Funding to support outreach delivery of alcohol and other drug psychosocial counselling and case management clinical treatment by a non-government organisation to parents with young children where parental AOD use impacts family functioning.
Key information
- Status: Closed
- Grant amount: Up to $682,600
- Application opened: 24 February 2025
- Application closed: 18 March 2025
Program objective
Hunter New England Local Health District is seeking grant applications from not-for-profit non-government organisations to deliver outreach alcohol and other drug (AOD) psychosocial counselling, support, case management and care coordination to parents with dependent children living in the Greater Newcastle region.
The objective of the grant is to reduce AOD related harm, improve the health, wellbeing and social outcomes and increase clients access and engagement with AOD health and social services.
Services must meet the Clinical Care Standards: Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment and AOD NGO Service Specification Guideline.
This program is administered by Hunter New England Local Health District.
This program is funded by NSW Health.
Eligibility
Who can apply
To be eligible for the grant you must:
- Be a non-government organisation
- Be a not-for-profit organisation
- Ensure the activity is delivered within the Greater Newcastle region in the LGAs of Newcastle, Maitland, Cessnock, Lake Macquarie and Port Stephens
- Demonstrate delivery of quality AOD psychosocial support services
- Submit your application by the due date
- Submit your application in full
Who can’t apply
You cannot apply if you are:
- an individual/s
- a Federal, State or local government agency or body or an affiliate health organisation
- a for-profit organisation
- duplicating a service under an existing funding agreement with the Federal or NSW Government, or one of its agencies
Types of projects funded under this grant
The grant funding supports delivery of AOD psychosocial counselling, support, case management and care coordination to parents with dependent children (aged 11 years and under).
The service will provide outreach to clients in their homes and operate within the Greater Newcastle region servicing the local government areas of Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Cessnock, Maitland and Port Stephens.
Applicant organisations must be able to meet NSW Health AOD safety and quality standards and be committed to working collaboratively with HNELHD Drug and Alcohol services (in particular the Substance Use in Pregnancy and Parenting service, Pharmacotherapy services and the Whole of Family Team), NSW Health, NADA and other relevant health, social welfare, justice, ACCOs and NGO stakeholders to deliver care to clients with complex needs.
Most recent recipients
What was approved
Approved for Life Without Barriers
The objective of the grant is to reduce alcohol and other drug (AOD) use related harm and improve the health, well-being and social outcomes of clients by delivering comprehensive alcohol and other drug treatment and support interventions.
$682,600 was approved by
Minister for HealthDate approved
July 2025Location of the recipient
NewcastleAbout the grant
Applications approved
1
Applications received
5
Family based AOD psychosocial support NGO grant program
Agency funding this grant
NSW HealthProgram term
2 yearsWhat your application needs to include
You can download the full grant guidelines, application form and budget template:
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Family based AOD psychosocial support NGO Grant Guidelines (PDF 383.49KB)File
Family based AOD psychosocial support NGO Grant application form (DOCX 93.63KB)File
HNELHD Budget template (XLSX 28.56KB)File
Responses to queries - Family based AOD psychosocial support service NGO grant (DOCX 86.71KB)
Key resources supporting the delivery of safe, high quality patient centred care in drug and alcohol treatment can be found:
- Key resources for health professionals working in drug and alcohol
- NGO Alcohol and Other Drugs Service Specification Guideline
- NSW Health NGO AOD performance indicator fact sheet
- The Network for Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies (NADA)- peak organisation for NGO AOD services in NSW
Questions about the grant opportunity emailed to the Contracts inbox will be responded to in the "what your application needs to include" section.
Prepare your application with this checklist
Step I. Confirm your organisations eligibility
Ensure your organisations grant proposal meets the eligibility criteria outlined in Section 2.1 of these guidelines. Organisation eligibility checks will be undertaken by HNELHD.
