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988 State of Ohio Improvement Project - Ohio's 988 Improvement Project will be guided by two goals that align with Ohio's 988 needs and support and enhance Ohio's 988 workforce, while unifying 988 resources across Ohio and improving in-state answer rates. These goals will be accomplished through a Community of Practice (COP) with Ohio's 988 providers, the 988 Connect Planning Committee, stakeholders, and the 988 Administrator.

Goal 1: Expand Ohio's 988 workforce through recruiting, hiring, and training at the provider level.
Objective 1A: To utilize funding from this cooperative agreement to maintain and expand the workforce to answer at least 90 percent of total calls, chats, and texts to 988 by Ohioans.
Objective 1B: To convene a COP among Ohio's 19 988 providers to facilitate collaboration, coordination, sharing, and utilization of workforce development resources.

Goal 2: Engage 988 crisis centers to unify 988 responses across the state and improve response rates to meet minimum key performance indicators.
Objective 2A: To create referral and follow-up procedures that are unified across all Ohio 988 providers.
Objective 2B: To expand capacity for agencies to collect, analyze, and understand key performance indicator (KPI) data and use KPI to make real-time operational decisions to improve answer rates and follow-up.
Objective 2C: To utilize formal written/intra- and inter-organizational agreements such as MOUs and MOAs to improve 988 system performance and to ensure use of best practice referral and follow-up practices.
Objective 2D: To monitor implementation of the state's primary and backup coverage map, along with the performance of the statewide backup provider.

Ohio's 988 COP also will allow each of Ohio's 988 providers to share workforce development strategies and will build capacity to collect and report monthly data on contacts that were screened for suicide ideation, referred to mental health services, linked to mental health or related services, result in an emergency rescue, suicide attempts in progress, substance use crisis, mobile crisis outreach referrals, and individuals who died by suicide.

While in FY2022, 63,613 Lifeline calls were attributed to Ohio, according to Vibrant, the total demand for Ohio's 988 services since launch was 110,749 calls/chats/texts. Based on the trend that Ohio's total calls have increased over the last nine months, and by increasing coverage and capacity to answer calls by Ohio providers, Ohio hopes to consistently meet at a minimum 90 percent Ohio call demand during all three years of the grant. Additionally, Ohio will be expanding its capacity to provide chat and text services for Ohioans and hopes to answer more than 50 percent of state demand for grant year one and 90 percent for year two and three.

Age, gender, and race all are related to suicide in Ohio, with 44 percent of Ohioans who died by suicide in 2019 being 50 or older, 80 percent being male, and 86 percent being white. 2021 data from Ohio's Careline shows that 34.5 percent of callers are seeking information, 21.4 percent present with a mental health issue, 22.1 percent with stress and anxiety, 9.8 percent feel lonely or isolated, and 3.7 percent report substance use issues. A greater percentage of females (53.5 percent) contacted the Ohio Careline compared to males (30.3 percent). A large percentage of callers declined to provide their age (50.3 percent) and race (63.3 percent).

Ohio Department Of Mental Health And Addiction Services

SAMHSA WAS GIVEN THE AUTHORITY TO ADDRESS PRIORITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, PREVENTION AND MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE THROUGH ASSISTANCE (GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS) TO STATES, POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF STATES, INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND OTHER PUBLIC OR NONPROFIT PRIVATE ENTITIES. UNDER THESE SECTIONS, CSAT, CMHS AND CSAP SEEK TO EXPAND THE AVAILABILITY OF EFFECTIVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AND RECOVERY SERVICES AVAILABLE TO AMERICANS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF THOSE AFFECTED BY ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDITIONS, AND TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE ON INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETIES AND TO ADDRESS PRIORITY MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE AND ASSIST CHILDREN IN DEALING WITH VIOLENCE AND TRAUMATIC EVENTS THROUGH BY FUNDING GRANT AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT PROJECTS. GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS MAY BE FOR (1) KNOWLEDGE AND DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION PROJECTS FOR TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION AND THE CONDUCT OR SUPPORT OF EVALUATIONS OF SUCH PROJECTS, (2) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, (3) TARGETED CAPACITY RESPONSE PROGRAMS (4) SYSTEMS CHANGE GRANTS INCLUDING STATEWIDE FAMILY NETWORK GRANTS AND CLIENT-ORIENTED AND CONSUMER RUN SELF-HELP ACTIVITIES AND (5) PROGRAMS TO FOSTER HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN, (6) COORDINATION AND INTEGRATION OF PRIMARY CARE SERVICES INTO PUBLICLY-FUNDED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS AND OTHER COMMUNITY-BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SETTINGS

93.243 - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Columbus, Ohio 43215 United States

Single Zip Code

Cooperative Agreements for States and Territories to Improve Local 988 Capacity (FG-23-006)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 199% from $5,428,951 to $16,214,442.