Funding of $400,000 is available for two projects over 18-months to develop community-focused AOD prevention resources that aim to improve health literacy across Queensland and, ideally, prevent AOD related harms from occurring.

Community prevention engages communities in AOD primary prevention efforts and is tailored to meet the specific needs of a community, address a wide range of AOD-related issues relevant to that community, and can be delivered in multiple settings by different methods.

Community prevention can be community-based or community-led.

• A community-based approach is project-focused and is driven by external people or organisations who have helped a community to identify an area of concern or led activities to address specific community issues.
• A community-led approach involves grassroots projects where the community has identified its own needs and is then supported to respond to those needs. Communities are the main driver of this method.

The organisation must:

• have a registered Australian Business Number (ABN) and be registered for GST purposes, where relevant
• be Queensland based
• have not for profit objectives
• hold or will obtain the appropriate workers' compensation, public liability and professional indemnity insurance required to undertake this initiative and all related activities
• have no outstanding financial liability, service delivery or performance issues for funding previously and/or currently provided by the Queensland Government
• must not have received funding from another Queensland Government organisation for the same proposed initiative, within the same 18-month delivery timeframe (no double-ups permitted).

• Phone: 1300 855 945
• Email: contracts@qmhc.qld.gov.au