Deadline: 19-Feb-25
Suicide Prevention Australia is pleased to launch its grant program to provide funding to projects or programs which focus on preventing suicide for groups disproportionately impacted by suicide.
The Mental Health Commission of Western Australia have established the Western Australian Suicide Prevention Grants Program (Program).
The Program is designed to support locally developed initiatives that meet the specific needs of target communities. The Western Australian Government has allocated $1 million (excl GST) for initiatives aimed at improving suicide prevention across the State. The Program will fund projects that leverage existing community strengths, abilities and expertise to address local needs through innovative, place-based activities.
The Western Australian Suicide Prevention Grants Program is funded by the Mental Health Commission of Western Australia and administered by Suicide Prevention Australia.
Program Objective
- The Suicide Prevention Grants Program seeks to fund projects or programs which will provide a benefit to the community. The objectives are:
- Support and promote mental health and wellbeing to reduce lives lost to suicide;
- Enhance protective factors and reduce risk factors to prevent and reduce suicide and suicidal distress;
- Increase awareness of services available in the community to encourage early help-seeking;
- Reduce stigma associated with mental health and wellbeing and suicide; and
- Improve community knowledge and health literacy regarding mental health, wellbeing and suicide, including training opportunities.
Funding Information
- Grant amount: up to $100,000 (excl GST)
- Eligible projects must start after 1 July 2025 and be completed no later than 30 June 2027.
- Projects can be for a duration of up to two years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include:
- Incorporated community sector organisation (not–for–profit);
- Local government authority; and
- Unincorporated organisation or community group, applying through an incorporated body or a local government authority.
Priority Groups
- The Program prioritises initiatives that deliver evidence-based or evidence-informed suicide prevention activities, training or programs aimed at groups disproportionately impacted by suicide including (but not limited to):
- Aboriginal peoples
- Children and young people
- Older people
- People who identify as LGBTQIA+
- People from ethnoculturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including refugees and asylum seekers
- First Responder Workers (such as police forces, ambulance officers and paramedics, fire and rescue service workers, prison officers)
- Veterans
- People living with a disability
- Men
Who can’t apply?
- A Commonwealth or State Government agency
- An individual
- A commercial for-profit organisation
- An unincorporated community sector organisation unless applying through an incorporated body or a local government authority
- An organisation located in the Indian Ocean Territories
- Organisations that have not provided an acquittal and/or evaluation from previous WA Mental Health Commission funding in accordance with the agreed time frames within the agreement, are ineligible to apply until the required documentation has been submitted.
For more information, visit Suicide Prevention Australia.
