{"id":12738,"date":"2021-08-31T05:08:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12738"},"modified":"2021-08-31T05:08:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:08:20","slug":"targeted-covid-19-support-for-aboriginal-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/targeted-covid-19-support-for-aboriginal-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Targeted Covid -19 Support For Aboriginal Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 Aboriginal Community Response Program has opened today.<br \/>\nQuick response grants of up to $10,000 are available for Aboriginal community organisations and groups to meet the immediate health and wellbeing needs of Aboriginal people across the state as part of Aboriginal Affairs NSW\u2019s COVID-19 response strategy.<br \/>\nMinister for Aboriginal Affairs Don Harwin said the grants would help to provide Aboriginal communities with targeted COVID-19 information and assistance from trusted services.<br \/>\n\u201cThese quick response grants will help communities access local, culturally appropriate services so they are informed and supported to take actions like staying at home to reduce community transmission,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cAboriginal communities are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, and these grants will enable Aboriginal services to support people already impacted by COVID-19 as well as taking preventative steps such as encouraging vaccination.\u201d<br \/>\nApplications for the COVID-19 Aboriginal Community Response Program are now open via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboriginalaffairs.nsw.gov.au\/grants\/covid-19-aboriginal-community-response-grants-program\">www.aboriginalaffairs.nsw.gov.au\/grants\/covid-19-aboriginal-community-response-grants-program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 Aboriginal Community Response Program has opened today. Quick response grants of up to $10,000 are available for Aboriginal community organisations and groups to meet the immediate health and wellbeing needs of Aboriginal people across the state as part of Aboriginal Affairs NSW\u2019s COVID-19 response strategy. Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Don Harwin said the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/targeted-covid-19-support-for-aboriginal-communities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Targeted Covid -19 Support For Aboriginal Communities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}