Grants and programs

Grants for speech pathology and occupational therapy graduates working in rural and regional Victoria.

Find out more about the program, including participating organisations, eligibility and how to apply.

Cemetery grants program application process, guidelines and application forms.

Find out about the free nursing and midwifery initiatives, which include degrees and postgraduate study.

This program provides safe nursery equipment for vulnerable Victorian families where a safety concern is identified by a Maternal and Child Health (MCH) nurse via our MCH Safe Sleeping checklist.

A $5,000 sign-on bonus is available for nursing and midwifery graduates. Find out more.

GP training grants are now available for doctors starting their careers in Victoria.

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Graduate and Early Career Program supports graduates and early career workers to enter the Victorian public mental health and wellbeing system.

Postgraduate mental health nurse scholarships are available for mental health nurses to support postgraduate study in Semester 1, 2026.

The Residential Aged Care Equipment Grant Program provides grants to Victorian Residential Aged Care Homes for the purchase of minor medical equipment. Find out more about the eligibility, grant amount and how to apply.

Postgraduate full course fee scholarships are available for mental health nurses to support postgraduate study in 2025.

Undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships are available for university level qualifications for lived and living experience workers.

Postgraduate scholarships are available for allied health and alcohol and other drug workers to support postgraduate study in 2025.

Grants valued up to $5,000 are available for the professional development of lived and living experience workers in state-funded mental health, alcohol and other drug, and harm reduction services.

We are funding one-year catalyst grants for health and medical research proposals that can further our knowledge of the influence sex and/or gender can have on disease or conditions.

This $8.4million grants program aims to grow and strengthen access to public provision of pharmacotherapy for opioid dependence through the Community Health Service network in Victoria.

Find out more about the program, including participating organisations, eligibility and how to apply.

Grants are available to public mental health and wellbeing services to meet the cost of Psychiatric State Enrolled Nurses undertaking clinical placement.