About us

The Queensland Mental Health Commission (the Commission) administers a range of grants and sponsorship programs that support innovative approaches to mental health across Queensland, and build the evidence base to drive system reform aligned with Shifting minds: The Queensland Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs and Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan 2023-
2028, and associated sub plans Every life: The Queensland Suicide Prevention Plan 2019-2029 (Phase Two) and
Achieving balance: The Queensland Alcohol and Other Drugs Plan 2022-2027. 

Information Privacy statement

The Commission is collecting personal information through SmartyGrants for the purpose of processing your application and for grants management. Your personal information will be collected and handled in accordance with the Information Privacy Act 2009 and will be provided to the following persons or organisations to process and manage your application:

• internal and external Evaluation Panel members engaged by the Commission for the purpose of assessing your application
• internal Commission staff who will be administering and managing your application

If your application is approved, your organisation name and basic information about the funded initiative may be published on the Commission's website, the Queensland Government Open Data Portal, and/or in the Commission's Annual Report. Your personal information (i.e. as the authorised person making an application) will not be disclosed to any other parties without your consent, unless authorised or required by law.

SmartyGrants Privacy Statement

SmartyGrants is the cloud-based grants administration software solution that the Commission uses to manage applications and expressions of interest for various funding programs. Your personal information will be collected and stored using SmartyGrants software, but is not shared with any third party software providers at this time. 

Contact us: contracts@qmhc.qld.gov.au 

Current status of recently closed rounds 

Mental Health & Wellbeing Community Grants - Round 1, 2024-25

Current status: Notifications have been sent to the successful and unsuccessful applicants. Please have your contact person check their email inbox for the notification.

AOD Responses in Housing and Homelessness Settings Grants

Current status: Notifications have been sent to the successful and unsuccessful applicants. Please have your contact person check their email inbox for the notification.

The QMHC Sponsorship Program for Quarter 3, 2024-25

Current status: The panel is currently assessing applications. Please be advised there may be some delays due to Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

Current status of open rounds

There are currently no open rounds available.

Upcoming rounds

Mental Health & Wellbeing Community Grants - Round 2, 2025-26

The next round of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Grants will be announced after the current round has been finalised.

Please note that we are running one round of applications per financial year, so the next annual grant round will relate to the 2025-26 financial year (i.e. opening from 1 July 2025). If the Commission is able to release the round earlier, this information will be shared here on Smarty Grants, and on our website and social media accounts; we do not have an automated email update/subscription service available to provide notifications at this time. 

Sponsorship Program (quarterly)

Quarter 4, 2024-25 to be announced in near future