Sydney North Health Network Grants
Sydney North Health Network grants support our vision of Better Health Better Care.
The grants provide the opportunity for local health professionals and the community to identify local needs and prioritise activities and innovations that will support their communities. Funding for SNHN grants is determined when funding is available and current health priorities are identified.
Grants are one-off funding and are not a guarantee of on-going funding.
Allied Health Grants 2022
Launched in May 2022, the grants are in recognition of innovation and contributions of allied health professionals in response to emergencies and natural disasters, and in enhancing primary health services and community connection. Grant recipients will be delivering a range of evidence-based activities over the next six months.
Here are some of that ways in which these one-off small grants will support the delivery of allied health services in primary care.
Increasing vaccinations
Day Night Chemist Crows Nest
The pharmacy will be expanding its capacity to provide in-pharmacy vaccinations during and outside of usual business hours.
McDonalds Pharmacy St Ives
Pharmacist Immunisers are providing an in-home vaccination and medications review service for customers and by local GP referral.
Managing symptoms of prolonged COVID
Rebound Health
A multidisciplinary allied health team will be delivering a wholistic education and support program for people experiencing prolonged symptoms of COVID. The program aims to equip participants with knowledge and skills to safely manage symptoms, paced and tailored to their individual needs.
Screening and management of frailty and falls risk
Activempowerment
Accredited Exercise Physiologists will be providing an in-home exercise program for seniors at risk of falls who are on a waiting list for a Home Support Package and are unable to access similar community-based exercise programs.
SquareOne Physiotherapy
Physiotherapists will be offering frailty screening for people aged 65 years and over. Coupled with individualised recommendations and resources, the program aims to reduce the risk of older people becoming frail or having a fall.
Prevention and management of chronic conditions
Avalon Beach Chiropractic
The practice will be delivering a preventative screening service at local community events. Aimed at reducing the incidence of musculoskeletal injury, the service offers individualised assessment, injury prevention recommendations and exercise prescription.
BoneFit Exercise Physiology
An Exercise Physiologist will be delivering a subsidised, group-based exercise program for those with or at risk of osteopenia or osteoporosis, including initial assessment followed by group exercise and education sessions.
DMC Health
The Chatswood Community Chronic Pain Program will provide evidence-based education, counselling and exercise therapy for individuals with chronic pain.
Renewed Health
The grant will help support the delivery of and access to the MyHealth Challenge, an online health behaviour change program for people with or at risk of chronic conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or osteoarthritis.
The Modern Dietitian
An Accredited Practising Dietitian will be presenting a 10-week health education series aimed at increasing knowledge of the role of nutrition and healthy dietary choices in prevention and management of chronic conditions.
Enhancing mental health and wellbeing
Bumpy Psychology
Developed by a psychologist with specialist expertise in perinatal anxiety and depression, the grant will help support the delivery of online learning modules and resources for soon-to-be and new mums.
Centre for Effective Living
The grant will support the delivery of an online, individualised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and psychoeducation program for people experiencing mild symptoms of stress, anxiety or depression.
Rhona Barker Psychology
A psychologist will be facilitating a psychoeducation program incorporating mindfulness based stress management exercises with bushwalking, an activity that benefits mental health whilst also allowing for social distances in an outdoor environment.
Improving access to allied health services for vulnerable groups
Ramsay Professional Services
Trained and accredited allied health professionals will be delivering the 8-week Indigenous Healthy Eating Activity and Lifestyle (HEAL™) program to local Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander community members.
RWA Psychology Family Matters
The grant will support the delivery of the Circle of Security Parenting Program (0-5 years), an internationally recognised early intervention program aimed at strengthening healthy parent-child relationships.
Urban Physiotherapy
A physiotherapist, exercise physiologist, podiatrist and dietitian will be expanding digital access to online allied health modalities and content, with specific outreach to vulnerable groups.
Wise Care
A psychologist is running a program for residents of Willandra Village, who are required to relocate to other aged care facilities due to site re-development. The program aims to increase resilience and coping strategies and includes education on funding and support available.
Strengthening capability and capacity of health workforce
MQ Health General Practice Clinic
The grant will support a multidisciplinary, team-based and coordinated approach to improving access to psychology and social work support services.
The Cottage Counselling Centre
The grant will help build skills and capacity in delivery of specialised domestic and family violence counselling services. Funding will also support training and seminars for community agencies and help subsidise the cost of counselling for clients experiencing financial difficulty.
Wound Innovations
Wound Innovations is delivering four Fundamentals of Wound Management workshops for nurses and care staff working in residential aged care facilities in Northern Sydney.
