CMHDARN is excited to announce the 2026 – 2027 Innovation and Evaluation Grant, a $20,000 opportunity to support innovative projects that strengthen practice across both the mental health (MH) and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) sectors.
We’re looking for projects that:
Whether you’re evaluating a new program, addressing a service gap, or exploring recurring questions in your practice, this grant is for you.
Grant Details:
📌 Note: Organisations may submit multiple applications for different project proposals.
CMHDARN is pleased to provide a small grant to a partnership project between Wayahead and the Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre at Macquarie University. Wayahead will utilise these funds to undertake their research project Reducing Self Stigma Through Peer Led Anxiety Support Groups: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study with Implications for Mental Health and AOD Services. Bravo Wayahead!
CMHDARN is pleased to be providing a grant to ACON Health for their research project The M3THOD Program: Co-evaluation of a peer-led intervention reducing sexualised drug use harms among gender and sexuality diverse people in Australia. This project will transform innovation and evaluation capacity in the community-based MH and AOD sectors by developing a tailored evaluation protocol for M3THOD, a peer-led intervention spanning sexual wellbeing, drug use, and mental health at ACON. Well done ACON!
CMHDARN is pleased to be supporting the Royal Flying Doctor Service (South East Division) with their project ‘Mapping Cultural Safety Frameworks: Informing Best Practice for Mental Health and AOD Care in Regional and Remote First Nations Communities in Far West NSW’. Congratulations to RFDSSE!
CMHDARN is pleased to announce that One Door Mental Health are the recipient of the 2024/25 Innovation and Evaluation Grant, for their project: Identifying and addressing barriers to Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) support for mental health consumers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Congratulations to One Door Mental Health!
CMHDARN has the pleasure of announcing the latest recipient of the Innovation and Evaluation Grant of $20,000 is ICLA. The grant will allow ICLA to evaluate their Prevention and Recovery Centre model.
Congratulations to ICLA!
CMHDARN has the pleasure of announcing the latest recipient of the Innovation and Evaluation Grant of $20,000 is Glebe House. Their project, ‘Glebe House residential and outreach support evaluation’ will explore the impacts of Glebe House’s residential therapeutic alcohol and other drug recovery program and their transitional outreach support program for our clients who are in recovery from addiction and living with complex trauma, mental illness and impacts of incarceration.
Congratulations to Glebe House!
CMHDARN has the pleasure of announcing the recipient of the Innovation and Evaluation Grant 2022-2023 of $20,000 is Youth Solutions in partnership with Stride and University of Wollongong. Their project, ‘Barriers to access and engagement of young people with co-morbid substance use and mental health struggles: what are we missing?’ will engage young people with lived experience of substance use and/or mental health concerns, along with parents and carers, in considering the unique challenges in accessing care and engaging with services. The researchers are keen to engage in co-production research, and hope that this project may lead to new insights and innovations in service provision and potential community oriented solutions.
Congratulations to Youth Solutions, Stride, and University of Wollongong
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