The Program

Collaboration, Communication and Connection

8:35am

Kristen Davidson

ACT Radio Personality

8:40am – 8:50am

Welcome to Country

Warren Daley

Ngunnawal Elder

8:50am – 9:00am

Welcome 1

Robert Mills
Adjunct Associate Professor, CEO Tresillian Family Care Centres

9:00am – 9:15am

Official Opening

ACT Minister

9:15am

Speaker 1

Mother-Infant Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

Perinatal Infant Mental Health Consultation Service ACT Health

Dr Philip Keightley
Angela Freeman

9:45am

Speaker 2

Centre for Community and Child Behavioural Therapy

Dr Tim Moore

10:15am – 10:45am

Morning Tea

10:45am

Welcome 2

Anne Kirwan
CEO Marymead CatholicCare

10:55am

Speaker 3

INFANT Program

Assoc. Prof. Rachel Laws

11:30am

Speaker 4

Birthing on Country

Melanie Briggs

12:00 Noon

Speaker 5

Principles of First Nations Childrearing

Dr Mishel McMahon

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 2:00pm

Breakout Session 1 - Speaker 1

Baby Sign

Meg Mahon

1:30pm – 2:00pm

Breakout Session 1 - Speaker 2

A Village for Every Child

Claire Canavan

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Breakout Session 1 - Speaker 1

Child Protection and Restoration

Dr Jackie Amos and Dr Liz Coventry

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Breakout Session 1 - Speaker 2

Dad's Viewpoint

Assoc. Prof. Alka Kothari
Steven Kennedy

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Afternoon tea

3:00pm

Speaker 6

Research on Out of Home Care and Health Economics of Supporting Child Protection Involved Families

Prof. Leonie Segal

3.30pm

Speaker 7

From Womb to World: Nutrition, Body Image and Eating Behaviours from Pre-conception to Parenthood

Dr Anika Rouf

4.00pm

Speaker 8

Person with Lived Experience

Vicky

4.25pm

Closing Address

Dr Yvonne Luxford
CEO Perinatal Wellbeing Centre

4.30pm – 6:00pm

Post Conference Networking Event

The Howling Moon

Level 6, Canberra Rex Hotel