The Peer-to-Peer Suicide Prevention Grant is a competitive grant program that has been established for Wisconsin elementary, middle, and high schools. Recipients of a grant may use the funding to support an existing evidence-based peer-to-peer suicide prevention program (
Hope Squad,
Sources of Strength,
NAMI Raise Your Voice,
REDGEN, or
Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM)) or to implement a new program. For schools wanting to implement new programs, please provide evidence linked to the program's effectiveness.
Allowable costs include:
- Training fees for staff and/or students
- Substitute teacher fees are allowed, but NOT staff time for staff becoming trained in peer-to-peer programs
- Curriculum costs related to the peer-to-peer program
- Transportation costs associated with peer-to-peer training or activities
- QPR training costs
- Materials and supplies (limit $1,000)
- "Apparel" is considered materials and supplies. It includes uniforms used to identify peer program leaders. Apparel used for promotional giveaways is NOT allowed.
- Some examples of allowable supplies: Art supplies used for program activities, gift cards for students as prizes, fidget toys used in program activities
- Speaker or presenter fees (limit $1,250)
Costs cannot be used towards food, beverages, assemblies, and please refer to this document for other unallowable costs for this grant.Grant funds will be reimbursed to schools after the end of the 2026-2027 school year when all the required documentation is sent to MHA-WI (W-9, invoice, and receipts) by June 30, 2027. NO funds will be sent to schools until financial documentation is reviewed and approved after June 30, 2027. Grant reporting requirements include four quarterly surveys and one year-end survey to be filled out by the project lead. Maximum Award: $5,000Application due date: Friday, October 9, 2026Note: Please keep in mind when you are planning your peer-to-peer programming and completing the application that this is the last year that MHA-WI can provide these grants to schools. So applicants should be thinking about sustainability to continue providing your school's peer-to-peer program after the 2026-2027 school year.
You must complete the survey in one sitting; you will not be allowed to save and return to it. Respondents will be able to go back to previous pages in the survey and update existing responses until the survey is finished or until they have exited the survey. However, after submitting or exiting the survey, the respondent will not be able to update existing responses.
Therefore we recommend downloading the PDF version and compiling all your responses before entering the survey. This application is for one school; if someone is applying for multiple schools, a new application must be completed for each school.
