Inclusion and Accessibility Fund: Australia's Disability Strategy (ADS): First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN)

Overview

The Australian Government is inviting FPDN via a restricted process to apply to deliver services under the Inclusion and Accessibility Fund: Australia’s Disability Strategy from 2024-25 to 2025-26.  The purpose of the grant is to fund FPDN to support the testing and implementation of key resources that build upon the Cultural Model of Inclusion to assess and improve an organisation’s cultural safety, inclusion and responsiveness to First Nations people with disability. The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:  work with First Nations community-controlled organisations and First Nations communities to develop and test key resources that assess and build cultural safety, inclusion and responsiveness  develop and test an organisation assessment tool based on the Cultural Model of Inclusion with a selection of community, and disability sector organisations to demonstrate its utility develop and deliver freely available and widely accessible resources that can be used to build cultural safety and inclusion in community organisations and key workforces to design and deliver training to support a Cultural Model of Inclusion organisational assessment tool as a pilot project for possible further ‘scaled up’ implementation.