H79SM087491

ESU 2 All Children Celebrated, Educated, Safe, and Secure (ACCESS) Project Aware 2022 - Educational Service Unit 2 (ESU2) is located in Fremont, NE and serves 16 school districts in Burt, Cuming, Dodge, Saunders, and parts of Lancaster Counties.

ESU 2 will partner with our 16 districts, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Nebraska Department of Education, our regional behavioral health systems, local mental health service delivery agencies, and local universities to build capacity and sustainability for comprehensive school mental health services through evidence-based practices.

Through this project, over 12,000 students, their families, and 958 teachers will be impacted by the development of ESU 2 ACCESS Project Aware. Mental health is health. This is the rallying cry for members of the ESU 2 ACCESS team. Charged with supporting the ever-increasing requests for mental health and behavioral supports from schools, ESU 2 assembled Team ACCESS. ACCESS stands for All Children Celebrated, Educated, Safe, and Secure.

The project goals include:

1) Prevent development of mental health and behavioral disorders among students at each district by providing a positive, supportive, and trauma-informed learning environment.

2) Increase development of student skills fostering resilience and pro-social behaviors at each district through strength-based approaches and/or social-emotional learning (SEL).

3) Increase the school-based mental health services available to students at each district site.

4) Increase each district's capacity to identify and immediately respond to the mental health needs of students exhibiting behavioral or psychological signs requiring clinical intervention.

5) Establish school-based, culturally relevant, and evidence-based suicide awareness, prevention, and postvention for secondary schools.

Through the implementation of evidence-based, trauma-informed practices in mental health screening, assessment, interventions, and treatment, up to 13,000 students will be served through the project each year.

Educational Service Unit

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]

Nebraska United States

State-Wide

Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) (SM-22-018)

Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been shortened from 12/30/26 to 09/29/26 and the total obligations have increased 50% from $3,600,000 to $5,400,000.