Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO4987
Redress Support Services
The Australian Government is inviting organisations in an open process to apply to deliver services under Outcome 2, Program 2.1: Families and Communities for the Redress Support Services (RSS) component, from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2024.
RSS play a critical role in providing emotional and practical support for people affected by institutional child sexual abuse to complete an application and interact with the National Redress Scheme (the Scheme).
Practical support includes providing information about the Scheme, assisting people to complete the Scheme’s application form, and supporting people to access other appropriate services such as legal and financial counselling or other community services.
Emotional support includes providing counselling, case management, professional supervision and similar arrangements to provide people with a safe environment to engage with the Scheme.
RSS can play a key role in managing people’s expectations about the Scheme by providing clear information about what the Scheme is, how it can be accessed and what a person can reasonably expect through the process of applying and potentially accepting an offer of redress.
To be eligible, you must be one of the following entity types:
- Indigenous Corporation
- Company
- Cooperative
- Incorporated Association
- Trustee on behalf of a Trust
- Unincorporated Association.
Applications from consortia are acceptable, as long as you have a lead applicant who is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above.
If you are a non-government institution that is a participating institution for the purposes of the Scheme you are eligible to apply. Your application will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the number of applications that name your organisation as the responsible institution, the nature of the applications, the history of your organisation and your proposed approach to ensure independence. Organisations that cannot sufficiently demonstrate their ability to manage potential conflicts of interest will not be assessed further.
To apply go to the application form here
To assist with selecting your coverage area in the application form, information on Statistical Areas can be found on the Community Grants Hub website.