Program: Friday 14 August - Health in Difference

HiD 2015

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Day 2: Friday 14 August

All events take place at the National Convention Centre, on the first floor.

Registration and welcome events will take place in the Ballroom Foyer.
Plenary sessions and the dinner take place in the Ballroom.
Breakout sessions take place in the Gallery Rooms: the Fitzroy, Murray, Swan and Torrens rooms.
Poster presentations and life drawing take place in the Gallery Foyer

9am – 10.30am	Ageing and Aged Care 1	Mental Health and Suicide Prevention 1	Intersections 1	Practice. Connect. Celebrate. 1
8am – 9am	Registration and arrival, tea and coffee Ballroom Foyer, first floor
	Fitzroy Room Chair: Rob Collins	Murray Room Chair: Sally Morris	Swan Room Chair: Dani Wright Toussaint	Torrens Room Chair: Gina Wilson
9am – 9.25am	Nothing about us without us (Catherine Barrett)	beyondblue’s Journey to Delivering LGBTI work (Shaun Staunton)	Decolonising transmasculinity: visibility of brotherboys (Kai Clancy, Dean Gilbert, Rita Gilbert)	Maximising the potential of our federal discrimination protections (Anna Brown)
9.25am – 9.40am	Nothing about us without us (Catherine Barrett)	Relationships Australia Queensland’s Rainbow Network (Chris Pye)
9.40am – 9.50am	NZ Silver Rainbow and Australia’s Silver Rainbow projects (Michal Boyd)		Sexual expression, sexual health and disability: Barriers accessing health services for queer women with disabilities (Jax Jacki Brown)
9.50am – 10.10am		Inclusive practice in a project-based environment (Alexandra Culloden)
10.10am – 10.20am	Silver Rainbow AU & the MOU with NZ (Sam Edmonds)
10.20am – 10.30am	Discussion and question time	Discussion and question time	Discussion and question time	Discussion and question time
10.30am – 11am	Morning tea and coffee Ballroom Foyer, first floor
11am – 12.30pm	Ageing and Aged Care 2	Mental Health and Suicide Prevention 2	Intersections 2	Practice. Connect. Celebrate. 2
	Fitzroy Room Chair: Gai Lemon	Murray Room Chair: Shaun Staunton	Swan Room Chair: Anna Brown	Torrens Room Chair: Dani Wright Toussaint
11am – 11.30pm	DSS Panel (Lou O’Neill, Shona McQueen, Emily Grayson)	Mental health in the trans and gender diverse community from the perspective of a transperson (Brenda Appleton)	Being Maori, Being Takatāpui (Leonie Pihama)	The balancing act: navigating peer, public and professional identities (Zoe Birkinshaw) (workshop)
11.30am – 12pm	DSS Panel (Lou O’Neill, Shona McQueen, Emily Grayson)	From chaps to change management, and all stages between (Max MacKenzie)	‘Asian’ and ‘white’ gay male dating profiles: linguistic expressions of identity, ethnicity and sexual health (William Marron)	Down the rascal hole: ‘complex needs client’ or the want to connect? (Jagur McEwan)
12pm – 12.15pm	Improving community connections through the Community Visitors Scheme (Leanne Renfree, Ann Matson)	Our stories, our selves (Bonnie Hart, Ross Jacobs)	Support needs of newly arrived, refugee or asylum seeking LGBT young people (Liam Leonard)	Diversity of needs of transgender youth (Elizabeth Riley)
12.15pm – 12.30pm	Community model of care for older LGBT (Polo Espino)	Our stories, our selves (Bonnie Hart, Ross Jacobs)		Diversity of needs of transgender youth (Elizabeth Riley)
12.30pm – 2pm	Lunch – Outside Ballroom Film screening: “Gen Silent” (Fitzroy Room) Video screening: “QLives” (Murray Room) Film screening and discussion: “Let’s Talk Bisexuality” (Swan Room) Film screening: “Gayby Baby trailer presentation” (Torrens Room) LGBTI Life events time line – Quick drawing (Gallery Foyer)
2pm – 3.30pm	Ageing and Aged Care 3	Mental Health and Suicide Prevention 3	Intersections 3	Practice. Connect. Celebrate. 3
	Fitzroy Room Chair: Nfanwy Welsh	Murray Room Chair: Gina Wilson	Swan Room Chair: Terence Humphreys	Torrens Room Chair: Gai Lemon
