COVID-19 Emergency Response for Suicide Prevention Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Amount: $800,000 max
Description:
The purpose of this program is to support states and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in advancing efforts to prevent suicide and suicide attempts among adults age 25 and older in order to reduce the overall suicide rate and number of suicides in the United States. Funding provided through this program must be used to primarily support direct services. Projects must include the following activities:
  1. Projects must develop and implement a plan for rapid follow-up of adults who have attempted suicide or experienced a suicidal crisis after discharge from emergency departments and inpatient psychiatric facilities, including directly linking up with selected emergency departments and inpatient psychiatric facilities to ensure care transition and care coordination services.
  2. Projects must establish follow-up and care transition protocols to help ensure patient safety, especially among high-risk adults in health or behavioral health care settings who have attempted suicide or experienced a suicidal crisis, including those with serious mental illnesses and/or substance use disorders.
  3. Projects must provide, or assure provision of, suicide prevention training to community and clinical service providers and systems serving adults at risk, including clinical training regarding assessment of suicide risk and protective factors; use of best practice interventions to ensure safety, including lethal means safety; treatment of suicide risk; and follow-up to ensure continuity of care. Applicants must measure changes in providers’ competence/confidence in each of the clinical training areas.
  4. Projects must work across state and/or community departments and systems in order to implement comprehensive suicide prevention. Relevant state agencies should include agencies responsible for Medicaid; health, mental health, and substance abuse; children, youth, and families; justice; corrections; labor; housing, veterans affairs; and the National Guard.
Eligible Applicants:
Local Government
Consortia
Native American Tribe
Non Profits
Private Sector
State Government
Tribal Organizations/Institutions