Theme of the Day: Opening doors to recovery: Navigating hoarding, squalor and co-occurring substance use.About this Event
8.30am – Registration
Start 9am – 4.30pm
The day will provide learnings and practical strategies to help you navigate these complex areas of need, including:
• Assessing when additional intervention may be required.
• Exploring how current service cultures influence care delivery and outcomes.
• Identifying actions you can take to support positive change within your service and the broader treating team, promoting the least restrictive and most evidence-based approaches to care.
• Increasing your awareness of, and confidence in accessing existing services and supports.
9am-12:15pm
Keynote: Suzie Hudson
Clinical Advisor, Centre of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Ministry of Health. Adjunct Associate Lecturer, National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Medicine
Workshop 1: Pathways to Recovery: Supporting People with Significant and Persistent Mental Illness and Co-occurring Alcohol and Substance Use
Multiple facilitators – more information to come!
12:15pm - Lunch
1pm-4:30pm
Workshop 2: Supporting people experiencing hoarding disorder and issues related to squalor.
Facilitated by:
• Professor Jessica Grisham - Clinical Psychologist, international authority on hoarding disorder with extensive clinical experience (University of New South Wales).
• Judy Nicholas - Lived Experience Advisor
PLEASE NOTE REGISTRATION CLOSES ON 3 NOVEMBER 2026
Event venue
Ministry of Health, Level 1 / 1 Reserve Road, St Leonards, Sydney, Australia
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