The Men and Boys Grant Program has been established to enhance suicide prevention support and literacy, reduce risk factors and strengthen systems and community responses to male suicidality.

This grant program responds by strengthening early support, building meaningful connections, and promoting healthier masculinities to reduce risk and improve wellbeing. The grants will support initiatives that address one or more of the following priority areas:

• reducing risk factors
• enhancing suicide prevention literacy and coping capacity
• supporting life transitions
• strengthening gender-responsive and culturally safe systems
• building community-led partnerships and reducing stigma.

A total funding pool of up $3 million is available, with initiatives between $300,000 to $600,000 per initiative.

To be eligible to apply for a grant, the applicant must:

• have a registered Australian Business Number or Australian Charity Number (ACN) and be
• registered for GST purposes, where relevant
• be Queensland based or will deliver the initiative in Queensland
• hold or will obtain the appropriate workers' compensation, public liability and professional indemnity insurance required to undertake this initiative and all related activities
• have no outstanding financial liability, service delivery or performance issues for funding previously and/or currently provided by the Queensland Government.

Applicants are not eligible where they:

• are an unincorporated association, a sole trader, or an individual
• a commercial organisation
• declared bankrupt or subject to insolvency proceedings (as relevant to the entity type)
• accept any form of funding from tobacco and/or alcohol companies or their related foundations either directly or indirectly or promote the use of tobacco, alcohol or illicit drugs
• seek to promote political or religious views or ideologies. This includes ideologies that promote harmful masculinities, misogyny or support, promote, minimise or excuse the use of violence, including violence against women and children.

• Email: contracts@qmhc.qld.gov.au