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Indian Health Service Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention Program: Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention

This funding record is inactive. Please see the program website or contact the program sponsor to determine if this program is currently accepting applications or will open again in the future.

 
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.654
Sponsors
Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Deadlines
Feb 2, 2022
Contact

For programmatic or technical questions:
Audrey Solimon
301.590.5421
Audrey.Solimon@ihs.gov

For grants management or budget questions:
Donald Gooding
301.443.2298
Donald.Gooding@ihs.gov

For systems questions:
Paul Gettys
301.443.2114
Paul.Gettys@ihs.gov

Purpose

The Indian Health Service will provide funding for tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations to reduce the prevalence of suicide among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations.

Required activities include:

  • Foster coalitions and networks to improve care coordination
    • Educate and train providers on model practices for suicide screening
    • Educate and train community members to recognize and respond to the warning signs of suicide and prevent and intervene in suicides and suicide ideations
    • Increase community awareness of local behavioral health services
    • Develop community response teams
    • Develop community suicide response plans
    • Establish local health system policies and protocols to integrate suicide prevention and intervention services in schools, courts, corrections/detention systems, and law enforcement agencies
  • Expand available behavioral healthcare treatment services
    • Develop a strategic plan to address the health system organizational needs for suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention services including the use, or expansion, of telehealth and similar technologies
    • Integrate behavioral health into the primary care setting for suicide care and screening to include the use or expansion of telehealth and similar technologies
    • Provide evidence-based suicide care for clients at risk for suicide
    • Provide access to culturally appropriate treatment services and resources
    • Implement a trauma-informed approach and trauma-informed care treatment and services
  • Improve the referral process
    • Increase the capacity of community members and service providers to make appropriate referrals to behavioral health services and support systems related to suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention
    • Refer to cultural services and/or culturally appropriate suicide prevention, intervention, or postvention services, including natural support systems
  • Expand on activities for the Gen-I Initiative by implementing culturally appropriate evidence-based and practice-based approaches to build resiliency, resistance, hardiness, empathy, promote positive development, and increase self-sufficiency behaviors among native youth
    • Implement evidence-based and practice-based interventions in suicide prevention for native youth in the community
    • Provide support services to native youth and their families impacted by suicide
    • Promote positive development and increase self-sufficiency of native youth by providing culturally appropriate suicide prevention activities through use of traditional practices
    • Promote family and community engagement in the planning and implementation of native youth suicide prevention activities
    • Provide school-based awareness/education about suicide prevention, intervention, postvention, and aftercare
    • Support the development of native youth peer-to-peer support and education programs
    • Promote/support the development of a Tribal Youth Council to provide guidance/feedback on community suicide prevention planning and strategic planning
  • Develop a formal plan/process to ensure the sustainability of the project activities beyond the grant life-cycle
    • Develop a strategic plan to address long-term suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention needs of the community
    • Assess community and workforce needs and assets via a community and organization needs assessment and community resource asset mapping
Eligibility

Eligible applicants include:

  • Federally recognized tribes
  • Tribal organizations
  • Urban Indian organizations
Geographic coverage
Nationwide
Amount of funding

Anticipated award range: $300,000 - $400,000 per year
Project period: 5 years
Estimated number of awards: 35
Estimated total program funding: $14,000,000

Application process

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

Tagged as
American Indian or Alaska Native · Behavioral health · Care coordination · Children and youth · Culture and cultural competency · Families · Health workforce education and training · Men · Networking and collaboration · Planning and strategy methods and resources · Policy · Suicide and suicide prevention · Sustainability of programs · Trauma-informed care · Women

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