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National Mental Illness Summit

6th September 2008

“Families, Meeting the Challenges of Mental Illness”
Hosted by SF New Zealand.

Summit Dates: Saturday 6 – Sunday 7 September 2008

Venue: Duxton Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand

Theme: “Families, Meeting the Challenges of Mental Illness”

This unique Summit will focus on the family/whanau role in the recovery process of people with a mental illness. Online Summit registration is open now (www.sfnat.org.nz)

The Summit line-up also features practical workshops, run by leaders in New Zealand mental health. Each workshop is designed to meet family/whanau, mental health workers and/ or policy makers’ needs. For a list of workshops, visit www.sfnat.org.nz.

Whether you are a family/whanau member with a relative who has a mental illness; a sector worker, policy maker, service user or clinician this Summit will engage, inspire and inform you.

Keynote Speakers

· Dr. Margaret Leggatt (Aus)  Founder of leading Australian mental health advocacy organisation SANE. Dr. Leggatt is a past President of the World Fellowship for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders - an international body of family support organisations for people with a mental illness.

 

· Prof. Xavier Amador (US)  Internationally sought-after speaker, clinical psychologist, professor at Columbia University, Teachers College, New York City. Author of eight books including US best seller “I’m Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!”

· Paraire Huata (NZ) Paraire Huata (Ngati Kahungunu), “Trainer, instigator, teacher, mentor '" passionate about mental heath and drug and alcohol issues”. He works with high-risk offenders and tangata whaiora in mental health settings. Recent presentations include “the cultural/ clinical split” in mental health services.

Other Highlights:

Political Forum – Its election year! Find out what the political parties are offering when they attend and state their policies;

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For further details and registration CLICK HERE