Webinar: Mental Health and Property Management
Cost: Member: FREE
Date and time: 19 June 2018 11am-12pm.
In this free member webinar, you will learn how to better manage tenancies involving people affected by mental illness, whether they are new tenancies, or existing tenancies becoming compromised. Experts in their fields will discuss how mental health problems can impact anybody in the community, and how long and successful tenancies can yet be achieved in such context.
In particular you will learn about:
• Brief overview of the main types of mental illness
• Strategies to contribute to the success of these tenancies
• Response to trauma and distress in your tenants and effective communication
• What to do when there are concerns about someone’s safety
• Relevant contact details and the benefit of collaborating with community services
• Lived experience of mental illness and successful tenancies
Meet the presenters
Guy Dayhew, Project Officer , Northern NSW Local Health District, Mental Health Emergency Care Rural Access Program (MHEC RAP)
Guy is an Occupational Therapist with 26 years’ experience across city and regional Mental Health Services. He has worked extensively in both inpatient and Community Mental Health settings.
Guy has been involved with the education of training Occupational Therapists for the majority of his career and worked on the academic staff of The University of Sydney over several years. He is an original member of the Richmond Real Estate Engagement Project, overseeing the Northern NSW Local Health District input into the rollout of annual Mental Health Month education days for Real Estate Property Managers from Lismore and surrounds. He is currently based in Lismore as the Mental Health Emergency Care Rural Access Program Coordinator for Northern NSW Local Health District.
Julie Dardel, Project Coordinator, Newtown Neighbourhood Centre
Julie has worked for various community services in Sydney since 2008 where she held a diversity of positions in advocacy, education and community development, with a primary focus on issues related to disability and mental health. She holds a Master’s degree of Social Sciences and a Diploma of Disability and Community Services Management. Julie currently works for the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre, a community centre located in Sydney’s Inner West which has a Specialist Homelessness Service (SHS) funded through the NSW Government. She is exploring avenues for the private rental sector and community services to collaborate for the success of compromised tenancies.
Gary Shallala-Hudson, Peer Linker, Ability Links
Gary has been a Peer Consultant since early 2012. He has consulted in many collaborative projects in mental health and the community sector with services including Grow, C3A (Consumer Advisory, Advocacy and Action), Partners in Recovery, NNSW District Mental Health, Being NSW and Social Futures. Gary is currently working at Ability Links, a service working towards the inclusion of people with disability in the community. He also took part in an initiative called “Trauma Informed Tenancy Management” through which he shared with Real Estate Agents his lived experience of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, homelessness, recovery and tenancy.
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