Grant Listings

Uniting Care Geelong (formerly Uniting Care Concern)
Education Assistance Program

Assist low income families to meet education costs for secondary students going back to school.

SkillsConnection
Tools for Change (T4C)

Tools for Change prepares students in Colac and the surrounding area to successfully make the transition from primary school to secondary school. A two day workshop provides students with experiences and information that will enable them to better manage the change and prepare them for the school year.

Open House Christian Involvement Centre
Attitude Management Program

The Attitude Management Program works with young men who struggle with maturity, relationships and self-esteem. The program provides opportunities for these young men to grow in self-esteem and develop new skills.

Lighthouse Foundation
Lighthouse Counselling to all

The Lighthouse Foundation works in innovative ways to provide long-term benefits to homeless young people in Victoria. A regular counselling service will be provided to all Lighthouse residents and young people who are involved in the Lighthouse Outreach Program to address complex issues relating to homelessness.

Helping Hand Foundation Inc.
Lifeskill Education

The Life Skills Education Program works with 400 young people in and around St Kilda to develop skills and strategies to help them believe in their own capacity to influence positively their achievements in all areas of life.

Doxa Youth Foundation
Malmsbury Camp Water

The Doxa Youth Foundation creates opportunities for disadvantaged young people. One of Doxa's flagship programs is the Doxa Malmsbury Camp. The camp provides a safe holiday experience for disadvantaged young people. The camp has recently undergone a major renovation. Due to its location, the camp has no mains water but instead relies on tank water. The grant will enable the water tanks to be repaired and replaced to ensure an adequate supply of water to the camp.

Ardoch Youth Foundation
Primary School Support Project - Mahogany Rise

Ardoch Youth Foundation makes education a reality for children and young people especially for those experiencing disadvantage. The Primary School Support Project - Mahogany Rise, located in Frankston North, is an education and welfare program to assist students to remain at school and to improve learning outcomes.

Aboriginal Literacy Foundation
Literacy & Heritage Camps for Indigenous Young People

The Aboriginal Literacy Foundation provides literacy programs for Indigenous children and young people experiencing major learning difficulties. Six literacy and heritage camps will be conducted for Indigenous students where they will receive one on one intensive literacy support.

The Mirabel Foundation
Respite Program

Provision of therapeutic respite care for children aged 3 - 12 years, who have been orphaned or abandoned due to parental illicit drug use. The respite provides a suitable environment for children to express their feelings and talk about their experiences while their kinship carers (usually elderly grandparents) receive the rest and support they require to continue to provide care.

Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency
Deadly Kids Develop Deadly Books

This community literacy initiative will undertake community publishing activities with children aged from five to secondary school age and their families in the Indigenous community in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

Mallee Family Care
Chances for Children

Chances for Children supports children and young people from Mildura and the Mallee to make the most of their capabilities regardless of their financial situation. The fund is used to identify what monies are required to make up the difference to fill the financial gap so that young people can undertake education in order to realise their career and life potential.

Scripture Union Victoria
Inspired4Life Annual Camp

Young people from the western and northern regions of Melbourne will attend a camp in Gippsland. The camp provides a circuit breaker for young people to step out of their usual environment, feel challenged within a supportive structure and work through issues that they are facing in a positive way.

Melbourne Legacy
Legacy Junior Public Speaking Awards

The program helps young people throughout Victoria develop and practice their public speaking skills while learning about Legacy. The subject matter of the speeches relates to the ideals of Legacy: voluntary service, social justice, caring, personal effort, personal sacrifice and mateship.

Righteous Pups Bendigo
Industry Program

The Industry Program supports young people to develop industry-based skills that will help them gain employment or further their education. Throughout the program, they are given opportunities to develop their self esteem, confidence and skills.

Menzies Inc.
Animal Assisted Therapy for Children Exposed to Family & Domestic Violence

The program addresses the social issue of domestic violence and its effect on children who have been exposed to family violence, abuse and neglect. Through a behaviour modification program and with the help of farm animals, children learn to develop the necessary social and emotional skills to support positive life choices and make life-long changes.

Urban Seed
Urban Seed Edge

In partnership with the Long Gully Neighbourhood Centre in Bendigo, Urban Seed is conducting Urban Seed Edge with young poeple at risk of long-term unemployment, low school attendance, antisocial behaviour and substance abuse. The program involves a mix of outdoor education along with leadership and community development training to address physical, social, spiritual and emotional issues.

