Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO6989

The Aged Care Capital Assistance Program (the program) provides aged care infrastructure grants aimed at maintaining or increasing access to quality aged care services in thin market settings for people:

• from First Nations communities
• living in regional, rural, and remote areas
• who are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless
• with other complex and diverse needs, including dementia.
• improve viability and sustainability of service offerings.

For this grant opportunity up to $200 million is available to support activities that will:

• deliver more mainstream residential care beds i.e., new residential care services and/or expansion of existing residential care services (excluding Multi-purpose Services (MPS) and National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program (NATSIFACP) services)
• upgrade, or refurbish existing residential-based aged care services (including mainstream, MPS and NATSIFACP services)  

in the following locations:

• regional centres to very remote communities: Modified Monash Model - MM2 to 7
• metropolitan areas (MM1) for projects specifically targeting care to First Nations people.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.

We cannot consider your application if you do not satisfy all the eligibility criteria. 

We cannot provide a grant if you receive funding from another government source for the same purpose/activity (other than as a co-contribution). 

To be eligible you must be an approved as a provider of aged care in respect of residential care and/or flexible care under the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Act 2018. 

You must also meet the additional eligibility requirements for the Stream you are applying for listed in Section 4.1.1: Additional eligibility requirements of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines. 

$200,000,000.00

You are required to submit a separate application for each service for which you are applying.

Submit the completed application form and all necessary attachments by the closing date and time via the red Submit Application button on the left-hand side. 

You should keep a copy of your application and any supporting documents. Registered users will receive an automated email notification acknowledging the receipt of the submission. If you do not receive an automated email notification within 24 hours of submission, please email Grant.ATM@health.gov.au. 

For technical assistance when submitting your application through GrantConnect please contact the GrantConnect Helpdesk:

• Phone: 1300 484 145
• Email: GrantConnect@finance.gov.au  

Note the 2MB limit per attachment in the application form. Multiple files/documents should be scanned into a single document. Compressed or zip files are not accepted. File names must be unique and not include foreign characters.