Family and Sexual Violence: Supporting Diverse Communities Program 2024-25

Tasmania's Third Family and Sexual Violence Action Plan 2022-2027: Survivors at the Centre (Action Plan) is the Tasmanian Government’s coordinated, whole-of government action plan to respond to family and sexual violence.

The Action Plan represents the next stage of the Government’s long-term commitment to preventing and responding to family and sexual violence, committing more than $100 million over five years for 38 actions to prevent and respond to family and sexual violence in Tasmania. These include new, continuing or enhanced actions from the Tasmanian Government’s previous two Action Plans.

The Survivors at the Centre Action Plan is guided by four key principles

• Partnership and Transformation
• Capacity Building
• Prevention and early intervention
• Voice and Diversity

Action 32 from the Third Action Plan sets out the Government’s commitment to: deliver funding for community-based projects to support inclusion, access and equity to support diverse Tasmanians who experience barriers for accessing support for family and sexual violence.

The Supporting Diverse Communities Grants Program 2024-25 is designed to implement this policy initiative

The Family and Sexual Violence: Supporting Diverse Communities Grants Program 2024-25 Program has four priority areas for funding:

• Additional support and/or tailored service delivery.
• Early intervention responses that address non-physical forms of violence.
• Innovative solutions to increase operational capacity and/or build workforce capacity to respond to diverse communities
• Improving evidence and data collection.

Project initiatives must demonstrate how they support Tasmanians from the following diverse communities:

• Tasmanian Aboriginal people
• Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD)
• Women on temporary visas
• People with disability
• LGBTQIA+
• Older people
• People living in regional, rural and remote locations

Examples of suitable projects (without being exhaustive) could include:

• A project involving a partnership, with a community-based specialist Family and Sexual Violence (FSV) service, to deliver staff training to increase awareness of working with diverse communities;
• A project focussed on innovative and inclusive service delivery (i.e. not being restricted to men’s or women’s service delivery);
• A project that addresses a service gap in the family and sexual violence sector and demonstrated need within the community; and
• Legal support for diverse communities in regional/remote areas.

NOTE: the priority areas and Tasmanian diverse community groups form part of the assessment.

I confirm, as an authorised representative of the organisation, that:

• I have read and understand the program Guidelines; and
• the organisation delivers community support, services and/or programs to Tasmanians, where that organisation has proven experience working directly with victim-survivors of family and sexual violence, or is developing the capacity or capability of specialist services in the family and sexual violence sector.
• the organisation is one of the following*:
  • a local government authority (councils)
  • an incorporated non-profit organisation
  • a not-for-profit company registered under company law
• the organisation's employees and/or contractors have current Working with Vulnerable People registrations (where required under legislation), and the organisation has a trauma-informed approach embedded into its policies and processes (the department may request at its discretion evidence to support your claims, or as part of an audit process to confirm your claims were true and correct). 

*Unincorporated community organisations or groups may be considered for funding if they are auspiced by an organisation who meets the above eligibility criteria

I also confirm that the project is NOT any of the following:

• government delivered programs and services;
• infrastructure projects, including equipment, building,
• refurbishment and maintenance projects;
• primary prevention projects;
• projects that require recurrent or multi-year funding;
• projects that are for-profit; and
• projects or events that have commenced or already taken place, that is, retrospective funding. Organisations that are already in receipt of Tasmanian Government funds (procurement; sponsorship and/or grants) for the same project, are not eligible to apply unless there is evidence to support additional and different activities.

NOTES:

Eligible organisations who are successfully awarded a grant are required to hold and maintain appropriate public liability insurance. Applicants will be required to provide a copy of the organisation’s public liability insurance as part of this application.

Applicants with outstanding reporting or acquittal obligations for other Department of Premier and Cabinet grants may still apply and be successful in being awarded a grant, but will not receive funding under this Program until the current obligations are met.