Wednesday, February 5, 2025
2/5/2025
The Children's Cabinet, in close coordination with multiple key community partners, proposes to implement the Youth Mental Health First Aid Continuation Project that combines youth mental health awareness training and community collaboration. The project includes education, training and information about supportive services for families to adults who interact with young people and therefore have opportunities to increase youth suicide prevention and improve youth mental health responsivity. The population of focus to be trained includes adults living in Nevada in Washoe County, Clark County, and surrounding Rural Counties who have meaningful contact with youth in a variety of settings. The population of focus who will be positively impacted by the individuals who are trained include youth under 18 years old who live in the same counties listed above. Nevada has consistently ranked among last in the nation on multiple, key youth mental health indicators. According to the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, suicide is the among the leading causes of death for youth ages 10-24 and remains a pressing health concern primarily due to a shortage of providers. In-person training will occur in the geographic catchment area of Washoe County, Nevada. Virtual training will be provided to the geographic catchment areas of Clark County and all rural counties, including Carson, Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing, Storey, and White Pine. An estimated 3,177,772 people liv,000in Nevada in 2022 including nearly 704,000 youth under the age of 18. 72.8% of the population identifies as White, 29.9% identify as Hispanic/Latino, 9.1% identify as Asian, 4.9% identify as 2 or more races, and 10.6% identify as Black. 16.9% of Nevada's children live at or below the federal poverty level. 21.5% of the population speak Spanish, with an additional 12.3% of Spanish speakers considered less than proficient in English. An estimated 7.8% of residents are undocumented immigrants. Thirty-three Indian Reservations and Colonies stretch across Nevada with four federally recognized tribes including Washoe, Northern Paiute, Southern Paiute, and Western Shoshone. Project goals include: 1: Increase the number of individual adults including parents, caregivers, educators, health care workers, and other adults across the state that receive training on evidence-based youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention. Fifteen trainings will be conducted per year, for a total of 45 trainings during the life of the project. Three hundred individuals will receive the training each year, for a total of 900 trainees over the three years. 2: Increase the number of child-serving agencies across the state that promote evidence-based youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention. Each year of the project, 5 additional child-serving agencies will disseminate information to their staff and the families they serve that includes information about attending Youth Mental Health First Aid training and about local resources for youth mental health access.
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