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

Recipients of the 2025 Innovation Seed Funding Grants have been announced. The recipients and projects we will be funding are:

Project 1: Aruma - Boosting Health Literacy through Animated Microlearning
Project 2: The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) - Health Checklist for people with cerebral palsy and intellectual disability co-developed by consumers
Project 3: The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia - Me and My Medicines
Project 4: Western NSW Local Health District - Building Connections in Western NSW
Project 5: The Women’s and Children’s Health Network - Evaluating dental transition pathways from paediatric to adult disability services in South Australia

Read more about the recipients and projects here.

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.