[Announcement from Comm-engagedscholarship listserv]
Dear community-engaged scholarship colleagues,
The US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2011 Campus Suicide Prevention grants. Higher educational institutions that have not previously been awarded one of these grants are eligible to apply. Community-campus partnerships, community-based research and service-learning fit well into this program.
Applications are due March. See abstract below and complete details
at http://bit.ly/exhw1v
The purpose of this program is to facilitate a comprehensive approach to preventing suicide in institutions of higher education. This program is designed to assist colleges and universities in their efforts to prevent suicide attempts and completions and to enhance services for students with mental and behavioral health problems, such as depression and substance use/abuse that put them at risk for suicide and suicide attempts. The Campus Suicide Prevention grants supports an array of campus activities to help the grantee build a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining effective mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services.
Successful applicants will provide a coherent and detailed conceptual roadmap of the process by which they have assessed or intend to assess suicide prevention needs and plan/implement infrastructure development strategies that meet those needs. The plan put forward in the grant application must show the linkages among needs, the proposed infrastructure development strategy, and increased system capacity that will enhance and sustain effective prevention programs and services which support SAMHSAs first Strategic initiative of preventing substance abuse and mental illness. The plan must also address the needs of youth at high-risk identified by the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention; including, but not limited tolesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) youth, American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/AN), military family members and veterans.
As a result of the Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention grants, colleges and universities will:
* increase the amount of training to students, faculty and staff on suicide prevention and mental health promotion
* increase collaboration among campus and community partners to deliver the message that suicide prevention is everyones responsibility
* increase the number of educational seminars and informational materials for students, faculty, staff and family members on suicide prevention, identification and reduction of risk factors such as depression and substance use/abuse
* increase help-seeking among students and reduce stigma for seeking care for mental and behavioral health issues among students
* increase the promotion of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Applications responsive to this Request for Application must implement evidence-based or best practices that will create or expand capacity to address the following SAMHSA Strategic Initiative: Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness - Create prevention prepared communities where individuals, families, schools, workplaces, and communities take action to prevent and reduce mental illness and substance abuse across the lifespan.
Thanks,
Rahma Osman
Program Assistant
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
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