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Flood Wellbeing and Resilience Grants

CCQ recognises the importance of enhancing both individual and community wellbeing and resilience through collaborative efforts. In 2023, Healthy Communities initiated a community support program to aid ongoing and future flood-affected areas in Gympie, Noosa, and Maryborough regions. Understanding the health impacts of disasters, CCQ partnered with a number of community-based organisations to develop and implement programs aimed at improving health and wellbeing.

The CCQ Flood Wellbeing and Resilience Grants support recovery, resilience, and wellbeing initiatives, aiming to connect systems that foster long-term community resilience. Through a competitive grant process, CCQ selected six partners in the Wide Bay/Noosa regions, each offering programs focused on mental health and wellbeing within disaster resilience and recovery. These partners are conducting location-based projects, leveraging CCQ’s and each other’s strengths in collaboration and innovation.

Partners Selected
Across Wide Bay & Noosa Regions

Through a competitive grant process, CCQ selected the following partners in the Wide Bay/Noosa regions, each offering programs focused on mental health and wellbeing within disaster resilience and recovery. These partners are conducting location-based projects, leveraging CCQ’s and each other’s strengths in collaboration and innovation.

Mob Pod

  • Gympie
  • Grant
The North Coast Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health has launched the “Mob Pod” health initiative to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Gympie and Noosa’s rural areas.

Youturn garden

  • Gympie
  • Grant
Youturn, run by headspace Gympie, is creating an outdoor garden to boost social connections and resilience. With funding from the Flood Wellbeing and Resilience grant, they aim to improve the mental health and resilience of 400 young people.

Migrant Development Program

  • Fraser Coast
  • Grant
The Maryborough Neighbourhood Centre aims to strengthen social ties and educate the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) community about disaster readiness and resilience through its ongoing Migrant Development Program (MDP).

Gympie and District Women’s Health Group (GWHC)

  • Gympie
  • Grant
The Gympie and District Women’s Health Group (GWHC) is using the Flood Wellbeing and Resilience Grant to enhance the mental health and wellbeing of women in rural Gympie.

Caring Connection

  • Sunshine Coast
  • Grant
As a generalist first-stop community support agency, Waves of Kindness (WOK) aims to empower individuals to build connections and confidence for improved wellbeing and resilience.

Community Carers and Responders (CCR) model

  • Fraser Coast, Gympie, Noosa
  • Grant
Drawing on the successful implementation of the Community Carers and Responders (CCR) model implemented in Northern Rivers NSW since 2021, Safer Future in partnership with Plan C, is implementing the CCR Network.

Neuroscientific education and training

  • Sunshine Coast
  • Grant
The Thompson Institute is providing neuroscientific education and training to disaster management professionals, volunteers, and community members in areas affected by flooding, specifically in Noosa, Gympie and Maryborough.

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