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Dr Christine Phillips

It is an expectation that health services engage with consumers and communities and work together to address health-related issues and promote well-being to achieve positive health outcomes. But what does that look and feel like from a community perspective?

This session will provide the opportunity to hear from two community leaders/representatives on some of the principles and processes that enable meaningful and appropriate engagement.

Presenters:
Mr Beny Aterdit Bol - President, Queensland African Communities Council (QACC)
More about QACC: https://www.qacc.com.au/about/

Mr Andrew Fa’avale - Director, Mana Pasifika
More about Mana Pasifika https://www.mana.org.au/about

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Andrew Fa'avale | Beny Bol

Presenter:
Sue Pager - Metro South Health
Karen Lucas - Mero South Health

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Karen Lucas | Sue Pager

For adult refugees and asylum seekers, their experiences prior to coming to Australia are marked with significant persecution and oppression. While experiences vary and as such manifestations of trauma can be unique, there are common principles to be applied to assist care is trauma informed and survivors are supported to heal. This presentation will examine the trauma reaction within the refugee experience, ways of supporting adults, families and communities to work towards healing by applying a brief case example. It will further explore services available at QPASTT for refugee and asylum seekers. 

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Amy Burkett

For children and young people, the refugee experience represents a significant disruption to their developmental trajectory due to multiple traumatic events and their dislocation from family, home and culture.  While children and young people from refugee backgrounds exhibit resilience, there can also be profound impacts on their growing sense of self, trust in others and understanding of the world. This presentation will explore the impacts of traumatic experiences on the attachment relationships and development of children and young people from refugee backgrounds. It will also discuss important related topics, including intergenerational trauma, culture and settlement stress.  The presentation aims to enhance participants’ understanding of signs and symptoms that may indicate a refugee-related trauma history, while also providing practical ideas on how to foster the safe and supportive environments necessary for recovery.  A brief case example will be used to demonstrate the trauma recovery framework and systemic approaches to healing.  Information will be provided about the referral process and programs at QPASTT for child and young people.

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Liz Gordon

This workshop will showcase multi-cultural projects occurring in the Simulation Centre at Logan Hospital. Project rational, design and achievements will be discussed. Further, participants are invited to engage, immerse and understand the simulation process with alignment of multi-cultural considerations. Each element of the simulation process will be defined and discussed to allow the audience to gain further insight into the modality of simulation. A low-fidelity simulation event will be undertaken within this workshop to allow participants to apply theory into practice- with reference to the care needs for culturally and linguistically diverse patients. Finally, this workshop will share some of the future projects that the simulation centre is currently working towards to achieve reflection of our community within simulation design.

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Rhiannon McHugh | Wendy Becker