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.

The NSW Government boosted funding for the Men's Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Small Grants Program from $400,000 announced at the Men’s Health Forum to nearly $1.4 million, with expanded funding awarded to 34 grassroots organisations to deliver targeted community-led programs for men across the state.​

​Organisations successful in being awarded a grant

​​Grantee​​​
​Region(s)
​Amount
​Priority population
​Australian Men's Shed Association 

Murrumbidgee, Hunter New England, Central Coast

​$47,500 

​Older men, men living with a disability, men living in rural areas ​

​Babana Aboriginal Men's Group 

​Sydney, Dubbo, Lismore​​​​​​

​$50,000
​Aboriginal men 
​Belong Blue Mountains Community & Neighbourhood Services 
Blue Mountains
​$50,000
​Older men (65+)
​CatholicCare 

​Waterloo, Redfern 

​$11,750 
​Older men with HIV/AIDS and disability 
​Catholic Care Wilcannia-Forbes 
​Bourke
​$50,000
​Aboriginal men
​Community Restorative Centre 
​​Broken Hill
​$13,500 

​​Aboriginal men, men living in rural areas ​

​Directions Health Services 
​Bega Valley Shire 
​$28,800 

​​Aboriginal men, men living in rural areas​

​Dubbo and Regional Dementia Alliance 
​Dubbo
​$10,665 
​Men living in rural areas​
​Ginhar Indigenous Corporation 
​Brewarrina 
​$49,400 
​Aboriginal men living in regional and rural NSW 
​Goanna Foundation 
​Mid North Coast 
​$50,000 
​Aboriginal men in the Mid North Coast ​
​Human Nature Adventure Therapy 

​​Tweed Valley, Byron, Ballina, Richmond Valley, Lismore ​

​$49,945 

​Y​oung men (14 - 18 years), aboriginal men ​

​i-Youth Centre 
​Auburn 
​$37,573 

​​CALD, young men (16 to 25), low socio-economic ​

​Kiray Putjung Aboriginal Corporation 
​Wonnarua Country (Cessnock, Singleton, Muswellbrook​)
​$49,920 
​Aboriginal men 
​Marathon Health 

​​Orange, Bathurst, Cowra ​

​$47,724 
​16 to 25-year-old males living in rural and regional NSW 
​Merana Aboriginal Community Association for the Hawkesbury 

​Richmond, Hawkesbury ​

​$50,000 
​Middle-aged and youth Aboriginal men 
​Muslim Community Radio 
​Sydney
​$33,300
​CALD men
​University of Newcastle Rugby Union Club 
​Newcastle
​$10,800 
​UoN Rugby Club 
​Port Macquarie Neighbourhood Centre 

​​Port Macquarie, Hastings, Wauchope ​

​$50,000 

​​Young men (24 - 40), aboriginal men ​

​Samaritans Community Services Hunter and Mid North Coast 
​Kempsey 
​$5,508 

​​12 - 25-year-old men, Aboriginal men, LGBTIQ+ men, men living in rural and remote areas ​

​Sane Australia 
​Statewide (online) 
​$50,000 
​Men with complex MH issues and/or trauma 
​Shared Reading NSW 
​Nepean Blue Mountains 
​$40,800 
​Older men
​sHedway 

​​Central West, Far West, Hunter, Murray/Riverina, North West, Northern Tablelands, Southern Tablelands, South Coast ​

​$50,000
​Rural and remote men (shearers predominantly)
​Shoalhaven Suicide Prevention & Awareness Network 

​​Nowra, Shoalhaven ​

​$20,000 
​Men with a lived experience of suicidality or mental illness
​Souths Cares 

​​Sydney, Randwick ​

​$49,050 
​Aboriginal youth and young men 
​Spinal Cord Injuries Australia 
​South West Sydney 
​$27,120 
​Men with spinal cord injury 
​talk2mebro 

​​Hunter, Central Coast, Illawarra, Central West, Sydney, Far Southwest, Mid North Coast, Northern Rivers ​

​$50,000
​Regional and rural young men 18 - 25 
​Temora Business Enterprise Group 
​Temora 
​$50,000 

​​Farmers, tradies, sport group members, business owners 

​The Man Walk Aust​ralia 
​Statewide 
​$45,500 

​​Older men, men in regional and rural areas, men who experience isolation ​

​The Men’s Table 

​​Blue Mountains, Port Macquarie, Sydney ​

​$50,000 
​Regional and rural areas 
​Top Blokes Foundation 

​​Greater Sydney, Newcastle ​

​$50,000 
​At risk young men aged 10 - 24 
​Walk it Off Australia 

​​Greater Sydney, Wollongong, Newcastle ​

​$47,500 
​All men
​Waves of Wellness 

​​Bondi, M​anly, Homebush ​

​$49,000 
​Age specific programs for young men (18-25) and adult men (25+) ​
​Yellow Dove Australia 

​​Sydney, Sutherland Shire ​

​$49,850 
​Veterans/ex-military 
​Mentoring Men 
​Regional, rural and remote NSW 
​$50,000 
​All men including Aboriginal men, CALD men and former ADF men ​

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.​

​​News and media about the Men’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Small Grants Program

​Nearly $1.4 million to boost men’s mental health support [23 May 2025]


Current as at: Wednesday 2 July 2025
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