Carer Rep Workshop – Complaint Resolution Services
Event Date: 26 February 2025
Event Time: 10:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Information about complaint resolution services. Presentations from Health and Disability Services Complaints Office (HaDSCO), Consumer Protection WA, and the Ombudsman WA. In-person or Online (Zoom link sent closer to the date).
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Carer Participation in Health Forum (CPiHF) Meeting – Professor Anne-Marie Hill (UWA)
Event Date: 4 March 2025
Event Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
This presentation will provide a report regarding a large trial that was recently conducted in WA. The trial was led by Professor Anne-Marie Hill at UWA. The trial tested a nurse telephone call program. Professor AM Hill provided the program to carers when an older person they cared for was discharged after a hospital admission
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Positive Behaviour Support Workshop Course
Event Date: 10 March 2025
Event Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Positive Behaviour Support is an approach that centres on improving skills to enhance effective communication, collaboration, support, and personal satisfaction in carers who are presented with unhealthy or challenging behaviour (e.g. depression, self-harm, aggression, uncooperative behaviour). Skills include: • Behaving in more positive ways that enhance goodness, joy, and satisfaction in families. • Observing and
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Mental Health Carer Issues Network Meeting – EDFA Services and Supports for Carers
Event Date: 14 March 2025
Event Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Jane Rowan (Executive Director, Eating Disorders Families Australia) – Presentation on EDFA services and supports for carers. In-Person or Online (Zoom link sent closer to the date)
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Mental Health Carer Issues Network (MHCIN) Meeting – Presentation: Vivienne Chan from North Metro Youth Mental Health Service
Event Date: 29 April 2025
Event Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Vivienne Chan from North Metro Youth Mental Health Service will present on the work she is doing to support the carers/families/support networks of young people with mental health issues.
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Carer Representative Network (CRN) Meeting – Presentation: Mardi Edwards (Individual Carer Advocate at Carers WA)
Event Date: 21 May 2025
Event Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Carers WA Individual Carer Advocate, Mardi Edwards, will be providing information to carers on administration and guardianship, including EPA’s, EPGs, and the SAT process.
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Carer Representative Network (CRN) Meeting – Presentation: Sarah Clifford from Citizens Advice Bureau
Event Date: 26 May 2025
Event Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Volunteer & Client Services Coordinator Sarah Clifford will provide information around the services and supports available to carers at the Citizens Advice Bureau of WA (Inc)
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Mental Health Carer Issues Network (MHCIN) Meeting – Presentation: Monique Wilde from Helping Minds
Event Date: 6 June 2025
Event Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Monique Wilde will present on the services and supports at Helping Minds that are accessible to mental health carers.
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Carers WA respectfully acknowledge that we work on Aboriginal land and pay our respects to community members and elders, past and present. Individuals pictured are models and are used for illustrative purposes only. Carers WA is committed to understanding, embracing and celebrating the rich and multi-dimensional experiences that shape our lives and aims to ensure that everyone who engages with the organisation feels welcome and included. Carers WA welcomes all people irrespective of ethnicity, lifestyle choice, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Carers WA acknowledges the Wadjuk Noongar Nation’s lands, water, customs, and culture of which the Carers WA Head Office is located. Carers WA recognises our services reach beyond the Perth (Boorloo) region, and so we also acknowledge the cultural diversity of First Nations Peoples across our state and throughout Australia.
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