Grants

This is a training and professional development grant specifically for consumer, peer support and lived experience (CPSLE) workers in mental health and addiction, whether in paid or unpaid roles.

The grant will help cover the costs to take part in a learning activity (course or training programme) for existing CPSLE workers to develop professional knowledge and skills that enhance their CPSLE role or career. This may include reference to either or both the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the CPSLE competencies.

This is a study grant for professional development specifically for people of Muslim faith. Applicants for this grant either want to pursue a pathway into the mental health, addiction and forensic intellectual disability sector or currently work in the sector and want to build on their existing qualifications.

This grant will help cover the costs to attend the Māhuri Tōtara national support work summit in Ōtautahi Christchurch in June 2024. Organisations must apply on behalf of their kaimahi.

This is a professional development grant specifically for support workers providing mental health and addiction support who are employed as a support worker in a publicly funded non-government organisation (NGO).

The grant will help cover the costs to take part in a learning activity for existing support workers to develop professional knowledge and skills that enhance their support worker role or career.

The Forensic Mental Health Services Workforce Development Grant is a workforce development grant specifically for non-clinical and cultural kaimahi (staff) working in regional adult forensic mental health services in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The grant will help cover the costs to take part in a course or training programme that aligns with the Let’s get real framework and will help participants to improve health outcomes for Māori accessing forensic mental health services.

Disability grants are available to enhance skills, develop leadership, and strengthen the workforce of people providing support to disabled people and their whānau.

These grants are made available by Whaikaha – Ministry of Disabled People, who provide the funding and set the priority areas. Te Pou administers the grants.

Disability grants available:

• Consumer leadership development grant
• Training grant

Skills Matter provides funding for postgraduate training for new graduates and existing practitioners working in Te Whatu Ora District, NGO and primary care settings, including nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists and addiction practitioners. Trainees must also be working in a service that is funded by the Ministry of Health or a Te Whatu Ora District.

Te Pou manages Skills Matter funding on behalf of the Ministry of Health. Along with funding for specific programmes, a grant is available for travel and accommodation assistance.

The programmes of study available are:

• New Entry to Specialist Practice: mental health and addiction nursing
• New Entry to Specialist Practice: allied mental health and addiction
• Core skills for specialist practice in infant, child and adolescent mental health and addiction
• Clinical leadership in nursing practice
• Assessment and management of co-existing substance use and mental health
• Postgraduate Certificate & Diploma courses in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

See the full terms and conditions for Te Pou grants, including the Consumer Leadership Development grant, the Workforce Development grant, Training grant, Skills Matter travel and accommodation assistance grant and Consumer, Peer Support and Lived Experience training and professional development grant.