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NDIA DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE ILC GRANT R 2

www.communitygrants.gov.au/grants/information-linkages-and-capacity-building-nsw-sa-act

NDIA ILC TOOLKIT https://ilctoolkit.ndis.gov.au/

NDIA INFORMATION ABOUT DEVELOPING OUTCOMES

The ILC Outcomes Framework Discussion Starter 

NDIA RURAL AND REMOTE STRATEGY 2016-19

Use this link to check the NDIA identified rural and remote areas, if considering the ILC Focus Area 4.

https://www.ndis.gov.au/medias/documents/h2c/hb0/8800389824542/Rural-and-Remote-Strategy-991-KB-PDF-.pdf

NDIA ILC WEBINAR ILC information webcast - here

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ILC GRANT ROUND 2

Phone the Community Grants Hub on 1800 020 283 or email to support@communitygrants.gov.au

The question and answer period will close at 5:00 pm AEST on Thursday 23 November2017.

FEEDBACK FROM COMMUNITY GRANTS HUB ON ACT ILC GRANTS

www.communitygrants.gov.au/grants/ilc-jurisdictional-based-grants-–-act

NDS CONTACTS Karen Stace

NSW Sector Operations

Edwina Pickering

NSW Sector Support

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Manager National

P: 02 9256 3111

F: 02 9256 3123

M: 0409 948 530

E: karen.stace@nds.org.au

Consultant

P: 02 9256 3111

F: 02 9256 3123

M: 0425 315 195

E: edwina.pickering@nds.org.au

ILC Funding Allocation Tables

The funding allocated to ILC grants are as follows –

FINANCIAL YEAR TOTAL STATUS

2017-18 $68,871,000 Round 1 Closed

2018-19 $105,264,000 Open – NSW, SA, ACT

2019-20 $119,348,000 Not open - Qld, Tas, Vic, NT

2020-21 $118,603,000 Not open

Round 2 grant allocation -

FINANCIAL YEAR

NSW SA ACT TOTAL

2018-19 46,552,000 10,543,500 3,300,000 60,395,500

2019-20 15,680,674 3,551,495 642,632 19,874,801

TOTAL $M 62,232,674 14,094,995 3,942,632 80,270,301

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Lists of successful ILC projects from Round 1

The following two lists are from the National Readiness grants, which were allocated to projects that met one of two Activity Areas –

Capacity building for mainstream services Community awareness and capacity building

Successful Applicants – Capacity Building for Mainstream Services

Organisation Coverage Summary of activity Amount

Inclusion Australia (NCID) Incorporated

Victoria, NSW, Queensland, SA, Tasmania

The Mainstream and Me project is a national activity that will facilitate conversations between mainstream services staff and people with an intellectual disability leading to improved inclusive behaviours and increased opportunities for participation of people with intellectual disabilities.

$1,212,176.40

Scope (Aust) Ltd

Victoria, NSW, SA

The Communication Access Australia project will implement the established Communication Access Symbol (CAS) Network nationwide and support expansion of CAS into the Justice system in Victoria and Transport systems in NSW and SA.

$918,298.28

Summer Foundation Ltd

Victoria, NSW, Queensland, SA

This project will build capacity in hospitals to provide effective discharge planning support to young people with complex needs so they can transition from hospital to the community with support from the NDIS.

$838,400.00

Summer Foundation Ltd

Victoria, NSW, Queensland, SA, Tasmania

This project will improve awareness of the needs and rights of young people with disability in the aged care sector and support collaboration

$779,960.00

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Organisation Coverage Summary of activity Amount

between aged care providers and other mainstream housing and health providers to improve participation of young people in their communities.

National Disability Services Limited (leading a consortium)

Australia The Building School Capacity for an Inclusive Future project will develop, and test nationally, a framework and resources to raise disability awareness with school communities and build capacity to overcome barriers to inclusion.

$504,500.00

Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Inc (leading a consortium)

Victoria The No-one’s Left Out project will establish ways of working with Aboriginal people with a disability that result in change in the capacity and capability of mainstream community services.

$478,090.00

Communication Rights Australia (leading a consortium)

Australia The Education for Schools project is an interactive digital capacity-building guide for schools to engage students with communication support needs and improve their social and economic participation outcomes.

