Hurstbridge Primary School has had to raise funds to keep its school chaplain, Suzanne Scott.

The school was provided with a chaplain for 12 months after the February 7, 2009 bushfires and managed to secure additional funding last year. Assistant principal Chris Tatnall said the school had been forced to cut back the chaplaincy to a part-time position of two days a week after funding ended at the end of 2010.

"We initially had a chaplain full-time, but the funding has reduced until now there is nothing," he said.

He said the school community would continue to raise funds to keep the chaplain this year, after an inaugural fun run held last October raised about $6000. Mr Tatnall said the school had sought federal funding for the chaplaincy to continue for an extra day per week this year, but had not yet heard the outcome.

Mr Tatnall said Ms Scott was "very busy" caring for students still grappling with the impact of Black Saturday.

"Now is when bushfire victims need that support. They actually need that support more now than two years ago," he said.

"There are a lot of other issues coming out of the bushfires, three years on, including family separations and depression," he said.

Kangaroo Ground and Panton Hill primary schools have also applied for a share of $222 million in federal funding for chaplains over the next two years.

Access Ministeries – which provides chaplains for schools – said more than 200 new schools were seeking funding for chaplains across Victoria this year.