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Eliminating Barriers: Supporting the Employment of People with Disabilities through Accessible Communications
Eliminating Barriers: Supporting the Employment of People with Disabilities through Accessible Communications For engagement, enjoyment and employment, accessing information and being able to communicate is essential and very empowering. In today’s working environment, this translates to being able to access information on mainstream technology, including web content, and the various digital platforms and mobile devices.…
13 Jan 2016, by Informa InsightsHealthcare
Mental Health Conference 2015 – Event Highlights
The 3rd Annual National Mental Health Conference in November 2015 has been a great success. A comprehensive 2 day program welcomed 25 high-calibre speakers with a vast range of knowledge and experience of the mental health sector, including keynote presentations from David Butt, CEO & Commissioner for the National Mental Health Commission and John Feneley,…
7 Dec 2015, by Informa InsightsHealthcare
Finding Peace: How the Peace Education Program can Help Inmates Rediscover their Inner Resources
The Peace Education Programme is an innovative educational program that has been delivered in over 120 correctional facilities around the world. The aim of the program is to help participants discover their own inner resources and the possibility of personal peace. As a preview to some of the issues being covered at the 6th Annual…
11 Aug 2015, by Informa InsightsHealthcare
Brain injury: Sharing the benefits of consumer representation
Don't tell this to the 700,000 Australians living with brain injury, but brain injury is sometimes referred to as an invisible injury. Although it's needs are not as obvious as a broken arm or cut, Brain Injury Australia's Nick Rushworth joins us to discuss the "overwhelming need for accurate and user-friendly information" about the services…
28 Jul 2015, by Informa InsightsHealthcare
Falls prevention: Don’t use the ‘f-word’
Source: HOSPITAL & AGEDCARE 22 Jul 2015 By Yasmin Noone, Editor, H&A How often do you mention the 'f-word' when speaking to seniors – aged care residents, physiotherapy clients and hospital patients – who have just had a fall? How often, after a person's discharge from hospital or during rehabilitation, do you stress they must avoid and…
28 Jul 2015, by Informa InsightsHealthcare
People with Cognitive Impairments and the NDIS
As a strong advocate for human rights, Dr John Chesterman, Manager of Policy and Education at the Office of the Public Advocate in Victoria, talked about “Transforming Disability Service Delivery to Optimise the Social and Economic Participation of People with Disabilities” at this year’s National Disability Summit. In his presentation, he explained the role of…
21 Jul 2015, by Informa InsightsHealthcare
Solving the Mental Health Crisis in Australian Correctional Facilities
The 6th annual Correctional Services Healthcare Summit will be held on the 24th – 25th of August at the Rendezvous Grand Hotel in Melbourne and will deal with a large range of issues surrounding healthcare in a correctional setting, including prisoner mental health, rehabilitation and models of care. Jim Coombs is a retired magistrate, former barrister and economist,…
21 Jul 2015, by Informa InsightsHealthcare
The journey to social inclusion: Exploring evidence based solutions to end homelessness
With over 20 years' experience in her sector, Cathy Humphrey, CEO of the Executive Team at St Kilda's Sacred Heart Mission is a strong believer that "there is no one-size-fits-all model to solving homelessness". Support needs to be individualised with evidence showing that understanding the casual factors that lead to homelessness can provide effective intervention to…
14 Jul 2015, by Informa InsightsHealthcare
Looking through the gender lens to support homeless women
In the lead up to her presentation at the at the biennial Homelessness Summit in Sydney, Annabelle Daniel, CEO of Women's Community Shelters (WCS) shares her experience in building local awareness and capacity with communities to find local solutions to the gaps in homelessness. Hornsby's 2015 Local Woman of the Year, discusses the inspiring work…
13 Jul 2015, by Informa InsightsHealthcare
Latest developments in eMedication Management: Highlights from eMM 2015 in Sydney
Australian hospitals where electronic medication management (eMM) systems have been implemented have indicated that eMM was the most complex system and process redesign project they had undertaken and so, we'd like to thank all the speakers, sponsors and attendees who helped make the 2015 eMM conference in Sydney such a success by sharing their experiences…
8 Jul 2015, by Informa InsightsInforma Connect Australia is the nation's leading event organiser. Our events comprise of large scale exhibitions, industry conferences and highly specialised corporate training.
