Latest Update – April 2025
Status: Invest and deliver phases
Funding under these grants is an opportunity for NGOs to provide services or programs that aim to enhance the alcohol, tobacco and other drugs treatment, support and harm reduction services in the ACT, and reduce the harms experienced by people and their families.
Grant Opportunities
Current opportunities
- Applications for a grant to deliver ACT Quitline services have closed. Applications were sought from service providers with relevant experience to deliver the ACT Quitline and/or ACT Quitline for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to ACT residents. Applications for this grant are under assessment. The successful organisation is anticipated to commence service delivery from July 2025.
Past opportunities
- Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services supporting dependents of people attending high intensity ATOD services. Applications for this grant closed on 15 March 2024.
- Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Treatment, Support and Harm Reduction Core Services (Core services) open grant. Applications for this grant closed on 22 March 2024.
A summary of the successful services can be found below.
Organisation | Funded Service Categories | Annual base funding (GST excl) |
|---|
Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy | - Information and Education
- Peer support (including peer workforce development)
- Advocacy
- Opioid overdose prevention
- Harm reduction activities
| $909,561.68 |
Capital Region Community Services | - Early Childhood Education and Care long daycare places
| $58,830.09 |
Communities at Work | - Early Childhood Education and Care long daycare places
- Vacation care places
| $211,045.00 |
Directions Health Services | - Case management
- Psychosocial counselling
- Information and education
- Residential rehabilitation
- Withdrawal
- Needle and syringe program
- Family and carer support
| $4,855,400.00 |
Family Drug Support | | $192,700.00 |
Karralika Programs Incorporated | - Day program
- Residential rehabilitation
| $4,428,700.00 |
Marymead CatholicCare | - Psychosocial counselling
- Sobering up shelter
| $631,300.00 |
The Salvation Army | - Day program
- Residential rehabilitation
| $3,227,400.00 |
Ted Noffs | - Psychosocial counselling
- Residential rehabilitation
- Withdrawal
| $2,409,100.00 |
Toora Women | - Psychosocial counselling
- Day program
- Residential rehabilitation
| $1,538,100.00 |
Further information
If you have questions relating to the ATOD commissioning, please contact ATODPolicy@act.gov.au
Background
ACT Health has been working with health and community NGOs, people with lived and living experience, and other stakeholders to design the ATOD NGO treatment, support and harm reduction sector and contract arrangements funded by ACT Health using the ACT whole of government commissioning approach. Opportunities arising from the commissioning process will balance innovation and adaptation to contemporary needs, with sector stability and continuity of care for service users.
Commissioning engagement and collaboration activities
Discover
ATOD commissioning commenced prior to the discover phase coming into effect and is not applicable to the current ATOD commissioning cycle.
Strategise
The Strategise phase provides an opportunity to consolidate a wide range of data and information through a Needs Assessment. In the Strategise phase, we work with sector partners and people with a Lived Experience to validate the needs of the community, better understand service provision, identify service gaps and duplication, and consider what service and community outcomes are possible through Commissioning.
Design
The Design phase is where essential collaboration between commissioner, sector partners, service providers and other stakeholders takes place. The Design phase enables us to examine, shape and involved services, and align key service models and characteristics with desired health and wellbeing outcomes for the community.
Invest
The Invest phase provides an opportunity to define our approach to market and investing in health services which meet the needs of the ACT community, in accordance with the Territory’s Value for Money Considerations.
| Activity | Stakeholder/Participant | Date | Output |
|---|
Completed | Release of draft Strategic Investment Plan for Stakeholder Review | - NGO service providers
- People with lived and living experience
- CHS service providers
- ACT Government
- Associations representing private service providers (GPs etc)
- Academic Institutions
| August 2023 | |
Completed | Finalisation of service specifications and outcomes framework based on engagement findings and evidence-base. | - ATOD Policy
- ACTHD Strategic Commissioning
- Community Services Contracts and Grants Unit
- ACT government commissioners
| July – October 2023 | Internal |
Completed | Release of final Strategic Investment Plan | | November 2023 | Final Strategic Investment Plan [PDF 686KB] [Word 402KB] |
Completed | Variations to existing service funding agreements to new end dates | - Existing ATOD NGO contractors
| November 2023 | Contract variations |
Completed |
Approach to Market (not including nicotine cessation phoneline)
| |
30 January 2024
|
Grant applications
|
Completed |
Contract negotiations and preparation of deeds of grant
| |
Mid-September |
Deeds of Grant
|
Completed |
Approach to Market - nicotine cessation phoneline
| |
During 2024/25 financial year (date TBC)
|
Grant applications |
Deliver
The Deliver phase is all about delivering high quality health services, monitoring the reach and impact of health services and drawing on lessons learned to inform future Commissioning cycles.
Integrate
The Integrate phase is about integrating the knowledge and experience gained from previous commissioning cycles into future commissioning cycles as part of a quality improvement and continuous system reform approach.
To learn more about the ATOD commissioning cycle please email ATODPolicy@act.gov.au
Page updated: 17 Apr 2025
