This document provides the program for the Australian Long-Term Unemployment Conference held on December 1-2, 2016. The conference included presentations from government departments, non-profits, researchers and employers on topics related to long-term unemployment. It featured multiple sessions each day covering issues like preparing unemployed job seekers, the future of work, innovative programs and the employer perspective. The program outlined the schedule, speakers, topics and locations for each session.

1. CONFERENCE
PROGRAM 2016

2. Australian Long-Term Unemployment Conference
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY ONE: Thursday 1 December 2016
8:00am - 9:00am Registration with arrival tea and coffee
9:00—9:30am Welcome and Housekeeping: Ms Sue Trewin, Program Researcher, Australian New Zealand Mental Health Association
Welcome to Country: Aunty Valda Coolwell
Welcome from the Conference Chair: Mr Darren Coppin, Chief Executive, Esher House
9:30—10:00am Tapping Into the Talent Pool of Long-Term Unemployed Job Seekers
Mr Martin Hehir
Deputy Secretary, Department of Employment
10:00am - 10:30am Innovation and Inclusion
Mr Innes Willox
Chief Executive, Australian Industry Group
10:30am - 11:00am Morning Tea
11:00am - 11:30am Long term unemployed & small business
Mr Peter Strong
CEO, Council of Small Business
11:30am - 12:00pm Long-Term Unemployment in the Contemporary Australian Labour Market
Mr Ivan Neville
Branch Manager, Labour Market Research & Analysis Branch, Department of Employment
12:00pm - 12:30pm Reforming Income Support for a Changing Labour Market
Professor Peter Whiteford
Crawford School of Public Policy

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12:30pm - 1:30pm Networking Lunch
Real Solutions—programs and tools for
organisations
Issues affecting specific groups Open Topic
Room: Leichhardt
Session Chair: John Perry
Room: Wills
Session Chair: Mimi Laurilla
Room: Burke
Session Chair: Chris Dale
1:30pm - 2:00pm Ending Involuntary Unemployment Using
Fiscal Policy
Mr Damian Penston
Chairman
Fair Money Australia
Shouting "Foyer!" in a crowded space:
Adapting the Foyer model to the Australian
policy context
Mr Chris Stone
Senior Policy Officer
Yfoundations
Three not-so-simple strategies to maximise
the opportunity of the digital economy to
reduce rather than increase long term
unemployment
Mr Brentyn Parkin
Executive Director
Community Information Support Services
2:02pm - 2:32pm Exploring the vulnerability of resilience and
goal attainment, for the long term
unemployed in Southern Adelaide
Ms Carly Hamilton
Team Leader
Baptist Care SA
Dr Liz Hemphill
Senior Lecturer
University of South Australia
The characteristics and outcomes of
disengaged young people in LSAY
Ms Peta Skujins
Research Officer
NCVER
Job Satisfaction among the Underemployed:
The Role of Gender
Dr Temesgen Kifle
Lecturer
School of Economics, UQ
2:34pm - 3:04pm Empowering Jobseekers through
Motivational Interviewing
Dr Rachel Callaghan
National Operations Manager
Back2Work Health Specialists
Mrs Rina Smyth
National Business Improvement Manager
Back2Work Health Specialists
A Group Case Study - Enabling occupation
and study for forensic mental health patients
in a rural community
Ms Yvette Black
Occupational Therapist
Western NSW LHD
Jane Lumley
Education Officer
Western NSW LHD
Employer perceptions and reintegration of
the Long-Term Unemployed
Dr Frank Wasson
Indexer
YMCA

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3:04pm - 3:30pm Afternoon Tea
Real Solutions—programs and tools for
organisations
Issues affecting specific groups Open Topic
Room: Leichhardt
Session Chair: Margaret McNie
Room: Wills
Session Chair: Rick Leach
Room: Burke
Session Chair: Elana Agnew
3:30pm - 4:00pm Building the capacity of Practitioners to
support people impacted by inter-
generational poverty. An evaluative study of
the Bridges Out of Poverty Workshop
program in Tasmania
Mr Stuart Auckland
Program Coordinator
Centre for Rural Health
Long-term job seekers on income support.
A cohort-based analysis of their
characteristics and outcomes
Ms Emma Kate McGuirk
Branch Manager Work and Study Payments
Department of Social Services
Creating supportive workplaces for
disadvantaged candidates with partner
employers: The Given the Chance, Building
Bridges approach
Ms Jo Tabit
Senior Manager, Given the Chance
Brotherhood of St Laurence
Mr Brian Finnigan
Manager, Employer Engagement
Brotherhood of St Laurence
4:02pm - 4:32pm Waste to Wages - transforming lives through
resource recovery
Dr Terry Froggatt
Senior Lecturer - Head
Health and Social Wellbeing
Nan Tien Institute
Mr Andrew Douglas
National Manager
Resource Recovery Australia
Willing to Work but Doubly Discriminated:
the experiences of mature age carers
Ms Katherine Stone
Executive Manager Policy, Education and
Research
Carers NSW
Student centred design: Lessons from the
development of the Ready to Succeed online
toolkit
Mr Kevin Robbie
CEO
United Way Australia
4:34pm - 5:04pm Conversations That Connect - Turning
wishing to leave into determined to stay
Ms Leonie Stanfield
Consultant
Careertalk
The Carer Payment: a double-edged sword
for young carers
Miss Freya Saich
Policy and Development Officer
Carers NSW
Centrelink Entrapment: A Narrative Practice
for Individuals and Communities to Discover
and Apply Ways for Dealing with Long-Term
Unemployment
Mr Douglas Crowther
Social Worker
Hunter New England Area Health Service
5:05pm - 6:30pm Welcome Reception & Awards Presentation

