Deadline: 29-May-23
NSW Government is seeking applications for the Alcohol and other Drug (AOD) Treatment Access Expansion Grants to improve access to treatment services so more people can get high quality care to support improved health and wellbeing.
The Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Access Expansion Grants are for the delivery of specialist AOD treatment services by non-government organisations to improve the health, social and emotional wellbeing of priority populations.
Objectives
- Objectives of the Treatment Expansion Grants are:
- Increase the number and locations of community based AOD treatment services available to priority populations
- Expand the type and care models of community based AOD treatment services specifically designed for priority populations
- More people from priority populations access AOD treatment services
- Priority populations accessing AOD treatment services exit treatment with reduced drug related harms, and improved health, social and emotional wellbeing
Aim
- The Treatment Expansion Grants aim to improve the health, social and emotional wellbeing of priority populations who use alcohol and/or other drugs.
Types of projects funded under this grant
- AOD Treatment Access Expanded Package:
- Residential rehabilitation for young people aged 12-17 years (including low to moderate acuity withdrawal management service)
- Number of treatment packages available: 1
- Funds available per single treatment package per annum: Up to $2,545,000
- Residential rehabilitation for Aboriginal women with dependent children (including low to moderate acuity withdrawal management service) (Only applications from Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations or in partnership with Aboriginal community-controlled organisations will be considered)
- Number of treatment packages available: 1
- Funds available per single treatment package per annum: Up to $3,045,000
- Day rehabilitation and case management for parents with children
- Number of treatment packages available: 3 or more
- Funds available per single treatment package per annum: Up to $653,000
- Ambulatory withdrawal management, case management and counselling for priority populations
- Number of treatment packages available: 3 or more
- Funds available per single treatment package per annum: Up to $500,000
- Day rehabilitation and / or counselling for people aged 12-24 years
- Number of treatment packages available: 9 or more
- Funds available per single treatment package per annum: Up to $530,000
- Residential rehabilitation for young people aged 12-17 years (including low to moderate acuity withdrawal management service)
Treatment Expansion Grants Priority Populations
- In the context of the Treatment Expansion Grants, priority populations include women, people with dependent children, Aboriginal people, people with cultural and linguistic diversity, people identifying as LGBTQI+, young people, people with co-occurring mental health issues, people involved in the criminal justice system, and people in rural and regional locations.
- Service planning and ongoing service development is required to ensure safe, targeted approaches that meet the unique and individual needs of priority populations, including:
- Creating a welcoming and safe physical and digital service environment
- meeting legislative child protection requirements and other child and family related policy requirements
- appropriate language and use of interpreters when needed
- activities are culturally safe and consider the cultural determinants of health
- services and interventions are age and developmentally appropriate and matched to cognitive capacity trauma informed care in accordance with the NSW Health Trauma Informed Framework
- inclusion of consumers, immediate and extended family, elders and other community leaders in service planning and activities
- treatment interventions and models of care are evidenced based and appropriate for the priority population
- Clinical documentation (assessment, care planning, treatment and review) and outcome tools are evidence based and appropriate to the individual client
- staff have appropriate support, knowledge and skills
- program activities and care planning are flexible in response to individual client needs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations applying for the grants must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Not-for profit entity incorporated under Australian legislation including:
- Associations Incorporation Act 2009 (NSW)
- Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
- Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006.
- Hold current accreditation against the NSW Health approved accreditation standards for organisations delivering AOD treatment services
- Not-for profit entity incorporated under Australian legislation including:
Ineligibility Criteria
- Individuals
- Government
- For-profit organisations
- Service providers looking to cover budget shortfalls in existing service
For more information, visit NSW Government.