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1. 2021
2. 2020
3. 2019
4. 2018
5. 2017
6. 2016
7. 2015
8. 2014
9. 2010–2014

2021

• Demystifying early psychosis to support young people
• Harris- Is early intervention in psychosis possible?
• Strathford and Francey - Asking the question. Could this be psychosis?
• Lee - Psychosis and medication in young poeple
• Sharma - Neurofeedback in early psychosis
• Anderson - Working with families of young people with early psychosis
• Unpacking complex trauma
• Helfer - Complex trauma
• Barnes and Freeland - Integrated Trauma-Informed Care - mitigating the impacts of trauma, preventing re-traumatisation and promoting healing for children and young people
• Gray - Trauma, cognitive development, and social and emotional wellbeing
• Schacht - Intensive Support Services for out of home care children and young people
• Robinson​ -Trauma responsive practice for our youth - the Australian Childhood Foundation approach
• Voice of youth - Acquara and Backhouse
• Following the sun: shining the light on Aboriginal mental health
• Smith - NSW Aboriginal Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2020-2025
• Atkinson - Truth for Youth - what they're teaching us - what we are learning
• Quayle - Working with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) to understand the health of Aboriginal young people
• Dwyer and Paulson - Staying connected in the outback
• Morgan - Mental health habits and rituals(form)

2020

• Embracing the diversity of regional and rural youth
• Ryan - Pillars of the Regional Youth Framework
• Karlson and Kensit - The evolving face of rural health
• Slater - GUWAALAY- A Euahlayi/Gomeroi word meaning 'Talk to one Another'
• Steinbeck - Navigating health services for rural youth - Findings from the Access Study (Access Study 3 Report)
• Beasley, Doherty, White and Gordon - Youth drug and alcohol - Building a strong robust rural workforce in the youth drug and alcohol area
• Dalton - "How are you going?": Reaching rural youth through effective partnerships - Rural Adversity Mental Health Program
• Shonk - Supporting young people healing from a disaster
• Murray - accessing GPs and mental health care
• Dwight - accessing telehealth and related issues
• A long and winding road: Navigating the journey of grief and loss
• Skinner- The impact of COVID-19 on young people’s health and wellbeing
• Palfrey - Life, loss and other catastrophes. Children and young people’s experiences of grief, loss and change
• Smith - Healing our past, empowering our future
• Younis - The languages of grief and loss: Bereavement from a cultural perspective
• McCallum - Seasons for Growth 25 years on - Educating children to live well with change, loss and uncertainty
• Lamb - Voice of youth
• Caring for young people who self-harm
• Bansal -Understanding self-harm in young people
• Steinbeck - The developmental context of self harm – brain, mind and body
• Keady, Amos and Kramer - The Elver Program: More than meets the eye….
• Grenyer - Project Air Strategy for schools
• Mitchell - Responding to self-harm: how workers, carers, and parents can help?

2019

• Empowering young refugees: challenges and opportunities
  • Smith - The what, where & who of refugee young people in NSW
  • Kang - Navigating health care, navigating transitions: experiences of the health system for young people of refugee background; ACCESS Phase 3 Study Report
  • Tanious - Untangling colliding nervous systems
  • Jaiswal and Garakasha - GROW in the Illawarra
  • Higson - Psychometric assessment with refugees: special considerations
  • Chagai - Strength through community
  • Gundor - Voice of youth - Gundor
• The 'chronic condition' I have does not define me
• Steinbeck- When two worlds clash – Normal life and self-management regimens
• Braithwaite -‘Long term, school is part of the treatment!’
• Rushworth and Fernando - Managing chronic conditions in adolescence
• McDonald and Patterson - The invisible patient: Supporting young people who have a sibling with cance
• Nazir - Life with chronic illness
• "What about me?:Self-care for those who care for others
• Dixon - When compassion hurts: An introduction to vicarious trauma and resilience
• Rose - Drawing your line - the challenge of ethics and boundaries in working with children and young people
• Davies and Mitchell - Vicarious trauma and resilience: strategies for workers
• Yu - Mindfulness, compassion and wellness for health workers
• Strategies for self-care and resilience (resource from PSC Federal Occupational Health)

2018

• Consent, choices and checks: Promoting a positive approach in youth sexual health
  • Skinner - Reframing young people's sexual health: rights and risks
  • Murray - Sexual health promotion for everybody
  • Sanders - Consent: What does it mean and why does it matter?
  • Sanders - Age of consent: isues for youth workers (handout- updated 1 December 2018)
  • Sanders - Cybercrime (sexting, stalking, phishing, hacking and other online offences (updated December 2018)
  • Sanders- find Shopfront Youth Legal Centre's legal information for young people and youth workers including 'Working with Children Check' and 'The Child Protection Register' fact sheets
  • Jassen and Quayle - Take Blaktion - Sexual health promotion: The role of humour
  • Munro and Roth -Strategies and resources for working with young people
• eYouth:Maintaining safely, balance and health in the digital world
• Ridout - Advances in ditigal health for youth
• Lu - Adolescent sleep: what makes it sound and what messess it up
• Brewer - Beyong screen time and digital detoxes:the case for Digital Nutrition
• Britnell - Being on the front foot with eSafety (Office of the eSafety Commissioner fact sheets)
• Kensett - Digital technology from a teenage girl’s perspective
• All fired up: Aggression and violence in young people
  • Howard - Adolescent family violence in the contex of youth violence and aggression
  • Ross - Juvenile Justice 101
  • Nathan - What's all the RAGE about anger?
  • Veltre - Storytelling as innovative intervention
  • Knibbs and Paice - Presenting and organising Love Bites in local high school
  • Roman and Hough - Reflections on violence: a youth worker's perspective

