About
cARE COLLABORATE CONNECT
How did it come about?
Care Collaborate Connect was developed by Dr Helen Stallman in 2016 as an antidote to the traditional risk approaches to suicide prevention that often harmed the very people they were trying to help.
Too many people were dying after asking for help.
This innovative needs-based approached was based on the question what if we focus on the needs of the person asking for help, not the person providing the help?
Three holistic theories underpin Care Collaborate Connect.
Continuum of Care
Our vision at Care Collaborate Connect is a Community of Care.
We envisage a future where parents and carers, teachers, and the community normalise unpleasant emotions and support healthy coping so children grow up with the skills they need to cope with the inevitable ups and downs of life.
We want people who need additional professional support to feel cared about, supported, and connected so that no one—ever—feels they have to use unhealthy coping strategies, including suicidality, for overwhelming psychological distress.
You’re part of the solution!
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Early supporters
Hospital Research Foundation
In 2018, the Hospital Research Foundation awarded Dr Stallman a 3-year Fellowship that showed how Care Collaborate Connect could help reduce distress for people in hospital for cardiac problems and help their recovery.
Healthy Development Adelaide
The Women’s Excellence in Research award for Dr Stallman’s work in developmental health recognised the role of Collaborate Connect in preventing mental illness and suicide in children and adolescents.
CSIRO On Prime
In 2019, CSIRO recognised the commercial potential and invited the team to participate in the On Prime—a pre-accelerator, designed to help research teams take their ideas to the next level.
