dss grants a new way of working
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Outcome 3Ageing and Aged Care
Outcome 2Families andCommunities
5.1 Disability,Mental Health andCarers Programme
The Disability, Mental Health and Carers Programme (DMHCP) will provide support for
people with disability and mental healthissues, and their carers. The programme has
a focus on early intervention and support through community based
initiatives.
Outcome 5Disability
Outcome 4Housing
4.1 Housing and Homelessness
ProgrammeThe Housing and Homelessness Programme
will support the development of policy advice to inform government responses to meet
current and future challenges, including howto improve housing affordability for all
Australians.
3.2 Home Support Programme
The Home Support Programme provides funding for basic maintenance, care and
support services for older people and their carers who live in the community, respite and access to information for carers, and funds a
range of allied health and therapy services. The programme also aims to assist financially disadvantaged older people in identifying
services that can provide appropriate, sustainable and affordable housing
and community care services.
3.4 Residentialand Flexible Care
ProgrammeResidential aged care provides a range of care options and accommodation for older people
who are unable to continue living independently in their own homes. Flexible care caters to the needs of older people, in either a residential or home care setting,
who may require a different approachthan that provided throughmainstream residential and
home care options.
3.5 Workforce and Quality Programme
The Workforce and Quality Programme aims to ensure the availability of a skilled workforce,
empower consumers and ensure a high quality of care to recipients of aged care services.
3.6 Ageing andService Improvement
ProgrammeThe Ageing and Service Improvement
Programme enables better support for activities that promote healthy and active
ageing, better response to existing and emerging challenges including dementia
care and better support services targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people and people fromdiverse backgrounds.
Families and Children
Strengthening Communities
Settlement Services
Civil Society
Financial Wellbeing and Capability
2.1 Families and Communities Programme
The Families and Communities Programme focuses on early intervention and prevention activities to improve financial wellbeing and capability, strengthen communities, support
migrants transitioning to life in Australia,and ensure the lifetime wellbeing of
families and children.
National Initiatives
Families and Communities
Service Improvement
Disability Employment
Disability and Carer Support
Disability and Carer Service
Improvement and Sector Support
Community Mental Health
Housing and Homelessness
Service Improvement and
Sector Support
Day Therapy Centres
Commonwealth HACC Programme
National Respite for Carers
Assistance with Care and Housing
for the Aged
DSS Grants – A New Way of WorkingThe Department of Social Services is implementing a new way of working for grants, including new grant programmes that are
better suited to what communities want and need. This is a single, coherent structure, streamlining 18 discretionary grant programmes into seven. Simplifying grant programmes will promote greater community input and flexibility to drive local
solutions to local problems.
Rural and Remote Building Fund
NationalAboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander (NATSI)
Flexible Aged Care Program
Aged Care Workforce Fund
Indigenous Aged Care Workforce
Community Visitors Scheme
Aged Care Service Improvement and
Healthy Ageing Grants
Outcome 33.1 Financial Management3.2 Community Investment3.7 Civil Society and Volunteering
Outcome 11.1 Family Support
Outcome 55.5 Support for Carers
• MyTime Peer Support Groups
Outcome 66.1 Gender Equality for Women
• Support for Trafficked People• Women’s Safety Agenda• Other Services – Services for Other Entities andTrust Moneys
Outcome 44.2 Allowances, Concessions and Services for Seniors
• Broadband for Seniors
Outcome 22.1 Housing Assistance and Homelessness Prevention
• Home Advice• Reconnect
Outcome 99.1 Settlement Servicesfor Migrants and Refugees
• SettlementServices
Outcome 1010.1 Multicultural Services
Outcome 1111.1 Disability Employment Services
• Disability Employment Services• Employment Assistance and Other
Services
Outcome 22.1 Housing
Assistance and Homelessness
Prevention
Outcome 55.1 Targeted Community Care
5.4 Services and Supportfor People with Disability
5.5 Support for Carers5.6 National Disability
Insurance Scheme• National Disability Advocacy
Programme5.7 Early Intervention Services
for Children with a Disability• Helping Children with
Autism Early Intervention• Better Start for Children
with Disability
Ageing and Aged Care have already undergone reform processes, and as
such, the programmes remain unchanged.
Former Programme StructureFormer Programme Structure
Former Programme Structure
For more information on the new way of working, visit the DSS grants website at
dss.gov.au/grants
5.2 National Disability Insurance
Scheme
National Disability Insurance Scheme
TransitionNational Aged Care Advocacy
Programme
Families and ChildrenProvides integrated services for
families to achieve improved child, youth, adult and family wellbeing, increased economic engagement
and more cohesive communities.
Families and CommunitiesService Improvement
Supports a variety of service improvement initiatives incuding conferences, research, peak body
funding, pilot inititives, policy advice, advocacy and
evaluation.
