health
- Professor Noel Hayman, Director, Inala
- Dr Mark Wenitong, Adjunct Associate Professor, James Cook University, School of Tropical Public Health
Henry Kendall Ballroom
17:00 Close of Day 1
PROGRAM current as at September 25, 2015. The organising committee reserves the right to change the program at any time.

18:00 Corroboree Venue TBA
DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 8 th NATIONAL ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER MALE HEALTH CONVENTION / 11 th NATIONAL
MEN’S HEALTH CONFERENCE
8:00 Registrations open - Arrival tea and coffee Hawkesbury Lobby
9:00 Cultural site tours depart
The Central Coast is home to some amazing cultural sites. Participants at the Gathering will be taken by coach to places of important
cultural significance on the Central Coast and site tours will be conducted by locally respected cultural representatives including Gavy
Duncan and Paul Gordon (amongst others).
Three site visits are available at the following locations: Boulgandry Site, Kariong (wheelchair accessible); Quarry Site, Sommersby;
Grant’s Road Site, Sommersby
On Country
12:30 Lunch - Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors Hawkesbury Lobby
13:30 Official Opening of the 11 th National Men’s Health Conference
1. Welcome Address Julian Krieg, AMHF President
2. Official Opening Professor John Macdonald, Foundation Chair in Primary Health Care, Director, Men’s Health Information and
Resource Centre, ex-President AMHF
3. Keynote Presentation: Making male health part of everyone’s business, Michael Moore, CEO, Public Health Association of Australia
Henry Kendall Ballroom
1500 Afternoon tea - Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors Hawkesbury Lobby
1530 Concurrent Session 2
2.1 Aboriginal cultural workshop
Chair: Gene Blow
Room: Henry Kendall Ballroom
2.2 Men’s health promotion
Chair: Peter Kelly
Room: Macmasters
2.3 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
men’s mental wellbeing
Chair: Grant Westthorp
Room: Avoca Terrigal
2.4 National & State paper
presentations
Chair: Gary Byrant
Room: Forresters
2.5 The Royal Commission &
responses to Aboriginal men
Chair: Matt Stubbs
Room: Wamberal
Spirituality guiding young men
Paul Gordon
MATES In Construction: A suicide
prevention and mental health
wellness program within the building
and construction industry.
Michelle Caston, CEO South
Australia, MATES in Construction SA
Men’s health and mental wellbeing,
healing, mindfulness and sense of
purpose.
Devlin Chung
The Brazilian and Australian
men’s health policies: lessons
from similarities and
differences Prof. John
Macdonald, Foundation
Chair in Primary Health Care,
Director, Men’s Health
Information and Resource
Centre
The Royal Commission & responses
to child sexual abuse: telling your
story
David Wragge, Aboriginal
engagement - Royal Commission
'It's all in the game': Over 35s football,
men and wellbeing.
Dr. Neil Hall, Lecturer, University of
Western Sydney
Patterns of self-reported depression in
young men: Implications for
assessment & treatment
Anna Cavanagh, PhD Student,
Clinical Psychology, School of
Psychology, University of Wollongong
A documentary on
masculinity and mental
health
Prof. Jane Pirkis, Director,
Centre for Mental Health,
Melbourne School of
Population and Global
Health, University of
Melbourne
Working with Indigenous male
survivors of Institutional child sexual
abuse
Dean Bell, Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Cultural Engagement
Advisor, Knowmore Legal Service
PROGRAM current as at September 25, 2015. The organising committee reserves the right to change the program at any time.

Dr Marisa Schlichthorst;
Centre for Mental Health
Engaging with Men – The Men’s Shed
experience
Gary Green, Community
Engagement Manager, Australian
Men’s Shed Association
Aboriginal Men’s Depression Support
Group
Stuart McMinn, Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Community Liaison
Worker, Interrelate
Bob Williams, Chair of Aboriginal
Men’s Depression Support Group
Behind The Seen- Emergency
Services Responders See
What Others Don’t
Ross Beckley, Behind The
Seen; Veronique Moseley,
Behind The Seen
Providing support to males affected
by the work of the Royal
Commission
Lisa Moloney, Manager, RCCBSS &
Matt Stubbs, Head of Research &
Development, Interrelate
17:00 Close of Day 2
19:00 Conference Dinner and AMHF Awards Henry Kendall Ballroom
PROGRAM current as at September 25, 2015. The organising committee reserves the right to change the program at any time.