Croxton Special School
Family Dog Circus

A second grant was provided to support and extend a range of inclusive youth performance improvisation, lighting and sound opportunities, and the second Bow WOW! Festival.

Church of All Nations Carlton Welfare Agency (Ernie's Club)
Birthday Celebrations & Excursion to Sovereign Hill

School Holiday Program for young people living at the Carlton High Rise Estate.

Centacare Catholic & Family Services
School Refusal Counselling, Consultancy & Training - "cool2b@school"

The cool2b@school early intervention program aims to prevent students who show signs of school refusal or phobia, or both, from becoming school refusers. It offers counselling for students and their parents, and a consultancy to schools aimed at supporting students to stay at school.

BEST Community Development
Delivery Van for Café BEST

Funds to purchase a new catering delivery van for Café Best, an employment and training program for young people with disabilities in Ballarat. Cafe Best is not only a gourmet cafe and catering service but also an innovative social enterprise.

Berry Street
Positive Memory Bank

Positive memories are the foundation of a positive future. Children and young people who have experienced the trauma of family violence, abuse and neglect have a memory bank overflowing with negative images yet they often express the same dreams and hopes of a better future as many others their age. The project will support young people wishing to pursue their interests, and create positive experiences and memories to build a stronger foundation for the future.

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Support for Young Asylum Seekers

Support for children and young people seeking asylum in Australia, including healthy food parcels, social and recreation programs, and other material assistance. The programs address issues such as economic hardship, mental health and well being.

Glastonbury Child & Family Services
Youth HomELessness Prevention (Youth HELP)

This program encourages young people to take part in making decisions about their lives and futures. It offers the opportunity for immediate and extended family members to come together at facilitated meetings and put aside any differences to focus on making plans to prevent young people from becoming homeless.

The Song Room
Music/Performing Arts Program, Bendigo

A music and performing arts program held in two schools in Bendigo (Bendigo Teaching Unit and St Monicas Primary School) and designed for children who are having significant difficulties in school. Such children are at risk of falling out of mainstream education due to poor school attendance, learning difficulties and other academic, social and emotional issues.

The Victorian Arts Centre Trust
First Call

The program offers young people who are disadvantaged (financially, geographically or by some other circumstance) to experience quality performing arts at the Arts Centre. Such an enjoyable experience can open up a whole new world for young people.

The Portsea Camp
Camp Canoes

The Portsea Camp provides positive recreation camps for disadvantaged children and young people - the purchase of 10 canoes and life jackets will enable all children who visit the camp to take part in canoeing activities. The canoeing program provides disadvantaged children and young people with fun and adventure, and gives them the opportunity to raise their self esteem and increase their confidence, and the challenge to work positively with others.

Doncare
Back to School

At a time in the year when the finances of many families are already stretched to the limit, the Back to School Program helps children from low income families begin the new school year on a positive note by assisting with the purchase of books, uniforms and shoes.

The Australian Children's Music Foundation
School Music Program

The project expands the existing partnership between the ACMF and the Ardoch Youth Foundation to provide music programs at Albion North Primary School, in Sunshine North, and Sunvale Primary School, in Sunshine.

Victorian College for the Deaf
Tradeblock Cafe

Seed funding for the new and innovative Deaf Cafe located at the Victorian College for the Deaf. The Tradeblock Cafe plays an important role in addressing serious gaps in training and education of deaf youth, and provides real pathways to work, training and further study through the expansion of the VCAL program which promotes hands-on learning. Through the cafe, students can develop life and work skills in a nurturing environment within the school. The cafe also helps break down communication barriers between the deaf and the hearing community.

Kids Under Cover Inc
Bungalow Program

Construction of a bungalow for a young person experiencing hardship. The program aims to prevent homelessness among young people who are most at risk by helping them to find pathways to more stable living.

Youth For Christ Australia - Gippsland
Bridge House / YFC Youth Centre

The Youth for Christ Youth Centre provides a positive atmosphere in which local young people can meet, socialise, use the facilities, learn life skills and take part in a range of activities. The centre provides informal mentoring relationships and connects young people with positive role models.

