The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is accepting applications for the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP) program.
Donor Name: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/15/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $400,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The purpose of this program is to implement suicide prevention and intervention programs for adults (with an emphasis on older adults, adults in rural areas, and American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) adults) that help implement the 2021 Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Implement the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. This program is intended to address the Call to Action’s broad-based public health approach to suicide prevention by enhancing collaboration with key community stakeholders (e.g., county health departments, workplace settings, criminal justice settings, senior-serving organizations, community firearm stakeholders), raising awareness of the available resources for suicide prevention, and implementing lethal means safety. With this program, SAMHSA aims to reduce deaths by suicide and non-fatal suicide attempts.
Required Activities
- Action 1. Activate a Broad-Based Public Health Response to Suicide
- Action 1. Activate a Broad-Based Public Health Response to Suicide
- Action 3. Ensure Lethal Means Safety
- Action 4. Support Adoption of Evidence-Based Care for Suicide Risk
Allowable Activities
Allowable activities are an allowable use of funds but are not required. Allowable activities may include:
- Work with community partners on limiting lethal means in community suicide hotspots (e.g. bridges, railroad tracks, tall buildings, cliffs, rural or secluded locations, etc.).
- Work with community partners on implementation of extreme risk laws (also known as extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) or gun violence restraining orders) enacted in some states, which set in place a legal process for temporarily removing firearms from people who may pose an extreme risk to themselves or others.
- Utilize public awareness and activation campaigns that adhere to the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s guidance on safe messaging.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Available Funding: $2,000,000
- Estimated Award Amount: Up to $400,000
Project Period
Up to 3 years
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility is statutorily limited [section 520L(a)(2)] to a community-based primary care or behavioral health care setting, an emergency department, a State mental health agency (or State health agency with mental or behavioral health functions), public health agency, a territory of the United States, or an Indian tribe or tribal organization (as the terms “Indian tribe” and “tribal organization” are defined in section 5304 of title 25).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
