H79SM089891

Campus Wellness Initiative - College of Western Idaho (CWI), a two-year, comprehensive, non-residential, open-access community college with locations in Nampa and Boise, Idaho, in collaboration with internal and external partners, proposes the Campus Wellness Initiative project.

With SAMHSA funding, CWI will markedly increase its capacity to implement, sustain, and improve mental health services and substance use prevention and treatment services.

During the 2022-2023 academic year, CWI enrolled 6,195 college credit-seeking commuter students of whom 68% are white, 21% are Hispanic, 2% are African American or Black, 42% are male, 55% are female, and 3% are transgendered or other gendered.

Among CWI's degree-seeking students, 37% receive Pell Grants and approximately 45% are first generation.

CWI also serves 267 veterans.

First-generation college students (45% of CWI students) do not access mental health treatment at the same rate as their non-first-generation peers.

Low-income students traditionally have more barriers for accessing services, and financial stress is a significant predictor of screening positive for one or more mental health conditions.

For these reasons, the populations of focus will be low-income, first-generation students and select groups (in compliance with state laws) at high risk for suicide and substance abuse, such as veterans.

Project goals include:

(1) Establish the infrastructure to leverage existing resources, inform best practices, and share data with key stakeholders that improve well-being, increase behavioral health and emergency services, and mitigate suicide risk and substance use disorders for CWI students;

(2) Increase help-seeking behavior for CWI students, especially for student populations underrepresented in counseling services and those at high risk of suicide;

and (3) Promote universal and selective social connectedness at CWI.

Project objectives include:

1.1. Create the CWI Care Council (C3) composed of key community stakeholders by Spring 2025.

1.2. Develop supportive policies addressing students who need a medical leave of absence due to the presence of serious emotional disturbance, serious mental illness, or co-occurring disorder by Fall 2025.

1.3. Continue to promote the 24/7 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline hotline.

1.4. Continue the planned Healthy Minds and NCHA surveys, respectively, in each project year.

NCHA will conduct surveys in 2024 and 2026 and Healthy Minds will be in 2025.

1.5. All CWI counseling staff will take the "Counseling on Access to Lethal Means" (CALM) course by the end of Year 1.

2.1. Engage 100% of student clubs in outreach activities by the end of Year 1.

This includes:

(1) Including information about substance abuse in mandatory club advisor training;

and (2) Engaging with the Associated Students of CWI on a regular basis to identify additional areas of support/areas of opportunity from a student perspective, in relation to substance abuse and mental health.

2.2. Conduct one mental health screening event each semester on campus, including community partners.

2.3. A minimum of one student club leader from each student club and faculty/staff liaisons will participate in a peer-to-peer intervention by Spring 2026.

2.4. Integrate information about substance abuse, suicide prevention, and mental health into the planned curriculum for mandatory student Title IX training by Fall 2024.

2.5. Continue to offer and promote therapy assistance online.

2.6. All education and outreach training materials will contain information about reducing access to lethal means training by Fall 2025.

3.1. Conduct two focus groups annually to understand students’ needs to inform life skills programming by Spring 2026.

3.2. Conduct two focus groups annually to understand students’ needs to inform peer support programming by Spring 2026.

3.3. Identify, adapt, and conduct outreach to students’ families by Spring 2026.

College Of Western Idaho

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]

Idaho United States

State-Wide

GLS Campus Suicide Prevention Grant Program (SM-24-004)