2022 Annual Symposium
The Right care, first time, where you live held its annual symposium last week. The Program is focussed on empowering communities to improve the youth mental health system in their region.
It’s been an incredible journey over the past year working on implementing Phase I of the Program with the Office of Mental Health and Wellbeing, ACT Health. We’ve learned so many things along the way and it was really exciting to hear about the ACT’s perspective on co-creating a youth mental health system model and decision support tool for that region.
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Phase 1 Summary - The Office of Mental Health and Wellbeing, ACT Health
The Right care, first time, where you live program has completed its first phase in the ACT. The Youth Mental Health and Technology team at the Brain and Mind Centre are grateful to the Office for Mental Health and Wellbeing, ACT Health for going on this journey with us to develop a systems model of the youth mental health system in their region. This is the first time that a systems model of the youth mental health system has been developed for this region, and we are very grateful to all the regional health professionals and partners who gave us their time and engaged with us in this process. In particular we’d like to thank the young people with lived experience who’s insights were critical and invaluable to ensuring the model reflected their experiences. This video provides some highlights of the systems model development workshops.
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Improving mental health by tracking your mood, food, sleep and exercise
Dr Sarah McKenna, a contributor to the Right care, first time, where you live, program talks about the benefits of tracking your physical health for improving your mental health. Particularly tracking your food, sleep, exercise and mood. She’s a clinical psychologist and researcher at the Brain and Mind Centre, at the University of Sydney.
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ACT Workshop 1 - Systems modelling process
Systems modelling and simulation offers a unique and important tool for systems analysis to support decision making for complex health and social problems. Systems modelling will allow stakeholders at national and regional levels to explore in detail the feedbacks between the economy, mental health and policy responses. Importantly, interactive systems models allow stakeholders to undertake scenario testing of a range of potential mitigation strategies.
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