Current Grant Opportunity View - GO8507

The Dementia Training Program (DTP), first established nationally in 2016, aims to strengthen the capability of Australia’s health and aged care workforce to provide high-quality, evidence-based dementia care. 

The purpose of this grant opportunity is to fund the delivery of accredited and non-accredited education, upskilling and professional development in dementia care. The delivery of DTP activities will reflect the emerging dementia, health and aged care landscape, including recent aged care reforms and increasing demand for services. 

DTP activities will:

• Be aligned with a National Dementia Training and Education Standards Framework.

• Expand experiential, immersive, peer mentoring and interprofessional training. 

• Adopt tailored approaches for diverse workforce groups and communities including for First Nations people, those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people from regional, rural and remote locations.

• Build organisational capability and leadership for high quality dementia care, including sustainable practice change. 

• Deliver key service elements responding to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.

There are two funding streams: Stream 1 aims to improve capability of health and aged care workers to provide high quality dementia care for non-Indigenous Australians, including people from diverse backgrounds. Stream 2 focuses on culturally safe, community-led dementia training for First Nations communities and workforces.

NOTE: Please refer to the most recent Frequently Asked Questions (Version 4) published 2 September 2026.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.

We cannot consider your application if you do not satisfy all the eligibility criteria.

You can apply for grants under any Commonwealth program but if your application for the same activity is successful, you must choose either this grant opportunity or the other Commonwealth grant.

To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:

• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006)

• Company 

• Corporate Commonwealth Entity

• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority 

• Corporate State or Territory Entity 

• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity 

• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority

• Cooperative

• Incorporated Association

• Statutory Entity 

• Partnership

• Unincorporated Association.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.

Applications from consortia are acceptable, providing there is a lead organisation that is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above. Only the lead organisation can submit the application form and enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. Eligible organisations can form a consortium with ineligible organisations, with the exception of those organisations deemed ineligible because they are included on the National Redress Scheme’s website on the list of ‘Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme’.

Additional eligibility requirements apply (please see Section 4 of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines).

$52,843,000.00

Submit the completed application form and all necessary attachments by the closing date and time via the Online Application Form document located via the "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side. 

You should keep a copy of your application and any supporting documents. You will receive an automated email notification acknowledging the receipt of the submission which includes your Submission Reference ID. Retain this ID if you wish to query your application. If you do not receive an automated email notification within 48 hours of submission, please email Grant.ATM@health.gov.au. 

Note the 2MB limit per attachment in the application form. Multiple files/documents should be scanned into a single document. Compressed or zip files are not accepted. File names must be unique and not include foreign characters.