The Program

Collaboration, Communication and Connection

8:35am

MC

ACT Media Personality

8:40am – 8:50am

Welcome to Country

8:50am – 9:00am

Welcome 1

Robert Mills

Adjunct Associate Professor, CEO Tresillian Family Care Centres

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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

View Philip's bio

View Angela's bio

9:45am

Speaker 2

Centre for Community and Child Health

View Tim's bio

10:15am – 10:45am

Morning Tea

10:45am

Welcome 2

Anne Kirwan
CEO Marymead CatholicCare

10:55am

Speaker 3

INFANT Program

Rachel Laws

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11:30am

Speaker 4

Birthing on Country

Melanie Briggs

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12:00 Noon

Speaker 5

Principles of First Nations Childrearing

Dr Mishel McMahon

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12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 2:00pm

Breakout Session 1 - Speaker 1

Baby Sign

Meg Mahon

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1:30pm – 2:00pm

Breakout Session 1 - Speaker 2

A Village for Every Child

Claire Canavan

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2:00pm – 2:30pm

Breakout Session 1 - Speaker 1

Child Protection and Restoration

Dr Jackie Amos and Dr Liz Coventry

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View Liz's bio

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Breakout Session 1 - Speaker 2

Dad's Viewpoint

Alka Kothari & Steven Kennedy

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2:30pm – 3:00pm

Afternoon tea

3:00pm

Speaker 6

Research on out of home care and health economics of restoration

Leonie Segal

3.30pm

Speaker 7

Eating disorders during and after pregnancy and newborns relationship with food in the early years

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