Thursday, April 25, 2024
4/25/2024
Preventing Suicide in Michigan Men (PRiSMM) is a comprehensive multi-component collaboration designed to reduce the state’s suicide morbidity and mortality rates by 10% over five years. With a specific focus on adult men, who represent 67% of the over 1500 suicide deaths annually in Michigan, PRiSMM will be led by the state’s Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), Injury and Violence Prevention Section, with strong collaboration from the University of Michigan’s Injury Research Center; the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Man Therapy Michigan team; Central Michigan University’s School of Medicine’s Interdisciplinary Center for Community Health & Wellness; Henry Ford Health System; Michigan Department of Corrections; Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs; and others. PRiSMM will develop, implement, and rigorously evaluate a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention, with a focus on reducing suicidal behaviors and suicide deaths among men ages 25 years and older. The program will also conduct a careful analysis of Michigan’s current prevention capacity and identify the gaps in our state’s suicide prevention safety net in order to move sustainable and effective efforts forward beyond the life of this funding opportunity. Project Goals include: A. Establishment of data-driven decision-making processes that identify vulnerable subpopulations of adult men and characterize relevant risk and protective factors for those groups in our state. B. Development of a strategic action plan targeting adult men in Michigan that capitalizes on existing prevention capacity and utilizes guidance from the CDC’s technical package of suicide prevention policies, programs, and practices. This action plan will contain: 1. Community Level Interventions, including safe and effective community messaging regarding high risk populations, strategically targeted gatekeeper training, and community-based implementation of firearm safe storage and lethal means counseling interventions. 2. Health Care System Interventions, including increases in the promotion of and access to high quality telehealth mental health care in Michigan as well as the development of a Suicide Prevention Quality Imporvement Collaborative, led by Henry Ford Health System’s Zero Suicide leaders, focused on continuity of care. 3. Upstream Interventions, including Man Therapy Michigan, a public health campaign and online intervention designed to promote mens’ mental health and wellbeing, with a focus on suicide prevention, among working-aged men living in Michigan. C. Rigorous evaluation of each aspect of the model as well as overall impact of prevention strategies on state suicide morbidity and mortality and continuous quality improvement based on data review D. Communication of findings to key stakeholders.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
