The Bridging the Gap Initiative is a series of Grants that people may be eligible for financial assistance.
Under Bridging the Gap are the following Grants
1. Sport & Recreation Grants – To ensure youth from disadvantaged families have the opportunity to be involved. Allowing Children aged 5 – 18 years to play sport, dance, attend school camp, etc. To the value of $360 per child per year.
2. Essential Equipment & Services Grants – Ensuring families have access to the essentials of modern life to the value of $1,500 per family per year.
3. Crisis Support Grants – Grants for families currently undergoing Crisis. Could be to pay rent, buy food, etc – to a maximum of $2,000 per family per year.
4. Disadvantaged Youth Education & Training – Ensuring youth between 15-21 years have the opportunity to further their education outside of normal channels to a maximum of $2,000 per youth per year.
Sport & Recreation Grants are for children 5-18 years to enable them to play sport, take dancing or singing, or swimming lessons or to attend school camp.
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The Foundation will assist families and youth who are homeless, or at risk of being homeless, by funding crisis accommodation.
We will work with existing services to increase their crisis accommodation capacity.
We will also provide direct funding through community based organisations in the region to enable them to provide immediate emergency accommodation for the homeless.
The Foundation will, on a case by case basis, provide funds for crisis relief to help families and individuals overcome their immediate hardships.
There are limited funds available to assist those without sufficient money to pay for the basics of life including food, rent, electricity, etc. There are many families and individuals who are so severely financially disadvantaged that the existing funds do little to improve their quality of life.
The Foundation will also provide funds through community based organisations to enable them to access counselling and case management services on an urgent basis if required.
People in crisis often have significant trauma. While government funded counselling and case management services are available they have extended waiting times.
The Foundation will also support counselling services to assist clients to better manage their finances.
To assist 15-21 year olds who have previously left school and have come to realise they need an education and training, in order to get the jobs they would like to do.
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