Coordinator Connect October

October 2019

Hi ,

Welcome to October's Coordinator Connect.

In this issue, we encourage you to secure your venues for next year and offer tools to assist with planning your events. We have also compiled some 'Top Topics' from recent meetings and webinars that you might like to discuss at your next meeting. In 'Network News', we put the spotlight on a panel discussion recently held in Bunbury WA and we provide a peek into what the networks in Western Victoria are doing.

Friendly Reminders
It's time to think about the last meeting for the year. If you have plans and would like me to arrange an invitation to members, get in touch or I'm always here to assist if you'd like to discuss further.

Please send in any invoices from past meetings or use the reimbursement form to claim meeting expenses and don't forget to send your attendance sheets if you haven't already.

Thank you in advance!

Trish Clarke
Phone: 03 8662 6609
Email: t.clarke@mhpn.org.au

Venue Bookings

The MHPN Project Officer team have noticed an increase in community events taking place at the same venues as network meetings. This can have an impact on available dates for network meetings. One suggestion is to project the meeting dates for next year, based on this year's meeting dates. The planning tool and calendar may assist in the advance planning of your events as you can record your projected dates before booking your preferred venues.

Top Topics

Suicidality in children, social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and trauma have been topics of interest across the MHPN platform recently.

Suicidality in Children

On World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September) we caught up with Dr Lyn O'Grady, to reflect on the webinar held earlier in the year. See the full interview and read more...

Your network might like to use the Suicide ideation in primary school-aged children webinar recording alongside the interview to encourage discussion at your next meeting. The how to use a webinar as meeting content fact sheet might be helpful in setting up your meeting.

Webinar Catch Up

Watch the interdisciplinary panelists discuss supporting the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. You might like to view the recording as a group to encourage discussion, the supporting resources recommended by the panel and the case study might also be useful to discuss at your meeting.

Trauma and the Interdisciplinary Approach

Recently we interviewed network coordinators Alikki Russell, Serena King and Janet Renner about an interdisciplinary approach to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). Find out about the guest speakers they invited and what they discussed at their network meetings. Read more...

Read our articles 10 ideas for network meetings and Top Topics 2019 for more meeting ideas.

Network News

Panel Discussion: Neurodiversity and Employment

The Bunbury Autism MHPN recently invited a panel of experts to lead a discussion around neurodiversity and employment. Read more...

Get in touch, to discuss how a panel of experts could be invited to your next meeting.

Networks in Western Victoria

Your network is one of many. In fact there are 360+ MHPN supported networks around Australia. To give you some insight into other networks, we have compiled a snapshot of the networks located in the Western Victoria region. Read more...

Do you know of an area that would benefit from an MHPN network? Are you connected with any services or practitioners that might like to get involved...
Get in touch to let me know. We are here to support all Australian practitioners to benefit from networks just like yours.

Country South Australia will be featured next, follow along as we showcase each region in future editions of Coordinator Connect.

Coordinator Positions

Do you have a colleague or know someone in your network that would be a great network coordinator? Feel free to forward on this email and invite them to get in touch.

There are network coordinator positions available across the country, view the full list of networks seeking a coordinator.

Coordinator Guest Speaker

Are you curious about other MHPN networks, what they discuss and how they set up their meetings?

We invite you to register as a guest speaker

By offering to speak at a network meeting you'll get the opportunity to:

meet another coordinator face-to-face
extend your circle of colleagues and get an insight into another network
share your clinical knowledge or research
promote your practice as a referral pathway.

If you're interested, fill in the guest speaker register form or reply to this email to discuss.

Share Your Network

Follow Mental Health Professionals' Network on LinkedIn to keep up to date and find us on Facebook to see what other networks get up to.

Share your network meetings with MHPN followers. Post meeting photos, stories or invitations on your Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn page and tag us so we can share your post via the MHPN social pages.

@MHPNOnline #MHPNnetworks

Reminder: Please ensure everyone in photos has given permission to share their image.

Kind regards,

Trish Clarke

Project Officer
Phone: 03 8662 6609
Email: t.clarke@mhpn.org.au
Freecall: 1800 209 031

Essential resources
Current financial support
Awareness Calendar
Survey Tool fact-sheet

MHPN's webinar library has 100+ great resources for network meetings.
Watch past webinars

Next webinar: Better outcomes in schizophrenia -
a patient-centred approach.
7.15pm- 8:30pm
7 November 2019
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