Keynote
Speakers

Dr Ann York
Ann
works in Tier 3 CAMHS, including young people in the justice and care
system. Her clinical interests include neurodevelopmental disorders and
depression. She chairs the CAMHS Forum for the Trust and is an
undergraduate and postgraduate trainer.
She has extensive
experience in service development aimed at increasing access and
effectiveness of CAMHS following successful, continuous, redesign in
her own service and training in demand and capacity management.
She is intensely curious about how teams function and co-operate to
make the best use of skills and time for the benefit of families. She
is passionate about making services easy for young people to use,
making a difference and creating change.
From April 2007 to
March 2009 Ann was CAMHS Medical Advisor to the Department of Health in
England. Most recently she has produced national guidance on improving
access to CAMHS, chairs the advisory board for the National CAMHS
Dataset and QINMAC Advisory board (standards for CAMHS). She has worked
on the National NHS Contract and Payment by Results. She is a member of
the CORC Board (CAMHS Outcomes Research Consortium). In the past Ann
was Honorary secretary for the Executive of the Child and Adolescent
Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, clinical governance
reviewer for the Commission for Healthcare Improvement and advisor to
the Healthcare Commission until 2009; MHRA Adviser on antidepressants
2003/04.
Joint Presentation Title - CAPA and the Challenge of Change

Dr Steve Kingsbury
Steve
has a special interest in demand and capacity management of waiting
times in CAMHS and has piloting several new models of working across
the Hertfordshire CAMHS teams since 1993. He has completed
several days of demand and capacity training with the Modernisation
agency.
He believes we can find ways to be more efficient and
that we should not accept current practice just because it’s always
been that way. The challenge is how to become more efficient within a
quality framework.
His passion is about working with young
people and their families in a respectful and open way that furthers
their concerns and choices using our expertise.
His other
interests are IT, attachment, ADHD and systemic practice. He has been
the Honorary Secretary for the Child and Adolescent Faculty Executive
of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Chair of the general adult /
child psychiatry interfaculty working group, and a Director of the
national children’s mental heath charity, Young Minds. He has been a
clinical service reviewer for HASCAS (the Health and Social Care
Advisory Service). Steve was also the CAMHS Medical Advisor to the
Department of Health in England from September 2006 to March 2007.
Joint work:
Ann and Steve have been invited to work
with CAMHS around the UK to help them with service redesign through
holding workshops, tailored to the needs of teams. By May 2010 they had
worked with about 400 teams and 3800 staff in the UK, Belgium, New
Zealand and Australia, including clinicians, managers and
commissioners. In 2007 they ran 3 weeks of workshops for Adult Mental
Health and CAMHS in New Zealand, at the invitation of the Ministry of
Health and the Werry Centre.
They have written a book, ‘The Choice and Partnership Approach- a
guide to CAPA’ and run a website to support change in CAMHS: www.camhsnetwork.co.uk
Joint Presentation Title - CAPA and the Challenge of Change
Invited Speakers

Dr Siale 'Alo Foliaki
Dr
Siale 'Alo Foliaki is a graduate of the University of Otago and is
currently employed by the Counties Manukau District Health Board as
Clinical Director of the Pacific Mental Health Services. He is the
country's first Tongan psychiatrist.

Prof Philip C. Kendall, Ph.D., ABPP
Dr. Kendall has been a researcher, scholar, and clinician for 35
years. His CV lists over 450 publications, including over 30
books and over 20 treatment manuals and workbooks. His
treatments, such as his Coping cat program for anxious youth, have been
translated into dozens of languages, and he has had over 20 years of
uninterrupted grant support from various agencies. Having
received many thousands of citations per year, he placed among an elite
handful of the most “Highly-Cited” individuals in all of the social and
medical sciences. In a recent quantitative analysis of the
publications by and citations to all members of the faculty in the 157
American Psychological Association approved programs in clinical
psychology, Dr. Kendall ranked 5th.
Presentation
Title - Treating Anxious Attachments in Youth: Clinical Procedures
Informed by Develpomental, Cognitive and Behavioral Family Literatures.

Dr
Te Kani Kingi – Massey University
Dr Te Kani Kingi is Director of Te Mata o te Tau, The Academy for
Maori Research and Scholarship at Massey University in Wellington, New
Zealand. He has a specialist interest in mental health research,
psychometrics, and Maori health.
He has formally been an
executive member of the New Zealand Public Health Association, The
Mental Health Advocacy Coalition, and the National Ethics Advisory
Committee. He currently sits on the National Health Committee,
the Public Health Advisory Committee, the Pharmacy Council and is Chair
of the New Zealand Mental Health Commission’s Advisory Board.
Presentation Title - He Hokinga Mahara, he Kitenga Huarahi: A Memory From the Past, a Pathway to the Future

Banu
Moloney – President of Victorian Association of Family
Therapists
Banu Moloney is a lecturer at the Bouverie Centre, la Trobe University
in the postgraduate Family Therapy Courses. She has over 25 years
experience as a family therapist with a special interest in working
with children and adolescents in the context of their families.
She is
a qualified Social Worker, Psychologist and family Therapist. Banu has
many years experience in designing and conducting training programmes
in family therapy, counseling and consultation to a wide range of
organisations. Banu has also been involved in the Centre for Grief
Education in curriculum development and delivery in the graduate
Diploma in Child and Adolescent Grief Counseling.
Presentation Title - Family Therapy
Marti Eller - Ministry of Social Development
Marti
Eller is General Manager Operations at Family and Community Services, a
division of MSD responsible for initiatives and programmes that provide
support, ideas and services to help families to manage their own growth
within supportive communities. FACS work is with community organisations and
communities themselves who are working to make change early in the life of a
problem, to reduce the need for government intervention in that family's
life. Examples of FACS work are the SKIP parenting approach, the "It's not
OK" campaign and stewardship of Strengthening Families local management
groups.
Marti has
worked in local and national Government managing
relationships between the community sector and Government across the
employment, education, justice and social development fields. She has worked
over the last year with Minister Bennett's advisory group as they developed an
alternative approach to community based funding decisions, and she is looking
forward to the implementation of this approach - and to your ideas about how
this can happen!!
Presentation Title - People Helping People
Andrew Beattie - Youth Justice Co-ordinator
Presentation title to follow
Workshop Presenter

Dr Denise Guy
Dr
Denise Guy is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with specialty
expertise in Infant Mental Health. She has a strong commitment to
education and supervision for clinicians from many disciplines working
with children, their families and wider systems. She is currently
Vice-President of the Infant Mental Health Association Aotearoa New
Zealand (IMHAANZ). She is involved in supervision and training for the
Watch, Wait, and Wonder Intervention.
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