29 March 2022

Today Suzie Lewis is presenting at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference 2022 #camhc unpacking the strategy of implementation and sustainability for one of our newest self-funded services, The Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) – an infant mental health, parent coaching program.

18 March 2022

Last week we were invited to appear as a witness at the Queensland Mental Health Select Committee, discussing opportunities to improve mental health outcomes for Queenslanders.
We took this opportunity to talk about what we know best – holistic early intervention and whole-of-community mental health promotion. We called for a greater focus on funding models that support collaboration within the service sector, and intervening early – both in age and onset of mental illness.

We would like to thank the members of the committee for including us in such a significant occasion Joe Kelly, Amanda Camm, Rob Molhoek, Ali King, Barry ORourke, and Dr. Christian Rowan.

We look forward to continuing these important conversations with you as we all work together for better mental health outcomes for the people in our communities.
Read our full opening statement, delivered by Suzie Lewis, here:

Pictured: Rebecca Culverhouse (Accoras CEO), Suzie Lewis (Accoras General Manager – Strategy, Innovation and Research) with Joe Kelly MP (Committee Chair)

Attachment of full statement available!

Award 2022

I’m delighted to share that Accoras was successful at the Queensland Mental Health Week Awards! Our ABC pilot won the Early Years Award, and Accoras also took out the overall award for the event, the Earle Duus Award. The Earle Duus award is chosen from all the winners across the award categories. This is a significant honour and means Accoras will be listed with all previous Earle Duus winners in future Mental Health Week Awards programs. It also brings a $4,000 cash prize.

We were honoured to be nominated for the Early Years Award by the Queensland Mental Health Commission, who remain very interested in working with us to improve access to infant mental health services.

ABC & Earle Duus Award
We are still on a high after taking home the Early Years and Earle Duus Award at this year’s Queensland Mental Health Awards hosted by Open Minds.
This has been a big passion project for us, and like the infants and toddlers we have supported, we look forward to seeing this service continue to develop and flourish!
We would like to thank

  • Queensland Mental Health Commission
  • Brisbane South PHN
  • Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs
  • Queensland Family and Child Commission (QFCC)
  • The Australian Association for Infant Mental Health
  • The Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
  • The Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre
  • Enable Health Consulting

And a few of our internal champions who have played a role in the development, strategy and delivery of this amazing service Suzie Lewis, Ella Scholl, Lisa Shaw, Courtney Milham, Kristina Campbell, Rhianna Muir, Jamie-Lee Harper, Rebecca Culverhouse – well done team!

Award November 2022

We were thrilled to be nominated as a finalist for the Bendigo Bank ‘Community Group of the Year’ award, recognising our work in self-funding and delivering our ‘ABC’ infant mental health program. Our CEO Rebecca Culverhouse and Service Manager Lisa Shaw attended the gala event on Friday night and were presented with our finalist certificate by Kate Wakeling. It was a wonderful night celebrating our achievements, and those of the other amazing nominated organisations. Congratulations to the other finalists and the award winners, Multicultural Social Network!