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CONFERENCE INVITED SPEAKERS
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Narelle Anger is the Principal Speech Pathologist, Child & Youth Mental Health (CYMHS), Royal Children’s Hospital and Health Service District, Brisbane, Queensland. The position involves supervision of CYMHS speech pathology positions in Queensland. The clinical component of the position is provided to children and young people who are inpatients in the Child & Family Therapy Unit (CFTU). This is a purpose built facility for clients with severe and complex mental health disorders and illnesses for the central and northern zones of Queensland. Her interest is in facilitating young people’s access to child and youth mental health services through communication strategies and resources reducing language demands on young people with mental health problems. Other areas of interest are ensuring that young people are provided with the language tools to participate in mental health interventions and the communication skills enhancing recovery and maintenance of health. Narelle is responsible for ensuring the use of evidence based practices in CYMHS Speech Pathology through research, review of the research literature and education and training. She co-ordinates the State-wide Hanen Steering Committee and organises training, support and evaluation of Hanen programs in Queensland.
Narelle has worked in CYMHS since 1983 across community clinics, an inpatient unit and a forensic unit.
Other work settings have included:
Mt Isa Hospital which involved collaborating with the Flying Doctor services to the indigenous gulf communities
1 year for Education Queensland with a focus on the high school for the Deaf
2 years in West Africa partially in research and partially in clinical work at the Ear Nose and Throat program in Ibadan, Nigeria.
2 years with Education Queensland at the Gold Coast.
Presentation Title: Connecting Through Communication: Birth to Eighteen Years the hidden story
Presentation Date & Time: Friday 24 October 2008 1100 - 1230
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Jane Barry is a registered nurse, midwife and child health nurse. She attained a Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Nursing from Queensland University of Technology and has qualifications in immunisation and Triple P (Positive Parenting Program). Jane has worked exclusively in child health nursing for over twenty years and is currently employed as the Clinical Facilitator at Ellen Barron Family Centre. Jane writes weekly parenting columns for national newspapers and a popular women’s magazine. She contributes regularly to radio and television programmes when parenting expertise is required.
Jane has children of her own and knows first hand the challenges and joys of raising a family.
Presentation Title: Panel session following a debate on 'young people are not affected by advertising in their food and nutrition decisions'
Session Date & Time: Thursday 23 October 2008 1530 - 1730
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Professor Jennifer Batch is Director of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane. She is involved in the clinical management of children and young people with obesity and related problems and is involved in intervention studies in obese adolescents. The current study is the Eat Smart study, an RCT of dietary interventions in obese adolescents in collaboration with Dr Helen Truby (Children’s Nutrition Research Centre, UQ) funded by the National Heart Foundation and the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.
Presentation Title: Panel session following a debate on 'young people are not affected by advertising in their food and nutrition decisions'
Session Date & Time: Thursday 23 October 2008 1530 - 1730
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Sharon Goldfeld a consultant community paediatrician, specialising in developmental and behavioural paediatrics, and senior research fellow at the Centre for Community Child Health in Melbourne. She is also Senior Medical Advisor in child health in the Office for Children in the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Sharon has a particular interest in children's health services research, data and policy. She has been recipient of the prestigious international Harkness Fellowship in health care policy and more recently received the inaugural Aileen Plant medal for outstanding contribution to public health. Sharon has a Phd in health services research and is a member of several national and state committees that focus on children's issues. In both her policy and academic roles she has spoken about the various facets of early childhood to many varied audiences in an effort to advocate for the importance of children.
Presentation Title: Shifting Children's Developmental Trajectories: The Importance of Challenging Policy and Practice
Presentation Date & Time: Thursday 23 October 2008 1030 - 1130
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Rose Hargrave is currently Acting Clinical Nurse Consultant for the School Based Youth Health Program in Brisbane North, employed by Community Child Health Service RCH HSD.
She has worked as a School Based Youth Health Nurse for 8 years in a number of State High Schools in Brisbane North providing classroom health education, health promotion within the school community and 1:1 consultations for students, parents and staff as required.
Rose originally trained as a nurse at RCH Melbourne and has worked in community health for 20 years mostly in Drug and Alcohol both in Melbourne and Brisbane.
Presentation Title: Panel session following a debate on 'young people are not affected by advertising in their food and nutrition decisions'
Session Date & Time: Thursday 23 October 2008 1530 - 1730
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Wynita Maher is currently employed by Queensland Health as a Child Health Nurse for the Indigenous Health Service (IHS), within the Northside Primary and Community Health Services, Northside Health Service District.
For the past 13 years Wynita has been practising in Paediatrics, Child Protection, Maternity and Child Health. Wynita’s experience includes both the Acute and Community setting, having had the opportunity to work in both Brisbane and London.
The past 2 years Wynita has worked with the Indigenous Health Service- Child and Family Team. With a strong passion for Early Intervention and Family Centred Practices Wynita has enjoyed working with the families of the Northside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community.
