H79SM088309

Two Feathers Aware - Two Feathers Project Aware will promote the healthy social and emotional development of school-aged AI youth and prevent youth violence in school settings through collaborative partnerships with schools, tribal education, and behavioral health program using a tiered behavioral health related promotion, awareness, prevention, and intervention activities in Humboldt County, California.

Two Feathers Project Aware will develop sustainable infrastructure for school-based mental programs and services collaboratively with Two Feathers-Native American Family Services' tribal behavioral health program, Hoopa Tribal Education, three local education agencies -- Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified, McKinleyville Union, and Loleta Union Elementary School Districts -- along with school personnel, community, families, and school-aged youth.

The goals of this grant are to:
1. Increase awareness of mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders among school-aged youth.
2. Increase the mental health literacy of individuals who interact with school-aged youth to understand and detect the signs and symptoms of mental illness, substance use/misuse, and co-occurring disorders.
3. Promote and foster resilience building and mental health well-being for all school-aged youth.
4. Provide positive behavioral health supports; targeted services to those who need more support; and intensive services to those who need them.
5. Connect school-aged youth who may have behavioral health issues, including serious emotional disturbance or serious mental illness, and their families to needed services.
6. Increase and improve access to culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate, and trauma-informed school and community-based Aware activities and services.

Two Feathers will use a public health tiered service model that includes the following strategies and components: needs assessment, workforce development and training planning, sustainability planning, public health tier 1-3 intervention. Intervention will include Project Venture, Mental Health First Aid, Question-Persuade-Refer, Youth Ambassadors and Work Pods, screening and brief intervention, referral, treatment, PHQ9, CRAFFT, crisis intervention, safety planning, care coordination, and direct provision of behavioral treatment services.

The impact of this program will be measured by the:
1. Number of individuals who have received training in prevention or mental health promotion.
2. Number of organizations that entered into formal written MOUs and MOAs to improve mental-health related practices.
3. Number of individuals screened for mental health or related interventions, services, or referral.
4. Improvements in mental health-related knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs.
5. Trainings conducted and delivery method.
6. Number of students trained by demographics.
7. Number of help-seeking reports made by students after implementation of the policy.

TWO Feathers Native American Family 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]

Mckinleyville, California 955194406 United States

Single Zip Code

Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) Program (SM-23-001)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 300% from $1,800,000 to $7,200,000.