Previous winners

2023

First Nations award
The winner: Ngaimpe Aboriginal Corporation (The Glen for Women)

Outstanding contribution in peer work and/or consumer representation
The winner: Kevin Street

AOD frontline champion award
The winner: Chris Sheppard, Community Restorative Centre
The winner: Mohamad Fenj, The Rehabilitation Project
Certificate of commendation: Candice Gilford, Uniting MSIC

Outstanding contribution award
The winner: Garth Popple, We Help Ourselves (WHOS)
The winner: Julie Babineau, Odyssey House NSW

Excellence in harm reduction
The winner: WHOS Harm Reduction Program, We Help Ourselves (WHOS)

Excellence in treatment
The winner: Reconnecting Families, Odyssey House NSW

Excellence in research and evaluation
The winner: Community Restorative Centre
Certificate of commendation: Kedesh Rehabilitation Services

2021

First Australians award
The winner: Steven Taylor, Weigelli Centre Aboriginal Corporation
Certificate of commendation: The Glen Centre-Ngaimpe Aboriginal Corporation (Chittaway Bay, NSW)
Certificate of commendation: Transitional Indigenous Service, Community Restorative Centre (Broken Hill and Wilcannia, NSW)

Excellence in treatment
The winner: Elouera, Lives Lived Well (Orange, NSW)

Excellence in health promotion and/or harm reduction
The winner: Youth Solutions (Campbelltown, NSW)

Excellence in research and evaluation
The winner: Triple Care Farm, Mission Australia (Robertson, NSW)

Outstanding contribution award
The winner: Dr Marianne Jauncey, Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre
The winner: Josette Freeman, SMART Recovery Australia
Certificate of commendation: Gerard Byrne, WHOS (formerly Salvation Army)

Outstanding contribution award
The winner: Will Temple, Watershed, Lives Lived Well

2018 

Excellence in treatment award
The winner: AOD Transition Project, Community Restorative Centre (CRC) (Broadway, NSW)
Certificate of commendation: Kathleen York House, Australian Drug and Alcohol Foundation (Glebe, NSW)

Excellence in health promotion award
The winner: ACON Rovers, ACON (Surry Hills, NSW)

Excellence in research and evaluation award
The winner: SMART Recovery Research Advisory Committee, SMART Recovery Australia (Haymarket, NSW)
Certificate of commendation: Cognitive Remediation Project, WHOS (Lilyfield, NSW)

First Australians award—improving outcomes for Aboriginal peoples
The winner: Coral Hennessy, The Glen Centre—Ngaimpe Aboriginal Corporation (Chittaway Bay, NSW)

Outstanding contribution award
The winner: Michele Campbell, Lives Lived Well—Lyndon (Orange, NSW)

Lifetime achievement award
The winner: Shane Brown, Weave Youth and Community Services (Waterloo, NSW)

2016 

Lifetime achievement award
The winner: James Pitts, Odyssey House (Sydney, NSW)

Outstanding contribution award
The winner: Tony Trimingham OAM, CEO, Family Drug Support (NSW)
Certificate of commendation: Paul Hardy, Community Restorative Centre (Sydney, NSW)

Excellence in quality development award
The winner: A modified DBT group therapy manual, Triple Care Farm (Robertson, NSW)
Certificate of commendation: The Glen Centre, Ngaimpe Aboriginal Corporation (Central Coast, NSW)

Excellence in health promotion award
The winner: Drug and Alcohol First Aid, Lyndon Community (Orange, NSW)
Certificate of commendation: WHOS Harm Reduction Program, WHOS (Sydney, NSW)

Excellence in research and evaluation award
The winner: The Salvation Army Recovery Services and the Illawarra Institute for Mental Health, University of Wollongong (NSW)
Certificate of commendation: Stepping Stones to Success, Family Drug Support (NSW)
Certificate of commendation: Jude Sayers, Dianella Cottage, Lyndon Community (Blue Mountains, NSW)

Excellence in treatment award
The winner: Speak Out Dual Diagnosis Program, Weave Youth and Community Services (Waterloo, NSW)

2014

Outstanding contribution award
The winner: Jo Lunn for improving organisational capacity at We Help Ourselves and her broader contribution to the NGO drug and alcohol sector in NSW

Excellence in research and evaluation award
The winner: Lyndon Research and Training Program, The Lyndon Community (Orange, NSW)

Excellence in treatment award
The winner: Junaa Buwa! Centre for Youth Wellbeing (Coffs Harbour, NSW)
Certificate of commendation: The Bourke Street Project, The Haymarket Foundation (Sydney, NSW)

Excellence in health promotion award
The winner: Drug and Alcohol Workplace Education Program, Building Trades Group Drug and Alcohol Committee (Sydney, NSW)

Excellence in quality development award
The winner: Community of Practice, Triple Care Farm (Robertson, NSW)