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H79SM088309

Project Grant

Overview

Grant Description
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.
Funding Goals
NOT APPLICABLE
Place of Performance
Mckinleyville, California 955194406 United States
Geographic Scope
Single Zip Code
Analysis Notes
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 100% from $1,800,000 to $3,600,000.
TWO Feathers Native American Family Services was awarded Native American Youth Mental Health Promotion in Humboldt County Project Grant H79SM088309 worth $3,600,000 from the Division of Grants Management in September 2023 with work to be completed primarily in Mckinleyville California United States. The grant has a duration of 5 years and was awarded through assistance program 93.243 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance. The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) Program.

Status
(Ongoing)

Last Modified 9/5/24

Period of Performance
9/30/23
Start Date
9/29/28
End Date
38.0% Complete

Funding Split
$3.6M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$3.6M
Total Obligated
100.0% Federal Funding
0.0% Non-Federal Funding

Activity Timeline

Interactive chart of timeline of amendments to H79SM088309

Transaction History

Modifications to H79SM088309

Additional Detail

Award ID FAIN
H79SM088309
SAI Number
H79SM088309-1779482303
Award ID URI
SAI UNAVAILABLE
Awardee Classifications
Indian/Native American Tribal Designated Organization
Awarding Office
75SAMH SAMHSA DIVISION OF GRANTS MANAGEMENT
Funding Office
75MS00 SAMHSA CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Awardee UEI
KKFNJ2NZEW43
Awardee CAGE
491T7
Performance District
CA-02
Senators
Dianne Feinstein
Alejandro Padilla

Budget Funding

Federal Account Budget Subfunction Object Class Total Percentage
Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Health and Human Services (075-1363) Health care services Grants, subsidies, and contributions (41.0) $1,800,000 100%
Modified: 9/5/24