Round 3 - Grant Recipients

A total of $90,000 was raised by direct donations from the 2022 RAV Virtual Challenge participants and was matched by the Run Against Violence Committee ($41,000 Race Roster donations and $49,000 RAV Committee).

The aim of the Grants program is to:

  • Fund the training of Love Bites facilitators in communities where the cost of training facilitators is a barrier to building up or sustaining the Love Bites program, and

  • Support the adaptation of Love Bites for specific community settings.

The Grants process opened in late 2022, with applications closing in early 2023.  Grants were available for both Individual and Major Grant Categories per previous years.

Numerous applications were received from every State and Territory across Australia from metropolitan, regional, rural and remote communities.

Applications were prioritised based upon:

  • Practical impact

  • Opportunity to implement

  • Regional and State diversity

  • Potential to initiate Love Bites in a community

  • Contributions already made to their community/education.

Over 250 individuals were successful in obtaining funding, with high priority applications receiving 100% funding and others receiving 50% of their funding – enabling the funds to be spread even further!  The majority of the people selected completed their training between February and May 2023, with the balance scheduled for training between June and August 2023.

The RAV Love Bites Grants recipients in 2023 include a diverse range of community roles related to schools and community services including:

·       School related - Teachers, Wellbeing Teachers and Support Officers, School Based Youth Health Nurses, Mental Health Practitioner, Health and Physical Education, School Social Worker, Wellbeing Coordinator, Head Teachers of Welfare

·       Community Services - Police, Youth Workers, NSW Health Workers, Women's Shelters; Community Mentors and Counsellors, Clinical Nurse – Health Worker Support, Registered Midwives and Community Engagement Workers.

The organisations funded include: 

Individual Funding

  • Family Relationship Centre

  • Malanda, Ravenshoe and Herberton State High Schools

  • Bloom Resilience

  • Wesley Dalmar Specialist Care Arrangements

  • The Base Support Services Inc.

  • Ashcroft High School

  • NSW Health, Western NSW LHD

  • Tamworth Family Support Service

  • Greenvale Secondary College

  • Taminmin College

  • Springwood State High School

  • IMPACT Community Services

  • Katherine High School

  • Psyche Mental Health Centre

  • QPASTT

  • Department for Education, Children and Young People

  • Mid North Coast Legal Centre

  • City of Victor Harbor

  • School Health Nurse Program

  • Northcote High School

  • Department of Education - NEVR

  • MacKillop Family Services

  • Aboriginal Families Legal Service

  • Blackwood Youth Action Inc

  • Sexual Assault referral Centre

  • Health Ability

  • NSW Health

  • Early Links

  • Cowra Information and Neighbourhood Centre Inc.

  • Headspace

  • Child Youth and Family Health Service

  • St Philips Christian College

  • BARNARDOS AUSTRALIA

  • Warilla High School

  • Croydon Community School

  • Community Connect – Community Living Association

  • John Fawkner College

  • Bayside Child and Youth Mental Health Service

  • Kempsey Adventist School

  • Child Adolescent & Family Service

  • Big Yellow Umbrella

  • Housing Plus

  • Arthur Phillip High School

  • Mount Austin High School

  • Arise Community Support

  • Community Northern Beaches

  • SEDA College

  • Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College

Major Funding

  • Centacare

  • Ryde Police

  • Springwood High School

  • Ac.Care Mt Gambier

  • Bendigo Community

  • Vinnies Deniliquin

  • Trauma Assist Hervey Bay

  • Broadford College

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