Key Funding Area
Regional & Rural LGBTQIA+ Community Support
At PFA, we recognise that a major lifeline for LGBTQIA+ Australians is community connection in spaces where they feel welcome and safe.
Those living in regional or rural areas of Australia have significantly less access to these spaces than their metropolitan counterparts. The further out of the city you travel, the fewer and farther between these spaces appear.
We identified the importance of supporting regional and rural LGBTQIA+ communities to ensure those living anywhere in Australia have access to inclusive spaces, community and acts of celebration and pride.
Projects funded towards Regional & Rural LGBTQIA+ Community Support
Infinity X Career Program (Regional and Remote National Pilot)
Inclusion Solutions
2024 |
The Infinity X Career Program, initially developed in 2024, through a Department of Communities Grant, aims to supports female-identifying and non-binary/gender diverse LGBTQIA+ individuals with disabilities (aged 18-30) seeking career exploration and development. This intensive 6-week program equips participants to pursue their dream careers. By addressing lived experience from a strengths based perspective, and acknowledging the role of mental health, education, and family support on career outcomes. Inclusion Solution’s program provides self-advocacy tools, job search strategies, exposure to role models, and essential skills like financial literacy and self-care strategies that are safe and inclusive.
Rainbow Boundaries: SunnyKids’ LGBTQIA+ Healthy Relationships Workshops
SunnyKids Ltd – QLD
2024 |
SunnyKids will deliver healthy relationships workshops for LGBTIQA+ individuals in regional and rural Sunshine Coast. Led by knowledgeable LGBTQIA+ staff with DFV experience, these workshops will cover communication skills, consent, setting boundaries and fostering healthy connections. Participants will have a safe space to share experiences, increase their knowledge of available support and learn healthier communication methods.
Held across 9 Sunshine Coast libraries and the LGBTI Community Centre for a total of 11 sessions, these workshops provide an inclusive environment for learning and growth, aiming to prevent future hardship or domestic and family violence.
Collective Care Teams: Community Working With Communtiy (CCT:CWWC)
Slade Consulting
2024 |
CCT:CWWC brings together evidence based theories, and practices in supporting the queers who support queers in rural and regional Victoria. It will run as a group supervision model that will be semi-structured in nature, allowing workers to engage in peer support and sharing, as well as the facilitator providing more structured learning opportunities. CCT:CWWC will utilise Omni Insight’s Octo-Specrum of Queer Delight model that incorporates, collective care models, somatic processing, necro-political, queer, and crip theroies, as well as encouraging members to revel in queer joy (placed through an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy model).
Arts Recovery Program
By Candlelight Concerts
2023 | $5,000
To promote a creative arts lead recovery process in the northern rivers, specifically for queer community. In alliance with local creative and queer focused bodies by candlelight will deliver a series of concerts aimed at bringing together community, promoting connection and healing through story telling, a series of art exhibitions aimed at showcasing and promoting the works of new and emerging queer artists and a series of workshops aimed at creative skill development and connection.
Proud Relationships, supporting LGBTIQA+SB communities to enhance Wellbeing
Relationships Australia QLD
2023 | $5,000
Proud Relationships is a group program that offers support and education for individuals who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community. The focus is on supporting participants to improve the quality of their relationships but doesn’t prescribe the ways relationships ‘should’ look. Participants will be given the tools to build healthy, connected, and sustainable relationships with those around them.
Helping the Helpers
Queer Family Inc
2023 | $5,000
Helping the Helpers will support & train Queer-affirming professionals who service our community (existing & potential) to reduce isolation, vicarious trauma & burn out, ensure & increase high quality, Queer-affirming, accessible, safe, & professional care is available to some of the most vulnerable in our region.
Riverland Pride March
Headspace Berri
2023 | $5,000
The March is an all-ages community walk for the LGBTQIA+ community and allies to celebrate and support LGBTQIA+ young people in the RiverlandAnnual event since 2020 hosted by headspace Berri (hsB) Youth Reference Group (YRG) who identified through research and feedback from young people, a need to provide a safe and supportive environment for young LGBTQIA+ people to increase community connections, improve their wellbeing and links with hsB.
Queers and Allies Forum 2023
Samaritans Foundation for Headspace Kempsey
2023 | $3,500
Queers & Allies Forum 2023 aims to bring local LGBTQIA+ young people, services, businesses, schools, and community members together to promote inclusion, mental health awareness, allyship, education, safety and local LGBTQIA+ support services.
Proudly Re-connecting the Greater Goulburn Valley & Loddon LGBTIQA+ Communities
Goulburn Valley Pride Inc
2023 | $5,000
GV Pride will create a wallet-sized card/resource with LGBTIQA+ services and ALL relevant crisis services for locals to feel safe and informed of who to contact into the future. We will also provide LGBTIQA+ 101 sessions to aged care, home services and community organisations. In addition we will commence home visits for older LGBTIQA+ people and NDIS. We will increase engagement and outreach to regional/rural LGBTIQA+ people right across the Loddon and GV regions plan managed clients.
