The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Cooperative Agreements for the Garrett Lee Smith State/Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Program.
Donor Name: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/03/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The purpose of the program is to support states and tribes with implementing youth (up to age 24) suicide prevention and early intervention strategies in schools, educational institutions, juvenile justice systems, substance use programs, mental health programs, foster care systems, pediatric health programs, and other child- and youth-serving organizations. It is expected that this program will:
- increase the number of youthserving organizations who are able to identify and work with youth at risk of suicide;
- increase the capacity of clinical service providers to assess, manage, and treat youth at risk of suicide; and
- improve the continuity of care and follow-up of youth identified to be at risk for suicide, including those who have been discharged from emergency department and inpatient psychiatric units.
Required Activities
Funds must be used primarily for capacity building to address youth (up to age 24) suicide and prevention.
- Provide trauma-informed, evidence-based, and culturally and linguistically appropriate early intervention, assessment services, and screening programs to youth who are at risk for mental or emotional disorders that may lead to a suicide attempt.
- Provide immediate support and information resources (including information from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center [SPRC]) to families of youth who are at risk for or who have attempted suicide.
- Implement a response system to ensure that timely referrals incorporating safety planning can be provided to appropriate community-based mental health care, treatment, and recovery support programs for youth who are at risk for suicide or suicide attempts in child-serving settings and agencies.
- Ensure treatment and prevention services for diverse cultural populations address the cultural-specific risk and protective factors of the various populations they are serving.
- Provide post-suicide intervention services, care, and information to families, friends, community organizations, faith-based organizations, educational institutions, juvenile justice systems, substance use disorder and mental health programs, foster care systems, pediatric health programs, and other child and youth support organizations involved with youth who have recently died by suicide.
- Provide evidence-based training, where possible, to educators, childcare professionals, care providers, community members, natural community helpers (e.g., faith-based leaders, recreational coaches) and individuals in foster care and juvenile justice agencies on youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies, and how to effectively identify youth who are at risk for suicide, including youth of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
- . Implement strategies to reduce access to lethal means among youth with identified suicide risk, including providing to parents, legal guardians, and family members of youth supplies to securely store means commonly used in suicide, if applicable, within the household.
- Obtain input from individuals with lived experience in planning, implementing, and evaluating the project, including survivors of suicide attempts, youth, and families.
- Secure prior written, informed consent from the child’s parent or legal guardian for assessment services, school-sponsored programs, and treatment involving medication related to youth suicide conducted in elementary and secondary schools.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Available Funding: $14,932,933
- Estimated Award Amount: Up to $735,000
Project Period
Up to 5 years
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments, including the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
- A public organization or private non-profit organization designated by a State or tribe to develop or direct statewide youth suicide, early intervention, and prevention strategy. [NOTE: A public or private non-profit organization applying for the award must submit documentation in Attachment 9 that it has been designated by a State or tribe to develop or direct the state-sponsored statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies.]
- Federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian organizations that are actively involved in the development and continuation of a tribal youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategy, and consortia of tribes or tribal organizations.
- Tribal organization means the recognized body of any AI/AN tribe; any legally established organization of AI/ANs that is controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by such governing body, or which is democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to be served by such organization and which includes the maximum participation of AI/ANs in all phases of its activities. Consortia of tribes or tribal organizations are eligible to apply, but each participating entity must indicate its approval. A single tribe in the consortium must be the legal applicant, the recipient of the award, and the entity legally responsible for satisfying the grant requirements.
- Urban Indian Organization (UIO) (as identified by the Indian Health Service Office of Urban Indian Health Programs through active Title V grants/contracts) means a non-profit corporate body situated in an urban center governed by an urban Indian-controlled board of directors, and providing for the maximum participation of all interested individuals and groups, which body is capable of legally cooperating with other public and private entities for the purpose of performing the activities described in 503(a) of 25 U.S.C. § 1603. UIOs are not tribes or tribal governments and do not have the same consultation rights or trust relationship with the federal government.
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