Truth, Healing and Reconciliation Grants Program in Australia

Deadline: 25-Nov-21

The Queensland Government is inviting applications for Truth, Healing and Reconciliation Grants Program to support the recommendation by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, to continue to reveal the truth of what happened to children and contribute to healing and reconciliation in Queensland.

Objectives

The objectives of the Truth, Healing and Reconciliation Grants Program are to:

• recognise the profound harm caused by institutional child abuse
• raise awareness of institutional child abuse and its impact
• create opportunities for meaningful connections with people with lived experience of institutional child abuse

• promote cultural and community change in responding to people with lived experience of institutional child abuse and/or protecting children today.

Purpose

• The purpose of the Truth, Healing and Reconciliation Grants Program is to provide opportunities for Queensland organisations to support people with lived experience of institutional child abuse to share the truth of their experiences contribute to their healing and reconcile the history of abuse in institutions.
• They acknowledge that truth, healing and reconciliation means different things to different people and may be individual and/or collective.
• The 2021-22 grants for the Truth, Healing and Reconciliation Grants Program will be the third round of funding made available. In previous rounds of grant funding, they asked Queenslanders to tell them what truth, healing and reconciliation means to them.

Funding Information

• For Individual
  • One-off funding up to $10,000 is available for individual community groups, organisations and institutions that meet the eligibility requirements to undertake activities that contribute to truth, healing and reconciliation.
• For Joint
  • Joint or combined applications will be considered for activities and projects, up to a maximum of $15,000.
• The total allocation of funds for the 2021-22 grant round is $50,000.
• Funding up to $15,000 may be requested if activities are being undertaken by multiple organisations submitting a joint application.
• Organisations that have previously received funding through the Truth, Healing and Reconciliation Grants Program are eligible to apply for further funding in the 202 -22 round.
• Organisations are encouraged to support people with lived experience of institutional child abuse to apply for a grant through an auspicing arrangement. An organisation may apply for a grant in their own right, as well as submit an application under an auspicing arrangement on behalf a person with lived experience.

Principles

• Funding is available for activities that:
  • partner with people with lived experience in the development and implementation of the activity
  • focuses on any aspect of institutional child abuse including historical and contemporary contexts
  • recognise truth, healing and reconciliation is an ongoing process, and does not end with any one action or activity
  • does no further harm to those with lived experience, their friends, family and supporters
  • is survivor-focused by placing people with lived experience at the centre of the activity.
• In the context of these principles, therapeutic healing activities must be delivered by qualified and accredited practitioners, and evidence of such submitted as part of the application.
• Applications which include a particular focus on groups experiencing additional vulnerability to institutional child abuse (e.g. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) communities, culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities) are encouraged.

Activities

Potential activities could include:

• Resources or materials (e.g. posters, videos, websites or podcasts) that acknowledge, raise awareness, challenge myths and misconceptions, reduce stigma or educate about institutional child abuse.
• Initiatives that educate and share the stories of people with lived experience in a safe and supportive way (e.g. truth telling, oral histories and creative art performances) such as
  • events and workshops
  • a ‘living library’ where those with lived experience can share their stories and experiences with members of the community in a supported way
  • exhibitions of art or writing that shares the experiences of those who have experiences of institutional child abuse
  • creating videos or podcasts sharing stories of those with lived experience.
• Memorials, monuments or commemorative events that are of significance to people with lived experience.
• Reunions and other events that are of importance to people with lived experience.
• Research about institutional child abuse that hears directly from people with lived experiences of institutional child abuse.

Note: These are provided as examples only and activities are not limited to these.

Eligibility Criteria

• Activities must:
  • support the overarching purpose of the grants program as outlined in these Application Guidelines
  • be undertaken in a way that is supportive, sensitive and inclusive of people with lived experience of institutional child abuse
  • be fully delivered by 30 September 2022
  • be delivered in Queensland.
• Applicants must:
  • be a not-for-profit, legal entity or
  • be a local government entity or
  • be a Parents and Citizens Association or
  • have an auspice agreement with any of the entities.
• Additionally, applicants must:
  • hold, or commit to obtain, insurance appropriate to the activity that includes cover for the duration of the proposed activity. At a minimum, applicants must hold public liability insurance to the value of at least $10 million and
  • have no outstanding financial liability, service delivery or performance issues for any funding previously provided by DCYJMA.
• Evidence of your organisations eligibility is required and includes:
  • evidence of your organisations legal status, for example, an Australian Business Number or a copy of your government issued certification of incorporation or other incorporation documentation
  • evidence your organisation is not-for-profit, for example, your constitution; registration with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission; or a copy of your model rules or governing documents that prohibit your organisation from making any distribution to its members
  • a copy of your certificate of currency or details regarding your plans to obtain appropriate insurance cover.

Note: Individual and joint or combined applications will be assessed equally by the assessment panel.

For more information, visit Queensland Government.

For more information, visit https://www.cyjma.qld.gov.au/about-us/our-department/funding-grants-investment/truth-healing-reconciliation-grants-program