Wednesday luncheon with Prof Nicholas Procter, Chair: Mental Health Nursing, UniSA

Guest Speaker: Prof Nicholas Procter, Chair: Mental Health Nursing, Uni SA

Refugee and asylum seeker distress and suicidality

Professor Nicholas Procter is Chair: Mental Health Nursing and leader of UniSA’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Research Group.  Working as a Communities of Practice, the group brings together consumers, clinicians, policy makers and academic faculty.  Professor Procter has a longstanding interest in trauma informed practice, mental health and suicide prevention, and has published widely on this topic.  In 2017 he commenced a national targeted suicide prevention program for NGO sector workers supporting asylum seekers and refugees in the Australian community, and this work continues throughout 2019.  Also in 2017 he received SA’s highest health honour, the Dr Margaret Tobin Award for leadership in mental health.  In 2019 Professor Procter was awarded the Department of Correctional Services Merit Award (Community Partnerships category) as a member of the Connecting with People team delivering suicide prevention education to SA prison staff.

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