The 9th Social and Emotional Wellbeing Forum comes at a pivotal time to unite the sector in sharing solutions, strengthening partnerships, and advancing culturally safe and trauma-responsive care. The entire programme has been deliberately designed to support leaders and practitioners working across SEWB, AOD and mental health — in both Aboriginal-led and mainstream services — with prevention, service redesign, equity and systemic change front and centre.
Participants will leave with practical tools, real-world examples and strengthened partnerships that enable them to break down silos, embed cultural authority and deliver more integrated, preventative and inclusive outcomes across SEWB, AOD and mental health services, meaningful outcomes.

Strengthen families, kinship and community to improve SEWB outcomes for children and young people

Embed culture, healing and Indigenous-led approaches to deliver culturally safe and trauma-responsive services

Drive prevention by dismantling systemic barriers to overcome inequity, bias and stigma, and to build inclusive, timely and responsive care

Fund and measure what matters by integrating services to deliver sustainable, collaborative and stronger outcomes

Care for the carers by addressing burnout, cultural load and retention to sustain a strong, safe and supported workforce
April Kyle, of Dena’ina Athabascan descent and Ninilchik Tribal member, is the President and CEO of Southcentral Foundation, a customer-owned health care system serving over 70,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people.
Susan Pearce AM is Secretary, NSW Health, appointed in March 2022. In this role, Susan is responsible for the management of the NSW health system - with over 180,000 FTE and a budget of over $37 billion
Tara Hunter is the Director of Clinical and Client Services at Full Stop Australia providing leadership for all the helplines and fee for service counselling services. She also oversees the national training and consulting practice and holds executive responsibility for clinical governance.
Belinda is a proud Dharug woman, the traditional Custodians of Sydney, Australia. She has over 25 years’ experience in education, policy and program delivery, in both government and the not for profit sector, with senior management roles in both government agencies,
Marjorie is an Aboriginal woman born and bred in Redfern, her mob is from northern NSW. Before joining Lifeline Australia and codesigning and delivering 13YARN Marj worked at the Aboriginal Housing Office in a number of executive roles
Jacara is a Muthi Muthi/Gunditjmara woman who lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) on Wurundjeri country.
A mental health social worker, Jacara has a breadth of experience in Mental Health in both adult and youth mental health services and program and is a. Starting in a head space centre in 2010
Armajun Aboriginal Health Service
Setac
Wuchopperen
Alfred health
Queensland Mental Health Commission
Paylos
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