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15 August 2008
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1 September 2008

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NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health

Australian Drug Foundation

“My space, your space, our space: exploring the future of adolescent health together”

With shifts in the equilibrium of the global environment, the redefinition of social contexts, the construction of virtual realities, and the power of new technologies, the future continues to offer new ways of:

  • Belonging, participating, connecting and communicating
  • Researching, analysing, integrating and synthesizing
  • Assessing, screening, monitoring and treating
  • Learning, creating, experiencing and expressing

This conference will focus on examining new knowledge and understandings around young people, and how we work towards improving their health and wellbeing.

Whether it’s medical imaging, social networking or online learning, its time to share knowledge and experience across professions, disciplines and sectors.

Who Should Attend

The conference program and pre conference forum is aimed at people who are working in, but not limited to the health, education, community, welfare and youth sectors. Most delegates will be practitioners such as teachers, doctors, nurses, counsellors, and others involved in youth advocacy, health promotion and community development, policy development and research.

Program

The following program is correct as of 11 Dec 2008, but is subject to change if required by the Organising Committee.

Thursday 6 November

Room – GM15

9.00

Welcome, Conference Launch and Welcome to Country

Michael Rich, Center on Media and Child Health and Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment

Mastering the Matrix: Adolescent Health in the Media Age

Chair: Susan Sawyer

Adam Smith, Foundation for Young Australians

Georgia Webster, SYN FM

Nick Moraitis, Make Believe

Bryce Ives, ABC Radio

Lucas Ryan, University of Melbourne

Technology, Advocacy and Youth Participation – Improving the Health of Young People and our Communities

Chair: Jenny Proimos

ARAB Presentation and Performance

11.30

Morning Tea

Room – LT 0102

Room – LT 0104

Room – GM15

12.00

SE-02 – Brain Space

Chair: George Patton

SE-03 – Engaging Spaces

Chair: Jane Burns

SE-04 – Safety Spaces

Chair: Di Garner

Christos Pantelis

New technology helps us to understand the adolescent brain

Jonathon Nicholas,
Inspire Foundation

On-line opportunities for young people

David Healy,
Transport Accident Commission

Making young people safe on our roads – the role of communications

12.40

Lunch

Room – GM 15

Room – LT 0102

Room – LT 0104

Room – LT 0106

1.40

SE-05 – Problem Solving Outside the Box

Chair: Susan Sawyer

SE-06 – Safe Space

Chair: Sheryl Hemphill

SE-07 – Showcasing Websites Online

Chair: Sophie Reid

SE-08 – Young People and Suicide

Chair: Peter Watson

Ian Frazer, The University of Queensland Diamanatina Institute

New recipes for new vaccines

Todd Herrenkohl, University
of Washington

Violence in context: Synthesizing knowledge on violence exposure and youth violence perpetration

Talia Hoskin and
Sally Hounslow, Quit SA, Cancer Council SA

Social networking sites and tobacco-free education – do they mix?

George Patton

Youth suicide: A historical perspective

Jane Maher and Malcolm McIver, Distance Education Centre Victoria

A virtual schoolyard – an online social networking space for secondary aged students doing school by distance education

2.25

Sally Corinaldi and
Jane Leong, CSL

Motivating Gen Y when it’s not about fun

• Communicating to Gen Y on matters of public health: The GARDASIL

What happens when hysteria hits?

Ariel Couchman, Young People’s Legal Rights Centre (Youthlaw)

Young people as victims of crime

Gavin Dyson, onTrac@PeterMac

“Learning to dance in the rain” using emerging technologies to combat social isolation in young adults living with cancer

Chris Hall, Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, McCulloch House, Monash Medical Centre

Young people and celebrity suicide

Assunta Caruso and Kathryn Culgan, Northern Sydney Central Coast Health

When life has no undo button: The development of a pilot, web based youth mental health service

Michelle Blanchard,
The University of Melbourne

Examining organisational readiness and capacity to undertake ICT based mental health promotion with young people

3.10

Afternoon Tea

Room – GM 15

Room – LT 0102

Room – LT 0104

Room – LT 0106

Room – LT 0108

Room – SR G14

3.40

SE-09 – Capacity-Building Through Education

Chair: Andrea Krelle

SE-10 – New Ways of Researching

Chair:
Kristina Bennett

SE-11 – Critical Involvement – the Voice of Young People

Chair: Sue Bagshaw

SE-12 – Sexual Health Space

Chair: Lea Trafford

SE-13 – Health Promotion Strategies

Chair: Sarah Hardy

W-01 – Workshop

Chair:
Monica Hadges

Sharon Scherrer and David Bennett, NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health

Running youth health forum beyond our space

Ian Williams and Amy Basile, Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

Understanding web-based research: is the mouse mightier than the sword?