DAY 3 – THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER - 8 th NATIONAL ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER MALE HEALTH CONVENTION / 11 th NATIONAL
MEN’S HEALTH CONFERENCE
8:00 Registrations open - Arrival tea and coffee Hawkesbury Lobby
09:00 Concurrent Session 3
3.1 Papers – Responding to
intimate partner violence and
domestic and family violence
Chair: Greg Millan
Room: Henry Kendall Ballroom
3.2 Workshop
Chair: John Roberts
Room: Macmasters
3.3 Addressing Aboriginal
gambling
Chair: Stuart McMinn
Room: Avoca Terrigal
3.4 Papers
Chair: Grant Westthorp
Room: Forresters
3.5 Research Workshop
Chair: Anthony Brown
Room: Wamberal
Closing the Gap for men in
domestic and family violence
Les Davison, South Coast Medical
Service Aboriginal Corporation
“Tackling violence” and
mentoring in Aboriginal
Communities
Nathan Blacklock, NRL Tackling
Domestic Program
Fathers’ good health is
everybody’s business
Richard Fletcher, Senior Lecturer,
Faculty of Health and Medicine
University of Newcastle & Andrew
King, Groupwork Solutions
Addressing Aboriginal gambling
workshop
Ashley Gordon, Indigenous
Gambling Counsellor and
Research Consultant
Men at work: a proactive
approach to improving
wellbeing
Glenn Baird – National Support
Services Manager, OzHelp
Foundation
The challenge of success/ion:
Generational change in an
established male veterans’
health programme
Tony Hoare, National Health
Advisor, Department of Veteran
Affairs & Naomi Mulcahy, Men’s
Health Peer Education National
Coordinator, Department of
Veterans’ Affairs
The Australian Longitudinal
Study on Male Health: Ten to
Men – First results and future
directions
Prof Dallas English Co-Chief
Investigator, Ten to Men, The
Melbourne School of
Population & Global Health,
University of Melbourne
Dr Dianne Currier, The
Melbourne School of
Population & Global Health,
University of Melbourne
Responding to intimate partner
violence and domestic and family
violence
Glen Poole, Director, Helping Men
UK
10:30 Morning tea - Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors Hawkesbury Lobby
11:00 Concurrent Session 4
4.1 Workshop – Fathering
Chair: Matthew Stubbs
Room: Henry Kendall Ballroom
4.2 Domestic Violence
Chair: Peter Kelly
Room: Macmasters
4.3 Workshop
Chair: Gary Bryant
Room: Avoca Terrigal
4.4 Aboriginal Cultural
Workshop
Chair: Stuart McMinn
Room: Forresters
4.5 Research Workshop
Chair: Julian Kreig
Room: Wamberal
Keeping young Aboriginal fathers
on track
Craig Hammond, University of
Newcastle and Charlie Faulkner
The right place for anger
Jasmin Newman, Sex and
Relationships Coach for Men,
Relating to Men
Underneath the masculine mask:
How to effectively engage with
men experiencing depression into
mental health and family support
services
The Dreaming Tree - A Path to
Wellbeing Using Aboriginal
Culture, Philosophy and
Spirituality Paul Callaghan,
CEO, Callaghan Cultural
The rise and development of
peer support group work
programs
Andrew King, Board
member, Dads in Distress
PROGRAM current as at September 25, 2015. The organising committee reserves the right to change the program at any time.