Ganbina
Koori Youth Driver Skills Program

Support to expand the Koori Driver Skills Program to incorporate driving supervision to complete the 120 Drive Time. The program helps to overcome a significant barrier for indigenous young people who do not have access to a suitable licensed driver or vehicle.

California Gully Primary School
Friendly Free Time Initiative - supporting ALL children to stay included

A lunchtime program that encourages all children to take part in recreational activities. Through play, games and appropriate adult involvement, the program provides the opportunity for all children, specifically those at risk of exclusion from school activities, to practice their social skills.

The Reach Out for Kids Foundation Inc. (ROK)
Broadening Horizons

This project establishes and promotes three separate but related programs that address the needs of young people who have experienced tragedy or abuse.

Thornbury High School
Community Click

Classnet provides a free online regulated platform for young people to post DVD's they have created using emerging digital technologies. Further development of the Classnet website to include "Community Click" will enable community groups to access the site and post their own DVD's made by young people, along with school films.

The Youth Junction Inc.
National Youth Week 2008 Celebrations (5-13th April)

Programs leading up to National Youth Week to provide young people with the opportunity to learn and test their creative abilities within structured workshops in art, music, dance, leadership, drama and theatre.

Boronia Baptist Church
Combined Church Camp

Joint camp activity with the Knox Baptist Church for 70 students and leaders at the Forest Edge Adventure Resort. The activity will provide a supportive and interactive environment in which young people are valued, encouraged and challenged.

Ocean Grove Neighbourhood Centre
High Challenge Camp

The Victorian Police High Challenge Camp provides an opportunity for 15 young people to attend a camp with local police and a squad from the Victorian Police Academy. The aim is to improve leadership skills, confidence and self esteem, and to build a positive relationship between police and young people.

Autism Behavioural Intervention Association
Serenity Now

An education program teaching children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, and their parents, effective methods of coping with anxiety. This early intervention strategy offers the tools to recognise, prevent and deal with anxiety.

Melbourne Youth Music
Financial Assistance Program

Funding to subsidise fees for disadvantaged students with musical talent to enable them to attend the Summer School and Saturday Music Programs.

Best Buddies Australia
High School Project - Ashburton

A friendship program that matches young people with intellectual disabilities with students of a similar age from a mainstream school in Ashburton. The program provides opportunities for young people with disabilities to form lasting friendships with young people who do not have disabilities, and helps reduce the social isolation felt by those with disabilities. As one parent remarked: "I can buy most things my son needs but I can't buy him a friend."

Church of All Nations (Carlton Youth and Family Services)
2008 Recreational Activities at Ernie's Club

Recreational activities, including beach trips and country picnics for young people living at the high rise estate in Carlton.

Goulburn Region Foster Families Association
Summer Camp

Funding of the annual summer camp, run in conjunction with Berry Street. The camp provides a summer holiday for children and young people in foster care, along with important networking and support for the Foster Carers.

Jesuit Social Services - Brosnan Centre
Garden Survival at The Brosnan Centre

Completion of the redeveloped courtyard garden at the Brosnan Centre, including the installation of rainwater tanks and a drip system. Young people recently released from Prison and detention centres worked on the project.

Melbourne Anglican Benevolent Society Inc.
South Melbourne Community Camp

The summer holiday camp gives local children and young people an opportunity to enjoy new experiences and engage with other community members in a relaxed, non-threatening environment.

Open Family Australia
Soccer Noodles Program

A program to engage Vietnamese drug users in Footscray, who are actively seeking drug treatment, in a weekly game of soccer. After the game, the team is taken to a local cafe for a healthy bowl of noodles. The program promotes physical activity, a healthy diet and positive social interaction.

Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre (Foreva Young Youth Committee)
Youth Contribution & Leadership Program

The Foreva Young Youth Committee, auspiced and supported by the Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre, is a group of young people from an Assyrian Chaldean background who want to make a difference in their community. The group provides opportunities for other youth from the same background, and offers information sessions for young people and their families to address issues relating to cultural identity and inter-generational conflict.

Church of All Nations (Carlton Youth and Family Services)
Table Tennis Table

Replacement of a table tennis table at "Ernie's Club" in Carlton for young people living at the Carlton High Rise estate.

Cottage by the Sea
Five Day Camp

A five-day camp for 20 disadvantaged children at the Cottage by the Sea, in Queenscliff, including excursions, adventures and health promotion activities.

