COSW Annual Policy Forum: Minds Without Borders, Connecting Resilient Communities and Advancing Mental Health Across the Commonwealth

Join the Fifth Annual COSW Policy Forum Online: Minds Without Borders, Connecting Resilient Communities and Advancing Mental Health Across the Commonwealth.

Calling all social workers and students in the Commonwealth, national associations, universities and anybody else who wishes to know more about social work in the Commonwealth in these extremely unpredictable and difficult times!
How should social work react to the global turbulence affecting people worldwide? How does the experience of local social workers get brought into Commonwealth-wide and global debates? Does our experience count? Can we make a difference?
Two open meetings enable people from all time zones to participate. Both webinars will have a similar programme with the same speakers and a focus on social work involvement in mental health services across the Commonwealth, as well as a briefing from the former head of Commonwealth Communications.

PROGRAMME

SATURDAY 26th SEPTEMBER 2026
06.00 – 07.30 or 16.30 – 18.00 (UTC/GMT)

06.00/16.30 Welcome
06.10/16.40 What is the Commonwealth?
06.15/16.45 Mental health services in Chennai – the Banyan approach
06.30/17.00 What is COSW doing?
06.45/17.15 Commonwealth Communications
07.00/17.30 COSW at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
07.10/17.40 Questions & comments
07.25/17.55 Thanks and close

ZOOM LINK AVAILABLE HERE BEFORE THE EVENT