Friday, March 14, 2025
3/14/2025
Project Summary: Shawnee Mental Health Center, Inc. will enhance and build upon the current Zero Suicide components that have been implemented in our behavioral health program and expand our implementation activities to all other programs within our integrated community mental health center and FQHC-Look Alike for adults 25- years old and older in three Appalachian Ohio counties (Adams, Lawrence, and Scioto). Target Population: Adults 25-years-old and older receiving services at Shawnee Mental Health Center, Inc. regardless of presenting condition or diagnosis. This includes people with acute and chronic physical health conditions, acute and serious mental illnesses, substance use disorders, veterans and those with co-occurring diagnoses. Strategies/Interventions: We will strengthen our current Zero Suicide protocols so that they align with best practices and implement the components of the Zero Suicide model that are absent from our current practices. This will include leadership recommittment to a culture that focuses on reducing suicides; involving survivors of suicide attempts and suicide loss in our activities; training all members of our workforce; assessing level of competence and confidence of the workforce; screening all clients served; conducting suicide risk assessments; implementing structured transition protocols; introducing brief intervention and follow-up practices; using evidence based treatments and fostering a data-driven, quality improvement approach. Project Goals and Objectives: The overall project goal is to raise awareness, establish referral processes, and improve care and outcomes for people 25 years of age and older by fully implementing the Zero Suicide Model. This will be accomplished by enhancing the current infrastructure and processes, implementing an electronic system to collect and track data points to inform system changes, enhance workforce confidence and competencies to provide suicide care through training, and delivering evidence based treatments that target suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Consumers Served: We intend to serve a minimum of 3,000 clients during the life of the grant: Six hundred for each of the five years of the project.
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