- $30,000 in grant funding has been awarded to community-led projects in the Sunshine Coast region
- The GenQ Health and Wellbeing Queensland Grants Program aims to support the health and wellbeing of infants, children and young people
- Grants were awarded to initiatives that promote physical activity, nutrition, health literacy, wellbeing and/or health equity
Local communities across Queensland are being empowered to implement initiatives that improve the health and wellbeing of infants, children and young people through new grant funding.
, the state’s prevention agency, has awarded 25 community projects a total of nearly $400,000 in funding through its inaugural GenQ Health and Wellbeing Community grants scheme.
Grants were awarded to initiatives that promote physical activity, nutrition, health literacy, wellbeing and/or health equity in local communities.
That funding includes $30,000 delivered to two community projects based in the Sunshine Coast Region that successfully applied to the scheme.
- Kin Kin Community Group Inc, $20,000 – To increase the social and recreational local connection points for children and youth in the Kin Kin community to increase their social, mental, physical wellbeing, through the participation in a place-based youth recreational and wellbeing programs and activities.
- Sunshine Butterflies, $10,000 – To provide social, recreational, health and wellbeing activities to siblings of a person with disability through their ‘Social Siblings’ support group, located on the Sunshine Coast and allow children to meet and connect with other children living in similar circumstances.
Health and Wellbeing Queensland Chief Executive Officer Dr Robyn Littlewood said creating a generational shift was key to helping Queensland’s children and young people live healthier more active lives.
‘It’s wonderful this Children’s Week to acknowledge the communities across our state who are driving to improve the health and wellbeing of Queensland’s more than 1.2 million children and young people,’ she said.
‘New research shows that a child born in the decade from 2023 may have a shorter life expectancy than their parents – we need to reverse this trend.
‘These Community Grants are just one of the steps we’re taking to deliver our GenQ vision so that children born today experience better health outcomes than the generations of Queenslanders before them.
‘These grants will help make healthy happen faster for our state by driving innovation across key areas that have a huge impact on our health and wellbeing, and most importantly by supporting communities bring the ideas to life that will be most beneficial – because they know their own communities better than anyone.’
