Youth grants program

The Northern Territory Government (NTG) facilitates the strategic policy and planning agenda for alcohol and other drugs in the Northern Territory in partnership with health services, non-government organisations and consumers. This grant program aims to minimise harm associated with the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, including volatile substances, through a range of prevention, education and community action initiatives.

Funding is available up to $20,000 for individual projects/initiatives across the Territory.

There are two areas of focus for 2023/24 applications:

  • Provision of projects to promote healthy choices that aim to reduce harms associated with Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) among young people.  Priority projects will demonstrate culturally safe responses that address harms associated with emerging issues, for example:
    • Vaping or chroming.
  • Enhance staff skills within organisations that engage with young people (aged 12-25) through increasing access to training.
    • About Trauma Informed Care to reduce harm among young people.
    • About effective work practices that support young people’s healthy choices.
  • Demonstrate the activities are consistent with the National Drug Strategy 2017-2026 and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Drug Strategy 2014-2019.
  • Projects/initiatives must be specifically for the Northern Territory.

Applications are open through the GrantsNT website, from Friday 1 September 2023 and close Friday 29 September 2023.

  1. Visit https://grantsnt.nt.gov.au/
  2. Login or Register for an Account.
  3. Please insure you are applying under your organisation profile.
  4. Search for Alcohol and Other Drugs Youth Grants and hit the apply button at the bottom.

The opportunity to apply for a one-off grant is now available to:

  • Community groups
  • Non-government organisations
  • Local councils
  • Sole trader and partnerships

Applications must be submitted by midnight on Friday 29 September 2023. Late applications will not be accepted.

An evaluation panel will assess and discuss each application received and will be consider under the following factors:

  • How the project or activity will benefit our community’s youth.
  • How the project or activity provide healthy choices to reduce harms associated with AOD among young people.
  • How the project or activity demonstrate culturally safe responses that address harms associated with emerging issues.
  • How the organisation will enhance their staff skills that engage with young people (aged 12-25) through increasing access to training.
  • How the project or activity will provide staff training in Trauma Informed Care and effective work practices to support young people.
  • The project or activity is supported within the community.
  • The project demonstrates activities are consistent with the National Drug Strategy 2017-2026, and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Drug Strategy 2014-2019.
  • Projects/initiatives must be specifically for the Northern Territory.
  • Previous successful delivery and reporting of funded projects.

You will be notified of the outcome of the application within four weeks of the closing date.  The evaluation panel may decide to partially fund a project/activity, depending on the content and quality of the application received.

A failure to receive funding does not necessarily mean your application or project is not worthwhile. There is a high demand across the Northern Territory for grant funding and this means that some may miss out.

Successful applicants will be required to sign a funding agreement between the organisation and NT Health.

Successful applicants will be required to acknowledge the support of the NTG through the use of the NTG logo on all promotional materials e.g. promotional advertisements, press releases, signage at events and/or other material as appropriate. A digital copy of the logo can be supplied upon request.

At the end of your project, we will require a performance report on your successes, challenges, along with photos of the work you’ve done and the outcomes. We want to hear about what didn’t work as planned, what you would do differently and any learnings from the project.

Successful applicants will also be required to submit an acquittal report within three months of the project/activity completion.

For further information please contact the Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs Branch by phone 08 8999 2691 or email Commissioning.MHAOD@nt.gov.au


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