Late papers may be considered for presentation
at the Conference
Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing -
Progress through Partnerships
The Clifford Beers Foundation Annual Series of Mental Health
Promotion Conferences in the UK and Ireland
17th and 18th May 2006
Royal Horticultural Halls Conference Centre
Greycoat Street, London
The conference will be opened by Rosie Winterton
MP, Minister of State for Health Services.
The Conference is organised by The Clifford
Beers Foundation in collaboration with The Department of Health and Children
(Ireland), The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety,
Northern Ireland The Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland, The
Scottish Executive, NHS Health Scotland, The Welsh Assembly Government
and NIMHE (England)
Welcome
There is growing and compelling evidence that promoting mental
health and wellbeing in individuals and communities makes a positive difference;
there are social and economic benefits for each of us, our families, employers,
society and government.
The theme of the Conference Promoting
Mental Health and Wellbeing – Progress through Partnerships is
very opportune as we now more readily start to accept how mental health
promotion and wellbeing can only be improved through the collective action
of society. A successful outcome depends upon action, not only from government
but from a range of sectors including business and commerce, education,
labour, justice, health and social welfare and transport. Such action is
also dependent upon effective inter-sector collaboration and partnerships.
This Conference will drive the agenda forward and provide
the opportunity to encourage partnerships to:
- promote further discussion on the status and challenges
of mental health promotion;
- seek political and other support for mental health promotion
initiatives;
- exchange innovative ideas and practices;
- create new concepts, methods of evaluation and indicators
to raise awareness of models of best practice.
Please join with us in turning the vision into reality.
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Conference themes
- Partnerships for advocacy and policy development – including
finding allies across government and in other organisations at national,
regional and local level; recognising cross-cutting themes and the potential
for sharing agendas; and building coalitions around mutually reinforcing
targets and objectives.
- Partnerships for establishing principles and developing
programmes – including establishing a basis of shared values to underpin
promotion work, agreeing what constitutes evidence of effectiveness and working
with others on strategic planning and commissioning to improve mental health
and wellbeing.
- Partnerships for building capacity – including pooling
resources, sharing workforce development, agreeing knowledge and skills required,
working with others on training and continuing professional development for
staff whose roles have the potential to promote mental health and wellbeing.
- Partnerships for effective implementation – including
working with colleagues across statutory, voluntary and independent sector
organisations to deliver interventions which will lead to measurable improvements
in mental health and wellbeing.
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Why attend?
Promotion/prevention strategies are urgent public health
concerns and the need for the promotion of mental health and wellbeing has
now become a feature of government policy within the United Kingdom and Ireland.
During the last thirty years we have seen rapid developments in the field and
the main barriers to enhancing this work are no longer a dearth of knowledge
or programmes but rather the lack of:
- shared information about on-going research and successful
programmes, policies and organisational models;
- collaboration on the development of new knowledge and
the implementation of programmes and strategies;
- the effective use of scarce resources.
This conference provides the opportunity to address these
issues by engaging with leaders and experts from a range of disciplines in
exploring how effective partnership working can assist in disseminating and
implementing of a range of effective promotion and prevention strategies, influence
policy makers and administrators and help promotion and prevention strategies
take their rightful place on the health and social care, economic, cultural
and political agenda.
Participants are therefore invited from:
- policy makers and policy administrators in local/national
government;
- professionals and clinicians in health and social care;
- service users;
- researchers and scientists;
- representatives of institutional settings, e.g. education,
legal and judicial and labour.
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Conference format
Presentations will be organised around the conference themes,
broken down into different life stages and a ‘general community’ heading,
as follows:
Conference
theme
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Life
Stage
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Prenatal/early
years
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School
age
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Working
age
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Older
age
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General
community
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| Partnerships for
advocacy and policy development |
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| Partnerships for
establishing principles and developing programmes |
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Partnerships for
building
capacity |
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Partnerships for
effective
implementation |
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Within the above framework, there will be the opportunity
for individual papers (20 minutes), workshops (80 minutes) and symposia
(series of papers around a theme, 80 minutes), plus poster sessions.
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Delegate fees
- Standard fee – for payments received up to 15th
April, 2006 £200 + VAT
- Late booking fee – for payments received after
15th April 2006 £250 + VAT
- A limited number of day delegate places will be available £150
+ VAT
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Booking information
Booking forms are available via email from: registration@charity.demon.co.uk
or can be downloaded here as
a Word form that can be completed electonically or here as
a Word document that can be printed off and completed. Alternatively, The Clifford
Beers Foundation can be contacted at: Mariazell, 5 Castle Way, Stafford, ST16
1BS, England, Tel/Fax: 01785 246668. For information on hotel accommodation
and for a booking form, click here.
Please note that bookings will be made through Elizadora Worldwide, not The
Clifford Beers Foundation.
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Call for papers: submission of abstracts
Potential contributors to the Conference are invited to submit
abstracts of papers or posters for consideration by the Scientific Committee.
Papers and posters must address one of the Conference themes and relate to
either the general community or to a particular stage in the life-cycle i.e.
pre-natal and early years; school age children; adults of working age; older
people. Preference given to papers/posters reporting on practice initiatives
that have been subject to systematic evaluation and have outcomes from which
other organisations can learn. Purely theoretical papers will have a lower
priority. Individual papers will be allocated a time slot of no more than 20
minutes in the parallel sessions, including questions. Workshops (80 minutes)
and symposia (collections of papers around a central topic totalling 80 minutes)
can be accommodated but must be requested at time of submission.
The closing date for submission of abstracts is: February
17th 2006 but late papers may be accepted. All submissions
will be acknowledged on receipt and authors will be notified of the decision
of
the Scientific
Committee
in mid-March. Late papers will be considered subject to space being available
in the Conference programme.
Additional notes for potential presenters:
- All abstracts must be submitted in electronic format,
in any version of Microsoft Word or a compatible program. The length should
be no more than 400 words and they must arrive no later than 17th
February 2006.
- All correspondence relating to abstracts, including emails,
must be in the name of the main author who will remain the main contact point.
- Abstracts should be double spaced and use 12 point Arial
or Helvetica font. They should include the title of the paper on one line
and the author(s) on a separate line before the body of the abstract, all
in 12 point Arial or Helvetica.
- Abstracts must be on the official abstract submission
form (download here)
and submitted to: abstracts@charity.demon.co.uk as
an attachment. The submission form is in Word format and includes form-fields
to assist completion. If you are using a different word processing programme
that does not support Word form-fields, you will need to use the official
abstract covering form, which can be downloaded here in
Word format and send this, together with your abstract, to: abstracts@charity.demon.co.uk as
attachments.
- All presenters must register as delegates for the Conference.
Criteria for selection of abstracts
The criteria that will be used for selecting abstracts are:
- How well the abstract addresses the themes of the Conference.
- Whether the abstract addresses the identified life stages
or the general community.
- How far the findings of the work are evidence-based.
- How far the abstract illustrates partnership working.
- How far the work undertaken demonstrates a commitment
to evaluation.
- Whether the work provides guidelines to inform future
practice.
If you have any queries about the process, please contact
the conference office: london06@charity.demon.co.uk.
Click here to go The Clifford Beers
Foundation home page.
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April 26, 2006
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