How Collaborative Grants Drove Impact Across Queensland

In 2025, Collaborative Grants have fueled remarkable sector-wide impact, with initiatives born from simple conversations, now transforming practice and strengthening responses to domestic and family violence across Queensland.

This year saw a DVNQ conference deepen networks and improve referral pathways, while the Remote Indigenous Women’s Shelter Network, made up of 14 organisations across Far North Queensland, Cape York and the Torres Strait, gathered for its first ever face-to-face leadership forum in 20 years. SPEAQ delivered a two-day statewide gathering focused on men’s behaviour change practice, creating vital space for practitioner dialogue.

BRISSC’s Pathways to Healing training centered First Nations women’s experiences, strengthening culturally responsive and trauma-informed practice. DVPC hosted a major two-day conference uniting the sector around victim-centered approaches, reforms and emerging challenges.

Meanwhile, the South West Domestic and Family Violence Forum boosted inter-agency collaboration in rural and remote communities, ensuring a more connected, capable workforce equipped to create lasting change for those impacted by violence.

While WorkUP’s Collaborative Grants have been highly valued, we are pausing the program while we review and strengthen our distribution process for the 2026–2027 financial year. We’ll share updates as soon as changes are confirmed and the program is ready to reopen in 2026. In the meantime, keep those creative ideas bubbling and stay tuned to our social media channels for announcements.

We would like to thank all of those who collaborated through local, regional and statewide workforce projects.