Kirsty Leong, Ali Hughes and Luelle Payne, Department of Planning and Community Development

eParticipation: New ways of getting diverse young people’s voice into government

Judy Gold, Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health

Evaluation of the Victorian ‘You never know who you’ll ’ youth STI awareness campaign

Bianca Crosling, Quit Victoria

The Critics’ Choice: delivering effective tobacco education in schools

Brenda Hosking-Brown, Mari Lobbestael, Chelsea Bennett and Stella, Labs ‘n Life Incorporated

Effective (canine) communication

4.00

Paul Badcock, Centre for Adolescent Health

Making a difference through postgraduate education

Lauren Durkin, The University of Sydney
Jane Burns, University of Melbourne & Inspire Foundation

Challenges of evaluating online mental health services: Using reach out as a case study

Carla Frost, Orygen Youth Health
Nicole Donker, Orygen Youth Health

“Platform”: Orygen youth health’s commitment to consumer participation

Judy Gold, Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health

Sex and sport: Testing young people for chlamydia at rural sporting clubs

Kathy Martin, Sony Ericsson WTA Tour

An e-learning tool to enhance safety and well-being on the WTA tour

4.20

Lena Sanci, University of Melbourne
David Bennett, NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health

Updating the GP Resource Kit – a timely opportunity to promote adolescent health through culturally sensitive General Practice

Sylvia Kauer, The University of Melbourne and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

Emotional self-awareness: A qualitative exploration of the mechanism underlying a mobile phone self-monitoring program (mobiletype)

Sarah Shiell and Emily Woolnough, headspace

Staying connected – giving young people a voice

Beth Callander, Knox Community Health Service

RAGE: An innovative SMS text messaging harm minimisation project

Shelley Walker, Knox Community Health Service

Youth KISS: Sexual health conversations with young people to inform the development of a sexual health strategy

4.40

Patricia Crogan, Manukau District Health Board
Maria Kekus, Healthwest PHO
Sue Wilson, WDHB

Youth Health Nursing – Standards for Effective Practice

Sophie Reid, Centre for Adolescent Health

Delivering mental healthcare via mobile phones: A clinical trial of the mobiletype program and website interface for detection and management of adolescent mental health

Andre Renzaho, Royal Children’s Hospital

Delivering mental healthcare via mobile phones: A clinical trial of the mobiletype program and website interface for detection and management of adolescent mental health

Jennifer Makin and Kate Francis, The Cancer Council Victoria

“Wearing a Legionnaire’s Hat is Social Suicide”: Revising the SunSmart program for the secondary school setting

5.00

Welcome Drinks 5.00pm – 7.00pm

Friday 7 November

Room – GM15

9.00

Michael Furdyk, Technology for TakingITGlobal.org

Digital Kids are Changing the World

Chair: Andrea Krelle

10.00

John Lane, Royal Children’s Hospital Mental Health Program

Festival for Healthy Living: Arts for Mental Health and Connecting Communities

10.30

Morning Tea

Room – GM15

10.50

Lydia Shrier, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School

Electronic Technology in Adolescent Health Research: New Frontiers, New Challenges

Chair: George Patton

11.50

Room change

Room – GM 15

Room – LT 0102

Room – LT 0104

Room – LT 0106

Room – LT 0108

Room – CL 0317

12.00

SE-14 –
Creative Spaces

Chair: Kat McFarren

SE-15 – Bullying in Cyberspace

Chair: Elya Moore

SE-16 – School Space

Chair: Helen Butler

SE-17 – Ethical Space

Chair: Sarah Drew

SE-18 – Weight Space

Chair: Simon Clarke

W-02 – Workshop

Chair: Lynne Evans

Adam Staples, The Australian Catholic University

Identity, cross-cultural understanding and learning: visual explorations by students in art and digital design

Michelle Tollit and Rachel Smith, Centre for Adolescent Health

Longitudinal predictors of cyberbullying perpetration and victimisation in Victorian students

Joanne Williams, Centre for Adolescent Health

The healthy neighbourhoods study: Variation in the psychosocial and physical health of Australian adolescents

Mary Rillstone, Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne University

A meeting of the ancient ethical world with the cyber worlds of adolescence

Andrew Wallis, The Children’s Hospital

Five-years of family based treatment for anorexia nervosa: The Maudsley Model at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead

Tom Ballard

“Social Space: A Young Person’s Perspective”.

