Program

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.