Overview
This conference is a must for everyone who wants to be a part of the movement to unite clinicians, people with lived experience of BPD, carers and policymakers around the urgent goal of ending the heartbreaking statistic that 1 in 10 people who die by suicide have symptoms consistent with a diagnosis of a personality disorder.
It will be held at the Amora Riverwalk Hotel in Richmond, Victoria and livestreamed.
Keynote Speakers:
* Dr. Peggy Brown AO ‘Uniting for Change’
* Lived Experience: Dr Hayley Peckham ‘When it hurts too much to carry
on: Suicide, Borderline Personality Disorder and the Crucible of Shame’
* Lived Experience, Carer: Meagan Henderson, NEABPD Australia
* A/Prof Sathya Rao: ‘Suicide Prevention in BPD’
Panel: 'Working together to make 1 in 10 history'
* Facilitated by Dr. Peggy Brown AO with:
* Rita Brown (Australian BPD Foundation – AUS)
* Prof Brin Grenyer OAM (Project Air Strategy for Personality Disorder – NSW)
* Dr Louise McCutcheon (Orygen – Vic)
* Cathy McLeod-Everitt (BPD Collaborative – SA)
* A/Prof Sathya Rao OAM (Spectrum: specialising in personality disorder and complex trauma – Vic)
Panel: 'Suicide prevention and BPD'
* Lived experience panelist, SaferCare Victoria, Spectrum, SANE and clinicians
Panel: 'Driving reform - Improving national mental health responses for complex needs like BPD'
* Chaired by Dr Peggy Brown AO, presenters and Foundation board members
Snapshot of current research:
* Assoc Professor, Dr Paul Cammell and Dr Dianna Bartsch
Networking Event
Spectrum: specialising in personality disorder and conplex trauma is an event sponsor.