H79TI087132
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
North Dakota FM Ambulance Rural EMS Program - Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers across the US continue to face multiple challenges as they strive to 'answer the call' in 911 medical emergencies.
The overall purpose of the SAMHSA FY 2024 Rural EMS Training Program as proposed is to recruit, train and maintain EMS personnel across the rural and frontier project area that will competently and compassionately serve rural populations.
These providers will be cognizant and proactive in their ability to address patients with substance abuse disorders, particularly as they co-occur with behavioral health and/or mental health conditions and prior trauma and will be knowledgeable of relevant recovery care options.
As a recipient of consecutive SAMHSA Rural Emergency Medical Services training grants, Sanford Health’s EMS Education (SHEMSE) Training Center has been working diligently to address these challenges across the existing project’s eleven rural and/or frontier partners in the northern Midwest.
We will use this experience to add a remote, rural area in Idaho to enhance their EMS responses, availability to technology, and mental health/substance abuse training.
In addition, a proposed partnership with the White Earth Reservation and its ambulance service is proposed.
This collaboration will enable training which will include Suboxone treatment in EMS/CP interactions, post-traumatic growth, and harm reduction service delivery for the services that respond to the residents of the reservation and its neighboring communities.
Over the 2-year project timeframe, Sanford Health EMS Education (SHEMSE) and its partners will meet these challenges in part through the training and certification of 40 unduplicated EMTs, 4 paramedics, and up to 4 community paramedics (CP).
This will incorporate targeted training on substance use disorders, co-existing SUD and behavioral challenges, and include an awareness of trauma-informed, recovery-based care for people with such disorders in emergency situations.
Ongoing training will also target existing EMS providers, to enable them to maintain licenses and certifications relevant to serve in their respective EMS agencies.
This ongoing certification training will be augmented with focused coverage of mental and substance use disorders, together with options for trauma-informed recovery-based treatment options.
The FY 2024-2026 EMS training project will implement a structured, iterative monitoring and data collection process to drive ongoing project management and to strengthen short- and long-term outcomes.
The project director and project guidance team will oversee an adaptive management approach that utilizes required data collection and reporting.
The overall purpose of the SAMHSA FY 2024 Rural EMS Training Program as proposed is to recruit, train and maintain EMS personnel across the rural and frontier project area that will competently and compassionately serve rural populations.
These providers will be cognizant and proactive in their ability to address patients with substance abuse disorders, particularly as they co-occur with behavioral health and/or mental health conditions and prior trauma and will be knowledgeable of relevant recovery care options.
As a recipient of consecutive SAMHSA Rural Emergency Medical Services training grants, Sanford Health’s EMS Education (SHEMSE) Training Center has been working diligently to address these challenges across the existing project’s eleven rural and/or frontier partners in the northern Midwest.
We will use this experience to add a remote, rural area in Idaho to enhance their EMS responses, availability to technology, and mental health/substance abuse training.
In addition, a proposed partnership with the White Earth Reservation and its ambulance service is proposed.
This collaboration will enable training which will include Suboxone treatment in EMS/CP interactions, post-traumatic growth, and harm reduction service delivery for the services that respond to the residents of the reservation and its neighboring communities.
Over the 2-year project timeframe, Sanford Health EMS Education (SHEMSE) and its partners will meet these challenges in part through the training and certification of 40 unduplicated EMTs, 4 paramedics, and up to 4 community paramedics (CP).
This will incorporate targeted training on substance use disorders, co-existing SUD and behavioral challenges, and include an awareness of trauma-informed, recovery-based care for people with such disorders in emergency situations.
Ongoing training will also target existing EMS providers, to enable them to maintain licenses and certifications relevant to serve in their respective EMS agencies.
This ongoing certification training will be augmented with focused coverage of mental and substance use disorders, together with options for trauma-informed recovery-based treatment options.
The FY 2024-2026 EMS training project will implement a structured, iterative monitoring and data collection process to drive ongoing project management and to strengthen short- and long-term outcomes.
The project director and project guidance team will oversee an adaptive management approach that utilizes required data collection and reporting.
Awardee
Funding Goals
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
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
North Dakota
United States
Geographic Scope
State-Wide
Related Opportunity
F-M Ambulance Service was awarded
Project Grant H79TI087132
worth $200,000
from the Division of Grants Management in September 2024 with work to be completed primarily in North Dakota United States.
The grant
has a duration of 2 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 Rural Emergency Medical Services Training.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 5/20/25
Period of Performance
9/30/24
Start Date
9/29/26
End Date
Funding Split
$200.0K
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$200.0K
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to H79TI087132
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
H79TI087132
SAI Number
H79TI087132-27162341
Award ID URI
SAI UNAVAILABLE
Awardee Classifications
Nonprofit With 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other Than An Institution Of Higher Education)
Awarding Office
75SAMH SAMHSA Division of Grants Management
Funding Office
75MA00 SAMHSA OFFICE OF THE ASSITANT SECRETARY FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Awardee UEI
K8SZJ1V12AG2
Awardee CAGE
1YFJ1
Performance District
ND-00
Senators
John Hoeven
Kevin Cramer
Kevin Cramer
Modified: 5/20/25