Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
Project Title: Improving Mental Health Awareness and Response in the Great Lakes Region The Great Lakes Region of the United States is a rural and highly underserved area facing considerable behavioral health workforce challenges. Clover Educational Consulting Group (Clover) proposes to bring evidence-based mental health training to Veterans Affairs (VA) providers and staff, veterans, family members and caregivers of veterans, college faculty and staff, college student peer leaders, community mental health staff, and community first-responders in the region. The specific trainings offered will be Mental Health First Aid and Suicide Prevention for College Students. The trainings will focus on serving the populations of veterans, college students, and rural behavioral health service recipients in the Great Lakes Region of the U.S. The three identified populations of focus were chosen due to their high risk of mental health symptomatology and suicide and represent specific areas of significant unmet mental healthcare need. Clover has developed collaborative partnerships with 5 local agencies in the Region who have committed to hosting trainings, assisting with the response to mental health issues, and to improving the coordination of services to the populations of focus. These organizations include the Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital, Lake Superior College, Solutions Behavioral Healthcare Professionals, Lake Superior Community Health Center, and the Human Development Center. Each organization has attested, via a Letter of Commitment, to their support for the project and has described in the LOC how they will facilitate the recruitment of a sufficient number of individuals to be trained. The partner sites included in the current application are all located within designated HPSA’s. The identified populations of focus in the current application represent specific areas of significant unmet need. The three broad goals of the project are as follows: Goal 1- Improve the capacity of local providers, community members, and first responders to identify and respond to signs and symptoms of MH issues in veterans in the Region; Goal 2- Improve the capacity of college faculty, staff, and student peer leaders to identify and respond to signs and symptoms of MH issues in college students in the Region; and Goal 3- Improve the capacity of local providers, community members, and first responders to identify and respond to signs and symptoms of MH issues in rural behavioral health service recipient in the Region. If funded, the proposed project will provide training for 1,180 individuals over the three-year grant term. In Year 1, 280 individuals will be trained, 450 in Year 2, and 450 in Year 3.
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