The 2024-25 Mental Health and Wellbeing Grant offered up to $150,000 (excluding GST) for local mental health and wellbeing initiatives to be expended over 18 months.
The successful recipients are detailed below.
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Organisation |
Initiative |
Location |
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Bidgerdii Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation Community Health Service |
Journey to Wellness - Mental health and wellbeing healing camps for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. |
Central QLD
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Box Jelly Theatre Co. |
Enough – A theatre-in-education production targeting young people, focusing on anxiety. |
Cairns and Hinterland, Mackay, North West, Townsville |
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Bundaberg & District Neighbourhood Centre |
Connections to Recovery – A partnership with the local emergency department to increase suicide prevention literacy among young people by connecting them to peer and community support. |
Wide Bay |
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BlueCare |
Development and pilot testing of a community relapse prevention program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in regional North Queensland. |
Cairns and Hinterland
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Epilepsy Queensland |
Enhancing mental health and wellbeing outcomes for young people in Townsville living with epilepsy. |
Townsville |
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Ethni |
Big Sis - Peer-Led psychosocial interventions for young women from culturally diverse backgrounds. |
Gold Coast, Metro North, Metro South |
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GJK Solutions |
Community-Based Mental Health and Wellbeing Program for Indigenous mining workers. |
North West |
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Hawthorn Football Club |
AFLW Northern Nest Resilience and Inclusion Program to support children, young people, First Nations communities, and young women. |
Far North Queensland |
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Impact Community Services |
Discovery Coast Social Prescription Community Coach Initiative to enhance wellbeing literacy. |
Wide Bay |
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Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC |
Kuku Balkal Kaykayanda (Giving Words to all the Children) - A Mossman youth creative intervention project led by digital creators and arts facilitators to foster connection and cultural pride while addressing challenges exacerbated by recent natural disasters. |
Central QLD
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James Cook University |
The Bamboo Parenting Program to support mothers using the First 1,000 Days Framework to reduce the impact of maternal mental ill-health. |
Cairns and Hinterland, Mackay, Torres and Cape, Townsville |
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Laidley Community Centre |
Generation Us aims to promote wellbeing, suicide prevention literacy, and help-seeking among local young people, leading to interpersonal and employment-related success. |
West Moreton
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Murilla Community Centre |
Murilla Mums & Bubs Connect – Improving wellbeing outcomes for rural women and their babies during the first two years after giving birth. |
Darling Downs |
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My Kind of Tribe T/A Motherhood and Matrescence |
Masterclass for Mums is an eight-week group program supporting women to navigate the changes and challenges of motherhood and matrescence, improving life satisfaction in the first 2,000 days of a child’s life. |
Mackay
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Open Doors Youth Service |
60 psychosocial groups to support 100 LGBTQIA+SB young people to improve wellbeing through resilience-building, connection and belonging. |
Metro South and Metro North |
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People Power Services |
Inkingi - A weekly psychosocial strengths-based program offering individual, group, and peer support to enhance awareness and stress management tailored to the needs of African migrants and refugees. |
Metro South |
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Play Matters Australia |
Ageless Play – Weekly community-based intergenerational playgroups for seniors and children (0-5 years) to reduce social isolation and mental health challenges. |
Gold Coast, Metro South, Townsville |
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Queensland Remote Aboriginal Media |
Our Strengths, Our Future, Our Community - Co-designing and broadcasting a locally relevant series of radio plays with young First Nations people in remote communities. |
Cairns and Hinterland, Torres and Cape |
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selectability |
BikeShed to deliver group bike rides, bike repair workshops, and a peer-supported environment to increase wellbeing literacy and social connections. |
Mackay |
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South West Indigenous Corporation |
The Sounds of Them Project - A lived-experience ‘mental health and wellbeing habitat’ delivering wellbeing literacy podcasts and building trainer capacity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid. |
South West
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Testimony Arts |
Creative Industries, Social Enterprise, Repair and Restoration Initiative is a 16-week program supporting young males aged 15-18 who are disconnected from mainstream education and at risk of entering the youth justice system. |
Wide Bay |
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Townsville Multicultural Support Group |
TMSG Eco- Enzyme and Gardening Hub for Wellbeing seeks to create connections through bilingual support and storytelling, prioritizing newly arrived refugees and vulnerable migrant women. |
Townsville |