Settlement ServicesDelivers services which assist
clients to become self-reliant and participate equitably in Australian society, with a focus on fostering
social participation, economic well-being, independence,
personal well-being and community
connectedness.
Civil SocietyTo support charities and not-for-
profit organisations through education, training and fostering
innovation to continue to focus on their work in the community.Financial Wellbeing and
CapabilityAims to support vulnerable
people and those most at risk of financial and social exclusion and disadvantage to navigate financial
crisis and to build financial capability, resilience and
wellbeing.
2.1 Familiesand Communities
ProgrammeNational Initiatives
Aims to achieve positive outcome for families, women
and their children, by supporting families so that children have the
best possible start in life, and advancing gender equality to
improve the status and wellbeing of women
in Australia.
Strengthening CommunitiesSupports organisations to develop solutions and deliver responsive
and integrated services that meet community needs.
Financial Counselling,
Capability and Resilience
Training, Sector
Support, Innovation,
Research and Evaluation
Financial Crisis and
Material Aid
Community Business
Partnerships
Volunteering
Community Development
and Participation
Multicultural Affairs
National Framework for
Protecting Australia’s ChildrenNational Plan to
Reduce Violence against Women
and Children
Support for Trafficked
People
NAATI
Peak Bodies
Family and Relationship
Services
Children and Parenting
Family Law Services
Communities for Children Facilitating
PartnersAdult Specialist Support Services
Young People
More information on the activities delivered as part of the programme can be found in the Programme Information
documents. This also includes information on the activity aims and objectives, eligibility requirements and application information.
Settlement Grants
Financial Wellbeingand Capability
More information on the activities delivered as part of the programme can be found in the programme
information documents.
Training, Sector Support, Innovation, Research and
Evaluation
Training and Sector Support will build the capacity of workers who deliver services
under the other two sub-activities for the Financial Wellbeing and
Capability activity.
Financial Counselling,Capability and Resilience
Financial Counselling, Capability and Resilience encompasses the provision of
financial counselling, financial literacy education, and access to financial
services including financial and microfinance products.
Financial Crisis and Material Aid
Financial Crisis and Material Aid encompasses the provision of Emergency
Relief and Food Relief.
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· Commonwealth Financial Counselling helps people in financial difficulty to address their financial problems and make informed choices through direct case work, one-on-one intensive support, community education, the provision of information, advocacy and/or negotiation.
· Financial Capability services seek to help people to build longer-term capability to budget and manage their money better and make informed choices, through financial literacy education, information, coaching and support.
· Financial Resilience offers a variety of safe and affordable financial services and products targeted at financially vulnerable people to build self-reliance. These products are not available through mainstream providers of financial services and include no interest loans, low interest loans or other appropriate loans, and matched savings.
· Financial Crisis Material Aid Sector Support will provide nationally-coordinated training, workforce development and sector support for workers delivering Emergency Relief, both paid and unpaid, to help them better deliver services to the key target groups.
· Financial Counselling and Capability Sector Support will provide nationally-coordinated training, workforce development and sector support for Financial Counselling and Financial Capability workers and organisations.
· Financial Resilience Sector Support is provided by the lead service provider in conjunction with the Australian Government and other partner organisations through a community business partnership to support organisations and the workers providing loans and matched savings schemes.
· Emergency Relief provides immediate financial and/or material support to people in a financial crisis. Emergency Relief provides a safety net for people experiencing financial distress or hardship and who have limited means or resources to help them alleviate their financial crisis.
· Food Relief provides food items to people in financial crisis, including increased access by Emergency Relief organisations to a cost-effective supply of food items. Food Relief includes the sourcing and transport of essential foods to community organisations or distribution centres and the development of local partnerships amongst food redistribution suppliers.
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Community BusinessPartnerships
Civil Society
Families and Communities
Service Improvement and
Sector SupportMore information on the activities
delivered as part of the programmecan be found in the
programme informationdocuments.
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Community Developmentand Participation
Community Development and Participation supports the delivery of
services or one-off projects, activities or events that respond to local community
needs and make a positivecontribution to community life.
Multicultural Affairs
Multicultural Affairs supports projects that build the long-term capacities of higher need and at-risk communities, including through the promotion of
stronger community relations and the development of sustainable
community partnerships.
Volunteering
The Volunteering sub-activity aims to support the ongoing delivery of services
or one-off projects and activities to encourage, support and increase
participation in volunteering.
Strengthening Communities
More information on the activities delivered as part of the programme can be found in the programme
information documents.
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National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children
The National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020 (the
National Framework) aims to drive change for families and children so that
Australia’s children grow upsafe and well.
