| Instrument |
Grant/Program |
Amount |
Description |
Portfolio committee |
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Health Measures No. 2) Regulations 2019 [F2019L01640]
|
Grants for support relating to stillbirth, miscarriage and newborn death |
$1.3 million over two years from 2019-20. |
Funding will be provided to SANDS to pilot in-hospital and at-home support services for women and their families after a stillbirth, miscarriage or newborn death at five hospital sites in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, and South Australia. |
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee |
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Health Measures No. 3) Regulations 2019 [F2019L01642]
|
Grant to DP Jones Nursing Home |
$480,000 to date. |
Funding will be provided to the administrator of the DP Jones Nursing Home in Murchison, Victoria, to enable the administrator to continue operating the facility while they seek to finalise the sale of the facility to a new provider and to assist with the cost of the sale. |
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee |
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Health Measures No. 1) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00033]
|
Bushfire Recovery Access Program |
$14.7 million over three years from 2019-20. |
The program provides for immediate front line distress and trauma counselling for those who were impacted by the recent bushfires. |
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee |
| Training for front-line personnel |
$2 million over three years from 2019-20. |
Funding will be provided for training for front-line personnel and volunteers who attended, or were affected by, the recent bushfires to recognise the signs of trauma and support help seeking. |
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee |
| Bushfire trauma response coordinators |
$3.2 million over three years from 2019-20. |
Funding will be provided to establish bushfire trauma response coordinators within Primary Health Networks, who will be a single point of contact for individuals, families and communities directly impacted by the bushfires. |
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee |
| Supporting communities in recovery |
$2.7 million over three years from 2019-20. |
Funding will be provided for grants of up to $10,000 to communities for activities at the grass-roots level to strengthen social connectedness and peer support activities, as well as assertive outreach initiatives to prevent suicide and identify post-traumatic stress disorder. |
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee |
| Cross-jurisdictional mental health framework |
$0.5 million over three years from 2019-20. |
Funding will be provided to develop a cross-jurisdictional mental health framework that will set out a joint approach to disasters, the response and recovery. |
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee |
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Health Measures No. 2) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00392]
|
Youth Action Support Project Grants Scheme |
$3.2 million over two years from 2019-20 |
Funding will be provided to:
- establish national networks to ensure the voice of young people, particularly those marginalised, is heard in the policy making process; and
- one-off or small scale innovative projects for mechanisms to assist youth experiencing disadvantage.
|
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee |