Deadline: 15-Aug-21
The Youth Affairs Council Victoria (YACV) is offering Healthy Equal Youth (HEY) Grants to support the health and wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ young Victorians. The first of its kind in Australia, HEY brings together a network of partner organisations specialising in support and services for LGBTQIA+ young people.
HEY Grants are an annual small grant round that is available for projects and initiatives aimed at improving the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ young Victorians.
Categories
The categories are:
- Youth led projects: for LGBTIQA+ young people with innovative projects they know will support their LGBTIQA+ peers. A youth led application must be proposed and led by people who are under 25! (They can get people older than that to proofread and assist them).
- Social Connectedness projects: for services to expand or improve their support for LGBTIQA+ young people, and for targeted projects for LGBTIQA+ young people that will improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Eligibility Criteria
Anybody whose organisation or project is designed to support the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTIQA+ young people in Victoria is encouraged to apply. Applications by organisations or projects outside of Victoria will not be considered.
HEY actively encourages applications that are led by, and designed for:
- LGBTIQA+ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people,
- LGBTIQA+ disabled young people, and LGBTIQA+ neurodiverse young people,
- LGBTIQA+ young people of colour, and LGBTIQA+ young people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- LGBTIQA+ community members who are underrepresented in services and programs, such as asexual and aromantic young people, or young people with intersex variations.
For more information, visit https://www.yacvic.org.au/get-involved/hey-grants/
