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 reporting requirements include four quarterly surveys and one year-end survey to be filled out by the project lead. Grant funds will be reimbursed after the end of the 2025-2026 school year when all the required documentation is sent to MHA-WI (W-9, invoice, and receipts) by June 30, 2026.

Maximum Award: $5,000

Application due date: Friday January 16, 2026

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.

All applications will be reviewed after January 16, 2026, and you will receive a notice of your award status within 30 days of January 16, 2026.

Please visit the MHA-WI website for some frequently asked questions. If you have further questions, please contact Kelsey Van Hoorn at kelsey@mhawisconsin.org.

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