Funding to promote the safety and wellbeing of Canberra’s women and gender diverse people

Following the eligibility check, the Grant Assessment Team will assess your application. The Grant Assessment Team includes:

• a chairperson
• 2 other assessors.

We appoint Grant Assessment Team members based on their knowledge improving the health, wellbeing, and safety of ACT women. They work to advance priorities identified in the ‘National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032’.

Grant Assessment Team members will assess your application with the information you provided against the grant’s selection criteria.

If you have been successful in other recent grant rounds, the assessors may consider this during their assessment if we receive a high number of applications. This is to ensure fairness across all applicants.

All decisions on whether to award, or the amount of, a grant is at the sole discretion of the Community Services Directorate.

Successful applicants must enter into an Agreement. This will be by a Letter of Offer with the Community Service Directorate. The Letter of Offer will include:

• the grant we are offering
• how to accept an offer
• details on the funded grant amount
• the purpose or activity for which you have the grant
• the term of your funded activity
• how to acquit your grant funds when you have completed the project.

• SiTara's Story Incorporated - $10,500 - EmpowerHER: Breaking Silence, Building Strength: To produce podcasts and a documentary highlighting the prevalence of coercive control and financial abuse in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse community, including an event to launch the program and safe talk shops for at least 50 participants.
• Queanbeyan Multilingual Centre Inc - $7,500 - Court Orders Translated into Language: Support for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse community members to have Family Violence Orders or other orders translated into their first language.
• Domestic Violence Crisis Service Inc - $2,000 - National Day of Remembrance ACT Candle Lighting Ceremony: An annual activity to honour the lives lost to domestic, intimate partner, and/or family violence.
• Water Wombats Aquatic Disability Services Ltd - $15,000 - ACT Women's Disability Safe and Connected Project: Providing access to individual coaching, mentoring, psychoeducation, and small group programs for mental and physical health, including aqua yoga.
• Sakhi Incorporated - $11,380 - Sakhi Inc Early Intervention Program: Developing a culturally informed handbook to promote women’s safety in the South Asian Community.
• Families ACT (FACT) Inc - $15,000 - Strengthening the First 1000 Days: Establishing a First 1,000 Days Coalition focused on the health and well-being of mothers, birth parents, and children during the critical first 1,000 days.
• Forcibly Displaced People Network Ltd - $19,900 - Safer Lives for LGBTIQA+ Displaced People: Training for domestic and family violence service providers to address the needs of LGBTIQA+ displaced people and co-designed online resources about gender-based violence and pathways to safety.
• Woden Community Service Limited - $10,000 - EmpowerHER: Art, Resilience and Community: Art workshops and mentorship for community members impacted by domestic violence to foster confidence, community connections, and recovery.
• Beryl Women Incorporated - $8,720 - 5th World Conference of Women's Shelters: Attending the conference in Sydney to enhance the capabilities of specialist case workers and other staff members, contributing to the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032.

• Alo Enlightened Women Incorporated - $12,900 - Women’s safety workshops for immigrant women called ‘Learn, Act & Stay Safe’.
• Beseda Czechoslovak Australian Association of Canberra Inc - $3,000 - ‘Women’s Circles: Intersectionality and the Health of Women’.
• Canberra Blind Society Incorporated - $20,000 - Developing materials for use in the Women's Safety Program which is a series of programs for both vulnerable and vision impaired women who have been the victims of domestic violence and those wishing to prevent violence.
• Domestic Violence Crisis Service Inc - $2,585 - A disability panel on the intersection of domestic and family violence and disability.
• Federation of Indian Associations of ACT (FINACT) Incorporated - $5,400 - An event on women's safety for Indian women that is culturally sensitive – Sakhi.
• Spirit Hive Ltd - $15,000 - A 6-month program "Sistahood of Strength: Empowering Women's Healing" designed to provide a safe and nurturing space for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women through healing, self-discovery, and empowerment.
• Women's Centre for Health Matters - $20,000 - Developing a bespoke and interactive service map of pregnancy choices and reproductive health services for ACT women and non-binary people to assist with navigating the health system called My Pregnancy Options ACT Service Delivery Map.
• YWCA Canberra - $20,158 - An action research pilot project - 'Preventive safety planning and risk management approaches for women experiencing Family Domestic Violence in ACT' and an online campaign based around key themes for the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence.

• Apayi Charitable Organization Inc - $15,000 - Community conversations and information sessions around family violence issues within the South Sudanese Equatoria Community
• Beryl Women Incorporated - $5,000 - New edition and design - Women's Safety Card
• Canberra Rape Crisis Centre - $20,000 - When Not Saying NO Does Not Mean Yes (WOSOMY)
• Community Services #1 - $15,000 - Mental Health for Mob
• Domestic Violence Crisis Service - $13,000 - Sexual Assault Prevention Education (SAPE)- young people
• Mental Health For Mob Pty Ltd - $20,000 - Consults @ DVCS
• Women's Legal Centre ACT & Region Inc - $2,816 - Women's Program