Monday, April 28, 2025
4/28/2025
Suicide Prevention Lifeline Crisis Center Follow-Up Expansion Grants - Contact Community Services, Inc., a 501(c)(3) in East Syracuse, NY is proposing the Crisis Center Follow-up Expansion Integrated with Liberty Resources, Inc. and St Joseph’s Hospital Health Center Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program. This program will implement the Air Traffic Control Model (ATCM) to promote continuity of care and safeguard the well-being of individuals at risk of suicide in the Syracuse Metro Area. Implementing this model will: • Ensure systematic follow-up with suicidal persons who contact a National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) Crisis Center • Provide enhanced coordination of crisis stabilization, crisis respite, and hospital emergency department service • Enhance coordination with mobile onsite crisis response This project will support SAMHSA’s Strategic Plan Priority 2: Addressing Serious Mental Illness and Serious Emotional Disturbances, and specifically Core Principal 2: Increasing access to the full continuum of services for mental and substance use disorders. Data shows that close to half of initial mental health appointments made at time of discharge from a hospital stay related to suicide are not kept. Employing the ATCM, as required, provides individuals in the behavioral health system a standard of care that ensures that individual will not “fall through the cracks,” that providers will know where the individual in crisis is and verify that a warm hand-off has occurred. We will adhere to the Lifeline best practices including suicide risk assessment standards and policies and guidelines for helping callers at imminent risk of suicide and will implement the ATCM and serve as a hub for services for persons in suicidal crisis. The project meets these objectives: • Promote continuity of care and the safety and well-being of patients treated for suicide risk in an emergency department or inpatient unit • Coordinate services among suicide prevention/intervention programs, crisis centers and health care systems • Develop collaborations to provide alternatives to emergency department care and hospitalization when appropriate and promote rapid follow up after discharge Contact Community Services, Inc. anticipates contacting 1500 people in year one, 1750 in year 2, and 2000 in year 3. Anticipated outcomes include reduced psychiatric hospitalization, improved attendance to support or mental health services, reduced barriers to accessing services, and reduced suicide attempts and completions.
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