$344,176.00

Spinal Life Australia Ltd (leading a consortium)

Australia This project aims to identify the inclusion understandings and priorities of people with spinal cord injury in Australia, and their priorities and proposed focus for mainstream capacity building to achieve these.

$303,465.13

Mirri Mirri Productions Pty Ltd

NSW The Pathways project will provide information to staff of mainstream services on cultural awareness, attitudes and beliefs about disability in the Aboriginal

$292,509.00

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Organisation Coverage Summary of activity Amount

community and develop important skills and sensitivities around family, caring and kinship in the Aboriginal community.

Action On Disability Within Ethnic Communities Inc.

Victoria This project takes a participatory approach to building the cultural competency of mainstream services leading to improved connections and opportunities for people with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse communities to participate economically and socially in their community.

$262,108.00

Aged Care & Housing Group Inc

SA The Building Together Project and Toolkit builds capacity of mainstream services to support people living with neurological disability and their networks by creating opportunities for people to engage, or re-engage, in the life they want at home, work and in community.

$175,531.00

La Trobe University (leading a consortium)

Victoria This project will build the capacity of schools to make reasonable accommodations for children with disability by strengthening collaboration of allied health and education professionals and parents.

$167,102.34

Complete Personnel SA Unit Trust

SA Based in Ceduna, the Local Connections, Local Belonging project will collaboratively investigate what inclusion means in small communities and how service providers can contribute to a sense of belonging in community for people with disability.

$144,947.55

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Organisation Coverage Summary of activity Amount

La Trobe University

Victoria The Fostering Inclusion and Participation Programme will develop a training resource available to remote communities to build capacity of early childhood educators to improve the participation of children with autism in their in everyday education settings.

$102,662.00

Guide Dogs Victoria

Victoria The Beacon Navigation project builds accessibility in the built environment for people with vision impairment by the use of smartphone and location specific information technology to create the audible equivalent of visible signage and visual cues.

$73,660.00

Successful Applicants – Community Awareness and Capacity Building

Organisation Coverage Summary of activity Amount

Ethnic Community Services Co-Operative Limited (leading a consortium)

NSW, Queensland, Victoria

The Diversity Safe Place project will co-design and trial disability and cultural competency resources for community organisations including mapping barriers to participation and recognition of organisations that are diversity safe.

$837,080.00

Westgate Community Initiatives Group Inc

Victoria The DARE to be DisAbility Friendly project will support participation of people with disability in society by improving community knowledge and acceptance through tailored DisAbility Action Plans and public recognition.

$629,661.91

Deakin University

SA, Victoria, NSW, ACT

The ALLPlay Dance program for children and young people with disabilities brings the benefits of ALLPlay to the dance community by providing evidence based resources to

$627,580.00

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Organisation Coverage Summary of activity Amount

enable participation in inclusive dance programs nationally.

Create Foundation Limited

NSW The Snap That Stigma Roadshow project will create video resources to build awareness of, and start conversations about, the barriers to participation young people with disability experience.

$540,874.97

Women With Disabilities Victoria Incorporated (leading a consortium)

Victoria The Here We Are project is led by women with disability in local community partnerships to promote a model of good practice to strengthen inclusion of women with disability and reduce reliance on specialist supports.

$499,801.74

Deakin University

Australia The ALLPlay BETTAFooty project is an evidence-based, culturally-tailored training program and toolkit to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities identify and enable children with developmental disabilities to participate in local Auskick football.

$493,917.00

Australian Federation Of Disability Organisations (AFDO) Ltd (leading a consortium)

Australia The Disability Australia Hub project builds the capacity and readiness of organisations and the community to deliver nationally consistent ILC activities through a universal accessible website and eNews for people with disability and family organisations.

$465,500.00

Autism Spectrum Australia (ASPECT)

Australia This project builds inclusion one beach at a time with Surf Life Saving Clubs across Australia.

$438,000.00

Wellways Australia Limited

Queensland, ACT, Victoria, NSW

The Building Belonging project creates welcoming communities through community education and engagement packages delivered by people with lived experience of psychosocial

$397,284.08

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Organisation Coverage Summary of activity Amount

disability.

Australian Migrant Resource Centre

SA The Building Stronger Communities Together project helps shape refugee settlement success by strengthening inclusion and active participation of refugees with disability in community life.

