Brophy Family and Youth Services
Education
A collaborative response to youth disengagement in regional Victoria
$2,081,000 in new grants. . .
1 new Partnership Grant. 4 new Major Grants.
In the first funding round under our new Grants Strategy, HMSTrust has awarded five grants totalling $2.081m. They include a significant Partnership Grant of $600,000, and four Major Grants.
Grants at these levels are anticipated to contribute to our long-term Impact Goals: Building organisational capacity and sustainability – stronger organisations are able to deliver stronger outcomes; Changing sector practice – solutions that have the potential to change entrenched sector practices; Contributing to systems change – focussing on the components and structures of the systems that drive social change.
| Program | Organisation | Project | Funding Purpose | Grant |
| Community | Social Traders | Build the capacity, sustainability and impact of Victorian social enterprises by scaling social enterprise procurement. | By 2025, scale social enterprise procurement across the business and Government sectors to drive $700 million in revenue for 350+ Victorian enterprises, enabling support of 4,500 jobs for vulnerable Victorians | $600,000 over 4 years |
| Sunraysia Community Health Services | Family and Child Hub – Our Sustainable Future | To achieve independent business sustainability of the Family and Child Hub through investment in business modelling, management, program expansion, and relocation, both to optimise impact and business mix | $355,000 over 2 years | |
| Education | University of Melbourne / Melbourne Graduate School of Education | In2School@school: a re-engagement program for students who are school refusing after remote-learning experienced during lockdown | In2School@school will utilise learnings from a successful pilot to adapt and scale-up an intervention to re-engage at-risk students in collaboration with Travancore School, Royal Children’s Hospital and MacKillop Education Services | $400,000 over 2 years |
| Environment | Bush Heritage Australia | Wurreka Galkangu: An ongoing partnership journey – collaborating in right-way planning, management and evaluation | To work together with Dja Dja Wurrung Traditional Owners to deliver conservation and cultural outcomes on Bush Heritage reserves in Central Victoria | $330,000 over 3 years |
| Health | Swinburne University of Technology / Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults | Mental Health (Telehealth) Counselling Service for aged-care communities in rural and regional Victoria | To scale-up an evidence-based, free mental health counselling telehealth service for older people living in residential aged-care homes in rural and regional Victorian communities in partnership with aged-care providers | $396,000 over 3 years |