Men Say YES to Family Peace
Greg Millan, Men’s Health
Consultant, Men’s Health Services
Simon Santosha, Managing
Director, Men & Family Counselling
and Consultancy
Consultancy
Support Services
Male Perpetrators of Domestic
Violence – Physical and Emotional
Health
Gary D Smith, Program Manager
Offender Services, Communicare
12:30 Lunch - Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors Hawkesbury Lobby
13:30 Concurrent Session 5
5.1 Workshop - Using Social Media
to improve Aboriginal Men’s
Social Determinants of health
Chair: Stuart McMinn
Room: Henry Kendall Ballroom
5.2 Men’s Health Promotion
Chair: Greg Millan
Room: Macmasters
5.3 Engaging Men
Chair: Peter Kelly
Room: Avoca Terrigal
5.4 Sexual Health
Chair: Michael Orchard
Room: Forresters
5.5 Successes and
Challenges for Non
Indigenous Services
supporting Indigenous men;
Chair: Anthony Brown /
Aboriginal Mens Yarning
Circle; Chair: Gene Blow
Room: Wamberal
Using social media to improve
men’s social determinants of
health
Luke Pearson, Indigenous X
Shared medical appointments for
men: Revisiting ‘GutBusters waist
loss program’ for Indigenous and
non-Indigenous men
Dr Garry Egger, Professor, Southern
Cross University; Secretary
Australian Lifestyle Medicine
Association (ALMA); Director
Centre for Health promotion and
Research
Where’s Harry in all this?
Hard to reach men or hard to reach
agencies?
Philip Chapman, Health Promoter
(Men’s Health), Nelson Marlborough
District Health Board.
David Mitchell, Nelson Marlborough
Institute of Technology
We’ll Have A gay old time:
Working with gay and
bisexual men
Dr Stuart Edser PhD. MAPS,
Principal Psychologist at
Newcastle Psychology &
Health
Men plus community plus
dementia – it all adds up
Stuart Torrance, Project
Officer, Alzheimer’s Australia
NSW
30 minutes
Aboriginal Mens Yarning
Circle
60 minutes
15:00 Afternoon tea
Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors
15:30 Plenary Panel Session: Baby boomers and young generation panel - How have the health and social challenges for young men
changed?
Chair: Julian Krieg, President, AMHF
- Dr Mick Adams, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, Edith Cowan University
- Stuart McMinn, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Liaison Worker, Interrelate
- John Roberts, Principal Consultant, Community Consultations
- Arran Moncrieff, Social Worker, Department of Juvenile Justice
17:00 Closing ceremony: 8 th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Male Health Convention
Summary and closing address Stuart McMinn
Hawkesbury Lobby
Henry Kendall Ballroom
Henry Kendall Ballroom
PROGRAM current as at September 25, 2015. The organising committee reserves the right to change the program at any time.

17:30 AMHF Annual General Meeting Foresters Room
PROGRAM current as at September 25, 2015. The organising committee reserves the right to change the program at any time.

DAY 4 – FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER - 11 th NATIONAL MEN’S HEALTH CONFERENCE
08:00 Arrival tea and coffee Hawkesbury Lobby
09:00 Plenary session: Responding to the mental health needs of males
Chair: Andrew Thorp, Project Manager Movember Projects, Beyondblue
1 Males and Mental Health, Professor Brian Kelly, Chair and Director, Centre for Resources Health and Safety
School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle
2 New ways of responding to young males mental health Jono Nicholas, CEO, of Reachout.com
3 Creating change to protect men’s mental health, Andrew Thorp, Project Manager Movember Projects, Beyondblue
Henry Kendall Ballroom
10:30 Morning tea - Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors Hawkesbury Lobby
11:00 Concurrent Sessions 6
6.1 Men’s Health Promotion
Chair: Greg Millan
Room: Henry Kendall Ballroom
6.2 Men’s Sheds & Older Men
Chair: John Roberts
Room: Macmasters
6.3 Rural and Mental Health
Chair: Julian Kreig
Room: Avoca Terrigal
6.4 Young Men
Chair: Gary Byrant
Room: Forresters
6.5 Mental Health
Chair: Anthony Brown
Room: Wamberal
The missing piece of the puzzle:
Men’s views on a stopping
violence programme and their
views for improving service
provision.
Philip Chapman, Health
Promoter, Nelson Marlborough
District Health Board
David Mitchell, Nelson
Marlborough Institute of
Technology
Men’s Sheds: an insight into what
works
Dave Fildes, Research Fellow,
Australian Health Services
Research Institute
Dr Andrea Waling, Assistant
Lecturer, School of Social
Sciences Monash University
Employing integrated techniques
from business and counselling to
create positive life futures while
minimising the impact of
negative “Social Determinates”
Julian Krieg, President AMHF;
Chair Rural Financial Counselling,
WA
Chris Wheatcroft, Professional
Supervisor Financial Counselling
POWERPLAY: A worksite health
promotion program tailored for
northern and rural men
Joan L. Bottorff, Professor,
School of Nursing, UBC Faculty
of Health and Social
Development; Director,
Institute for Healthy Living and
Chronic Disease Prevention,
University of British Columbia
Okanagan
Building resilience in the face of
change: an overview of current
Beyondblue projects funded by
donations from the Movember
Foundation
Andrew Thorp, Project Manager
Movember Projects,
Beyondblue
How technology helps save lives
Jackson Fairchild, Senior Clinical
Educator, On the Line
The Good Man Project
at Moreton Bay Boys’ College
Damien Barry, Deputy Head of
College, Moreton Bay Boys’
College
Solutions, hands on approach to
male mental, physical and
social wellbeing issues.
Grant Westthorp, Manager
Men’s Resource Centre
Like Father Like Son: A National
Approach to Violence,
Antisocial Behaviour and
Mental Health of Men and Boys
Dr Lucy Tully, Senior Project
Leader, School of Psychology,
UNSW
Why the fast track pit stop works!
Owen Catto, Senior Community
Educator/Executive Officer, The
Regional Men’s Health Initiative
& Terry Melrose, Community
Educator, The Regional Men’s
Health Initiative
A Man Needs a Hobby –
maintaining a positive sense of
identity during times of transition
Anthony Brown, Executive Director
of Health Consumers NSW
Masculinity, Mining and FIFO
Mental Health
Philippa Vojnovic, Counsellor,
Communicare Psychological
Services
‘All the pizza you can eat’
Accessing young school aged
male’s views on support and
education in sexual health.
Philip Chapman, Health
Promoter, Nelson Marlborough
District Health Board
David Mitchell, Nelson
Marlborough Institute of
Technology
PROGRAM current as at September 25, 2015. The organising committee reserves the right to change the program at any time.

