Mental Health Program - TC Jasper

About

The $9.56 million Mental Health Program will fund Queensland Health to provide individual and family therapeutic interventions for impacted people, with particular attention paid to vulnerable people displaced from their home, especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, following the eligible events:

  • Tropical Cyclone Jasper, associated rainfall and flooding, 13 – 28 December 2023
  • South East Queensland Severe Storms and Rainfall, 24 December 2023 – 3 January 2024.

Eligibility

Queensland Health will deliver the mental health program  in the following council areas:

  • Tropical Cyclone Jasper
    • Cairns Regional Council
    • Cassowary Coast Regional Council
    • Cook Shire Council
    • Douglas Shire Council
    • Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire Council
    • Mareeba Shire Council
    • Tablelands Shire Council
    • Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council
    • Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council
  • South East Queensland Severe Storms 
    • City of the Gold Coast City  
    • Logan City Council
    • Scenic Rim City Council

Funding acknowledgement

The package is jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments to support Queensland communities in their recovery from the Tropical Cyclone Jasper, 13 - 28 December 2023 event and the South East Queensland Severe Storms and Rainfall, 24 December 2023 – 3 January 2024.

Administering agency

Queensland Reconstruction Authority

Delivery agency

Queensland Health

More information

More details about this funding will be made available in the coming weeks.