Disability Advocacy Support Program: National Advocacy Helpline

Disability Advocacy Support Program: National Advocacy Helpline is sponsored by Australian Government, Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. This is one of three grant opportunities under the Disability Advocacy Support Program, focusing on providing a national advocacy helpline.

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* Current Grant Opportunity View - GO8390 Disability Advocacy Support Program: Service Delivery Department of Health, Disability and Ageing 171004 - Services for People with Disabilities ACT, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, QLD, NT, TAS The Government has identified three grant opportunities under the Disability Advocacy Support Program: * Service Delivery (this Grant Opportunity) * National Advocacy Helpline The Service Delivery grant opportunity funds organisations to provide individual disability advocacy to people with disability, their families, carers and kin in defined service areas nationally.

Services are expected to be delivered predominantly in person, where possible and appropriate. This includes the organisation’s business premises as well as community settings. Grantees must demonstrate the experience and capabilities needed to achieve program outcomes (Appendix A of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines).

Non negotiable capabilities form eligibility criteria in the Guidelines, while desirable capabilities (Appendix B) may be developed over time.

Six year grants will be offered to successful applicants with strong capabilities that improve national coverage, including: lead organisations in networks/consortia; individual providers able to deliver across large regions, including at national, state or territory coverage; and Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations with advocacy experience.

Applicants not fully meeting desired capabilities may receive three year grants and must show progress to be considered for funding beyond June 2029. Smaller organisations serving limited regions may apply, but are unlikely to receive six year grants due to limited funding and the focus on national coverage. This grant opportunity contributes to Outcome 4.

1 – supporting people with disability and carers to participate in community and economic life. **To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "_Grant Opportunity Documents_" button on the left-hand side. ** **Note:** Please refer to the most recent version of the easy read guidelines (Version 2) published 25 May 2026.

To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types: * Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 * Incorporated Association If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.

Applications from consortia are acceptable, providing there is a lead organisation that is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above. Only the lead organisation can submit the application form and enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth.

**IMPORTANT:** For this grant opportunity, all proposed members of a network or consortium must: * Be an eligible entity type per Section 4. 1 of this grant opportunity * Meet all of the additional eligibility criteria per Section 4. 2 of this grant opportunity * Not be an ineligible organisation under the criteria per Section 4.

3 of this grant opportunity. The Grant Opportunity Guidelines provide further information on network and consortia applications. Total Amount Available (AUD): Instructions for Application Submission: Submit the completed application form and all necessary attachments by the closing date and time via the _**Online Application Form**_ document located via the "_Grant Opportunity Documents_" button on the left-hand side.

You should keep a copy of your application and any supporting documents. You will receive an automated email notification acknowledging the receipt of the submission which includes your Submission Reference ID. Retain this ID if you wish to query your application.

If you do not receive an automated email notification within 48 hours of submission, please email Grant. ATM@health. gov.au.

Note the 2MB limit per attachment in the application form. Multiple files/documents should be scanned into a single document. Compressed or zip files are not accepted.

File names must be unique and not include foreign characters.