Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
PROJECT CARE - Edward Waters College, a small historical black liberal arts college, seeks partial funding to create a Campus Wide Suicide Prevention Program. Specifically, the college will develop an infrastructure within its existing Counseling Center to create a network of key gatekeepers, student leaders and community behavioral health partners who will design and implement a strategic plan that will reduce or eliminate risk factors that predispose students to suicidal ideation and prevent suicidal attempts and other behavioral health problems. This network will be known as Project Care. Project Care's major objectives include: a) providing QPR training to college administrators, faculty, staff and student leaders; b) facilitating educational seminars and cultural diversity workshops on the myths and stigma associated with suicide and depression, c) promoting help-seeking behaviors within the student body by replacing the negative attitudes of the behavioral health systems held by many African-Americans, d) distributing informational literature on suicide and depression; e) strengthening the relationships of off campus community behavioral health providers, f) providing educational information to parents on campus, over the Internet, and through mail, and establishing a Campus Wide Suicide Help Line. Project Care has selected this "best practice" as the cornerstone of its training/educational seminars and workshops. The QPR approach to training is compatible with Project Care's philosophy of serving the campus where at-risk students reside as opposed to identifying individual students in need. Project Care will serve an average of 825 students, their parents and 200 faculty and staff over the life of the project. Programming will improve the quality and intensity of services for the target populations through implementation of evidence-based suicide prevention approaches, modified to address the unique needs of a predominantly African-American student body.
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