The IHS Child and Family Team offer a holistic model of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families from Preconception to early childhood. Providing antenatal ‘Share Care’ and following newborns and their families until the infant is 2 years of age.
Presentation Title: Models of Indigenous healthcare
Presentation Date & Time: Thursday 23 October 2008 1130 - 1230
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Robyn Miller is a social worker and family therapist with over 25 years experience in the field. Prior to this she has worked in the Community Sector, Local Government, Child Protection, and for the past 14 years at the Bouverie Family Therapy, La Trobe University Centre as a senior clinician and teacher. She has worked in the public and private sectors as a therapist supervisor, consultant and trainer for a range of organisations, and academic institutes. She has been a member of the Victorian Child Death Review Committee for the past 5 years and was the recipient of the inaugural Robin Clark memorial Phd scholarship attached to the Take Two Program. For the past two years she has provided practice leadership as the Principal Practitioner in the Children, Youth & Families Division of the Department of Human Services in Victoria, Australia, which has embraced many positive reforms. Her practice and research interest has been in the area of trauma and family work, and she has a particular expertise in with families where there has been sexual abuse and family violence.
Robyn has published several articles, chapters and has authored the Best Interests Series for the Department of Human Services. Robyn has presented widely at conferences both nationally and internationally and she is noted for her innovative practice with children and families where there is complex and trans-generational trauma.
Presentation Title: Vicarious Trauma
Presentation Date & Time: Friday 24 October 2008 1530 - 1630
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Andrea Murray graduated in 1977 from the University of Pretoria, in South Africa as a speech pathologist and audiologist. She has also recently completed a Graduate Diploma in Mental Health through QUT. She has many years of both adult and paediatric speech pathology experience and has worked in Mental Health for the last 10 years and Infant Mental Health for the last 6 years. She has a passion for working with families, with a particular interest in enhancing the relationship between parents and their young children. She has been actively involved in the development and implementation of the Future Families program, Royal Children's Hospital and Health Services District, Queensland, Australia.
Presentation Title: Connecting Through Communication: Birth to Eighteen Years the hidden story
Presentation Date & Time: Friday 24 October 2008 1100 - 1230
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Lauren Nugent completed a Bachelor of Health Science in Nutrition in Dietetics with Honours in 2003 and is due to complete a Diploma in Sports Nutrition this year. She works for Eat Smart Nutrition Consultants where she runs an Adolescent Sports Nutrition program in primary and high school aged sports.
She has worked as a Dietitian and Sports Dietitian in private practice for the past 5 years. Lauren enjoys the challenges and dynamic nature of private practice but also enjoys the variety that working with sporting teams such as the QLD Bulls provides.
Presentation Title: Panel session following a debate on 'young people are not affected by advertising in their food and nutrition decisions'
Session Date & Time: Thursday 23 October 2008 1530 - 1730
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Guy S. Parcel, Ph.D., is dean, M. David Low Chair in Public Health, and John P. McGovern Professor in Health Promotion at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health. He has been dean since 2005 and is the School’s third dean since the School was established in 1969. Dr. Parcel also serves as professor in the Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the UT School of Public Health and professor of pediatrics at the UT Medical School at Houston. He is a Fellow of the American School Health Association.
Dr. Parcel has been in Texas since 1974 – he was a faculty member at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston from 1974-1986 and has been at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston since 1986. Prior to moving to Texas, he held teaching positions at The Pennsylvania State University and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Dr. Parcel has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific papers and book chapters over the past 35 years. In 2006 he co-authored the second edition of his textbook on health promotion programs, Planning Health Promotion Programs: An Intervention Mapping Approach. He has directed National Institutes of Health- and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded research projects to develop and evaluate programs to address sexual risk behavior in adolescents, diet and physical activity in children, smoking prevention in adolescents, and self-management of childhood chronic diseases including asthma and cystic fibrosis. From 1991-98 he was principal investigator of an evaluation of the Safer Choices program, a school-based intervention program to reduce behaviors that result in HIV/STD infection, funded by the CDC. This effective program is now available to high schools nationwide. He was principal investigator of the 1987-94 nationwide multi-center Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. This effective program includes health education, physical education, school food service, and parent involvement. The CATCH program has been adopted by elementary schools nationwide.
Dr. Parcel received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in health education at Indiana University and his Ph.D. at The Pennsylvania State University with a major in health education and a minor in child development and family relations. In 2005 he received the Distinguished Career Award from the Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section of the American Public Health Association; in 2003 he received the Patty Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indiana University School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation; in 1999 he received the Texas Society for Public Health Education Dorothy Huskey Award; in 1990 he received the American School Health Association’s William A. Howe Award for outstanding contributions and distinguished service in school health; and in 1985 he received the Alumni Fellow Award from The Pennsylvania State University.
