Innovation Seed Funding Grants

The purpose of the Innovation Seed Funding Grants is to support:

Innovative projects in intellectual disability health that align to the Centre’s priorities
Inclusive projects that have people with intellectual disability and their families in meaningful roles
Collaboration in intellectual disability health

The Innovation Seed Funding Grants are an important opportunity for the Centre to support the efforts of our Partners, Collaborators and other organisations across health and disability sectors to improve the health of people with intellectual disability.

For the 2025 Innovation Seed Funding Grants, the Centre identified four focus areas that it would like to see projects align to. These are:

Mental health
Primary and preventative health
Scope or evaluate new models of care
Care pathways, including transitions in care or complex care needs

The projects that were successful in 2025 will finish by June 2026.

Project team

This project is being led by Andrea Kargodorian with input from across the Centre. Successful projects are decided by a review committee made of a member of the Centre's Learn and Lead Group, the Lived Experience Lead, the Manager - First Nations Strategy, an external reviewer, and an expert from the Centre Consortium.