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Statewide Women's Health Dinner

The Statewide Women's Health Forum 2004 was preceded by a dinner held at the Next Generation Function Centre in Memorial Drive on the 14th October. The dinner was attended by over 200 women from various levels of government and non government sectors. Community women from various projects and advisory groups also attended the event. The dinner was booked out within 2 weeks of announcing this event! Next year we will choose a bigger venue to get more women in.

Minister Stevens launched the evening with a rousing talk about the importance of women's health in the new millennium. Toni Schofield from the University of Sydney, spoke about the importance of a women's health policy and Donna Chung spoke to the audience on the economic cost of violence and evidence based decision making. Feedback from people who attended the dinner that it was a wonderful night celebrating women's health and connecting across sectors.

 

Statewide Women's Health Forum 2004

The second Statewide Women's Health Forum was held on 15th of October this year. The forum was attended by workers from Dale Street Women's Health Centre, Northern Women's Community Health Service, Southern Women's Community Health Service, Women's Health Statewide and workers in the National Women's Health Program from country regions. There were over 70 women attending on the day.

The morning session was facilitated by Ann-Marie Hayes, (WHS Director). Ann-Marie provided an overview of the current women's sector, peak bodies, committees and networks and their lines of accountability. Ann-Marie's presentation was followed by Dr Jenny Baker from the Uniapon School at the University of South Australia. Jenny provided a very interesting session on how Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples have been studies and researched throughout Australian history. The presentation was titled: Indigenous Health: The struggle to be seen as subjects not objects (abjection, subjection, race and gender issues). This session was reported favourably on many of our feedback sheets.

After lunch the participants attended the afternoon sessions. The topics for the afternoon sessions were generated by all services and workers being asked to identify the 2 'Hot Topics' for their work. Consequently the organising committee sought speakers within SA to present on these topics. Sessions were as follows:

• Standards for quality service provision when working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex populations - Women's Hands (Women's Health Action Network for Diverse Sexualities)
• Family & Domestic Violence: High & complex needs for Nunga Mi:minar clients - Micky Barlow, Nunga Mi:minar Women's Shelter
• Integration of Trauma and physical and mental health - Southern Women's Community Health Centre (Celia Karpfen, Char Dennis & Susan Phillips-Rees)
• Young Women & Risk Taking: What is our role? Janet Kelly, SHine SA
• The trouble with attachment theory: a feminist critique - Anne Morris
• Psychobiological aspects of trauma within a feminist context - Leslye Chenery WHS
• Seeing Whiteness - Kylie O'Connell, Department of Families & Communities
• The Place of Clinics in women's health work - Catherine Carroll (Dale Street) & Cheryl Baxter (WHS)

The afternoon concluded with the painting of a banner with all of the South Australian women's health services.

 

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