$298,700.00

Australian Federation Of Disability Organisations (AFDO) Ltd (leading a consortium)

Australia The Practical Readiness project will develop resources designed to increase the confidence of mainstream services and community organisations to welcome and include people with disability in a variety of mainstream settings.

$272,090.91

Inclusion Melbourne Inc (leading a consortium)

Australia The National Resource Centre - Circles of Support for People with Cognitive Impairment project provides national support to creating and sustaining Circles of Support.

$267,824.78

Multicultural Aged Care (MAC) Inc

NSW The Horticultural Project links young people with intellectual disability to their chosen communities through partnerships with schools or markets, for example, and addresses barriers to inclusion in practical ways building sustainable community connections.

$202,322.00

People With Disability Australia Incorporated

Australia The Economic Activation E-Hub - A Platform for Possibility project will create an online hub where mainstream employers can connect with people with disability seeking career development opportunities to promote inclusive employment practices.

$188,182.00

Down Syndrome Australia (leading a

Australia The National Down Syndrome Capacity Building Toolkit project will focus on providing up-to-date, relevant and tailored information for a range of

$186,964.00

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Organisation Coverage Summary of activity Amount

consortium) mainstream services and community organisations to support the inclusion of people with Down syndrome.

Interchange Incorporated (leading a consortium)

NSW, Victoria, SA

This project encourages awareness of, and opportunities for, volunteering for people with disability to support and contribute to improved participation and inclusion in the community and offers pathways into employment.

$181,268.00

Autism Association of South Australia

Australia The National Autism Friendly Capacity Building Initiative expands the Autism Friendly Charter and Register nationally to support community awareness and understanding of autism.

$171,817.83

Greater Bendigo City Council

Victoria The Inclusive Towns project grows awareness and supports connections within community to increase participation and employment for people with disability resulting in inclusive communities.

$164,994.27

Sydney Region Aboriginal Corporation

NSW The Aboriginal Aunts and Uncles project provides mentoring and participation opportunities for young Aboriginal people with disability supporting connection to community and mainstream services in the western Sydney area.

$129,992.00

The Multicultural Network also known as Bankstown Area Multicultural Network Inc

NSW The Zero Barriers project involves the collaborative development of an Accessibility Guide for businesses and community organisations and includes campaigning, supporting implementation and public recognition of use of the Guide to encourage removal of barriers for people with disability.

$117,500.00

Newtown Neighbourh

NSW This project improves awareness and capacity of the real estate rental

$109,036.8

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Organisation Coverage Summary of activity Amount

ood Centre Incorporated

market to be inclusive of people with disability living in high-density urban environments, reducing homelessness and leading to greater independence and self-determination.

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Deaf Blind Association (NSW)

NSW The Life, Communication and Community Access for Deafblind People project will build mainstream capacity for different forms of communication and guiding techniques with the aim of improving deafblind peoples’ capacity to participate in community.

$95,353.00

Penrith City Council (leading a consortium)

NSW The Nepean Jobs For All project engages and builds the capacity, confidence and networking of businesses in the Nepean area to promote the employment of people with disability.

$95,000.00

Suncoast Spinners Wheelchair Basketball Inc.

Queensland

Reverse inclusion workshops in schools and universities on the Sunshine Coast to raise awareness of inclusion of able-bodied players in sport that has traditionally been played by people with physical disability.

$81,124.00

The following lists are from the ACT (only) Jurisdictional grant – for all Activity Areas. Grants were allocated for projects over $10,000 and under $10,000.

Successful grants over $10,000

Organisation

Summary of activity Amount

ACT Deafness Resource

The program is designed for those with hearing impairment to attend the ACT Deafness Resource Centre for one to one consultation to provide

$124,470.00

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Organisation

Summary of activity Amount

Centre Inc support, information, linkages and referrals and is accompanied by an annual Hearing Awareness Expo.

ACT Disability Aged and Carer Advocacy Service Inc: 

Creating systemic change to ensure that the ACT Health Care System is more inclusive of people with impaired decision making ability.

$322,637.73

ACT Playgroups Assoc. Inc

Developing an inclusion support program for community playgroups to enable young families with disabilities (either adult or child) to facilitate access to local community playgroups. 

