Celebrate the wins

We make sure all of our students celebrate their wins - both big & small. It’s important that our company does the same. So, what recent wins have we seen?

Awards:

• New York, Times Square, Sarah Macdonald, CEO and Founder was been named the winner of a Silver Stevie® Award in the Female Entrepreneur of the Year in Asia, Australia or New Zealand category in the 16th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. 
• Australian Achievers Award - for excellence in customer relations. 
• ACU Alumni Awards : Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership Award
• Australian Roar Award, Silver for Best Mental Health Advocate.

Winning Funding Opportunities which help reach our most vulnerable clients:

Due to our attention to detail, focus on evidence-based practice and reliability we have secured funding from: Bushfire relief, School Mental Health Fund Menu, School Focussed Youth Service, Yarra Library Community Projects Which means we can provide more of our programs to schools without any cost to them.

We survived all those lockdowns, woohoo!

Our company is primarily based on face-to-face interactions. It became more than problematic when COVID lockdowns in Melbourne meant a stop to all of our face-to-face work. After a few emergency meetings, quick panic attacks and a tightening of our purse strings, we managed to put together online sessions and sold merchandise, which helped with a little cash flow. We also used the enforced downtime to write a new curriculum and a new Dog Assisted Therapy Training Program called "Pathway to Employment" - which now allows us to train our own recruits.

But how do we really measure success?

Through the excitement, happiness and positive growth of our young students!