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DAY TWO: Friday 2 December 2016
8:30am - 9:00am Registration with Arrival Tea and Coffee
Real Solutions—programs and tools for
organisations
Future of Work—the changing face of
work and the workplace
Preparing People for Work
Room: Leichhardt
Session Chair: Anthony Voss
Room: Wills
Session Chair: Lisa Patience
Room: Burke
Session Chair: Kathryn Lysons
9:00am - 9:30am The lived experience of mental illness: A
pathway into employment
Ms Jodie Goldney
Manager Professional Practice Academy
The PUT Institute/Aftercare
Are our programs fit for the future
Mr David Thompson
CEO
Jobs Australia
Cracks in the pathway to employment:
Structural barriers to employability for at-risk
youth
Professor Paula McDonald
Professor of Work and Organisation
Queensland University of Technology
Dr Katherine Moore
Lecturer
Queensland University of Technology
9:32am - 10:02am Funding employment services to outcomes:
why it hasn't led us to the 'promised land' and
how can we get there?
Mr Peter Davidson
Senior Advisor
Australian Council of Social Service
“Stickier Employment” options, that are
particularly important to the welfare to work
industry
Mr Dafydd Roberts
CEO
Lend a Hand
Tackling long-term youth unemployment:
Practical strategies to prepare young people
for work
Dr Salote Scharr
Senior Researcher
Yourtown
10:04am - 10:34am How Applied Behavioural Science Impact on
Youth and Employment Outcomes
Mr Adrian King
Director Behavioural Services and Programs
Esher House
Moving from unemployed to self-employed
in the workforce of the future
Ms Yasmin King
CEO
Skills IQ Limited
The Role of Career Development Assistance
in Helping the Long Term Unemployed return
to Work - a Career Practitioner's Perspective
Dr Bernard Bishop
Owner
Career Change

6. Australian Long-Term Unemployment Conference
10:34am - 11:00am Morning Tea
The Marginalised Unemployed Behavioural Aspects—relationship be-
tween mental health and the long term
unemployed
Open
Room: Leichhardt
Session Chair: Chris Dale
Room: Wills
Session Chair: Elizabeth Low
Room: Burke
Session Chair: Brian Finnigan
11:00am - 11:30am An alternative model for the delivery of
remote employment services
Mr Peter Defteros
Policy Analyst
Jobs Australia
So You’ve Had a Mental Health Issue! Well
We Want and Need You to Work for Us
Ms Fay Jackson
General Manager Inclusion
RichmondPRA/Flourish Australia
New Additions to the NEIS Program
Mr Arie Moses
Chairperson
National NEIS Association
11:32am - 12:02pm ACTIVE IN HELL: Paid training experiences to
youth with intellectual disabilities
Miss Kristyn Gain
Supported Employment Coordinator
Idea Services, New Zealand
For blood, sweat and tears : the severing of
subconscious connections with company
and business model
Mr Matthew Bennett
Partner
The Shining Snowflake Ltd
The era of the entrepreneur
Ms Kerry Anderson
Consultant
KA Rural Enterprises
12:04pm - 12:34pm Mature Aged Unemployment – why it could be
good for Australia
Mr Peter Waters
Director
Renewed Careers
Building career paths the Work and Learning
Centre approach
Lisa Patience
Senior Manager, Work and Learning Centre
Brotherhood of St Laurence

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12:34pm - 1:30pm Networking Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm Panel Presentation: Finding Solutions from the employer perspective
Panel:
Tim Shinnick – Regional Manager, Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland
Jane Oliver – Human Resources Manager, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Service
Peter Strong – CEO, Council of Small Business (to be confirmed)
Paul Kahlert – General Manager, All Purpose Transport
2:30pm—3:00pm The end of work as we know it—Work enablers as future employment creators
Mr Charles Cameron
CEO, Recruitment and Consulting Services Association
3:00pm - 3:30pm Employment, Education and Entrepreneurship: The Current State of Play Through the Eyes of Young Australians
Holly Ransom
CEO, Emergent (change and innovation)
3:30pm - 3:45pm Summary Overview of Key Outcomes of Conference
Mr Darren Coppin
Conference Chair
3:45pm - 4:15pm Afternoon Tea
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Case Study: Speakers Bank and How It Supports People with Disabilities through Public Speaking
Mimi Laurilla, Project Officer, Annecto Inc
The impact of informal care on long-term employment prospects
Timothy Broady, Senior Research and Development Officer, Carers NSW. Presented by: Katherine Stone, Executive Manager, Policy, Education & Research
PIVOT (pre-vocational training program): Building Bridges - Finding Solutions to Vocational Connection
Elizabeth Low, Senior Occupational Therapist, Mater Young Adult Health Centre