Day One, Friday 5 March 2021
Victorian Reforms
9.00 – 9.10 | Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
Gus Clelland — CEO Mental Health Victoria
The Hon James Merlino MP — Deputy Premier, Victorian Minister for Mental Health, Victorian Minister for Education
9.10 – 9.20 | Overview of the day
Sophie Scott — MC, National Medical Reporter ABC
9.20 – 9.50 | Keynote: The Victorian reform agenda
Prof Allan Fels AO Patron, Mental Health Victoria
9.50 – 10.00 | Break
10.00 – 10.25 | Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System – Final Report Presentation: Service reform and vision
Larissa Taylor — Director of Policy Mental Health Victoria
10.25 – 11.10 | Panel Discussion 1: Service reform and vision
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Maggie Toko — CEO Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council
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Dr Melissa Petrakis — Chair Tandem
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Jill Gallagher AO — CEO Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
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Marina Carman — Director Rainbow Health Victoria
11.10 – 11.20 | Break
11.20 – 11.45 | Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System — Final Report Presentation: Governance, funding and commissioning
Tom Symondson — CEO, Victorian Healthcare Association
11.45–12.30 | Panel Discussion 2: Governance, funding and commissioning
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Dr Kerryn Rubin — Chair Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Victorian Branch Committee
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Leigh Rhode — CEO Gateway Health
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Dr Mya Cubitt — Chair Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, Victorian Faculty Board
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Gill Callister PSM — CEO Mind Australia
12.30 – 12.50 | Break
12.50 – 13.20 | Keynote: Implementation – What to Expect
Pam Anders — CEO Mental Health Reform Victoria
13.20 – 13.35 | Q&A Session
13.35 – 14.20 | Panel Discussion 3: Implementation
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Dr Anita Tan — Manager Victorian Transcultural Mental Health
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Laura Collister — CEO Wellways
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Sue Peden — CEO Carers Victoria
- Gary Croton — Clinical Nurse Consultant and Secretary Victorian Dual Diagnosis Initiative
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A/Prof Steve Moylan — Clinical Director Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Services, Barwon Health
14.20 – 14.25 | Break
14.25 – 14.55 | Closing Address
Maggie Toko — CEO Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council
14.55 – 15.00 | Wrap-up
Sophie Scott — MC, National Medical Reporter ABC
Day Two, Wednesday 17 March 2021
National Reforms
9.00 – 9.10 | Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
Gus Clelland — CEO Mental Health Victoria
Sophie Scott — MC, National Medical Reporter ABC
9.10 – 9.20 | Opening Address
Damian Ferrie — Chair Mental Health Victoria, CEO Star Health
9.20 – 9.30 | Break
9.30 – 10. 00 | Keynote: Productivity Commission Inquiry into Mental Health
Prof Stephen P. King — Presiding Commissioner Productivity Commission Inquiry
10.00 – 10.15 | Q&A Session
10.15 – 10.45 | Panel Discussion 4: Productivity Commission Inquiry into Mental Health
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Dr James Antoniadis — Chair General Practice and Psychiatry Liaison Committee, The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Victoria
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Dr Stephen Carbone — Director Prevention United
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Dr Zena Burgess — CEO Australian Psychological Society
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Katherine Ellis — CEO Youth Affairs Council Victoria
10.45 – 10.55 | Break
10.55 – 11.25 | Keynote: Vision 2030 and National Suicide Prevention Strategy
Christine Morgan — CEO National Mental Health Commission and National Suicide Prevention Adviser
11.25 – 11.40 | Q&A Session
11.40 – 12.10 | Panel Discussion 5: Vision 2030 and National Suicide Prevention Strategy
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Prof Jayashri Kulkarni AM — Women’s Mental Health Alliance
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Tina Hogarth-Clarke — CEO Council on the Ageing Victoria
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Ingrid Ozols AM —Chair Lived Experience Advisory Group, Mental Health Victoria
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Daniel Bolger — Adviser Lived Experience Adviser, Mental Health Victoria
12.10 – 12.30 | Break
12.30 – 13.00 | Keynote: National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy
Prof Christel Middeldorp — Conjoint Professor of Child and Youth Psychiatry, Child Health Research Centre and Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service
Prof Frank Oberklaid AM — Director Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital
13.00 – 13.15 | Q&A Session
13.15 – 13.45 | Panel Discussion 6: National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy
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Adj Prof Muriel Bamblett AO — CEO Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency
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Julie Borninkhof — CEO Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia
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Prof Harriet Hiscock — Director Royal Children’s Hospital Health Services Research Unit
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Imbi Pyman — Carer and Lived Experience Adviser, Mental Health Victoria
13.45 – 13.50 | Break
13.50 – 14.20 | Keynote: Bringing it all together
Prof Patrick McGorry AO — Executive Director Orygen
14.20 – 14.25 | Break
14.25 – 14.55 | Closing Address
Jill Gallagher AO — CEO Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
14.55 – 15.00 | Wrap-up
Sophie Scott — MC, National Medical Reporter ABC