12:30 Lunch - Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors Hawkesbury Lobby
PROGRAM current as at September 25, 2015. The organising committee reserves the right to change the program at any time.

13:30 Concurrent Session 7
7.1 Workshop - Addressing
pornography’s impact on men
and their relationships
Chair: Matt Stubbs
Room: Henry Kendall Ballroom
7.2 A focus on health
Chair: Julian Kreig
Room: Macmasters
7.3 Men as carers/men and
employment support
Chair: Anthony Brown
Room: Avoca Terrigal
7.4 Gender equity for men and
boys - helping males get help
Chair: Michael Orchard
Room: Forresters
7.5 Lifting the Lid: Challenging
the Silence
Chair: Greg Millan
Room: Wamberal
Addressing pornography’s
impact on men and their
relationships
Hugh Martin, Founder, Man
Enough
Me and my GP
Dr. Peter West, University of
Technology, Sydney
The wellbeing of men caring for
wives with dementia
Lynne N Dowd, PhD Candidate,
Men’s Information and Resource
Centre, University of Western
Sydney
Gender equity for men and
boys – helping males get help
Glen Poole, Director, Helping
Men UK and Greg Millan,
Men’s Health Consultant,
Men’s Health Services
Lifting the lid: challenging the
silence
Ken Clearwater, National
Manager, Male Survivors of
Sexual Abuse, Christchurch
Suicide intervention: the case
against risk assessment
Shayne Connell, LivingWorks, Aust.
’Recharge Your Batteries’ A
program for male carers
Stuart Torrance, Alzheimer’s
Australia, NSW
Exploring strategies for men’s lives
Kim Hopkins, Community
Development Coordinator,
Wyong Neighbourhood Centre
Inc.
Building compassion into the
experience of
unemployment….putting health
on the agenda for male reemployment
support in Geelong
Peter Kelly, Health Promotion
Officer, Barwon Health
15:00 Afternoon tea
Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors
Hawkesbury Lobby
15:30 Closing Ceremony National Men’s Health Gathering 2015
Chair: Julian Kreig, AMHF President
Keynote Speaker: Evolving Masculinity: What the conference has revealed about our current understanding of masculinity: how it has evolved, is evolving and will
continue to evolve. Glen Poole, Director, Helping Men UK
16:00 Close
PROGRAM current as at September 25, 2015. The organising committee reserves the right to change the program at any time.