$86,755.76

Advocacy for Inclusion Incorporate

Developing and delivering a justice orientation process to support individual people with disabilities to better understand and participate in their current justice process through self-advocacy skill building, and experiential learning techniques.

$94,114.91

Clickability P/L

Clickability Scale-Up – roll-out to the ACT in 2017 including delivery of community capacity building workshops on consumer rights for people with disability in the ACT.

$150,000.00

Down Syndrome Australia

DSA will address the need for ongoing access to resources, peer support and quality information by leading a consortium of State and Territory Down syndrome Organisations to deliver the Information for Life project

$202,060.00

First People’s Disability Network

This activity is to inform and educate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability and their families as well as the wider Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in the ACT about what is meant by the term 'disability'.  This will be delivered by utilising a peer to peer model led by Aboriginal people with disability who have disability and/or a close personal association with disability.

$95,000.00

Imagine More Ltd

Supporting people with developmental disabilities and their families to live inclusive, typical and valued lives

$400,000

Koomari Establishing a peer support network of people with mild and borderline cognitive disability (not eligible

$64,589.70

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Organisation

Summary of activity Amount

for the NDIS) and their supporters who may be unemployed, socially isolated, at risk of criminal justice involvement and homelessness.

Multiple Sclerosis Limited

To be hosted on the MS Ltd website, Get Your ACT Together is being developed as an interactive tool that provides tailored, local advice for symptom management, so it suits exactly what people need on each occasion.

$94,648.00

Rebus Theatre Inc

Open Doors Open Minds will be a series of interactive, disability-led capacity-building workshops for Community Organisations.

$74,069.08

Self Help Organisations United Together Inc

Development of a virtual support network, uniting support and self help groups across the ACT on a virtual platform, allowing them to have access to all the resources they may need, including support resources, policies, procedures, governance documentation and road maps to developing and maintaining a support structure.

$123,000.00

The Deaf Society

Researching the barriers to accepting and seeking help for hearing loss. The research will inform the development of a progressive, impartial e-support service that includes an interactive website

$229,001.00

The Disability Trust

Presentation of a weekly radio segment on ACT commercial radio station 2CC, with information for and about people with a disability, their parents/ carers and families, disability support organisations and the wider community, and an integrated monthly newsletter.

$71,598.32

Trustees for the Roman Catholic Church for the Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn

Marymead Autism Centre – providing a suite of strengths-based, person-centred services developed by experts for individuals/families living with Autism Spectrum Disorder including new diagnosis support, linkage/referral to other supports, and NDIS pre-planning support.

$333,789.87

Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for

Kids Companion Program - providing social support, mentoring, participant-driven peer-based activities and projects for young people with a disability (not on an NDIS plan), their siblings, and young people

$157,000.00

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Organisation

Summary of activity Amount

the Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn

who care for someone with a disability (including psycho social disability).

Volunteering and Contact ACT Inc

Providing one-to-one support for people with a disability, in particular mental health consumers, to co-design an individualised support plan with a volunteer mentor.

$200,000.00

Wellways Australia Limited

Training volunteers to work alongside people with psycho-social disability and assist them in building a strong network, increase community participation and to develop a sense of belonging within their community.  

$138,204.00

Successful grants under $10,000

Organisation

Summary of activity Amount

Arthritis Foundation of the ACT Inc

Assisting people with arthritis to: better understand, manage and reduce the impact of their disability through access and utilisation of information and resources; developing relationships; confident decision-making; increasing targeted and mainstream community participation, toward a normal life.  Participants will then form a cohort for ongoing support and connectedness.

$9.900.00

Marymead Child and Family Centre

Delivery of the Autism Centre's Dungeons and Dragons - Virtual Life Training Group.  Coordinated by a qualified teacher and a volunteer, participants will use their imagination, problem solve, and cooperate with others, developing skills and confidence enabling them to participate in, and contribute to, the community.

$9,932.00

People with Disabilities ACT

Develop and disseminate information resources for people with disabilities in relation to mainstream services and the Commonwealth Disability Strategy including e-bulletin, website and social media.

$9,800.00

Person Disseminating information about disability, $8,500.00

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Organisation

Summary of activity Amount

Centred Support Pty Ltd

mainstream and community services at grass-roots level using targeted languages- Cantonese, Vietnamese and Arabic to inform and connect people with disability, their carers, guardians, family and friends from these CALD groups in ACT.

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