Mental Health Nursing and Allied Health Scholarships Program

Overview

The 2020-21 Budget Measure - National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan – Pillar 5 – Workforce and Governance, announced up to $5.151 million to support the attraction, upskilling, and retention of key mental health professionals to address mental health workforce shortages. The Mental Health Nursing and Allied Health Scholarships Program (the program) will run over two years from 2021-22 to 2022-23. The program has two components:  Mental Health Nursing will support up to 126 postgraduate scholarships relating to mental health and suicide prevention  Allied Health Professionals and Psychologists will support up to 152 undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships relating to mental health and suicide prevention through tertiary, vocational and continuing professional development courses. A minimum of five percent of all scholarships will be prioritised for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants. This is a national program, however, preference will be given to those applicants who are living and/or working in areas classified under the Modified Monash Model 2019 (MMM) classification system as MM 3-7. To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "GO Documents" button on the left hand side.