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Day 3 - Wednesday

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8:00

Registration opens (Level 1)

8:15

Sunrise sessions and breakfast

Social inclusion and young people

Breakfast Radio

Refugee health: engagement and access

International perspectives on mental health

Healthy diversity for wellbeing and social inclusion
Ennalies Oudendjik

Supporting social inclusion for refugee youth
Karen Block

Challenges we face and experiences they encounter: a day with international students
Louisa Yim

Tuning into the right frequency
Eugenia Georgopoulos

Addressing the diverse needs of members of the Oromo community in Melbourne
Marama Kufi

Getting to know your medicines campaign
Carrie Sutherland

Mapping the experience of engagement: refugee women in a new community
Martin Harris

Refugee and asylum seeker experiences of GP services
I-Hao Cheng

Working with diversity to optimise refugee primary health care
Rebecca Farley

Birmingham Mental Health Services
John Mahony

Sponsor: MMHA

9:30

Keynote: The future of multiculturalism

The rationale that created multiculturalism may no longer be valid, but we are not living in a multicultural Eden. Is it time for multiculturalism V.2?

Panel: Five provocations of multiculturalism (curated by Institute for Cultural Diversity)

Multiculturalism and power - Andrew Jakubowicz (Institute for Cultural Diversity)
Multiculturalism and gender - Hurriyet Babacan (James Cook University)
Multiculturalism and the First Nation - Robbie Thorpe
Multiculturalism and African settlement - Juliana Nkrumah (Institute for Cultural Diversity)
Multiculturalism and the media - Saeed Saeed

11:00

Cultural rights and identity

A forum to expore the challenge of expressing identity in complex multicultural and multi-dimensional environments.

Speakers: Paul Goodwin (Tate Britain), Ming Zhu Hii (director and performer), Khaled Abdulwahab (Diafrix)

Facilitator: Namila Benson (Triple R FM)

Sponsor: British Council

Managing multiculturalism in the workforce

Our health workforce is becoming more diverse. We discuss the challenges of managing a multicultural workforce and opportunities inherent in this diversity.

Speakers: Helen Szoke (Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission), Serge Sardo (Australian Human Resources Institute), Robert Bean (Cultural Diversity Services Pty Ltd), Carmel Guerra (Centre for Multicultural Youth), Andrea McCall (Monash University), Demos Krouskos (Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health)

Refugee Voices

Refugees from Chin, Iraqi, Afghani, Tamil and central African communities speak about their journey to resettlement.

Hosted by Adult Multicultural Education Service (AMES)

Supporting Muslim communities in Australia

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship presents a social policy to support Muslim participation in Australian society.

12:30

Lunch (Foyer )

13:20

Multiculturalism in policy

Multiculturalism in media and advocacy

Responding to diversity

Language service systems

Sponsor: ONCALL

Innovation in mental health services

Alcohol, drugs and the justice system

Building Bridges

Health, wellbeing & successful settlement

Mental health: population groups

Sponsor: MMHA

All of Us: Victoria's multicultural policy
George Lekakis

Indifference or acceptance? Healthcare policy and multiculturalism
Pamela Garrett

Multiculturalism and community in rural Victoria
Dean Wickham

Web 2.0 and cultural diversity mobilisation
Andrew Jakubowicz

Peace building for dialogue and inclusion
Juma Piri Piri

Any one of these boatpeople could be a terrorist ... media representations and public perceptions of 'boatpeople' arrivals in Australia
Fiona McKay

The effectiveness of cross-cultural training: implications of recent Australian research
Robert Bean

Beyond basic cultural competence: the Reflexive Anti-racism Scale
Hayley Franklin

Wishing and hoping and thinking and doing ... diversity
Naomi Schwarz

How to triple use of interpreter services: lessons from the successful implementation of the Queensland Health Interpreter Service
Ellen Hawes

Language services in hospitals increasing quality through cost containment
Emiliano Zucchi

Sign of the times
Audrey Dropsy

Sponsor: ONCALL

The only thing for the pain - co-morbidity, diversity, exclusion and the right to care
George Klein

Powerful stories, inspiring narratives: introducing the MMHA CALD Speakers Bureau
Vicki Katsifis

Using theatre to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness ...
Lisa Woodland

Beyond place - beyond words
Carmella Grynberg

Delivering alcohol and other drug interventions in a human rights framework
Brad Pearce

Cultural rights and integrity in service delivery - a local justice perspective
Jay Jordens

Building Bridges: promoting intercultural contact to reduce race-based discrimination in Victorian community settings

Presented by the Settlement Council of Australia, this session explores factors that affect health and wellbeing in the first few years of settlement.
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Engaging young people on their own terms - creating new opportunities to connect
Adrine Santos

On the other side of the looking glass
Naomi Kikkawa

Sponsor: MMHA

14:20

Social enterprise

International social planning

Health research and analysis

Found in translation

Holistic care

Carer and consumer perspectives on mental health

Sponsor: MMHA

Palliative care

Multi-faith issues