Deadline: 28-Jan-25
Apply now for the Youth Empowerment Program.
Objectives
- The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:
- provide alternative pathways for young people who are at risk of being engaged in criminal and/or anti-social behaviour
- enable young people at-risk to break patterns of recidivism and cyclical engagement in criminal activity
- help young people at-risk to develop life skills to prevent them from becoming entrenched in the criminal justice system, to promote inclusion, build community resilience and strengthen family support structures.
Funding Information
- A grant of between $300,000 and $1 million to cover up to 100% of eligible expenditure.
Eligible Projects
- Your project must:
Outcomes
- The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are:
- improved engagement of young people at-risk in education, work ready programs and the community more generally
- decrease anti-social behaviour or engagement in criminal activity and an increase in positive community and family engagement
- reduce the incidence of low-level engagement in criminal activity by young offenders and decrease recidivism rates among the same cohort.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply if you:
- have an Australian business number (ABN)
- have an account with an Australian financial institution
- And are one of the following entities:
- an incorporated association
- an incorporated not-for-profit organisation.
Ineligibility Criteria
- You can’t apply if you are:
- an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)
- an organisation currently receiving funding under the Commonwealth’s U25-GO grant program
- an individual
- a partnership
- an unincorporated association
- a trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
For more information, visit Australian Government.