An interactive workshop to demystify young people’s use of social networking sites and support participants to get online a try it themselves! “

12.20

Laurie Fodero, Nillumbik Community Health Service

From harm to calm – using creative arts therapy to help young people express themselves safely

Ruby Walter,
Centre for Adolescent Health

Critical friends: Finding shared space to integrate research and practice, school improvement and health promotion

Rony Duncan, Centre for Adolescent Health

Treatment or research? How the setting can influence young people’s competence to consent

Ronalda Hoffman and Helen Bibby, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead

Mining for inspiration: Using psychosocial data to inform adolescent weight management practice

Louise Marsh, University of Otago

Text and traditional bullying among New Zealand secondary school students

12.40

Marline Zaibak, Project Coordinator, A.R.A.B

The ARAB story – Engaging young people from different cultural backgrounds in an artistically innovative performing arts project

Stacey Waters, Edith Cowan University

Examining a school’s ecology and its relationship to adolescent connectedness to school

Sharon Gilroy, Children’s Court Clinic

The role of masculinity in violent offending

Lauren Prosser, The University of Melbourne

Effective interventions for obesity prevention in adolescence: Where to from here?

Hennie Williams, The Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Making it real: Sexual health communication for young people living with disadvantage

Lee Hudson,
Centre for Adolescent Health

Adolescent anorexia nervosa: Aiming to improve outcomes

1.00

Lunch

Room – GM 15

Room – LT 0102

Room – LT 0104

Room – LT 0106

Room – LT 0108

Room – SR G14

2.00

SE-19 –
Technology Health

Chair: Jo Williams

SE-20 –
School-based Programs & Policy

Chair: Christine Miller

SE-21 –
Vulnerable Spaces

Chair: Tim Harding

SE-22 – New Models of Care for Chronic Illness

Chair: Michele Yeo

SE-23 –
Spiritual Spaces

Chair: Craig Olsson

SE-24 –
Integrated Space

Chair: Loretta Bellato

Pam Ivanics, Drug Education Network

Showcase presentation –
tune in not out

Tracy Evans-Whipp, Centre for Adolescent Health

Youth alcohol use and the impact of school policies. A study of schools and students in Victoria, Australia and Washington State, USA

Sheryl Hemphill, Centre for Adolescent Health

Inclusion of all students in schools: Will punitive, exclusionary discipline approaches become extinct?

Meg Plaster, WA Cancer & Palliative Care Network

New understanding of old knowledge – emerging models of caring for adolescents and young adults with cancer

Ian Williams, Centre for Adolescent Health

“But my mp3 player is my best friend”: Promoting adolescent wellbeing through contact with nature

Chris Tanti, headspace

What’s in your headspace? Providing mental health services in youth friendly settings

2.20

Marianne Webb, Inspire Foundation

Promoting Young People’s Mental Health Using the Internet and Game-based Technology

Elizabeth Williams, Dep’t Education & Early Childhood Development

African girls and boys discuss womens health rights in Melbourne schools

Aaron Cunningham, Adolescent Forensic Health Service

Diverting young people from the criminal justice system: The diversion worker program

Rachael Meade, Royal Children’s Hospital Education Institute and Lee Hudson, Centre for Adolescent Health

Increasing young people’s capacity for successful transition from health to school settings

Kim Jewel Elliott, University of Auckland

Hauora: Spiritual well-being in a secular health curriculum

Chungui Qiao, Ministry of Social Development

How well have the Youth Transition Services worked in New Zealand?

