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| A busy day in Manly |
It’s been the long holiday weekend here and so I’ve had the time to do a bit of sightseeing which has included a trip up to the beautiful Blue Mountains and another over to Manly on the ferry. It’s also been a welcome opportunity to catch up on a bit of background reading and to bring all my notes up to date.
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| The Blue Mountains |
Today’s meetings have taken me out of the city again to meet two key people driving the COPMI agenda here in NSW. Firstly I set off to meet Dr Adrian Falkov, a child & adolescent psychiatrist who has played an integral part in the development of policy, training and practice relating to COPMI families in both Australia and the UK and then off to meet Noha Sutton, the COPMI/Parenting Program Manager at the policy department, MH-Kids who is responsible for ensuring the implementation of the newly published NSW COPMI Framework.
Both meetings proved to be a great opportunity to gain a better overall picture of the NSW COPMI programme including policy as well as practice and to discuss the many issues that have come to mind throughout my trip e.g. how has the COPMI programme impacted on the identification of young carers and why is Crossing Bridges targeted primarily at adult mental health workers rather than the broader workforce as in the UK etc.
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| Kangaroos in the Blue Mountains |
Just a brief post today I’m afraid as tomorrow I need to set off early to join the bus taking young carers on the three hour trip south to Camp Djanaba, a camp run by Young Carers NSW. I have been promised a sighting of a wombat at camp – how exciting. There will be no internet connection now, possibly until I return to the UK, but I will post an update when I can.
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| View of Manly from Shelly Bay |
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