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The Injury Prevention Summit is a one-day event held biennially by Injury Matters, via the Know Injury program, with funding from the Western Australian Department of Health. The Injury Prevention Summit will connect injury prevention and safety promotion practitioners, policymakers, and representatives from Local Governments across WA to facilitate collaboration and exchange injury prevention knowledge, ideas, and information. For more information and registration click here.

This workshop begins to unpack ‘Symptom as History’, by examining constructs of collective, historical, complex, developmental, and generational trauma evident in many Indigenous (and other) populations. The workshop places emphasis on developing skills to create culturally safe healing environments, through building culturally competent professionals. It presents tools for developing safe story work through geno-grams or story maps to help map generational stories that provide insight for both client and worker care into traumatic distress and generational resilience in healing or recovery from trauma. Using the construct of circle work or yarning’ circle, it opens opportunity to establish ‘what’s in the...

What is Telehealth Skills ECHO? A virtual network to share telehealth knowledge and experiences – increasing knowledge, capacity and quality health care A series of free, interactive, case-based virtual mentoring sessions to support telehealth in a range of healthcare settings Sessions are open to anyone working in healthcare in Northern Australia who are using or considering using telehealth services A peer network that decreases professional isolation – improving health outcomes for patients and families Monthly development sessions include: 10 minute presentation by telehealth experts Case study tell us about your telehealth challenge Q+A of the presentation and case study –...

Webinar Description Adults who receive a late ADHD diagnosis can often experience complex and overlapping health, mental health, interpersonal, and psychosocial challenges. Through practical examples and insights from an expert multidisciplinary panel, participants will examine the enablers and barriers to collaborative care, understand what different disciplines need to work together effectively, and build confidence in applying creative, coordinated approaches in their own practice. Moderator - Professor Mark Creamer, Psychologist (Vic) Panel Dr Karuppiah Jagadheesan, Psychiatrist (Vic) Dr Naomi Rutten, General Practitioner (SA) Amanda Butt, Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (NSW) Emma Ketley, Occupational Therapist and ADHD Life Coach (WA) Learning Outcomes...

Pain Unstuck takes a fresh look at pain and exercise rehab through the lens of active inference.   Active inference flips our understanding of how the nervous system operates and provides a potential explanatory framework to guide your clinical practice. This 2 day course takes participants on a journey to consider pain as a deeply personal, conscious experience. This means pain doesn’t live in the tissues, nor in the brain. Rather, pain sits somewhere in between, emerging from the delicate dance between sensory information and your unconscious predictions. Using case studies of real patients, participants will learn how to help their patients understand that it...