"Together We Can..." NZCCSS Conference 2010

Waipuna Conference Centre, Auckland 22nd  - 23rd April 2010
The conference theme “Together We Can…” is a call for us to build cooperation in the sector and a vision of working together with older people to make a difference in their lives and the lives of those around them.
 
Around 150 participants were part of this year's conference experience and we have been receiving lots of positive feedback. Thank you to all of you who contributed to making this a great success!
 
We will be posting the presentations and papers from the conference as they become available, so keep an eye out on our website.
 
Download the Registration Brochure with Programme outline:  here
 
Paul Barber NZCCSS  Secretariat
 

Conference Opening Address

 "Together We Can: Strategic Directions" NZCCSS President Shaun Robinson 

Keynote Speakers

Sandra Hills, Victoria, Australia
 
 
Sandra is Chief Executive Officer, Benetas, with over 20 years experience in a range of
 
Senior Management roles in the Health and Community Services industry, State & Local Government and the Community Sector.
 
 
Sandra is a Director of Anglicare Australia, and Aged and Community Care Victoria, a member of the Ministerial Aged Care Advisory Committee (2004 - present) and member of various other State Government Advisory and Reference Committees,. 

Keynote address (click on icon to download) 
 
  "Let's be clear about who we are: values based, faith driven, spiritually integrated and community focussed"
 
 
Dr Michael McCabe, Wellington 
 
Dr. Michael McCabe, Director of the Nathaniel Centre for Bioethics, has great deal of experience of the sector and the spiritual, ethical and social challenges in that the services for older people sector faces.
 
He is a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Wellington, and currently Parish Priest of St Patrick's Parish, Paraparaumu. He completed his doctoral dissertation in moral theology and bioethics at the Accademia Alfonsiana in Rome in 1994. Dr McCabe has worked in bioethics with a wide range of groups, and was a member of the Wellington Regional Health Authority Ethics Committee 1996-2001. He was appointed the first Director of The Nathaniel Centre in September 1999. 
 
Keynote Address (click on link below to download)
 
"Making a Difference in Challenging Environments" 
 
Rod Oram, Auckland 
 
Business commentator and journalist Rod Oram has more than 30 years’ experience as an international business journalist. He has worked for various publications in Europe and North America, including the Financial Times of London.
 
Rod and his family emigrated from the UK to New Zealand in 1997.
 
He is currently a columnist for the Sunday Star-Times and Good Magazine; a regular broadcaster on radio and television; and a frequent public speaker.
 
He was named the Landcorp Agricultural Communicator of the Year for 2009.
Rod is an adjunct professor in the Business School at Unitec. And Penguin published in 2007 his book on the New Zealand economy, Reinventing Paradise.
 
Keynote address (click on icon to download) 
 
 "Not-for-profit, faith-based - why working together is the way of the future" 
 
Matthew Croucher, Christchurch
 
 Dr Croucher is a Psychiatrist of Old Age and academic working for the Canterbury District Health Board and the University of Otago, Christchurch.  He has acted as a liaison person for the NZCCSS in recent Ministry of Health attempts to improve services for people with dementia and older people with mental health problems and was one of the informants for the NZCCSS's recent publication "Working Together We Can Respond to Dementia".  Besides clinical and research work, his main focus is on the role teaching and training can play to arm the health and care sector to better respond to the challenges we all face with the ageing of the people of Aotearoa New Zealand
 
Keynote address (click on icon to download)
 
 "Dementia Care - walking in each others shoes means we won't get lost"
 
 
Hon John Carter, Minister for Senior Citizens
 
John Carter has been the National Party Member for the Bay of Islands Electorate since 1987. He is a fifth generation New Zealander, born, bred and educated in the North. He is married and a has eight grandchildren.

The Minister for Senior Citizens is responsible for representing the rights and interests of older people in the Government’s policy making process. The Minister oversees the work of the Office for Senior Citizens including the implementation of the New Zealand Positive Ageing Strategy. Key priorities for the Minister in this work is to change attitudes towards ageing and protecting the rights and interests of older people by raising awareness of elder abuse and neglect. 

 Minister's Address to NZCCSS Conference 2010

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