2pm – 2.10pm	Rethinking the provision of LGBTI-inclusive aged care services (Liam Leonard)	Future directions in LGBTI research and policy: Evidence, insights, and opportunities (Gávi Ansara)	Developing health provider training on working with LGBT people with alcohol and drug issues (Ruth McNair)	25-years and GLLO-ing: an insight into the history of NSW police gay and lesbian liaison (Jackie Braw, David Turner)
2.10pm – 2.20pm			Smoking cessation programs for LGBTI people (Israel Berger, Julie Mooney-Somers)
2.20pm – 2.30pm	19 years after the iceberg: re-imagining safety, stigma and loss in a new century (Ian Davis)	A qualitative analysis of predictive factors for suicide in LGBT populations in Australia (Delaney Skerret)	Understanding the high prevalence of smoking amongst LBG women in Sydney (Samar Haidar)	Camp Out: creating alternative spaces to foster self expression, community development and peer learning for LGBTIQA young people (Claire Pettigrew, Anastasia Zaravinos, Giulia Fragiacomo, Susan Farrar)
2.30pm – 2.40pm			Smoking and alcohol interventions for lesbian and bisexual women (Rhonda Brown)
2.40pm – 2.55pm	HIV, gay men and MSM, and ageing (Lizzi Craig, Alex Nikolovski)	Conversations matter when discussion suicide in LGBTI communities (Alexandra Culloden)	A multi-modal approach to the effective treatment of methamphetamine use for gay men (James Dale)	Work, live, play (Ricki Menzies, Gai Lemon)
2.55pm – 3pm			Using cross-organisational responses to address rates of methamphetamine use in LGBT populations (Sarah Lambert, Andrew Trist)	Work, live, play (Ricki Menzies, Gai Lemon)
3pm – 3.10pm	Attitudinal change utilising personal narratives to challenge stereotyping of ageing LGBTI HIV positive people (Max Niggl)	Rainbow Women’s help seeking behaviour: diverse beliefs, intentions and experiences (Ruth McNair)		Building up without bursting bubbles (Ricki Menzies, Gai Lemon)
3.10pm – 3.20pm			Discussion and question time
3.20pm – 3.30pm	Discussion and question time	Launch: beyondblue report on Rainbow Women’s help seeking behaviour	Discussion and question time	Discussion and question time
3.30pm – 4pm	Afternoon tea
4pm – 5.30pm	Ageing and Aged Care 4	Mental Health and Suicide Prevention 4	Intersections 4	Practice. Connect. Celebrate. 4
	Fitzroy Room Chair: Rob Collins	Murray Room Chair: Russell Flynn	Swan Room Chair: Shannon Wright	Torrens Room Chair: Dani Wright Toussaint
4pm – 4.15pm	The mental wellbeing impact of relocation on older LGBT people in NSW (Johann Kolstee, Elizabeth Burford)	Counting the mental health costs of religious “anti-gay” prejudice (Babucarr Sowe)	Separated same-sex parents’ experiences and views of government funded family relationship centres (Luke Gahan)	Progressing legislative reform of change of sex provisions (Peter Hyndal, Heidi Yates) (workshop)
4.15pm – 4.20pm			Partnerships in HIV testing to raise MSM awareness of HIV testing in regional NSW (Marie Reilly)
4.20pm – 4.25pm	LGBQ adults in Australia caring for older parents (Deborah Dempsey, Belinda Hewitt)
4.25pm – 4.30pm		Spirituality, sexuality and the community: Muslim gay men (Budi Sudarto)
4.30pm – 4.40pm			“I love Claude” Centralising desire and pleasure in health promotion for LGBTIQ Women who play in the kink scene (Michelle Ring)
4.40pm – 4.45pm	Palliative care for LGBTI people (Heidi Moore)
4.45pm – 4.50pm			Innovative sexual health promotion to engage lesbian, bisexual and queer women in a regional festival setting (Edda Lampis)
4.50pm – 5pm		Coming out of two closets: can the dichotomy of queer Christianity exist? (Riki Owens-Bennett)
5pm – 5.15pm	Ageing and end of life care: LGBTI issues for training and research (Philomena Horsley)		LBQ women’s health in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions (Di Drew)
5.15pm – 5.20pm		Discussion and question time	Discussion and question time
5.20pm – 5.30pm	Discussion and question time	Discussion and question time	Discussion and question time
From 7pm	Dinner, plus special guest speakers Ball Room, first floor