Step 2: Prepare your application
Please read all information before applying. Organisations should not assume the grant assessment panel has prior knowledge of any organisation or the services it provides. Please respond to the grant requirements in detail within the stated word guide.
Please use the application form listed under this grant on the Grants and funding | NSW Government website and ensure all required information is included in your application.
Step 3. Submit the application
Organisations may submit applications anytime from 12am on the opening date of Monday 24 February 2025 up to and no later than the application closing date of 11:59 pm on Tuesday 18 March 2025.
Applications must be submitted to HNELHD-Contracts@health.nsw.gov.au.
Please use subject heading in your application email: Submission family based AOD psychosocial support NGO grant application
Applications must include:
- Application form
- Proposed budget (using attached template) with budget notes
- Organisation constitution or rules
- Organisation strategic plan (if available)
- Latest annual report including audited financial statements for the latest financial year.
- Evidence of workers compensation and public liability insurance. Please include voluntary workers insurance if you currently support volunteers.
- Accreditation certificates
- Contact details for 2 Referees
Applications received after the closing date will be registered as a late response. HNELHD may allow assessment of late responses if there is evidence that the late submission is due to circumstances outside the control of the applying organisation.
HNELHD will provide confirmation of each received application via return email to the applying organisation. Organisations that do not receive confirmation of receipt are to consider the application incomplete and responsible for contacting HNELHD.
Applicants are to note that applications are made at their own cost.
Address the eligibility criteria
To be eligible for the grant the organisation must:
- Be a non-government organisation incorporated under Australian legislation, including:
- the Associations Incorporation Act 2009 (NSW)
- the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
- the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth)
- Be a not-for-profit organisation
- Ensure the activity is delivered within the Greater Newcastle region in the LGAs of Newcastle, Maitland, Cessnock, Lake Macquarie and Port Stephens
- Demonstrate delivery of quality AOD psychosocial support services
- Submit your application by the due date
- Submit your application in full
Address the assessment criteria
This is an open, competitive grant program. Applications will be assessed and competitively ranked against the assessment criteria below.
- Experience in AOD psychosocial support service delivery (300 words)
- Capacity to provide culturally safe, accessible services to priority population groups (300 words)
- Effective organisational governance (300 words)
- Project proposal aligned with the objectives of the grant (400 words)
- Implementation plan including risk management identification and mitigation (500 words)
- Budget (complete Budget template)
After the application is submitted
Successful applications will be decided by: Minister for Health
The applications will be assessed and both successful and unsuccessful applicants will be notified.
The successful applicant is required to enter into an NSW Health grant funding agreement with HNELHD for the funds to be awarded and released. A copy of the long form agreement template and standard conditions can be found within the Administration of NSW Health Grant Funding for Non-Government Organisations policy. Grant agreements will include:
- Activity reporting requirements
- Key performance indicators, target and milestones
- Financial reporting requirements
- Requirements regarding repayment of unspent funding
- Acknowledgement of the financial support by the NSW government
- Grantees responsibility for costs above the agreed funding amount or outside the agreed project scope
Project variations may be accepted where the requested change aligns with the Program Guidelines and the original intent of the approved project.
Support and contact
For enquires relating to resources supporting the AOD workforce see: Key resources for health professionals working in drug and alcohol
For enquiries relating to contract conditions and grant administration guidelines see: NSW Health Grant administration policy
For enquiries relating to child protection and wellbeing and mandatory reporting see: Child protection and wellbeing
To protect the integrity of the assessment process, all communications must be directed to the HNELHD-Contracts@health.nsw.gov.au email inbox with subject line: Submission family based AOD psychosocial support NGO grant application query.
Grant questions emailed to the Contracts inbox will be responded to in the "what this application needs to include" section of the grant on the Grants and funding | NSW Government website.
The final date for questions will be 7 working days prior to submission date to allow time to publish answers on the website.
Program evaluation
A program evaluation in relation to the funded activities and health outcomes to be submitted at the end of the funding period