Grant recipients

Supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Rockhampton and Woorabinda.

Builds staff skills, improves housing services, and strengthens links between housing, homelessness and alcohol and other drug services.

Helps people affected by alcohol and other drug issues access housing services across Redlands, Logan, Brisbane and the Scenic Rim.

Builds staff skills, improves service practices, and includes lived-living experience in service improvements.

Supports people affected by alcohol and other drug issues who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Develops a trauma-informed approach, along with practical tools, resources and training for the sector.

Provides free university courses, many of them arts-based, for Converge students receiving support for their mental health.

Creates pathways to education and skill development in a supportive learning environment.

Identifies and measures client outcomes and clinician actions in digital chat-based support.

Uses real-time data to improve service quality and effectiveness.

Uses virtual reality technology to deliver evidence-based mental health treatment for young people.

Provides training to help clinicians confidently deliver the program within services.

Supports consumers and carers during hospital admissions through digital tools and coordinated care.

Strengthens connections between primary, community and hospital services to improve transitions between care.

Delivers a feasibility study of a co-designed screener that assists frontline workers to identify early signs of suicidality in adolescents aged 12 and over.

Supports timely intervention and referral pathways to improve access to care and reduce suicide risk.

Works with services across Logan to strengthen support for children and families.

Provides training and tools to improve workforce capability, wellbeing and service planning.

Improves access to mental health and community support for women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds during pregnancy and early parenthood.

Uses a co-designed and translated mindfulness app to provide accessible support.

Establishes a statewide registry to better understand perinatal mental health needs for parents and families.

Uses data to identify gaps in support and inform future mental health care and services.

Co-designs virtual reality tools that support trauma-informed care.

Helps reach people who are not accessing existing services and supports service providers in regional communities.

Provides on-Country healing activities, including healing gatherings, yarning circles, Elder-led cultural education and bush medicine workshops.

Strengthens connections to culture, builds local capability, and supports sustainable healing pathways for First Nations communities across north-west Queensland.

Supports First Nations people affected by trauma, child removal and other complex challenges across Rockhampton and the Central Highlands.

Provides healing circles, cultural mentoring, education and support groups to strengthen wellbeing, family connections and community healing.

Supports First Nations people with complex needs in Townsville and Brisbane through culturally led healing activities.

Provides Elder-led healing circles, cultural mentoring and on-Country activities to strengthen identity, connection, trauma awareness and community wellbeing.

Strengthens Arafmi's ability to support mental health carers across Queensland.

Builds carers' capability and capacity to participate in mental health and carer support system design and reform.

Builds QuIVAA's organisational capability.

Strengthens lived-living experience leadership through improved governance, strategic planning and workforce development.

Strengthens QLEWN's role as the peak body for Queensland's lived-living experience workforce.

Advances sustainability through governance and organisational development.

Supports membership growth.

Strengthens leadership capability, workforce development, inclusive practice, and monitoring and evaluation.

Supports RiTO's next phase of growth and impact.

Provides mental health and wellbeing healing camps for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Central Queensland.

Delivers a theatre-in-education production targeting young people, focusing on anxiety in Cairns and Hinterland, Mackay, North West and Townsville.

Helps young people in the Wide Bay understand suicide risks and access peer and community support.

Delivered in partnership with the local emergency department to increase suicide prevention literacy among young people.

Supports young women from culturally diverse backgrounds through peer-led programs across the Gold Coast, Metro North and Metro South regions.

Improves wellbeing literacy across the Wide Bay region.

Helps young people in Mossman build connections and strengthen cultural pride through creative arts and digital media projects following recent natural disasters.

Supports mothers in North Queensland to improve their mental health and wellbeing using the First 1,000 Days Framework.

Supports young people in West Moreton to build wellbeing, suicide prevention awareness and confidence to seek help.

Creates pathways to stronger relationships and employment opportunities.

Supports the wellbeing of rural women and their babies on the Darling Downs during the first two years after birth.

Supports women in Mackay through the delivery of Mindful Mothering, an 8-week program that helps them navigate the challenges of motherhood.

Improves wellbeing during the first 2,000 days of a child's life.

Delivers 60 psychosocial support groups for 100 LGBTQIASB+ young people across the Metro South and Metro North regions.

Builds resilience, connection and belonging to improve wellbeing.

Supports African migrants and refugees in Metro South through a weekly psychosocial strengths-based program.

Provides individual, group and peer support to improve wellbeing and stress management.

Connects older people and children aged 0–5 through weekly intergenerational playgroups on the Gold Coast, Metro South and Townsville regions.

Reduces social isolation and supports wellbeing.

Supports First Nations young people in remote North Queensland communities to co-design and broadcast radio plays that reflect local stories and experiences.

Supports people to improve their wellbeing and build social connections through group bike rides, bike repair workshops and peer support.

Delivers lived-living experience wellbeing podcasts and builds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid trainer capacity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid across South West Queensland.

Supports young males aged 15–18 in Wide Bay through a 16-week program.

Helps young people who are disconnected from mainstream education and at risk of entering the youth justice system.

Helps newly arrived refugees and vulnerable migrant women in Townsville build connections through bilingual support and storytelling.

Supports community seniors' social services to better engage older men at risk of isolation, distress and suicide.

Builds workforce capability through training, lived-living experience insights and the development of a practical toolkit to support staff and volunteers.

Expands a First Nations men-led suicide prevention and social and emotional wellbeing initiative across rural and remote North Queensland.

Delivered in partnership with Flinders University through culturally safe yarning circles and community leadership.

Delivers a year-round, community-led suicide prevention initiative on the Gold Coast that promotes healthy masculinities, social connection and help-seeking.

Includes events, peer support groups and webinars, lived-living experience storytelling and a digital service navigation directory.

Also delivers a consortium framework and resources to support the program to be replicated across Queensland.

Enhances SMS4Dads with tailored suicide prevention messaging, delivered in partnership with SMS4Dads. Included consultations with fathers with a lived experience of suicide in Cairns, Townsville and the Tiwi Islands to develop the tailored suicide prevention messaging.

Provides evidence-based resources, safety planning tools and moderated peer support to help fathers navigate the challenges of early parenthood.

Supports young male jobseekers in the Wide Bay and Metro South regions.

Delivers co-designed workshops, online peer support and evidence-based mental health resources that promote positive masculinities and ongoing wellbeing.

Fly-In Fly-Out and Drive-In Drive-Out construction worker suicide: Perspectives on drivers of suicide and co-designed responses to prevent it

Delivered in partnership with Mates in Construction.

Supports the development of nursing education for correctional health settings.

Creates co-designed learning resources and micro-credentials to strengthen alcohol and other drug, mental health and wellbeing care.

Develops a co-designed suicide prevention curriculum, delivered in partnership with Monash University, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Learning and Roses in the Ocean.

Embeds co-designed, contemporary and evidence-based knowledge into the curriculum of relevant disciplines, ensuring the emerging workforce is well equipped to respond effectively.

Co-designs, pilots and evaluates digital suicide prevention literacy and help seeking modules for university students in partnership with Bond University.

Embeds co-designed knowledge and skills into curriculum, enhancing access to evidence-based suicide prevention and postvention supports.

Develops and evaluates a suicide postvention toolkit and training program for TAFE Queensland, delivered in partnership with TAFE Queensland.

Supports staff to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a death by suicide within the TAFE community.

Embeds lived experience perspectives into the education of future health professionals to reduce stigma toward people who use drugs.

Embeds contemporary, lived-living experience-led alcohol and other drug capabilities across Queensland’s tertiary health and human-service programs.