Te Pou Consumer Leadership Development Grants supporting Disabled People in New Zealand

Deadline: 27 March 2020

Te Pou is inviting applicants for its “Consumer leadership Development Grant Program” to support disabled people and family/whanau to take part in leadership development activities. This includes:

training or learning activities that develop consumers’ and whānau leadership skills
training or learning activities that are for the benefit of disabled people or the disability sector.

Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui is a national centre of evidence based workforce development for the mental health, addiction and disability sectors in New Zealand.

Priority Areas

Learning topics that align to the following areas will be prioritised:
- Positive Behaviour Support.
- Autism.
- Whaia Te Ao Marama.
- High and Complex.
Underpinned by:
- Increased awareness of the requirements of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) amongst both the disability workforce, and disabled people and their whānau/carers.
- Leadership development of provider organisations, DPOs, disabled people and whānau.
- Demonstrated use of the Let’s get real: Disability seven Real Skills to inform the application, is critical assessment criteria for the panel:
  - Working with disabled people.
  - Working with Māori.
  - Working with families and whānau.
  - Working with communities.
  - Challenging stigma and discrimination, and promoting value.
  - Upholding law, policy and practice.
  - Maintaining professional and personal development.

The leadership activity must:

develop leadership skills
be for the benefit of disabled people or the disability sector in general
be accessible for disabled people
not already be fully funded by other agencies/funds
start (and usually end) in the calendar year of the grant.
be delivered in New Zealand

Funding Information

Participants can be funded up to $5,000 (GST inclusive) per calendar year, either from one, or multiple applications. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure no participant exceeds the $5,000 cap.
Organisations can be funded up to $80,000 (GST inclusive) per calendar year. In exceptional circumstances the panel may be able to exercise discretion in relation to the amount.

How the grant can be used

The consumer leadership development grant covers the costs of consumers or their whānau taking part in leadership development activities. For the purpose of this grant ‘consumer’ includes disabled people and their whānau.
The grant can be used for:
- course or workshop fees
- related resources (for example, workbooks, tutors/facilitators)
- accessibility costs for disabled people, including travel and accommodation and the cost of support people (accessibility costs do not count towards individual or organisational caps). The grant does not fund course development and administration, standard service delivery, service development and business-as-usual costs. the training grants can be used up to three months after the grant has been awarded.

Eligibility Criteria

Participants/Individuals must be New Zealand citizens or a permanent resident, and/or:
- a disabled person eligible to receive MoH funded disability services, or a whānau member of an eligible disabled person
- a MoH funded DSS IF recipient, IF host, or a person registered in the Mid Central disability system transformation roll out
- has the support of their organisation or employer and supported to participate in the learning activity
- a person registered and using the new funding model as part of the System Transformation in the Mid Central region.
Organisations must be:
- funded by MoH to deliver DSS; or
- a DPO that is part of the DPO coalition.
Applications can be made in support of development activities for consumers associated with the applicant organisation; or an organisation can sponsor an application by consumers beyond their service.
To be sponsored for this grant you need to be eligible for DSS services.