John Paterson

NACCHO Members’
Conference and Annual
General Meeting 2017
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‘Our Health Counts:
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’

Introduction

The goals of the, Ochre Day Conference are to;
 Provide an opportunity to ‘showcase’ examples of best practice in ATSI male health
service delivery
 Enable the exchange of information, advice and ideas on work that is focused on
improving male health and wellbeing that is being carried out at the local level by
Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and others
 Increase access to primary health care services by ATSI males and participation by
ATSI males in healthy lifestyle activities and health promotion within the community
 Assist NACCHO to strategically develop an overarching gender/culture based
approach to service provision and
 Raise awareness, gain support for and communicate to the wider Australian public,
issues that have an impact on ATSI male health and social, emotional wellbeing.

Conference Theme
Attendance/Registrations

Sponsorship
• Platinum sponsor:$10,000 – 2 exclusive sponsors
• Gold sponsor: $5,000 - 3 sponsors
• Silver sponsor: $2,000 - 4 sponsors
• Bronze sponsor:$1,000 - 5 sponsors
A total of $17,500 in sponsorship was received for the event.
• Gold Sponsorship of $5,000 was received from;
• The Fred Hollows Foundation
• The Northern Territory Public Health Network
• The Geraldton Regional Aboriginal Medical Service
• Silver Sponsorship of $2,500 was received from Northern Territory General
Practice Education.

Sponsorship
The support of sponsors allowed a comprehensive, quality program to be
developed and for a range of excellent speakers to be engaged including
politicians, policy makers, public servants, aboriginal health experts, clinicians,
researchers, academics and “grass roots” aboriginal health practitioners.

• Welcome to Country
• One Mobdance
• Introduction – John Havnen NACCHO
• Welcome - Opening Address - John Paterson AMSANT
• Key Note Address - Hon Ken Wyatt MP Minister for Aged Care and
Indigenous Health
• Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the
NT - Olga Havnen - Danila Dilba Health Service (DDHS)
• Deadly Choices - Joseph Knuth - Danila Dilba Health Service (DDHS)
Program Day 1

Program Day 1 cont.
• StrongBala Program - Eric Thomas – Patrick AhKit - Wurli Wurlinjang
Health Services
• Aboriginal Men’s Sexual Health - Associate Professor James Ward – South
Aust. Health and Medical Research Institute
• Trans Inter-Generational Trauma - Trauma Informed Care - Sarah
Haythornthwaite - Danielle Dyall – AMSANT
• Family Violence - Charlie King - NO MORE Campaign
• Anger Management - Jack Bulman - Mibbinbah Limited
• The role of the Councillor - Paul Fong – Danila Dilba Health Service
itte
e.

The Jaydon Adams Memorial Oration Dinner
Introduction – Lizzie Adams
Larrakia History – Larrakia Elder – Ritchie Fejo
The Jaydon Adams Memorial Oration Award – Lizzie and Mark Adams
The Jaydon Adams Memorial Oration - Professor Tom Calma AO – David Leha
The Jaydon Adams
Memorial Oration Dinner

Presentations and Group Work
• The Hon Luke Gosling MP – Federal Member for Solomon
• Health and Formation of Adolescent Males - Stuart McMinn
• Male Suicide - Glen Poole – Australian Men’s Health Forum
• Male Youth Suicide - Nick Espie - Royal Commission into the Protection and
Detention of Children in the NT
• Local, State and National Planning – Dr Mick Adams - Australian Indigenous
HealthInfoNet
• Impromptu Presentations
Program Day 2

Program Day 2 cont.
• Group Work Suicide
• Inspiring Journeys - Joe Williams
• Addiction Ice - Associate Professor James Ward– South Aust. Health and
Medical Research Institute
• Addiction Nicotine - Nathan Rigney - Cancer Council SA
• Local, State and National Planning – Dr Mick Adams - Australian Indigenous
HealthInfoNet
• Impromptu Presentations

Feed Back
The majority of questions were framed in the following manner.
• What did you think of the presentation?
• How likely is it that you will apply what you have learned from presentation?
These two questions were utilised for the 14 presentations.
Five stars were utilised to rate the responses with five being the highest.
In answer to the first question the average rating on Day 1 & 2 was 4.3/5
In answer to the second question the average rating on Day 1& 2 was 4.2/5

Steering Committee
Overseeing and advising on all Conference production activities in particular;
• Development of the conference theme
• Selection of cultural performances
• Identification of prospective topics and possible speakers
• Selection of topics and speakers
• Identification of key note speakers
• Development of times for speakers
• Identification of MCs.
• Formulation and approval of Program
• Advice and monitoring of Sponsorship
• Selection of Venue
• Monitoring/Management of Registrations
• Nomination of Media Spokespersons
• Dissemination of information on the event through networks.
• Promotion of the event
• Monitoring of Budget
• Monitoring of the Promotional Plan
•

Venue 2018
Toowoomba 34 votes
Hobart 29 votes
Melbourne 9 votes
Sydney 5 votes
Shepparton 5 votes

Conclusion
The topics and the quality and expertise of the presenters in the conference was excellent.
This is borne out by the average feedback rating of 4.3/5 in response to the question - What
did you think of the presentation for Days 1 & 2.
If the average rating of 4.2/5 is credible for the question - How likely is it that you will apply
what you have learned from presentations; then the Conference surely has gone some of the
way to promoting the adoption of the principals embodied in the theme. “Men’s Health our
way. Let’s own it!

Conclusion
While everyone acknowledges the dire state of Aboriginal men’s
health …..the Minister acknowledged this is his presentation - Ken
Wyatt said that THERE IS NO DISGUISING THE FACT THAT THE
AVERAGE HEALTH OF OUR MEN IS NOTHING SHORT OF A NATIONAL
TRADGEDY
no one that has decided to champion the cause….as a result the
priority given to men’s health initiative hasn’t changed and it
continues to slip by seemingly unnoticed in a sense…. except by the
statisticians

John Paterson

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