H79SM082149

Readiness to Stand United Against Youth Suicide: A New Jersey Public Health Community Initiative (New Jersey R2S Challenge)

New Jersey's R2S Challenge is a comprehensive, statewide collaborative that promotes a growth mindset during times of high-risk transitions to prevent attempts and death by suicide among 10-24-year-old youth. The R2S Challenge aims to build social connections for youth using public-private partnerships, distribute grants to school districts, community colleges, and hospitals to enrich resiliency, enhance identification and referral of youth at risk for suicide among youth-serving systems, improve clinical expertise of service providers, and facilitate successful growth after crisis or loss.

Over the course of five years, New Jersey will reach nearly 25,000 individuals with suicide prevention training/education, including 2,500 clinicians and up to 66 colleges. Additionally, up to 8 school districts will receive suicide prevention, intervention, and post-suicide intervention consultation/training with technology enhancements. Approximately 3,600 youth at risk for suicide and their families will receive follow-up care coordination and intervention.

The project goals of the New Jersey R2S Challenge are as follows:

1) Improve readiness to thrive by increasing resiliency and protective factors.
2) Improve readiness to support by increasing the number of youth-serving organizations able to identify and work with youth at risk of suicide.
3) Improve readiness to care by increasing the capacity of clinical service providers to assess, manage, and treat youth at risk for suicide.
4) Improve readiness to embrace by increasing continuity of care and follow-up of youth at risk for suicide or those exposed to death by suicide.

To achieve these goals, the initiative has set the following objectives:

1A) Implement the Lifelines curriculum with fidelity.
1B) Implement a digital suicide prevention screening program.
2A) Create an R2S Challenge e-learning and resource sharing portal open to the public.
2B) Create a youth-driven social media/public awareness campaign.
2C) Increase the ability of the public and private system of care and families to identify, respond, and refer youth at risk for suicide.
2D) Implement screening at youth-serving organizations, including primary care.
2E) Improve parents/guardians' ability to access care for youth at risk for suicide.
2F) By 12/31/20, launch an e-learning automated system to track training completion, send reminders, and capture data on the number of providers trained.
3A) Increase clinical and medical facilities staff's ability and utilization of suicide risk assessment.
3B) Increase knowledge and utilization of safety planning intervention.
3C) Increase knowledge and utilization of cognitive-behavioral therapy for suicide prevention.
4) Create a care coordination system to provide follow-up after discharge from ED and behavioral health facilities and connect to care.
4B) Increase timely referrals for appropriate community-based mental health care and treatment following identification via schools, screening, hospital, or ED visit.
4C) Provide parents/caregivers resources/support on navigating mental health services.
4D) Enhance resources for families to identify outpatient and inpatient services.
4E) Provide post-suicide intervention services, care, and information to families, schools, and other youth-serving systems.

New Jersey Department Of Health

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]

New Jersey United States

State-Wide

Garrett Lee Smith State/Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Grant Program (SM-19-006)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 400% from $736,000 to $3,680,000.