Safe Spaces aims to provide LGBTIQ+ youth and their families in Western Victoria with a place-based response to mental health and wellbeing inequalities.
It will also support young LGBTIQ+ people to foster connections with peers and older LGBTIQ+ communities.
The program will fund physical hubs and ensures increased and safer access to:
- community connection
- mental health promotion
- wellbeing
- suicide prevention supports.
The successful applicant will receive funding in three phases from 2023 to 2025.
Applications close on 2 December 2022.
For more information and to apply visit LGBTIQ+ youth safe spaces grant on vic.gov.au.