H79SM087532

Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma - Project Summary:

Solano County Office of Education will advance healing and improve social determinants of health among youth and families in communities that have experienced civil unrest, community violence, disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other significant collective trauma over the past 24 months. SCOE will engage the community to plan and deploy culturally concordant, trauma-informed prevention, intervention, and post-vention strategies that build school and community capacity, expand service access, and promote healing and healthy development.

Population Served:

Students of Solano County public schools and their families, with a particular focus on those disproportionately impacted by the collective traumas of the past two years including Black, Latino/a, LGBTQ students and families, all of whom are more likely to experience mental health symptoms and crises. Prevention activities will be targeted to the whole community.

Strategies and Interventions:

Intervention strategies are designed to address the impacts on students of:

1) Acute and chronic community gun violence;
2) Social and civil unrest in response to police violence;
3) Disproportionate impacts of COVID-19; and
4) Increases in self-harm, injury, and death by suicide.

SCOE will serve a total of 4,200 unduplicated individuals over the duration of the project.

The goals of the project are:

Goal 1: Decrease incidents of community violence and the impact of collective trauma by cultivating 15 collaborative partnerships amongst community providers to assess, plan, and implement evidence-based and community-driven strategies.

Goal 2: Increase the knowledge and capacity of schools and other youth-serving entities to employ trauma, grief, and attachment-informed approaches to at least 800 youth and families impacted by collective trauma, and training at least 75% of staff on grief, trauma, and attachment-informed therapeutic techniques in an effort to reduce conflicts that rise to the level of community violence by employing restorative practices as a preventive measure.

Goal 3: Increase the knowledge and development of mental health interns at both the graduate and paraprofessional level in trauma, grief counseling, and case management strategies to inform competent and culturally relevant services to those impacted by community violence and collective trauma, and to serve annually at least 40 students individually and 500 students through wellness centers.

Goal 4: Increase the knowledge and capacity of schools and youth-serving entities to develop and implement established protocols to guide post-vention responses after traumatic events that ultimately support the healing of those most impacted, and provide immediate debrief, with the aim that 80% of participants in technical assistance training will report an increase in knowledge.

Solano County Superintendent Of Schools

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]

Fairfield, California 945331655 United States

Single Zip Code

Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma (SM-22-019)

Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been shortened from 12/30/26 to 09/29/26 and the total obligations have increased 100% from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000.