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… BECOME AN INTERVENTIONIST TO SUICIDE AND LEARN STRATEGIES IN MANAGING INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF SUICIDE IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

Worrying about how your team, family and community effectively assist and manage clients experiencing intergenerational trauma? Indigenous peoples around the world endured several generations of trauma and other neurological effects and compromised behavioural immunity which leads to behavioural indicators such as substance-abuse and suicide. Our current generation is impacted by structural violence, poverty, racism, governmental neglect and ongoing hostilities, and unfortunately our mob have learned our lessons in traumatisation as well where in many situations, we have internalized the trauma imposed on ourselves and turned onto our own families, communities, and selves.

This one-day workshop will teach you:
• The strong benefits of recapturing and revitalizing our languages, cultures and spirituality
• Infuse our health care with what is known as trauma-informed care and become an interventionist to suicide
• Understand and utilise trauma-informed care to heal ourselves, our clients, and our communities.
• Strategies in managing clients and families affected by intergenerational trauma and break the cycle of suicide in our communities.

In Just One Day You Can Learn Strategies how to become an interventionist to suicide and work effectively with your clients who are experiencing inter-generational trauma and their families. This workshop is composed of three parts: Trauma-Focused Care (1.50 Hour), Embrace Life: First People’s Paladins’ – Suicide Gatekeepers (1.50 Hour), Talking Circle: Discussion of Being a First Person’s suicide gatekeeper or ‘peer-interventionist’ (1.00 Hour)

The Gatekeeper Cultures and Spirituality – Interventionist to Suicide Workshop is strictly limited to 30 people only.
Workshop Cost is $330. Call or email us to register for this workshop.

THE PRESENTERS:
Dr. Joseph B. Stone, PhD, an Anasaki-pikuni ceremonialist and traditionalist and member of the OKKAN (Sundance), the Last Star Thunder Medicine Pipe and Beaver Lodge. He is a clinical psychologist and with his partner, Amber Logan, owner of Indigenous Development Specialists of Havelock North, New Zealand. Dr. Stone works at Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga – a Kaupapa Maori Health Provider; Awhina Whanu Family Services, and the Napier Family Centre all located in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. He has clinical experience with adult prisoners and corrections and juvenile justice in both New Zealand and USA. He is affiliated with the National Center on Trauma and Project Making Medicine – Indian Health Service Assessment and Treatment of Child Abuse at Oklahoma State University. He has presented too and served as consultant to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs of Native Youth Suicide. Dr. Stone’s publications include articles on trauma, suicide, and other cultural / behavioural issues.
Dr. Amber R. Logan is a traditional Kahungunu Maori Whine and a New Zealand Health Psychologist and Doctoral Fellow in Public Health at Otago University. She teaches health psychology course work at the University of Auckland and Otago University and is well-known in New Zealand for her work in Methamphetamine education and community activism. Amber Logan is a consummate grant writer, health services evaluator and health services program designer. She has presented extensively in Australia, Canada, and the USA at Harvard University, the University of Washington, and to the US Federal Government.

Simultaneously running two conferences in one location was only made possible by Indigenous Conference Services’ versatility to offer ground-breaking dual opportunities for delegates to attend two conferences with one registration or for organisations to register 2 delegates for 1 registration for either conferences. This added incentive offers limited one-off 2 registrations for the price of 1, which is ideal for those delegates who need a support worker or carers to attend and be with them during the conference. These opportunities effectively make the conference, except for the travel component, more than half of the original cost to attend. To register and avail for this special rate, please complete the online registration form at this link: https://www.indigenoushealth.net/register-jj-ndis and write Code EM02 after the delegates’ name. You can also book your accommodation with your registration which is an added bonus, depending on availability. Hence, reserve and book your place now!

Some of our featured keynote speakers for the 2018 National NDIS Conference are Ms. Denyse Wilcox, General Manager IDEA Specialist Services, IHC New Zealand, Registered Psychopaedic Nurse, Auckland Hospital Board and Taki Peeke, Kaitakawaenga IDEA Services in New Zealand; Senator Jordon Steele-John, WA Government, Disability Services, Youth, Communications and Sustainable Cities; Evelyn Mackay & Susan Stanford of WA Individualised Services (WAiS); Carlton Meyn, CEO of BUSHkids, Royal Queensland Bush Children’s Health Scheme; Kris Trott, CEO of Queensland Alliance for Mental Health; Luke Terry, CEO of Vanguard Laundry, Toowoomba’s only social enterprise commercial laundry service; Johnny Huckle, entertainer, singer, musician; Chris Faulkner, NDIA Branch Manager; Mark Baigent, CEO of Early Childhood Early Intervention Victoria; Heidi Sturk, Deputy Director of QUT’s Centre for Children’s Health Research and Dr. Amber Logan, a Maori Clinical & Health Psychologist from Indigenous Development Specialists in New Zealand, amongst others.

