October 14, 2022
Not-for-profit support group Lives Lived Well – which has a centre in Kingaroy – has won an award at this year’s Queensland Mental Health Week Achievement Awards.
The winners were announced at a breakfast function in Brisbane on Friday.
Lives Lived Well won the Not-For-Profit Organisation Award (101+ Staff) category for its work at 20 locations across the State.
The group works to help people with drug, alcohol and mental health concerns to help get their lives back on track.
The annual awards are organised by mental health and disability support group, Open Minds.
A spokesperson said the 2022 awards had attracted a high volume of quality nominations, with the panel of judges shortlisting 31 finalists, and selecting 11 winners.
South Burnett Equine Assisted Learning’s Horse Wisdom Program, based in Kingaroy, was one of three finalists in the Early Years Award category.
SBEAL’s program consists of seven sessions focusing on mindfulness.
Each session has its own learning goal to help participants in building their social and emotional regulation skills.
SBEAL just missed out, being beaten in the category by the Achievement Awards’ overall winner, Accoras, which took out the $4000 Earle Duus award.
Accoras funded an intervention pilot project to improve infant mental health outcomes.
SBEAL’s Rachael Cooper told southburnett.com.au that just attending the breakfast had been awesome and the number of programs achieving great outcomes across Queensland was amazing.