Presentation Title: Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) for promoting healthy eating and physical activity
Presentation Date & Time: Friday 24 October 2008 0900 - 1030
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Charysse Pond is a Detective Senior Sergeant in the Queensland Police Service (QPS) and is currently the Ipswich District SCAN Co-ordinator and Project Manager of “Safehands”. She has over 16 years as a Detective and has served in FNQ, the Sunshine Coast and Ipswich Districts. From 1991 to 1995 worked in Far North Queensland where she was intrinsically involved in the investigation of child abuse matters within Indigenous communities. She has lived and worked in the remote Aboriginal community of Pormpuraaw and has also performed the role of senior facilitator at QPS Detective Training.
Detective Senior Sergeant Pond is married with three young children.
Presentation Title: Safehands Program
Presentation Date & Time: Friday 24 October 2008 1330 - 1400
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Marlies Puentener holds an honours degree in Social Work and a Graduate Diploma in Social Research. She has postgraduate qualifications in Psychotherapy, and Applied Systematic Theory (Family Therapy) from the Tavistock Clinic, London. She has worked with young people for over 19 years in the NT, TAS, QLD, New Zealand and London. With roots in youthwork, she has worked in rape and incest crisis services for women and children, streetwork, action research, a juvenile prison, social health policy, mental health and a variety of counselling services. She is a sought after trainer in her areas of expertise, including self-harm, eating disorders, sexual assault and youth suicide. Marlies is a contributory author to “No Fear of Flying” and has co-authored a number of research reports about disadvantaged young women. She works privately as a Therapist, Trainer and Professional Supervisor, now in a very part-time capacity since becoming the Manager of Kids Help Line and Parentline in October 2006.
Presentation Title: To be advised
Presentation Date & Time: Friday 24 October 2008 1100 - 1230
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Detective Jon Rouse has 24 years operational service with the Queensland Police Service. He has been an appointed Detective for 18 years, with 12 years devoted to investigating crimes against children. The last 7 years of Jon’s service has been at Task Force Argos, a specialist investigative unit responsible for the investigation of child sex offenders.
In 2001 Jon implemented the Queensland Police services response to online child sexual exploitation by commencing the countries first covert operation to target child sex offenders.
Jon has delivered presentations on online child exploitations to the Australasian Police Commissioners Conference, the AFP Management of Serious Crime Course 7 times, the Western Australia Police, New Zealand Police/Customs/DIA combined Child Abuse Team Managers Conference, twice at the Interpol Child Exploitation Conference, Lyon, France, the CEPOL Conference, Oslo Norway, and is currently an instructor on the Computer Facilitated Crimes against Children training sponsored by Microsoft and the International Centre for Missing Children, and has delivered training in Lithuania, Panama, the Philippines, Ukraine and Korea .
He is the recipient of Commissioners certificates for his leadership and investigative work, and is the recipient of the Queensland Police Medal, and the National Service Medal.
Presentation Title: The internet, sexual predators and youth vulnerability
Presentation Date & Time: Thursday 23 October 2008 1130 - 1230
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Kim Wedel is an Aboriginal Woman from the Yidinji Tribe of the Lake Barrine Area, Atherton Tableland, North Queensland. Currently employed by Queensland Health, Kim is the Indigenous Child Health Worker for the Indigenous Health Service (IHS), Northside Primary and Community Health Services, Northside Health Service District.
Kim worked as a Generalist Health Worker within Queensland Health for more than 2 years, before being appointed the Indigenous Child Health Worker within the Child and Family Team. Kim’s previous experience as Community Development Officer, at an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Early Education Centre, ignited her passion for integration, intervention and holistic models of care for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community.
The Child and Family Team’s model of care provides Kim the opportunity to provide a more culturally appropriate service for women, children and families by creating ‘Partnerships with Parents’, empowering them to access education, community and health care services.
Presentation Title: Models of Indigenous healthcare
Presentation Date & Time: Thursday 23 October 2008 1130 - 1230
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Robyn Wyatt has been working with Child, Youth and Family Health in the Sunshine Coast/Cooloola Health Service District for 20 years as of January this year. She is the Nurse Unit Manager and has a multi disciplinary team to support. She is very passionate and dedicated in supporting a team of health professionals to offer quality; evidence based early intervention prevention programs to children, young people and their families which is family centred, child/young person focused.
Robyn also has a strong commitment to ensuring her staff have clinical consultation/supervision on a regular basis to ensure they are caring for their own wellbeing and in turn supports a more enhanced and professional service to their clients.
Presentation Title: Models of Indigenous healthcare
Presentation Date & Time: Thursday 23 October 2008 1130 - 1230
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Christine Young is a Child Health Nurse and midwife with more than 25 years experience. She completed her initial nursing training at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney. Post nursing registration, Christine completed a midwifery course and child and family health course in Sydney. She also has completed her Bachelor of Nursing and a Masters of Public Health at Griffith University.
Christine is currently working as a Network Coordinator for the Maternal, Child and Youth Health Team – Clinical Support Unit, Central Area Health Service.
Presentation Title: Models of Indigenous healthcare
Presentation Date & Time: Thursday 23 October 2008 1130-1230
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