Community Safety Investment Grant Program - Stream 1

The Community Safety Investment Fund will provide opportunities for community organisations to design and deliver locally focused, community led solutions to prevent or respond to youth offending, strengthen families and improve community safety.

Programs and initiatives will contribute to the achievement of objectives:

• Deliver holistic responses that address the underlying needs and risks that contribute to young people’s involvement with the justice system and improve their outcomes.
• Deliver culturally responsive initiatives that build long-term resilience and protective factors, increase connection to culture and improving social and emotional wellbeing for young people and families.
• Deliver programs and initiatives that empower young people and their families to achieve change in the young person's behaviour and safety.
• Support young people and families to re-engage with education, training, or employment.
• Increase community safety through tailored initiatives for high-risk youth.
• Whole of community initiatives that engage young people in pro-social activities
• Particular interest in grant applications that align with and help achieve the NSW Government’s Closing the Gap priorities, including: Target 11: to reduce the overrepresentation of Aboriginal young people in the criminal justice system, so that by 2031, the rate of Aboriginal young people (10-17 years) in detention is reduced by 30 per cent.

Who can apply

All applicants are required to meet the following eligibility criteria:

• be able to enter into a grant funding agreement with Department of Communities and Justice
• have an Australian bank account
• have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
• have appropriate insurance; this must include but is not limited to a minimum of $10 million Public Liability Insurance
• address the NSW National Redress Scheme sanctions (included in this template)
• be a registered Australian business, or a not-for-profit Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO), or other incorporated organisation;

Incorporated organisation registered and approved as a not-for-profit body by NSW Fair Trading will be considered eligible, if they are:

• incorporated organisations that are registered and approved as not-for-profit bodies by NSW Fair Trading.
• Not-for profit companies limited by guarantee, registered in NSW (must have ACNC registration and/or DGR status)
• Indigenous Corporations (must be registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations)
• NSW Local Aboriginal Land Councils
• religious organisations operating in NSW
• NSW non-government organisations established under their own Act of Parliament.
• a not-for-profit non-Aboriginal organisation partnering with a lead ACCO or Aboriginal business.

Types of projects funded under this grant

Initiatives that:

• address the underlying risks and needs that contribute to young people’s involvement with the justice system
• empower young people and their families to achieve change in the young person's behaviour and safety
• are culturally responsive and build long-term resilience and protective factors, increase connection to culture and improving social and emotional wellbeing for young people and families
• support young people and families to re-engage with education, training, or employment and pro-social activities
• increase community safety through tailored initiatives for high-risk youth.