National Plan toReduce Violence against
Women and their Children
Components funded under the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women
and their Children 2010-2022 (the National Plan), contribute to filling the gaps in service provision for victims of domestic and family violence and/or
sexual assault and build theevidence-base in reducingviolence against women. Support for Trafficked
People Program
Support for Trafficked People Program recognises that trafficked people have
specific and individual support needs and may be at risk from traffickers, have few
safe networks in Australia and fewfriends outside the exploitativeconditions they were found in.
National InitiativesMore information on the activities delivered as part of the programme can be found in the programme information
documents.
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Peak Bodies
Peak bodies and advocacy groupsplay an important role in representing
the settlement, and community sectors to government. Typical peak body services include but are not limited to providing
advice on policy and programme development, advocacy, sharing
information and best practiceacross the sector and promotion
of issues on behalf ofmembers.
NAATI
The National Accreditation Authorityfor Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) sets and maintains national standards in
translating and interpreting, and supports the ongoing development of credentialed
translators and interpreters. Funding is provided in recognition of NAATI’s
community service function insupporting Australian residents not
fluent in English to accessmainstream services.
Settlement ServicesMore information on the activities delivered as part of the programme can be found in the programme information
documents.
Settlement Grants
Delivers core settlement support for humanitarian entrants and other eligible
migrants in their first five years in Australia. Services include casework/
coordination and service delivery, community coordination and
development, youth settlementservices and support for
ethno-specific communities.
Families and Children
More information on the activities delivered as part of the programme can be found in the programme
information documents.
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Family Law Services
Family law services aim toprovide alternatives to formal
legal processes for families who are separated or are separating to
resolve their disputes, improve their relationships and make
arrangements that are inthe best interests of
their children.
Family andRelationship Services
Family and Relationship Services aim to strengthen family relationships, prevent
breakdown and ensure the wellbeing and safety of children through the provision of
broad-based counselling and educationto families of different forms
and sizes. Communities for Children
Facilitating Partners
Communities for Children Facilitating Partners aim to deliver positive and
sustainable outcomes for children and families in disadvantaged communities
throughout Australia.
Children and Parenting
The Children and Parenting Sub-Activity provides funding to early intervention and
prevention services and resources that are aimed at improving children’s development and wellbeing and supporting the capacity of those
in a parenting role.
Young People
Young People services assist young people and their families to improve family
relationships, promote family functioning, and support engagement with work,
education, training and the community. This includes a focus on young people
who are at risk of homelessness.
· The Find and Connect Support Services are for Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants and provide specialist counselling, referral services, peer, education and social support programmes and assistance to locate and access records and reconnect with family members (where possible).
· Forced Adoptions Support Services provide specialist support to people affected by forced adoptions. The services complement and enhance existing services funded by the state and territory governments and aim to improve access to peer support, professional counselling and records and family tracing.
· Royal Commission Community-Based Support provide a broad range of assistance to people affected by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Services include counselling, information and referral and case management to ensure victims and survivors of child sexual abuse, and their families, are able to access support and participate in the Royal Commission. into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse includes a range of community-based support services to provide support to people affected by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (the Royal Commission).
· Children and Parenting Support Services under this component provide support to children and families based on an early intervention and prevention approach and supporting the capacity of those in a parenting role. Services have a primary focus on children aged 0-12 years, but may include children up to age 18 years.
· Intensive Family Support Services (IFSS) are evidence-informed and outcomes-based with a focus on reducing child neglect and increasing the capacity of highly vulnerable families living in selected communities in the Northern Territory (NT) and the Anungu Pitjantjatjara Yankunyatjatjara (APY) Lands of South Australia (SA) to
support their children to be safe, nurtured and thriving.
· Child Support Advocacy community organisations that regularly assist separated or separating parents with support and information regarding their interaction with the Child Support Scheme.
· Family Relationship Centres are a highly visible entry point or gateway to the whole family support service system. Centres provide information, support and referral services to all families and provide family dispute resolution and access to some legal assistance for separating or separated families.
· Children’s Contact Services enable children of separated parents to have safe contact with the parent who they do not live with in circumstances where parents are unable to manage their own contact arrangements.
· The Supporting Children after Separation Program aims to support the wellbeing of children under the age of 18 from separated or separating families who are experiencing issues with difficult family relationships. The services help children and young people deal with issues arising from the breakdown of their parents’ relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves and provide opportunities for them to participate in decisions that impact on them.
· The Parenting Orders Program – Post Separation Cooperative Parenting Services help separated or divorced families who are in high conflict to work out parenting arrangements in a manner which encourages consideration of what is in a child’s best interests in establishing or maintaining relationships, while at the same time ensuring the safety of all parties.
· Family Dispute Resolution services assist families to reach agreement and to resolve their disputes related to family law issues about child and property related matters, outside of the court system.
· Regional Family Dispute Resolution services assist families to reach agreement and to resolve their disputes related to family law issues, in particular child and property related matters, outside of the court system.
