Deadline: 21-Jan-22
The Mental Health Victoria (MHV) is accepting applications for its Lived Experience Workforce Grants Program to allocate grants that can upskill current lived experience workers, across consumer and family/carer roles.
Supporting reform of Victoria’s mental health system is a process that intends to engage people with a lived experience at its core. Ensuring their lived experience workforce has opportunities to build their capability to take a leading role in this work, and/or support increased capacity to attend to this work is critical. Aligning with the Royal Commission’s vision, the grants are focused on investing in lived experience workers’ individual qualifications, professional development, and capability building activities. The grants are also available for organisations to build, grow and enhance lived experience workforce leadership, capability and capacity building.
Funding Information
There are two funding streams available:
- Individual lived experience worker: Up to $5,000.00 for individual recipients.
- Organisation, group project or initiative: Grants between to $5,000.00 to $20,000.00 for multiple recipients.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible, applicant/s must be a designated lived experience worker (including consumers and family/carers) currently employed at an approved Victorian government funded community mental health service.
- In the organisations, group projects or initiatives stream, organisations can apply on behalf of their lived experience worker/s. All listed lived experience workers in the application must provide written consent in the proposal document.
- Please note, multiple applications cannot be made including the same lived experience worker/s.
- If you are an individual or applying on behalf of an applicant, please check that the required information for the applicant/s` is met below.
- Aged 18 years or older.
- Are an Australian Citizen or permanent resident of Australia.?
- Are currently living or working in Victoria.
- Are employed by one of the approved organisations.
- Are in a designated lived experience position.
Ineligible
Organisations or lived experience workers who are not represented or employed by the approved list of organisations.
For more information, visit https://www.mhvic.org.au/professional-development/le-grants-program