Deadline: 13-May-2024
The Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) is excited to release a round of grants focused on community wellness and suicide prevention.
The objective of Community Wellness and Suicide Prevention Grants program is to empower regional, rural, and remote communities to:
- Build capability and capacity to undertake community-based suicide prevention activities, for example, identifying and responding early to distress or providing appropriate community responses to distress
- Raise awareness and innovation for suicide prevention and aftercare following a suicidal crisis, and encourage help seeking behaviours
- Take a preventative approachto reduce risk factors for distress and suicide in the local community.
Projects should primarily benefit those living in regional, remote, and rural communities:
- A regional area includes the towns and small cities outside of the major capital cities
- A rural area sits outside a regional centre but is within a few hours’ drive
- A remote area is a township far removed from a major capital or regional centre
Types of Grants
- Project Ready
- Grants for organisations and groups that are established in their communities and have a project ready initiative developed and ready to be activated.
- Project Pitch
- Grants for organisations and groups that have a working concept or idea for a community initiative but who need support and capacity building to be project ready.
- The idea could be as broad as activities that reduce stigma, local sporting clubs engaging with their members in meaningful ways, neighbourhood centres providing drop in options for people have a challenging time in their life, and everything in between!
Funding Information
- It is anticipated that there will be up to 15 grants awarded, and that each will range is value from approximately $30,000 to $50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations must:
- Have an existing presence in the NQPHN region
- Be incorporated, hold an ABN, have a separate bank account for the organisation, and be registered for GST
- Hold public liability, professional indemnity and workers compensation or equivalent insurances.
- If you don’t meet these requirements, you may still be able to apply under an auspicing or partnership arrangement with another organisation.
- Applications are particularly welcomed from organisations:
- With an on-ground presence in regional, rural, and remote areas
- Who may not traditionally work in suicide prevention or mental health, but who have strong community connections and a commitment to improving community wellness and preventing suicide.
- Eligible organisations could include, but are not limited to:
- Local businesses of all sizes
- Industry peak bodies and advocacy bodies (e.g. agriculture, manufacturing, unions)
- Professional associations and professional membership bodies (e.g. Chamber of Commerce
- Schools, Registered Training Organisations, Universities and TAFE)
- Service and recreational clubs (e.g. sports clubs, arts organisations, music groups, special interest clubs)
- Volunteer organisations
- Community-focused for-profit and not-for-profit organisations
- Existing partnerships and consortia (must have a designated lead organisation, at least one member with an on-the-ground presence in the community where the initiative will be delivered, and agreement that all members will formalise a Memorandum of Understanding or similar document to clarify roles and responsibilities, if successful)
- Local government.
Ineligible
- State and federal government departments, agencies, corporations, and statutory authorities, except for schools, some government owned corporations and local governments.
- Organisations that have licensed gaming machines in their facilities.
For more information, visit NQPHN.