The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), is soliciting proposals for community-based suicide prevention in Minnesota, which will serve the needs of Minnesotans at risk of suicide.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $2,250,000.00
Grant Duration: 3 years 12 months
Details:
Goals
Communities and organizations will coordinate suicide prevention efforts across sectors and disciplines that lead toward a more comprehensive suicide prevention approach.
- Will serve populations most burdened by suicide, self-inflicted injury and or ideation.
- Applicant will reduce factors that increase risk and increase factors that promote resilience.
- Tribal applicant(s) will strengthen cultural infrastructure to employ suicide prevention across the community
Priorities
- Health Equity
- The vision of the MDH is for health equity in Minnesota, where all communities are thriving, and all people have what they need to be healthy. Achieving health equity means creating the conditions in which all people have the opportunity to attain their highest possible level of health.
- Align with the Minnesota State Suicide Prevention Plan
- The 2023-2027 State Plan will focus on the following goals:
- Goal 1: Increase individuals, organizations, and communities’ capacity to develop and implement a comprehensive public health approach to prevent suicide.
- Goal 2: Promote factors that offer protection for suicidal experiences across the individual, relationship, community, and societal levels.
- Goal 3: Identify and support individuals who are experiencing mental health challenges or who are having suicidal experiences.
- Goal 4: Strengthen access and delivery of care for mental health and suicide.
- Goal 5: Connect, heal, and restore hope to those impacted by suicide.
- Goal 6: Improve the timeliness and usefulness of data.
- The 2023-2027 State Plan will focus on the following goals:
- Align with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Suicide Prevention Resource for Action
- The Center for Disease Control Suicide Prevention Resource for Action is a resource guide that provides strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states identify activities with the greatest potential to prevent suicide.
Funding Information
Activity 1: Regional Suicide Prevention Coordinators.
Activity 2: Comprehensive Suicide Prevention: Develop and evaluate a comprehensive suicide prevention model in a targeted community of high need and risk.
- Estimated Award Maximum $2,250,000.00 (each year)
- Estimated Award Minimum $60,500.00 (each Year)
Grant Period
MDH is seeking proposals for the grant period July 1, 2023-June 30, 2027.
Eligible Applicants
Applicants eligible to apply in this competitive process include, but are not limited to, local public health and social services agencies, nonprofit organizations, tribal governments, tribal organizations, and urban tribal organizations, units of government, schools and/or school districts, health care organizations, faith communities, emergency response organizations and other interested agencies demonstrating experience (or that desire the experience) to provide evidence-based or practice-based evidence suicide prevention. Applicants must be located within and conduct grant activities in the state of Minnesota.
For more information, visit Community-based Suicide Prevention Grant.
