Funding Opportunity: Mental Health Week Grants
Queensland Mental Health Commission
In 2024, $100,000 worth of grants are being made available to help organisations across the state host Queensland Mental Health Week (QMHW) events that raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing, increase understanding of mental illness and recovery, and reduce stigma and discrimination.
Funded by the Queensland Government through the Queensland Mental Health Commission and administered by CheckUP, the Queensland Mental Health Week Community Events Grant Program provides the opportunity for eligible organisations to apply for up to $2,000 to assist with event costs.
Applications to the program open at 9:00am, Monday 15 April 2024 and close at 11:59pm, Friday 17 May 2024.
The QMHW Community Events Grant Program is a competitive, application-based program. Grant applications will be assessed for their potential to contribute to the achievement of the QMHW objectives. Priority will be given to innovative events that provide a focal point for awareness, education, and understanding of mental health and wellbeing, help foster community connection, and enhance inclusivity and a sense of belonging for those living with mental health challenges, their families, carers and support people.
The Grant Program will consider the needs of groups vulnerable to greater risk, including:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
- people living in rural and remote Queensland
- people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, questioning, asexual, or queer (LGBTIQA+)
- other groups at risk of marginalisation (e.g. people with disability, young people, and older people).
