10th July

Sometimes all it takes is a conversation: An overview of the Assisting Communities through Direct Connection (ACDC) project

Name: Sometimes all it takes is a conversation: An overview of the Assisting Communities through Direct Connection (ACDC) project
Start: 2024-07-10T15:00:37+1000
End: 2024-07-10T16:00:37+1000

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Sometimes all it takes is a conversation: An overview of the Assisting Communities through Direct Connection (ACDC) project

Many people living with mental health issues do not engage in “help-seeking” behaviour nor respond to typical mental health promotional activities. In 2021-2024, the ACDC Project went door to door to households in 27 communities to have conversations about mental health and wellbeing. After knocking on 50,000 doors, and having over 9,000 conversations, we have a clearer understanding of the value of proactive outreach, as well as learnings about unmet needs and issues that community members face that affect their wellbeing (such as social determinants of mental health). The Centre for Social Impact have been the research and evaluation partners in this novel project. ACDC last year won the national TheMHS Award for best national mental health promotional project.

Join us for a discussion with Bill Gye, former CEO of Community Mental Health Australia, who sparked this idea. He will reflect on learnings from the project, and policy implications that could help to ensure psychosocial support is available where needed.

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Recent CEO of Community Mental Health Australia (CMHA) 2018-2024. Prior to that Bill was the CEO of Ostara Australia (the Australia’s largest mental health specialist employment services provider); General Manager of Recovery Services at the Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW (now OneDoor Mental Health); CEO of Options Community Enterprises, and other roles in the community sector since 1978. Bill initiated and led the ACDC Project (a project of CMHA) from its beginning in late 2019 to June 2024.

Date: Wednesday 10 July 2024
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AWST)
Online only
Free event but registration is essential to access the webinar

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Centre for Social Impact UWA

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The Centre for Social Impact UWA (CSI UWA) creates and delivers education that transforms, research that informs best practice, and public engagement that inspires and mobilises change makers.

We develop solutions that are rigorous and purpose-driven and work with people, communities and organisations across Australia to grow their capabilities.

The Centre for Social Impact is a collaboration of four universities: Swinburne University of Technology, Flinders University, University of New South Wales and The University of Western Australia.

Together as a network, our purpose is to catalyse positive change, to help enable others to achieve social impact.

CSI UWA is proud to host Danjoo Koorliny Walking Together, a large-scale, long-term systems change project designed and led by Aboriginal leaders to help us walk together as Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people towards 2029 (200 years of colonisation in Perth) and beyond.

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