Safe and Diverse Communities Grants

Background

Domestic and family violence is an overt or subtle expression of a power imbalance—resulting in one person living in fear of another—and usually involves an ongoing pattern of abuse over time.

It can have serious impacts on people who experience it and may take many forms, ranging from physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, financial, monitoring and surveillance, and other types of control.

The Queensland Government is committed to:

• enabling culturally and linguistically diverse communities to create long-term cultural change within their communities to prevent DFV
• creating meaningful partnerships and engagement with people from diverse backgrounds to enable proactive steps for improving women’s safety through awareness and prevention initiatives to address DFV
• working with communities to prevent violence to ensure the voices of culturally and linguistically diverse women are heard, and to support women and their children who may require a range of targeted responses.

In 2021 the Queensland Government provided funding of $6 million over 4 years to support the prevention of DFV in multicultural communities, and $1 million of this funding was to facilitate partnerships in multicultural communities through a grant program. This $1 million was made available over 4 years, with $250,000 available each year of the grant program.

This year an enhanced grant round occurred with additional funding.

Target group

The grant program is for culturally and linguistically diverse communities. This includes people from migrant or refugee backgrounds, as well as people who are born in Queensland who self-identify as ‘being from multicultural backgrounds’. This applies to groups and individuals who differ according to religion, language and ethnicity and whose ancestry is other than Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, Anglo Saxon or Anglo Celtic.

Funding

In 2024 an enhanced grant round took place with an increased investment of $850,000. Under the enhanced grant round, small grants of up to $25,000 and larger grants up to $150,000 were available for prospective applicants.

These grants were dispersed in a tiered approach:

1. Small grants up to $25,000 were available to support community led projects in culturally and linguistically diverse communities to:
   • recognise, respond to and raise awareness of DFV, and
   • provide better support for victim-survivors of DFV.
2. Larger grants up to $150,000 were available to support a small number of larger projects in culturally and linguistically diverse communities which aim to:
   • drive cultural change in enhancing response to, prevention, awareness and recognition of, and/or support for those impacted by DFV, and
   • contribute to sustained community impact beyond the grant's expiration, which must involve the development of training programs, resources and materials tailored to address the identified priority issue/s.

These grants are designed to encourage innovative approaches that foster long-term positive change and empower communities to address and combat DFV effectively.

A maximum of 3 larger grants were available to successful applicants across Queensland.

Successful recipients

In 2024, a total of 21 organisations were successfully awarded funding through the enhanced grant program. You can access the full lists of successful applicants for each year’s funding round:

• 2023/24 Safe and Diverse Communities grant program successful recipients
• 2022 Safe and Diverse Communities grant program successful recipients
• 2021 Safe and Diverse Communities grant program successful recipients.

Contact

If you have questions, please phone 1800 177 577 or email SafeandDiverseGrantPrg@justice.qld.gov.au.