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Quality Services & Innovation Fund

Family and Community Services,

The Quality Services and Innovation Fund encourages community services to work closely together and develop new innovative ways to improve the efficiency of services and effective support to children, young people and families.

The Fund, totalling $90.5 million, is spread over four years and 14 Community Response Model Regional Forums will use it to support their drive for better results for families in their areas.

Two types of funding will be available: capability funding and capacity funding.

The Fund has been designed to recognise the different stages of development and readiness of communities.

For example:

• some communities and groups of community organisations will have proposals or ideas that simply require funding to make them happen
• others may already have ideas or plans, but not developed proposals and may require some funding to assist them in developing these
• others may have identified a need for capability building in their community but need a greater level of direct assistance to identify what the exact needs are and how they might best be addressed.

To find out more about how the Fund works, eligible services, and next steps, go to: http://www.familyservices.govt.nz/working-with-us/funding-and-contracting/community-response-model/quality-services-and-innovation-fund.html

Contact person	Family and Community Services
Postal address
Phone	0800 777 100
Email	communityresponse@msd.govt.nz
Website address	http://www.familyservices.govt.nz
Submitted by	Ns