Support at Home Thin Markets (rural, remote and specialised) 2025-26

This grant opportunity provides 1 year of one-off funding in 2025-26, to Home Care Packages (HCP) and Short-Term Restorative Care (STRC) providers operating in identified thin markets (rural, remote or specialised), that is supplementary to fee-for-service revenue and can be used flexibly for appropriate business and service delivery expenses.

This grant opportunity targets HCP and STRC providers who:

1. currently deliver services to care recipients in Modified Monash areas 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7, and / or
2. currently hold, or have applied for, a valid Specialisation Verification for aged care services (excluding Specialisation Verification for People who live in rural or remote areas).

To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:

• Indigenous Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006)
• Company
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
• Corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
• Local Government
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Statutory Entity
• Partnership, or
• Unincorporated 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 can only be accepted from existing Home Care Packages (HCP) Program and the Short-Term Restorative Care (STRC) Programme providers (at the time of application) who:

• have care recipients in Modified Monash areas 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7, and / or
• currently hold a valid Specialisation Verification for aged care services (excluding Specialisation Verification for People who live in rural or remote areas), or have submitted an application for Specialisation Verification that is pending approval.