Cystic Fibrosis Victoria
Kids Fitness Participation Program

The Fitness Participation Program is dedicated to improving the quality of life of children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and their families. It combines practical and financial support to help children with CF, particularly those who are facing financial hardship, better manage their health.

St. Kilda Youth Service
Young Mum's Program, Camping and Recreation Program

The Young Mum's Program provides a broad range of support services and access to vocational training for young women who are mothers or who are pregnant.

The Camping and Recreation Program provides outdoor activities to marginalised young people who live in and around St. Kilda. It offers them the opportunity to enjoy positive and fun activities they would not normally take part in, and provides opportunities to develop independence, self-esteem and social skills.

Villa Maria - St. Paul's College
The Liberty Swing

St. Paul's College caters for more than 90 students with disabilities. The liberty swing, a playground swing designed especially for children with disabilities, enables profoundly disabled students to enjoy a fun and pleasurable recreational experience. Loading a wheelchair-bound student onto the swing takes less than a minute and can be performed by one staff member.

Casey North Community Information & Support Services
Back to School

The Back to School Program seeks to help disadvantaged families in the City of Casey over the cost of their children returning to school.

Somebody's Daughter Theatre Company
Expansion of Highwater Theatre

The program uses the power of the arts as a catalyst to help young people disconnected from mainstream education find their way back onto educational pathways. Highwater Theatre has developed several new short works as part of the creative education package for teachers, welfare workers, students and artists.

Vermont South Special School
Camping Program for Disabled Students

Financial assistance to ensure that every child has the opportunity to attend an appropriate camp, regardless of their family's capacity to pay.

Narre Warren South College P-12 Secondary
Operation Newstart Casey

Intensive personal development program that helps disengaged young people find positive solutions in a challenging and supportive environment.

Doveton North Primary School
Boys Making a Difference Project

A hands-on project that enables boys in their primary years of schooling who are underachieving in the classroom, or who have attitudinal difficulties with work and school, to learn real-life skills though negotiated community-based projects.

Whitelion
Youth Development Camps

Whitelion provides services to vulnerable young people within our community, particularly those in, and at risk of entering, statutory systems. Whitelion Youth Development Camps provide opportunities for young people to achieve personal excellence and build self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance, self-motivation and respect for others.

Very Special Kids
Music Therapy Program

Very Special Kids provides continued care and service to children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. For many seriously ill children who are unable to speak, music can be their voice. The music therapy program for children at Very Special Kids House provides an important therapeutic, fun and creative outlet.

Breakaway Camps
Breakaway Camps School Holiday Program

A school holiday program for disadvantaged young people living in the cities of Darebin and Whittlesea. The program provides them with opportunities to take part in constructive activities during the school holidays, enabling them to learn new life skills and develop their self-esteem and self-reliance.

The Australian Ballet
First Impressions

The First Impressions program enables disadvantaged (physical, intellectual, social and economic) young people up to the age of 18 to attend a ballet performance free of charge.

Karabiner Outdoor Education
Early Intervention Outdoor Education Program

A 10-day wilderness experience for 10 boys aged between nine and 15, followed by nine months of on-going support and mentoring.

Child & Family Services Ballarat
Annual Holiday Program for children in the Residential Care Program

Support for CAFS Summer annual holiday program for children in residential care. The camp provides an important summer holiday for eight disadvantaged children aged between from seven and 16. For many children, it is their first visit to the beach.

Sunshine Heights Cricket Club
Camp for the Junior Teams

The Sunshine Heights Cricket Club provides a positive and inclusive environment for all disadvantaged young people in the Sunshine community, including recently arrived refugees. The Junior Club Member camp at Camp Boomerang provides an opportunity for 45 children to take part in a range of exciting adventures to build upon and strengthen their camaraderie and respect for each other despite their differences.

Camcare
Supporting Young People Through Education

Provides financial assistance to disadvantaged young people to help them pay their education costs.

Warringa Park School
Alfresco Cafe

Warringa Park School provides education for students aged between five and 19 years who have a diagnosed intellectual disability ranging from mild to profound. Funds enabled a dishwasher to be purchased and installed in the newly initiated School Cafe Project. The project, an extension of the VCAL program, aims to build the student's work and life skills in preparation for employment after they have completed formal schooling.

