Our 2024 Highlights

What a year! Your incredible support has touched our hearts and made 2024 truly special. Thank you for being such an important part of our journey and transformation to becoming Leora Healthcare.

Keep reading to see our 2024 highlights:

Leora Healthcare provided support to thousands of families across Sydney and Melbourne – and we have expanded our reach to Brisbane! With our continued interstate expansion, we are bringing our compassionate support to even more communities and families.

We’re excited to keep providing warm, loving and healing homes to even more NDIS participants. We expanded our Supported Independent Living (SIL) and Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) portfolio, opening new properties every two weeks in the last quarter of 2024, adding a whopping nine new properties this year.

In April, we became the new onsite shared support provider at The Grace in Hornsby! An overwhelming majority of tenants voted for us as their choice provider, and we hit the ground running with support worker training and services.

Spring has sprung at Spring Square 💐 We wore our best spring florals to formally launch AccessAccom’s premium Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) apartments in Bankstown.

We enjoyed live music, good food and inspiring conversations with our guests and Bilal El-Hayek, Mayor of the City of Canterbury Bankstown.

In the words of Mayor El-Hayek: “Every person deserves to live with dignity, love, support, compassion, and what these two wonderful organisations are doing are bringing all that together.”

Tea Tree in Tahmoor features five villas mindfully designed for people living with disability. Esha Oberoi joined Good Housing’s Lily Nehme for the ribbon-cutting ceremony, with Mayor of Wollondilly Shire Council Matt Gould. We agree wholeheartedly with Mayor Gould’s message: “Every individual, whatever their background or ability, needs a home where they can feel comfortable and have the opportunity to thrive.”

We opened a new Supported Independent Living home in Edmondson Park. In this stunning four-bedroom home, NDIS participants can enjoy an expansive open-plan living area, a sprawling patio and private backyard, where they can host gatherings with friends or simply enjoy a quiet moment alone. 

A growing number of businesses are now providing immediate mental health support to their employees with the next-generation Leora platform. This includes North Ryde RSL, which, through this groundbreaking partnership with Leora Healthcare, became the first club in Australia to offer round-the-clock mental health support to its staff. We have now also expanded our services to businesses in New Zealand!

This year alone, the Leora platform welcomed more than 300 users and facilitated more than 500 mental health sessions (therapy, AI chat and live chat), demonstrating our growing impact in providing accessible and diverse mental health support.

It’s our super hat trick! We’re one of Australia and New Zealand’s Best Places to Work, our fourth consecutive appearance on the prestigious list by The Australian Financial Review and Inventium, ranking in the top 5 on the Health list from over 600 nominated organisations.

We’re thrilled to once again be recognised for our compassionate leadership, diversity and inclusion, and health and wellbeing support.

We took home the Community Services Excellence Award at the 2024 India Australia Business and Community Alliance (IABCA) Awards. What an honour to be recognised for our social impact, and how special to receive the award at Parliament House in the presence of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese!

Our Founder and Co-CEO Esha Oberoi was named Most Outstanding CEO/Director at the Australian Disability Service Awards (ADSA).

ADSA honours outstanding contributions and innovation within the disability services sector. An initiative of One Community, it celebrates individuals and organisations that deliver exceptional services for people living with disability across Australia. 

As we do every year, we celebrated Harmony Week and Diwali in honour of our diverse workforce and the multicultural families we serve in the community.

On R U OK Day (12 September) we unlocked the mood-boosting powers of our wardrobe and wore outfits that made us feel ✨ amazing ✨ Let’s make life-changing conversations fashionable!

We dedicate the month of May to mindfulness and self-care, which is a big part of our award-winning workplace culture. To enable us to better serve and uplift people in our community, we recognise that we must take care of ourselves and our mental health.

We had weekly in-office Mindfulness May activities, from afternoon tea to office Pilates sessions to training with world-leading mental health research organisation, Black Dog Institute.

We had the pleasure of hosting our SDA client, Zoe, who chose to celebrate her 21st birthday in the company of her care team from Leora Healthcare, her SDA neighbours and her dearest friends. Many happy returns, Zoe!

Our SIL and SDA clients had an eggs-cellent time at our BBQ picnic and Easter egg hunt 🌞 We couldn’t ask for a better day to relax, share good food, hunt for chocolates and enjoy the sunshine!

For our mid-year celebration, we came together to paint the town red! (And purple and pink and blue and white and) 👨‍🎨✨ Watch our artwork sparkle and come to life!

A big thank you to our clients, support workers and valued partners who participated in our Volunteer Day at Foodbank! We rolled up our sleeves and packed 

🍞 1,240 loaves of bread
🛒 4,624kg of food and consumables
🥗 8,323 meals

We hope the families, schools, charities and churches feel the love we packed in every single box of food. 

We had the pleasure of hosting our amazing support workers and alliances based in Victoria.

The afternoon was filled with delicious food, incredible company and new connections that made it truly special.

Lunch is better with a little sprinkle of sweetness and a dash of knowledge! 🧁✨🍽️ Our deepest thanks to our friends in the NDIS sector for joining our special ‘Lunch and Learn‘ session. Attendees were able to kick back, enjoy some nibbles, learn something new and decompress with a fun cupcake decorating contest.

We went all out at the All In Gala!

It can be challenging for people with disability to socialise and enjoy a fun night out. The All Inclusive Gala broke down barriers and provided NDIS participants, their parents, carers and friends of all ages the opportunity to join the community and have a ball!

We’re very proud to support this initiative with other disability organisations so participants can have free entry and thoroughly enjoy the night.

This year, we formally launched our rebranding from Afea Care Services to Leora Healthcare.

As Leora Healthcare, we have united our services under one cohesive brand, encompassing three main divisions: Disability, Aged Care and Mental Health.

This marked a transformative milestone in our organisation’s 16-year history. Our rebranding to Leora Healthcare represents more than just a change in name. It’s a bold declaration of our commitment to provide the best quality healthcare for every body and every mind. Watch our favourite moments:

We have an exciting 2025 in store for you! Developments include more SIL/SDA homes, the exciting re-opening of our Liverpool office and further service expansion across Australia.

Thank you to our team members, support workers and clients for another amazing year. We hope to continue to make a positive impact in our community in 2025!