- More than $43,000 in grant funding has been awarded to community-led projects in south-east Queensland
- The GenQ Health and Wellbeing Queensland Grants Program aims to support the health and wellbeing of infants, children and young people
- Grants were awarded to initiatives that promote physical activity, nutrition, health literacy, wellbeing and/or health equity
Local communities across Queensland are being empowered to implement initiatives that improve the health and wellbeing of infants, children and young people through new grant funding.
Health and Wellbeing Queensland, the state’s prevention agency, has awarded 25 community projects a total of nearly $400,000 in funding through its inaugural GenQ Health and Wellbeing Community grants scheme.
Grants were awarded to initiatives that promote physical activity, nutrition, health literacy, wellbeing and/or health equity in local communities.
That funding includes $43,108 delivered to three community projects based in the Brisbane, Logan and Redlands areas that successfully applied to the scheme.
- Children’s Tumour Foundation, $20,000 – To deliver a family camp for children and their families from throughout Queensland who are living with neurofibromatosis, exposing them to new activities free from discrimination, and provide focused psychosocial support to parents to promote better health outcomes for these children.
- Queensland Program of Assistance for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT), $18,108 – To pilot the ‘Connecting Culture and Movement to Thrive’ program at schools in Brisbane and Logan, integrating existing school dance programs with trauma focused dance movement therapy and cultural dance practices to increase protective factors and healthy development.
- Algester Branch Little Athletics Centre Inc, $5,000 – To deliver coaching sessions to club volunteers for coaching accreditation to sustain the delivery of the athletics program and retention of children participating in athletics.
Health and Wellbeing Queensland Chief Executive Officer Dr Robyn Littlewood said creating a generational shift was key to helping Queensland’s children and young people live healthier more active lives.
‘It’s wonderful this Children’s Week to acknowledge the communities across our state who are driving to improve the health and wellbeing of Queensland’s more than 1.2 million children and young people,’ she said.
‘New research shows that a child born in the decade from 2023 may have a shorter life expectancy than their parents – we need to reverse this trend.
‘These Community Grants are just one of the steps we’re taking to deliver our GenQ vision so that children born today experience better health outcomes than the generations of Queenslanders before them.
‘These grants will help make healthy happen faster for our state by driving innovation across key areas that have a huge impact on our health and wellbeing, and most importantly by supporting communities bring the ideas to life that will be most beneficial – because they know their own communities better than anyone.’
Click here for the full list of recipients.