2.40

Karalee Evans, headspace

Youth mental health; creating eConversations

Ilena Young, Upper Hume Community Health Service

Caring for kids: An education based program meeting multiple needs for rural young parents

Julia Tresidder, Australian Institute of Criminology

Reporting on outcomes for vulnerable young people: a framework for the justice system

Lif O’Connor, The Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce

One campus – two worlds: How one adult facility is responding to the needs of young people with chronic illness/disabilities

Lisa Lynn and Teresa Sedgley, Queensland University of Technology

Resilience in young adolescents predicted by religiosity and spirituality

Sherri Bruinhout, Frontyard Youth services

Joined up approaches- a new idea? Bringing joined-up theory into direct service reality

Paul Riviere, Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service

Youth Booth: Taking primary health care to young people

3.00

Fiona Robards, NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health

The debate about the influences of new media on young people: Is there common ground?

Chungui Qiao, Ministry of Social Development
Julie Moore, Foundation for Youth Development

Project K: Working for adolescents in New Zealand?

Tim Fry and Emma Dunstan, Adolescent Forensic Health Service

Demystifying adolescent forensic health – working with young men in custody

Sarah Drew, Centre for Adolescent Health

Teenagers and chronic condition self-management: Much more than medical aspects of self-care

Tim Kanoa, The Foundation for Young Australians

Digital stories help to preserve indigenous culture

Cloe Wootten,
The UpZone (U2) Youth Clinic

Promoting youth health and access using a partnership approach within a community based youth service in Sydney

3.20

Afternoon Tea

Room – GM 15

Room – LT 0102

Room – LT 0104

Room – LT 0106

Room – SR G14

3.40

SE-25 –
Musical Spaces

Chair: Michael Kohn

SE-26 – Risky Spaces

Chair: Juliet Watson

SE-27 – Chronic Illness Connections

Chair: Peiyoong Lam

SE-28 – Drug Space

Chair: Tim Fry

W-03 – Workshop

Chair: Andrea Krelle

Meagan Hunt, Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children’s Hospital

A combined approach: Group music therapy and more for inpatients with an eating disorder

Megan Lim,
Burnet Institute

Sex, drugs and rock&rsq’roll: Behavioural surveillance at a music festival

Shawn Ashkanasy, Melbourne University

Support at first byte? Addressing conflict in online peer support for young adults with cancer

John Howard, University of New South Wales

Spaced out: Cannabis, young people and residential treatment

Rosalie Hastwell, Royal Childrens Hospital
Helen Bulter, Australian Catholic University
Anna Loewendahl, Artist

My story, your story, our story: Creative approaches to young people’s mental health and wellbeing

3.55

Kylie Johnson, Starlight Children’s Foundation

Livewire: An online community keeping young people living with a serious illness, chronic condition or disability connected

Heather Dowd, Adolescent Forensic Health Service

‘To pharmaco-therapy and beyond’ – opiate replacement therapy for youth justice clients

Katrina McFerran, University of Melbourne

Music participation: An opportunity for connecting and expressing

Lena Sanci,
University of Melbourne

Addressing risky drinking and road safety in young people. The potential of general practice – a pilot study

4.10

Francesca Pinzone, CanTeen

Addressing the needs of young people living with cancer through the development of an online service

Nat Joyce,
Youth Substance Abuse Service Pty. Ltd.

Nurses: A pivotal link in the provision of health care to disadvantaged youth

Catherine Crock,
Royal Children’s Hospital

Holly Wilson, Centre for Adolescent Health

Adolescent predictors of sexual risk taking a population based prospective study into young adulthood

4.25

Sarah Drew, Centre for Adolescent Health

‘I-witnessing’: A visual storytelling technique for researching self, health and chronic condition self-management in adolescents

