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A group of expert Mental Health Professionals Network webinar panellists have gone to air voicing their support for interdisciplinary collaborative practice.

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I present throughout the year across Australia and the world.I cannot think of a more enjoyable presentation experience than the 2012 Coffs Harbor MHPN Network meeting for Youth and Wellbeing. I hope that the practical steps towards minimising the harm from bullying and cyberbullying were useful.

—Dr Michael Carr-Gregg

Glenys Wilkinson

  "The AASW is enthusiastic about the significant contribution social workers make to their local MHPN networks. MHPN provides opportunities to collaborate with our interdisciplinary colleagues and learn new skills to make the provision of mental health care more responsive and innovative. "

— Glenys Wilkinson, CEO, Australian Association of Social Workers

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Jesse Taylor – coordinator of the Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing Network in Coffs Harbour – speaks on how MHPN is supporting interdisciplinary, collaborative mental health care.

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"A well trained mental health workforce is important to the delivery of quality mental health services and this project will result in improved referral pathways, increased knowledge of local services providers and better care coordination for people with mental health needs."

— Mark Butler, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing

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"Professional collaboration and online learning like MHPN webinars can only grow in frequency and effectiveness. We are becoming a much, much more internet connected species, and I’m sure we will see not only more of this, but more sophisticated interactions with a global audience."

— Professor Warwick Middleton, psychiatrist

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"MHPN networks have been invaluable to psychologists working in private practice. The networks are professionally supportive and provide an opportunity to inform other clinicians of the perspectives and practices that psychologists can bring to patient care."

— Professor Lyn Littlefield, Executive Director OAM, APS

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