WS21CWF Child Wellbeing Forum

CHILD WELLBEING FORUM:
IMMUNISATION,
CHILD MENTAL HEALTH
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND THIS FORUM?
At this event you will be able to ask questions of professionals who work
directly with clients who are hesitant to immunise their child/children.
Also there will be specialists who can give you some insight into the
latest information about children’s Mental Health concerns.
Speakers on Immunisation,
Dr. Fasher who is Adjunct Associate Professor University of
Sydney and Conjoint Associate Professor University of
Western Sydney
Gerard Moon Children’s Services Co-ordinator Auburn City
Council and the Public Health Unit
Speakers on Child Mental Health,
Counsellor Sanja Stefanovic from STARRTS,
Transcultural Mental Health and a Local Community
Health Centre.
CODE: WS21CWF
DATE: WEDNESDAY 27TH MAY, 2015
TIME: 8.45AM—4.00PM
LOCATION: Dooley’s Catholic Club,
24-28 John Street, Lidcombe
COST: $77 NGO Members
Who is it for?
Family workers
Community workers, Local councils
Settlement & Multicultural workers
$132 NGO Non Members
Children Services & Teachers,
$165 GOVT Worker
Early intervention workers
ENQUIRES: Chris 02 96206172 or
[email protected]
Please advise the project worker of special dietary
needs 2 weeks prior to the event
To register go to www.fwtdp.org.au
Health professionals
Others working with families &
children
Sanja Stefanovic,
is a child and adolescent counsellor at STARTTS. Her passion for working with people
affected by war started while still in her native Croatia where she had worked as a
psychologist.
Sanja has worked at STARTTS for the last six years, providing refugee children,
adolescents and their families with psychosocial assessments and therapeutic
interventions using a variety of techniques and approaches. She has worked with clients
from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds in both individual and group settings.
Sanja completed a Sand play Therapy course with Karen Daniel in 2011, and since then
has incorporated it in her therapeutic work with clients at STARTTS.
Gerard Moon,
Gerard is the Children's Services Co-ordinator at Auburn Council. He has worked as a
manager of local Government education and care services for the past eighteen years
and has managed long day care, family day care, OOSH and preschools. During his 27
year career in children's services Gerard has been a hospital play therapist, worked in
long day care (mostly nurseries), OOSH facilities and has been an education and care
director on a resort island in the Whitsundays
Dr. Michael Fasher.
is Adjunct Associate Professor University of Sydney and Conjoint Associate Professor
University of Western Sydney, General Practitioner has been a
General practitioner in Blacktown, NSW, for 35 years. He is particularly
interested in paediatric and adolescent medicine in general practice. He
teaches medical students from the University of Sydney and the University of Western
Sydney and registrars in the GP training program.