Indigenous-run mental health services are struggling to attract funding for suicide prevention programs, according to Aboriginal mental health workers.

Indigenous people are twice as likely as other Australians to take their own life.

In some areas, like the Kimberley, young Aboriginal people take their own lives at seven times the national trend.

Dameyon Bonson, a mental health advocate from Broome, said the situation was getting worse for some communities.

"It is devastating. There's a sense of hopelessness from a lot of people because they don't know what to do," he said.

Mr Bonson started a group called Black Rainbow Living Well, when he noticed that Aboriginal gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people needed special help.

His aim is to help LGBTI Indigenous people speak up about mental illness.

"I noticed that there was a lack of resources for the Aboriginal LGBTI community," he said.

"As a gay Aboriginal person myself, I [had] just got used to there not being any resources," he said.

Mr Bonson used crowd-funding to raise $26,000 for the awareness project via donations from the public.

He will use some of that money to visit communities in Queensland and the Northern Territory, to speak about depression and anxiety, racism and homophobia.

Indigenous mental health advocates said grassroots organisations should not be left to do important work without government support.

Professor Pat Dudgeon is an Aboriginal psychologist from the University of Western Australia and a member of the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Advisory Group.

During meetings with the Health Minister Sussan Ley, she asked the Federal Government to agree to a new plan to improve Indigenous mental health.

"What we need is our own Indigenous mental health plan, get things happening out there in the community," she said.

"We've never had [a plan], I think that with some of the changes we're seeing, money is being withdrawn from some very good community-based programs and they're the most important ones."

Professor Dudgeon is also pushing the Federal Government to agree to a new Close the Gap target to lower suicide rates.