Men’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Small Grants Program

​The Men's Mental Health Forum: Preventing Suicide was held on 5 August 2024 at NSW Parliament House. It was attended by 84 participants across 61 mental health and suicide prevention organisations. Participants included people working to support men, researchers, people with lived and living experience of suicide, and suicide prevention and mental health advocates.

During this event the Minister for Mental Health, the Honourable Rose Jackson, announced a Men's Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Small Grants Program offering up to $50,000 per project to deliver community activities, programs, and events supporting men's mental health and suicide prevention.

The objectives of the Men's Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Small Grants Program are to:

• conduct community driven and well supported mental health, resilience and wellbeing projects, targeting men
• deliver mental health, resilience and wellbeing benefits to individuals and groups of men across the state
• reduce loneliness and social isolation among men
• promote mental health, wellbeing and resilience among men, in general, or a specific population group of men such as Aboriginal men, boys and young adult men, older men, men living with a disability, men living in rural and remote areas, or LGBTQ+ men.
• establish connections between community mental health and wellbeing organisations for ongoing referral and support pathways
• develop the cultural competency and cultural safety of mental health and wellbeing organisations to increase their accessibility and responsiveness to priority population groups of men

For more information on the Men's Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Small Grants Program and how to apply, please refer to  Men’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Small Grants Program - buy NSW

Men's Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Small Grants Program Tender Applications will open on Friday 15 November 2024, and close on Sunday 15 December, 2024.

Additionally, the Men's Mental Health Forum Report titled Men's Mental Health: A Focus on Suicide Prevention presents the findings and recommended actions identified at the Forum to guide future efforts in reducing suicide among men in NSW.