· The Family Relationship Advice Line (the Advice Line) is a national non-face to face service available to anyone affected by family relationship or separation issues and difficulties, including parents, grandparents, carers, children, young people, step-parents or friends.
· Family Law Counselling (delivered under the Family and Relationship Services Sub-Activity) services help people with relationship difficulties better manage their personal or interpersonal issues to do with children and family during marriage, separation and divorce.
· The Stronger Relationships trial will operate from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015 and will provide grants to family and relationship services and non-profit organisations to provide up to 100,000 couples with a $200 fee reduction for relationship education and counselling services, which may include components of parent education, conflict resolution and/or financial education.
Adult SpecialistSupport Services
Adult Specialist Support Services provide services and support to improve outcomes
and enhance wellbeing for people adversely affected by past institutional and child-
welfare practices and policies. Training and Sector Support will build the capacity of
workers who deliver services underthe other two sub-activities for
the Financial Wellbeing andCapability activity.
4.1 Housing and Homelessness
Programme
Housing and Homelessness Service Improvement and
Sector SupportProvides funding for research, innovative projects, emerging
Government priorities and peak bodies which may include sector representation, communication,
or sector engagement.
Innovative Projects
Peak Bodies
Research
Emerging Government
Priorities
More information on the activities delivered as part of the programme can be found in the
Programme Information documents. This also includes information on the activity aims and
objectives, eligibility requirements and application information.
4.1
Housing and Homelessness
Service Improvement and
Sector SupportMore information on the activities
delivered as part of the programmecan be found in the
programme informationdocuments.
Research
Includes funding to establish and contribute to an evidence base that identifies housing and homelessness
issues and effective ways of responding to the housing needs of all Australians. The
research is targeted to meetGovernment policy priorities.
Peak Bodies
Includes funding to applicable peak organisations to represent individuals and service providers relevant to DSS’s policy
development and service delivery responsibilities.
Emerging Governmentpriorities
Includes funding to support the growth and responsiveness of the housing and homelessness sector that contribute to
improve housing affordability, reduce the impact of homelessness, and inform
housing and homelessness policy development.
Innovative projects
Includes funding for innovative projects that may be identified as best practice
models and can be promoted and replicated to enhance existing housing
and homelessness policiesand programmes.
5.1 Disability,Mental Health
and Carers Programme
Disability EmploymentIncludes funding to help
individuals with injury, disability or a health condition to secure and
maintain sustainable open employment.
Disability and CarerSupport
Disability and Carer SupportActivity provides assistance, support
and services for people with disability and carers. This Activity
aims to provide appropriate means of self-reliance, communication,
education services
and advocacy.
Disability and CarerService Improvement and
Sector SupportDisability, Carer Service Improvement and Sector Support aims to promote
an understanding of people with disability and carers, and to maximise
their potential to participate as
equal citizens in society.
Community Mental HealthThe objective of the Community
Mental Health Activity is to provide early intervention and other support to assist people with mental illness
and their families and carers, increase their wellbeing and actively
participate in community and
economic life.
Mental health promotion,
education and advocacy
Support options for carers and
families of people with severe
mental illness
Assistance for People Severely
Impacted by Mental Illness
Early Intervention and Support to Vulnerable Families with Children and Young People who are showing early signs, or at risk of, developing
mental illness
More information on the activities delivered as part of the programme can be found in the Programme Information
documents. This also includes information on the activity aims and objectives, eligibility requirements and application information.
Community Mental Health
More information on the activities delivered aspart of the programme can be found in the
programme information documents.
Assistance for peopleseverely impacted by
mental illness
Includes practical one-to-one assistance to people with severe mental illness aged
16 years and over, to help them access services and participate economically
and socially in the community,increasing their opportunities
for recovery.
Early interventionsupport to vulnerable
families with children andyoung people who are showing early signs of, or are at risk of
developing, mental illness
Includes intensive, long-term, earlyintervention support, referral and
assistance for families, andcommunity outreach and
group work.Support options forcarers and families of
people with severemental illness
Includes relief from the caring role through respite or social and recreational
activities, carer support such as counselling, advocacy, peer support,
and education, informationand access.
Mental health promotion,education and advocacy
Includes funding for peak bodies, research, health promotion, lobby groups,
and provides opportunities for people with mental illness, carers, policy
makers, etc.
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Disability andCarer Service
Improvement and Sector Support
More information on the activities delivered as part of the programme can be found
in the programme informationdocuments.
Disability andCarer Support
More information on the activities delivered as part of the programme can be found in the programme
information documents.
Disability Employment
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5.2 National Disability Insurance Scheme
National Disability Insurance Scheme Transition
Aims to improve wellbeing through the NDIS, and includes existing
supports that are transitioning into the Scheme in a phased approach.