SPINZ National Symposium 2009. Culture and suicide prevention in Aotearoa. Nau te rourou, naku te rourou. Ka ora ai nga iwi. We each contribute to the health of the people. Mercure Hotel, Willis Street, Wellington, 10-11 September 2009

Programme

 

Preliminary Programme - Subject to change

Day 1 - Thursday 10 September 2009
 Time  Event  Title  Presenter  Venue/Room
9.00am
 Powhiri/Welcome ceremony     Pipitea Marae
9.30am  Welcome
   Materoa Mar  Pipitea Marae
9.40am Minister's opening address   Honorable Tariana Turia  Pipitea Marae
9.55am
 Launch of Te Whakauruora   Honorable Tariana Turia   Pipitea Marae
10.30am
 Morning Tea
11.00am
 Keynote address Suicide prevention: whanau-centred approaches
Prof Mason Durie Pipitea Marae
12.00pm  12.15pm
 Buses leave for the Mercure Hotel
      
12.05pm
 Registrations open at the Mercure Hotel
     Main Lobby,
Mercure Hotel
12.30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
 SPINZ Symposium overview
Merryn Statham

Victoria Room, Mercure Hotel
1.45pm
 Ministry address
 Suicide prevention in New Zealand:a Government response
 Ministry of Health Victoria Room, Mercure Hotel
2.00pm
 International keynote address
 Is best practice really elusive when working with Indigenous populations?
Dr Tracy Westerman Victoria Room, Mercure Hotel
3.00pm 
Afternoon Tea
3.30pm
  Parallel Sessions
 Room:  Victoria
  Willis
Webb
 Abel Smith
3.30pm

Emergency department re-presentations follwing intentional harm - Silke Kuehl

 To Infinity and Beyond ... Whanau Ora Across the lifespan - Trina Markland Tua o Te Arai: unveiling understandings - Tokararangi Totoro Mauri Tangata: the long-term health effects of unemployment - Jordan Waiti
4.00pm

A private and opportunistic event: trends in locations and methods of suicide - Barry Taylor & Prof Sunny Collings

Kia Piki o te Ora He Oranga Pounamu - Terence Matthews & Tracey Hiroa

  
 4.30pm

Suicide Behaviours among Maori adolescents: data from the Youth2000 series - Sarah Fortune

 

 Whanau Ora is the outcome - now where is the map? - Kia Piki National Coordinators Whanau Ora - a practical tool for developing health programmes - Te Miria James-Hohaia
5.00pm

End of parallel sessions
5.15pm 6.15pm
 Symposium Reception, Victoria Room

 

 

 

Day 2 - Friday 11 September 2009
 Time  Event  Title  Presenter  Venue/Room
8:30am

Registration/
Information
Table opens

  
Main Lobby, Ground Floor, Mercure Hotel
9:00am
 Minister's
address
Honorable
Peter Dunne 		Victoria Room
9:10am
 Keynote
address
 We all have culture
Dr Nic Coupe and
Dr Simon Hatcher		 Victoria Room
9:35am Keynote
address
 Cherish the Va and strengthen Pacific wellbeing
Dr Monique Faleafa Victoria Room
10:00am Morning Tea
10:30am

Panel presentation

   DHB Suicide Prevention Coordinators Victoria Room
11.15am
   Parallel Sessions
 Room:  Victoria
 Willis
  Webb
  
 11.30am Maori Response
to National
Depression
Initiative
Campaign - Allan Wyllie		 Nga Taonga Tuku Iho - Maraea Johns Positive and Proud - Graham Cameron  
 12.00pm The Lowdown:
early Intervention services for young people
- Dylan Norton		 Manawaora o Nga Taiohi - Freedom Preston-Clark
  
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm

A Pasifika model to address suicide in Porirua - Susana Kilioni

 

Suicide prevention education
programmes and
the New Zealand context - Tui O'Sullivan

Suicidal and self-injurious
behaviour in adolescents:
The DBT feasibility study
- Emily Cooney

  
2:00pm

He Kura te Tangata - Eliza Snelgar

 

Key findings from
a Maori hui to address suicide postvention for
Maori communities
in Wellington
- Jennie Jones

 Ssssh! Support for
staff dealing with students who self
harm - Kirsty Dempster-Rivett
  
2:30pm

A difference for Maori? Self-harm and suicide prevention collaborative Whakawhanaungatanga - Silke Kuehl

 

 Travellers - A resilience building programme for
first year
secondary students - Phil Smith
 
3.00pm

Panel presentation: Summary and where to from here? Keynote presenters, Victoria Room
3.30pm  Poroporoaki/Closing
4.00pm Symposium Ends

 

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