Events

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2025

March

2025 Frontline Mental Health Conference
3 - 4 March 2025
RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, QLD

Ageing Symposium - Our future: Enabling older people to live their best lives
Ministerial Advisory Council on Ageing NSW
3 March 2025, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
State Library of New South Wales Auditorium
Macquarie Street Entrance, Cnr Hunter St and Macquarie St. Sydney

Let's do lunch with Rosie Batty
Flourish Australia
5 March 2025, 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Online

DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) Awareness Day 2025
5 March 2025

NSW Seniors Festival
3 - 16 March 2025

Substance Use Forum - Pacific Islander Communities
Odyssey House NSW's Multicultural Programs
7 March 2025, 4:00 pm - 7:30 pm 
The Grounds Keeper Cafe, Blacktown

International Women's Day
8 March 2025

Applied Motivational Interviewing
Mental Health Coordinating Council
11 March 2025, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Online

Premier's Harmony Dinner 2025
Multicultural NSW
12 March 2025, 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Grand Ballroom, ICC Sydney

Story of Us, Intercultural Fair
Northern Beaches Fair
16 March 2025, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Lake View Hall and Berrry Hall, Tramshed, Narrabeen NSW 2101

Carers & Advocacy: Foundations
Mental Health Carers NSW
18 March 2025, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Online

World Social Work Day ‘Strengthening Intergenerational Solidarity for Enduring Wellbeing’  
18 March 2025

Interpreter training - Inclusive Practice for Working with People with Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Bodies from Refugee Backgrounds
STARTTS
19 March 2025, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Online event

Mental Health Symposium 2025 - Celebration of the Future of Mental Health
Central Coast Mental Health Service
19 March 2025, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Gosford Hospital, 75 Holden Street Gosford, NSW 2250

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
20 March 2025

Lunchtime Webinar - The Administrative Review Tribunal & Protection Visas
Immigration Advice & Rights Centre
20 March 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Webinar

Meet your Neighbour Lithgow
Mental Health Coordinating Council
25 March 2025, 12:00pm - 2:00 pm
Maldhan Ngurr Ngurra Lithgow Transformation Hub
154 Mort St, Lithgow NSW 2790

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference: Bright Minds, Bright Futures: Enhancing Child and Adolescent Wellbeing
Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Association
24 – 26  March 2025
Gold Coast, QLD

8th National Social and Emotional Wellbeing Forum
Third Sector
25 - 28 March 2025
Pullman On The Park
192 Wellington Parade, VIC, East Melbourne, 3000, Australia

Delivering Safe, Quality, and Culturally Responsive Mental Health Services
Embrace Multicultural Mental Health
26 March 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Webinar via Zoom

Bankstown Men's Table Entree - Introduction to a new 'Men's Table' men's group
The Men's Table
26 March 2025, 6:30 pm arrival for 7:00 pm- 9:00 pm
Condell Park Hall, Corner Simmat Avenue and Lancelot Street, Condell Park, NSW 2200

ALIVE National Centre Annual Symposium 2025
ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation
26 - 28 March 2025
26 March in person & online, 27 -28 March in person only
Araluen Arts Centre, 61 Larapinta Drive, Mparntwe (Alice Springs), NT

Supporting Complex Mental Health Beyond Traditional Care
Black Dog Institute
27 March 2025, 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm or 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Webinar - online

World Bipolar Day
30 March 2025

Improving your practice: Working across sectors
Mental Health Professionals' Network
31 March 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Webinar

April 

You Can't Deny it – Gender Euphoria Saves Lives
MindOut
1 April 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Online via Zoom

StandBy Online Postvention Symposium 2025 – Fostering Innovation, Connection, and Care
StandBy Support after Suicide
2 April 2025, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Online

How to use neurodivergent-affirming strategies to support child mental health
Australian Institute of Family Studies and Emerging Minds
2 April 2025, 1:00 – 2:00PM
Webinar

SSPC 46th Annual Meeting Bridging Cultures in Mental Health: Local Insights, Global Implications
Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC)
3 -5 April 2025
Albuquerque, New Mexico USA

TheMHS Forum 2025 Piecing the Puzzle Together - Understanding and Improving the Mental Wellbeing of Children and Young People
The Mental Health Services (TheMHS) Learning Network
8 - 9 April 2025
Mercure, Sydney

MYAN NSW National Youth Settlement Framework Training
Multicultural Youth Affairs Network NSW
29 - 30 April 2025, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm on both days
Parramatta, NSW

Inclusive Practice for Working with People with Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Bodies from Refugee Backgrounds
STARTTS
30 April 2025, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Online event

Violence against women in refugee communities
Education Centre against Violence
30 April 2025 - 1 May 2025
North Parramatta

May

Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry 31st Annual Summer Program
McGill University, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
5 May 2025 -  27 June 2025
Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Interpreter training - Inclusive Practice for Working with People with Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Bodies from Refugee Backgrounds
STARTTS
7 May 2025, 9:30am - 3:30pm
Online event

Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 2025 Congress - Bright Lights and Big Ideas
4 - 8 May 2025
Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre

One Door Mental Health Symposium 2025
15 May 2025, 9:30 am - 4:00 pm 
Pullman Sydney Hyde Park

Dreaming Big: Promoting Better Sleep for Children and Families
Webinar for NSW Health Psychologists
SESLHD Psychology
20 May 2025, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Webinar via Teams

National Suicide Prevention Conference Together Towards Tomorrow
Suicide Prevention Australia
20 -22 May 2025
Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, WA

Perspectives Lived Experience e-Symposium 2025
Finding North Network and Mental Illness Fellowship Australia (MIFA)
27 - 28 May 2025

Inclusive Practice for Working with People with Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Bodies from Refugee Backgrounds
STARTTS
28 May 2025, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Online event 

June 

2025 International Mental Health Conference. From Local Communities to Global Perspectives: Reimagining & Revolutionising Mental Health
4 - 5 June 2025
Gold Coast, QLD

Refugee Week 2025 -  Finding Freedom: Diversity in Community
15 - 21 June 2025

Planetary Health: The Contribution of Transcultural Care – The Past, The Present, and The Future
European Transcultural Nursing Association, 10th International Conference
22 - 25 June 2025
Budapest, Hungary

July

National Care and Support Sector Conference 
For Purpose Leaders
25 July 2025 7:30 am - 5:00pm
State Reception Centre
60 Fraser Avenue Kings Park, WA 6005

Australian Psychosis Conference 2025 - Rivers of Connection Integrating research, practice & lived experience
Psychosis Australia
29 - 30 July 2025
Rydges, South Bank Brisbane, QLD

September

35th TheMHS Conference. ENVISIONING 2050: Towards a better mental health system
2 - 5 September 2025
Royal International Convention Centre - Brisbane

2025 Queer Displacements Regional challenges, global solidarity, practical solutions focus on the Asia and the Pacific
Forcibly Displaced Peoples Network
4 - 5 September 2025
Victoria University, Naarm (Melbourne) Australia

Strengthening Disability Advocacy Conference 2025 - Disability Advocacy Showcase: Impacts of Advocacy in local communities.
Disability Advocacy Resource Unit
18 September 2025, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Arena, NAB, 700 Bourke Street Melbourne 

October

Asia-Pacific Mental Health and Well-being Congress 'Future Directions: Pioneering Mental Health and Well-being Initiatives'
27 - 29 October 2025
Bali, Indonesia