2017

• Family breakup: Supporting young people through separation and conflict
  • Rose - Rupture and repair for young people going through family separation
  • Ghioni and Renfrey - Family Referral Service in school project
  • Short and Herring - 'Which way?' Family breakup
  • Matthews and Bragg - Unifam program for children and parents post separation
• Pills, pot, pipes & pints: Drug trends in young people
  • Farrell - Trends in substance use among young people
  • Milne - Prevention and early intervention: protecting young peopl's brains
  • Fisher - The ultimate roller coaster:drug and alcohol coming up and going down
  • Ferry - Residential treatment for young people
• School refusal: The tip of the iceberg
  • Melvin -“Nuh, not even for a million dollars" Understanding the Causes and Impact of School Refusal
  • Ladogna - Early indicators and responses to education neglect
  • Clark and Gerogopoulos - Pathways to reengagement
  • Webster and Greenberg - School refusal: every school day counts
  • Webster and Greenberg - School refusal: every school day counts booklet and school refusal handout for parents
  • Jenny - a parent's perspective

2016

• When a parent has a mental health illness and/or drug and alcohol misuse: overcoming adversity
  • Dagg - NSW Mental Health reforms supporting children, younge popel and families
  • Tye - Looping the Hopps
  • Iatrou and Zehetner - Substance Use: A Family Affair - The CICADA Family Program
  • Riley - Remembering the children (aged 12-17) in families with substance abuse issues
• Weighty matters: What do we know and what can we do?
  • Innes-Hughes - Premier’s Priority: to reduce overweight and obesity rates of children by 5% over 10 years
  • Baur - Obesity in young people: tackling the causes of the causes
  • Steinbeck - Separating myth from reality – what the science of obesity tells us
  • Alexander - Practical approaches to weight management in the young person with overweight or obesity
  • Curtis - A weight off my mind - preventing weight gain in youth with psychosis
  • Foley and Menolotto - Students influencing change: #StudentsAsLifeStyleActivists
• Positive psychology and young people
  • Brooks - Building resilience in young people – what do protective health assets offer?
  • O'Connor - An introduction to positive psychology: supporting positive change in youth
  • Gibson - Access study
    • Online survey
  • Mulcahy - Empower today-positive tomorrows
  • Sandells - Using positive psychology in pain management with adolescents
  • McClelland - Mindfulness and gratitude

2015

• Locked up but not locked out: Working with young people not young offenders
  • Gaskin - The health needs of young people in custody – an overview
  • Issa - Supporting young people returning to their community
  • Gibson - Our Health Our Way resources
  • Kidd - Kids say no to domestic violence
• Understanding and supporting adolescent development: more than one direction
  • Lenroot - Understanding the teenage brain of today
  • Guastella - Being socially aware: Implications for mental health in adolescence
  • Campbell - iGeneration: healthy youth development in the digital age
• Still deadly: Building on the strengths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people
  • Haswell - Building and evaluating Indigenous youth empowerment and resilience programs
  • Dobia - Confidence, community, culture: supporting resilience through the Aboriginal Girls’ Circle
  • Brown - Listening to what Aboriginal young people want and need Lost conversations; How do we do what we do policy

2010–2014

These forums are not available for download. To obtain copies of these presentations please contact the Youth Health team on (02) 9424 5846 or email HSPB-ICB@doh.health.nsw.gov.au.

• Violence: response, prevention and intervention (2014)
• We are not all 'Barbies' and 'Beefcakes': developing healthy body image (2014)
• Surviving multiple trauma: buidling blocks for effective work with young people (2014)
• Building and supporting the mental fitness of young people (2013)
• A place to call home: Meeting the needs of homeless young people (2013)
• Hammered: exploring alcohol - cultures, choices and strategies (2013)
• Sexuality: The final frontier? Exploring good work practices for young people with diverse sexuality (2012)
• Youth participation matters (2012)
• Journey of hopes: supporting the wellbeing of young refugees (2012)
• Risky... Fo'Shizzle. Working effectively with at risk young people (2011)
• Places and spaces: the many faces of mental health (2011)
• e-Health: Connecting with young people (2011)
• Taking the reins: preparing young people with chronic illness for transition to adult care (2010)
• Community connections yarn up for healthy youth (2010)
• "Who cares? We do!" - Supporting young carers (2010)
• Youth homelessness: evidence and approaches for working effectively together (2010)