QAMH Members and stakeholders are invited to our Annual Alliance Members Meeting, followed by our 25 year Celebration Soiree, on Friday 15 November 2024.
Join us for one event, or both — we would love to have you celebrate the year, or the last 25 years, with us!
ABOUT THE ANNUAL ALLIANCE MEMBERS MEETING
Registration: 3pm
Time: 3:30pm – 5pm
Location: Auditorium 2 at the State Library of Queensland
This event will also be live-streamed and recorded.
Registrations for in-person attendance close: Thursday 7 November.
Registrations for livestream close: Tuesday 12 November.
At the Annual Alliance Members Meeting we will hear from interim QAMH CEO Kris Sargeant, Queensland Mental Health Commissioner Ivan Frkovic, QAMH Board Chair Cathy O’Toole and Board Finance Chair Chris Skelton on the year that was, achievements made, and what’s to come.
We will also be joined by special guest speaker Simon Katterl, who will present on Human Rights and Mental Health in Queensland: Wellbeing, Agency & Systems-Change.
Human rights, properly applied, have significant implications for the governance, design and operation of Queensland’s mental health system. Done well, systems will be funded in favour of wellbeing, community-based supports and lived experience-led services, with the regulation of these services upholding human rights, and service cultures and practices routinely respecting human rights. Implemented poorly, human rights reflect both an afterthought and a mantra, doing little to promote change and ultimately undermining trust in the law, government and mental health services. In this talk Simon will draw on his work in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia supporting the implementation and establishment of a Human Rights Act and what that means for mental health systems, noting the important work by QAMH on Wellbeing First. In this presentation Simon will identify what Queensland’s Human Rights Act means for the Queensland Government and publicly funded mental health services, and the work required to implement them properly.
Simon Katterl (he/him) is a mental health and human rights advocate with lived experience of mental health and using public community and private mental health services. He runs a consultancy business advising government, mental health, and legal bodies, on consumer leadership, human rights, and governance. Simon’s work includes advising the Victorian Minister for Mental Health, various government departments, and providing consumer perspective supervision. He provides specialist training for mental health services on how to reshape their governance, design and operations to comply with human rights standards. He also undertakes public advocacy in favour of human rights and has written for academic and news outlets as well as his own newsletter.
*This is a Members only event.
ABOUT THE 25 YEAR CELEBRATION SOIREE
Time: 5pm – 6:30pm
Location: Queensland Terrace at the State Library of Queensland
This event is in-person only
Registrations close: Thursday 7 November.
Following on from our meeting, we will share a toast and celebrate the last 25 year of QAMH. The Queensland Alliance for Mental Health became an incorporated body in 1999 and we wish to share that milestone with you. Please join us as we reminisce over the past quarter century and connect and reconnect with colleagues and friends.
For all enquiries contact QAMH at admin@qamh.org.au or call 07 3555 6850 during business hours.
QAMH acknowledges and pays deep respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across Australia. We honour their Elders past and present, whose knowledge, leadership, and cultural practices have sustained these lands for millennia.