WoundPods
The grant aims to build capacity and support the early identification and comprehensive health assessment of people aged 75 years and older who are at risk of frailty, falls and hospitalisation.
Community Engagement Grants Announcements
Sydney North Health Network is excited to announce the two successful recipients of the Community Engagement Grants.
Relationships Australia NSW and Mission Australia will engage with the local Northern Sydney communities to identify the impact of recent extreme weather events such as floods, storms and bushfires.
These Community Engagement activities will be carried out over the next 3 months and will identify ways communities can support one another during such events. This will inform future activities that assist in building well-being and resilience, preparedness, response and recovery, for future extreme weather events, and natural disasters.
Immediate Response Grants – Natural Disaster and Extreme Weather: Wellbeing, Resilience and Preparedness Program in Sydney North.
Sydney North Health Network offered Immediate Response grants of up to $10,000 to community organisations across the nine LGAs of Northern Sydney to community groups that are willing to provide grassroots activities between August 2022-June 2023. The funding will cover activities that support recovery through social connectedness, wellbeing and healing; for communities and or individuals that have been impacted by recent weather events in 2022, including floods.
Submissions received are currently being reviewed with announcement of the successful recipients coming soon.
| Organisation | Activity |
|---|---|
| Ku-ring-gai Neighbourhood Centre (KNC Care) | “Get Ready to Leave” practical program |
| Empowering Parents in Crisis (EPIC) | Peer support for parents of young people adversely impacted by uncertainty including weather events |
| The Burdekin Association | Creating garden retreat, building community resilience and safe eco friendly spaces for gatherings, mindfulness and care. |
| Street Work Australia | Weekly art program sessions for vulnerable young people |
| Link Wentworth Housing | Develop and deliver Live Well – social support club for residents |
| Phoenix House Youth Services | “Art is Therapy” program, aims to provide creative healing and resiliency plan |
| Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Community College (HKCC) | Offering fee free enrolment for health and wellbeing programs |
| Top Blokes Foundation | Weekly mentoring and wellbeing workshops for young males 14-17 yrs |
| Macquarie Area Rehabilitation Specialties (MARS) – t/a CREATE | Weekly art & tennis program and weekly lunch for people with mental health issues at risk of social isolation |
| Ferry Artists | Creating a wildlife themed mural on water tank at the primary school, with the students |
| Wisemans Ferry Public School P & C Assoc. | Outdoor Movie and Pizza Night for the school and broader community. |
General Practice Grants
Sydney North Health Network offered two COVID-19 related grants to General Practices.
The first stream of General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 grants were in recognition of practices contribution and ongoing efforts to the region’s COVID-19 response.
The second stream of Improving vaccination rates for specific CALD populations grants focuses on increasing vaccination rates of non-medicare card holders and populations often more difficult to reach. These grants will ensure our region continues to maintain high vaccination rates.
List of General Practices awarded grant(s)
| Asquith Doctors | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 • Improving vaccination rates for specific CALD population |
|---|---|
| Beaches Medical and Cosmetic Centre | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Belrose Medical Centre | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 • Improving vaccination rates for specific CALD population |
| Castlecrag Medical Practice | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Cremorne Medical Practice | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| East Killara Medical Practice | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 • Improving vaccination rates for specific CALD population |
| General Practice Cremorne | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Gordon 7 Day Medical Centre | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Gordon Doctors | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 • Improving vaccination rates for specific CALD population |
| Health Promise Medical Centre | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Hope Medical Centre | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Hornsby Fountain Medical Centre | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 • Improving vaccination rates for specific CALD population |
| Hornsby Healthway Medical Centre | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 • Improving vaccination rates for specific CALD population |
| Hornsby Station Medical Practice | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Hunters Hill Medical Practice | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| IPN Medical Centres | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Lane Cove Doctors Medical Centre | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Milsons Point Medical Centre | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| MQ Health General Practice | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Northbridge Medical Practice | • Improving vaccination rates for specific CALD population |
| Pine Lodge Medical Centre | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Pittwater Family Practice | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Qualitis Health | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 • Improving vaccination rates for specific CALD population |
| Station Medical Clinic | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Synergy Medical Practice | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 • Improving vaccination rates for specific CALD population |
| Terrey Hills Family Surgery | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| The Cottage Surgery | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 • Improving vaccination rates for specific CALD population |
| Victoria Avenue Medical Practice | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Dr Douglas Hor | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |
| Rockwell Medical Centre | • General Practice Resourcing for COVID-19 |