HACC Service Development Grants

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Overview

The Home and Community Care (HACC) Program’s one-off service development grants (SDGs) are made available to agencies and consultants to encourage specific research and development activities, which are designed to improve service delivery for HACC consumers.

From 2003-04 allocation of service development grants was aligned with the Better Planning and Funds Allocation process for the HACC program. Approximately $30,000 per annum is allocated to each Department of Human Services region to support service evaluation and service development initiatives, consistent with the HACC program expenditure priorities statement 2006-09. The Department's central office service development initiatives are allocated to carry out log term research projects with advice from the HACC Departmental Advisory Committee.

For more information on service development grants please refer to the Chapter 8, Section 8.8 of Home and Community Care (HACC) Program Manual - Service Development Grants.

Service Development project streams

There are two non-recurrent streams for projects:

• Regions have specific allocations to support service evaluation and service development consistent with the HACC three-year strategic priorities.

• Central office supports practice - relevant research and service development in key areas.

Service Development funding categories

The categories for funding service development grants include:

• Policy, protocol and practice development and analysis

• Education and training

• Research

• HACC information and promotion

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Department of Health regional offices HACC staff

For information on HACC regional service development grants funding, please contact HACC staff at your Department of Health Regional Office.

HACC Service Development Grants: outcomes and future directions

The 'HACC Service Development Grants: Outcomes and future directions' report funded by the HACC program, examined the scope, scale and outcomes of service development grants funded between 1997–78 and 2001–02. The aims of the project were to:

• Catalogue and analyse the allocation of HACC SDG funds for the last five years, from 1997–98 to 2001–02

• Identify options for a cost effective and sustainable central clearing house for dissemination of the findings of projects funded through SDG and

• Develop options and recommendations for more targeted and strategic use of one-off funds for program-relevant research, policy and service development, including potential roles for the Departmental Advisory Committee on HACC, the community care sector, central office and regional offices.

The department acknowledges and reinforces the findings of the report that HACC service development grants have made a significant contribution to the HACC program and community care sector. Being a unique component of the HACC program service development grants offer resources for research and service improvement initiatives to improve the delivery of services to HACC consumers.

Service development grants have achieved positive outcomes for clients and agencies involved, sharing of innovations amongst agencies and the implementation of new approaches across the sectors with benefits to the HACC program at the local, regional and state-wide levels.

In line with the recommendations outlined in the 'HACC Service Development Grants: Outcomes and future directions' report the department's internet based HACC Projects Clearinghouse aims to promote the dissemination of outcomes of quality innovations and research, and to provide access to information on HACC funded projects to individuals.

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Download a copy of the report for a detailed overview of the report findings and recommendations.

HACC Service Development Grants: Outcomes and future directions (465kb, pdf)

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