John Howard, University of New South Wales

ACCU: The Adolescent Cannabis Check-up

Room - GM15

4.40

Wrap up and closing presentation

5.00

Close


Posters

Poster Title Presenting Author
The impact of prematurity, low birth weight, and obstetric complications on adolescent depression and antisocial behaviour Aneta Kotevski Centre for Adolescent Health, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Real-time Measurement of Young People's Distress Management Strategies Angela Khor Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Implementing and evaluating a transition program for adolescents with a complex chronic condition. Susan Towns Childrens Hospital at Westmead, NSW, Australia
Over Exposed Under Prepared or Empowered Cheryl Kane Melbourne University, VIC, Australia
Kings Cross Youth at Risk Project - Successful partnerships Cindi Petersen SESIH, NSW, Australia
Young people in custody: Current health issues Claudio Villella Adolescent Forensic Health Service, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Young People and Complexity - an integrated model of care. David Murray The Youth Substance Abuse Service, Melbourne, Australia
Social, Emotional and Behavioural Skills Development - Breaking Down the Barriers Debra Downie Kirwan State High School/ QLD Health, KIrwan, Townsville/QLD, Australia
A descriptive report of sexual abuse in boys and girls in Victoria, Australia: From childhood to adolescence to young adulthood Elya Moore Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Interpreting DXA Measurements in Adolescent Girls with Anorexia Nervosa Emily Dirksen Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Alternate Educational Programs for Youth At Risk Youth At Promise: What are the Essentials Fiona Dimas-Herd Northern Sydney Institute TAFE Hornsby campus, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Young Women's Talking Newsletter Fiona Read Women's Health East, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
Evidence – Informed Youth Health Policy: Something We Build On, Not Add On. Fiona Robards NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health, NSW, Australia
'Knock, knock?' 'Who's there?' A model supporting connection, belonging and participation at school for children and young people with chronic health conditions. Frances Burns RCH Education Institute, Victoria, Australia
Creating Networks and Connections : Supporting Wellbeing for Young Parents in Rural Australia via Active Multi-Sector Partnerships Ilena Young Upper Hume Community Health Service, Wodonga, Australia
Psychological Hardiness Among Adolescents In Relation To Family Climate Jagpreet Kaur Punjabi University, Patiala(Punjab), India
Standing Tall-A Community and school working together to support young people in a school based mentoring program Jeanette Pritchard RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
SEX: Telling it like it is – a parent and teen insight Narelle Cobbing Marie Stopes International, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
It's The Brain–A New Approach to Adolescent Sex Offender Treatment John Bergman AWARE, Melbourne, Australia
SMS 4 Health Promotion: Building the Evidence Base Judy Gold Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
From Harm to Calm- Understanding and Responding to Deliberate Self-harm. Resource Booklets for Young People, Parents/Carers and Professionals. Kevin Gregg-Rowan Nillumbik Community Health Service, Eltham, Victoria, Australia
I'll bet you wear nylon knickers: Embodying sexual health research Kim Jewel Elliott University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Walking the talk: bringing social policy alive for youth work and social work students Kim Jewel Elliott University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
I'm Bored - Identification of boredom and the development of an information brochure for adolescents on an inpatient unit. Linda Campbell Orygen Youth Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
'Making the Connections'- Raising the profile of adolescent health in NSW Divisions of General Practice Linda Ramsbottom NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia
School Matters - Health and Education Working Together in WA Liz Hughes
David Payne
Hospital School Services, Department of Education and Training, Perth WA, Australia
At The Coalface: A Service Model For Providing Health Care To Disadvantaged Youth Lynn Exton YSAS P/L, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Family attachment matters: Using Photovoice to explore adolescent wellbeing Lyn O'Grady Victoria University, Footscray Park, Australia
Trends in Chlamydia Testing and Risk Factors in Young People: Findings from the Sentinel Surveillance Network Megan Lim Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
The development of a Quality of Life questionnaire for adolescents with cerebral palsy Melanie Davern University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
S.E.E.D (Students Engaging Exploring Doing): A Student-led Community Action Initiative Michelle Wright Whitehorse School Focused Youth Service, City of Whitehorse, Victoria, Australia
Harmful risk behavior in adolescents of New Delhi Mridula Rai MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE, NEW DELHI, DELHI, India
Dyslexia: A National Health Hazard Nola Firth Centre for Adolescent Health, Parkville, Australia
Camp Queer Regina Nagy Traxside Youth Health Service, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
Barriers to Access Minimised Rochelle Hamilton Jigsaw/Barwon Health, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
What do we know about the Health and Wellness of GenY/Millennial Tertiary Students? Rose McConchie CPIT (Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology), Christchurch, New Zealand
SMS Appointment Reminders: Continuing Engagement In Your Space Sam Stott University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
School Space - Health Space?  Sarah Mckay  Collaborative, Christchurch, New Zealand
The role of peers in adolescent wellbeing Sharlene Chadwick Peer Support Australia, Brookvale NSW, Australia
A success story of transferring a youth initiative from your space -Sydney metro to our space - rural NSW Sharon Scherrer Greater Western Area Health Service, Dubbo, NSW, Australia
Different Blood in My Veins Vikky Schwager Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Melbourne, VIC/ Northern Metropolitan, Australia