Don Bosco Youth Centre
Kitchen Renovation & Recreation Equipment

Recreation equipment for the Youth Centre in Brunswick, and equipment to refurbish the hostel kitchen to ensure it complies with health and safety regulations.

Wesley Mission
Wesley Kids Under Kanvas - Camping Activities

Wesley Kids Under Kanvas provides school holiday camps, weekend camps and day outings for children, teenagers and young adults with a disability. All activities place an emphasis on the abilities rather than disabilities.

Uniting Care Concern
Education Assistance Program

The program helps low-income families meet the education costs of secondary students going back to school.

Yalari Limited
Sponsorship of an Indigenous Student

The Rosemary Bishop Indigenous Education Scholarship Program provides scholarships for Indigenous students to attend leading boarding schools in Australia. The vision of the program is to create opportunities for Indigenous students to receive a quality education so that they can reach their full potential. The aim is to provide scholarships for 250 students over 10 years, creating an alumni network of indigenous people who will become leaders in their chosen fields. Funds were provided under the scholarship program to sponsor a Victorian Indigenous student to board at Geelong Grammar.

Good Shepherd
Bridge Program

Through BRIDGE (Building Real Independent Development through Group Education), the Good Shepherd Youth and Family Service works closely with staff and students at Lynall Hall Community School, in Richmond, to help disadvantaged young people to stay connected to their school and community.

Duke of Edinburgh Award (Vic) Limited
Harnessing Our Volunteer Energy

Development and resourcing of a youth advisory group to increase youth participation and voluntarism within The Duke of Edinburgh's Award in Victoria. The project focused on supporting disadvantaged young people to participate in the Award.

Echuca Specialist School
Swan Hill Sports Camp

Support for Special Schools from Mildura, Bendigo, Maryborough and Echuca to meet in Swan Hill to compete in an organised sports day. It camp gives students the chance to mix with their peers and display their athletic talents, reduces geographic isolation, and helps students feel they are a part of a broader social group.

Verney Road School
Australian History Discovery Trip

Verney Road School provides education programs to meet the needs of students with mild to profound intellectual and multiple disabilities in the emotional, behavioural, physical and sensory areas. The funding provided 44 students aged from 11 to 15 with a two night school excursion to Ballarat to learn more about Australian history.

Royal Yacht Club of Victoria
Let's Sailaway

Sailing programs for disadvantaged young people living and attending school in the Western suburbs of Melbourne.

Redkite
Financial Assistance Program

Caring for a sick child, particularly one hospitalised a long way from home, can have a devastating effect on the family, financially and emotionally. The Financial Assistance Program helps with essential household and living expenses, emergency payments and child-specific costs, such as wigs and special-needs items.

Travellers Aid Society of Victoria (TASV)
Homeward Bound Emergency Relief Program

Financial assistance and material aid to disadvantaged young people aged up to 21. The program aims to build and strengthen the capacity of marginalised young people and families, reuniting them whenever possible and where appropriate.

Taralye - The Oral Language Centre for Deaf Children
Outdoor Language Room

The Outdoor Language Room at the Taralye premises will help hearing-impaired children learn the vocabulary and language that accompanies outdoor activities. To make these activities meaningful for the deaf child, the outdoor room is based around a children's character "Taralye Ted" who has a home and a backyard.

The Mirabel Foundation Inc.
Mirabel House Programs - Respite & Events

Provision of therapeutic respite care for children aged three to 12 who have been orphaned or abandoned due to parental illicit drug use by one or both of their parents.

Barwon Youth Accommodation Services (BYAS)
Cafe Meals Club

Cafe Meals Club provides subsidised meals at cafes in Geelong and Colac to young people who are at risk. Members of the program who pay $3 at one of the member cafes are able to order a meal up to the value of $10. The aim is to provide opportunities for homeless young people to eat healthy food in a socially inclusive environment rather than consume high fat take-away food.

Croxton Specialist School
Family Dog Circus

Family Dog Circus provides young people with disabilities with experiential learning opportunities in a creative environment. The project aims to develop innovative improvisation process using accessible technical equipment. shared experiences and skill development. Family Dog Circus also host the Bow WOW! Festival in the northern suburbs of Melbourne for artistic exchange and networking, and provide access to training opportunities.