Similarly for the 2018 National Indigenous Juvenile Justice Conference, amongst the high-calibre First Nation’s resource speakers are Dr. Michelle Jacob of Yakama Nation, Professor of Indigenous Studies at University of Oregon; Dr Holly Doel-Mackaway, lecturer, Macquarie Law School; Edward Santow, Human Rights Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission; Keith Hamburger AM, BA, Managing Director of Knowledge Consulting; Keelan Mailman, Bidjara Leader and Property Manager, Mt Tabor Station; Elanor Fenge, youth justice lawyer at the Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission in Alice Springs, Vice-President of the Northern Territory Young Lawyers and a council member on the Law Society of the Northern Territory; Taranjeet Thandi currently works with youth charged with criminal offences to ensure young people do not continue to experience the same injustices that occurred previous to the Royal Commission and that the Northern Territory Government and NGO services are held accountable to improving the current youth justice system; Kelly Watson, Justice Support Manager, Intellectual Disability Rights Service; Dr. Joseph Stone of Blackfeet Nation, Clinical Psychologist from Indigenous Development Specialists in NZ/ USA; Sergeant Richard Wells, Rockingham, WA; Mark Morrison, Principal, Macleay Valley Trade Training Centre whom has been running a school for disenfranchised youth on the Mid North Coast of NSW which includes visiting students in three NSW detention centres each term, working with Juvenile Justice Officers each week, sitting with the students and young people in their cells and many others presenting a paper.

Moreover, ICS Australia is now Calling for Papers for the following 2019 conferences:
 INDIGENOUS HEALTH CLOSING THE GAP CONFERENCE Cairns 20th – 22nd February 2019 Pullman Cairns International Hotel Date, Location Venues Confirmed
 INDIGENOUS STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & CHILD PROTECTION CONFERENCE Brisbane 15 -17 May 2019 Tangalooma Island Resort Moreton Island Date, Location Venues Confirmed
 2019 SUICIDE PREVENTION AND WELLBEING CONFERENCE Brisbane Qld 15 -17 May 2019 Tangalooma Island Resort Moreton Island Date, Location Venues Confirmed
 2019 INDIGENOUS AGED CARE: OLD & DEADLY ELDERS CONFERENCE Alice Springs NT 22th – 24 July 2019 Date, Location Venues Confirmed
 8TH NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN’S ISSUES CONFERENCE Alice Springs NT 24th – 26 July 2019 Date, Location Venues Confirmed
 8TH NATIONAL INDIGENOUS MEN’S ISSUES CONFERENCE Alice Springs NT 24th – 26 July 201 Date, Location Venues Confirmed
 2019 INDIGENOUS ADDICTION & DRUG AND ALCOHOL MISUSE CONFERENCE Darwin NT September 25-27 Date, Location Confirmed
 2019 INDIGENOUS JUSTICE CONFERENCE Darwin NT September 25-27 Date, Location Confirmed
 2019 INDIGENOUS CHRONIC DISEASES CONFERENCE QLD Pullman Cairns International Hotel Date, Location Venues Confirmed
 2019 INDIGENOUS MENTAL HEALTH CONFERENCE QLD Pullman Cairns International Hotel Date, Location Venues Confirmed
 2019 INDIGENOUS CARING FOR COUNTRY CONFERENCE Sydney NSW Date, Location Confirmed
 2019 NATIONAL INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES CONFERENCE Sydney NSW Date, Location Confirmed
If you are a registered delegate for either the 2018 NDIS Conference or the 2018 Juvenile Justice Conference and wish to reserve your seat for this workshop, simply email us at adminics@iinet.net.au or call us on 0741942803 to add this workshop to your conference registration. For those who are registering for the first time, please complete the online registration form at this link: https://www.indigenoushealth.net/register-jj-ndis. For more information, please visit the conference website at www.icsconferences.org or contact us by email at adminics@iinet.net.au