Family Planning Grant Opportunity

Overview

The Family Planning grant opportunity aims to address family planning and reproductive health issues to allow individuals and couples to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births by advice on contraceptive methods and the prevention and treatment of involuntary fertility. The objectives of the grant opportunity are:  - Increase community awareness and knowledge of issues relevant to family planning and reproductive health;  - Improve the quality of service provision within the sector including to special population groups; and - Promote health and research related to general family planning matters and its use across the sector and in policy development. The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are: - Increase community awareness and knowledge about factors affecting fertility, infertility,  natural conception and contraception and assisted reproductive treatment (ART) - Build the capacity of health and medical professionals to promote fertility optimisation, reproductive life planning and pre-conception health to women and men - Provide information and advice regarding fertility and reproductive health to policy makers and  health professionals activities including (but not limited to) the prevention of sexually transmitted Infections associated with infertility; and - development of content and delivery of targeted support, education and training programs to specific population groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people in rural and regional Australia and people living with a disability.