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This is a reminder that the application deadline for each of the three Comprehensive Suicide Prevention funding opportunities listed below is next Thursday, February 15. Details and instructions for all three are included below.?
Three New Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Funding Opportunities
Three new Comprehensive Suicide Prevention funding opportunities are available and seeking applicants through?Thursday, February 15. Details for the three funding opportunities (and the links to their public notices with application instructions) are included below.
Comprehensive Suicide Prevention ? Gun Shop Project
We are seeking applicants to implement the Gun Shop Project, an educational campaign for firearm retailers and range owners on ways they can help prevent suicide in rural communities. The campaign involves posters, brochures and tip sheets discussing proper handling and storage of guns and advice on preventing their use in suicides. Its objectives are to partner with firearm retailers and firing ranges to share guidelines on how to avoid selling or renting a firearm to a suicidal customer, and encourage firearm retailers and firing ranges to display and distribute printed suicide prevention materials tailored to their customers. Funded agencies may also identify firearm retailers and firearm ranges interested in obtaining and installing a gun safe in their facility to provide free firearm storage access for individuals within their communities.
Comprehensive Suicide Prevention ? Sources of Strength Project
We are seeking applicants for implementing Sources of Strength, a school-based suicide prevention program designed to increase wellbeing, help-seeking, resiliency, healthy coping, and belonging. Sources of Strength (SOS) is a supported strategy by the CDC?s (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Comprehensive Suicide Prevention (CSP) program as it promotes connectedness and positive peer norms. The aim of this funding is to increase implementation and support sustainability of SOS programming in Wisconsin.?Funding will go towards an educational organization with statewide reach to coordinate SOS train-the trainer (T4T) certification for school staff?within multiple school districts, serving a variety of locations statewide?to support sustainability of SOS programming in Wisconsin schools.?Additionally, the selected educational organization is expected to provide technical assistance to schools implementing SOS and convene a community of practice supporting SOS in schools. The awarded agency will also engage in a multi-sectoral partnership, led by DHS, designed to support comprehensive suicide prevention efforts throughout Wisconsin. Selected applicants will work closely with DHS staff and the contracted evaluation partner to ensure evaluation of implemented activities.
Comprehensive Suicide Prevention ?Telemental Health Access through Digital Literacy Funding Application
We are seeking applicants to implement digital literacy programming for rural men ages 25 and older and increase computer access for telemental health care in rural communities. This is a supported strategy by the CDC?s CSP Program as it promotes access and delivery of suicide care and reduces provider shortages in underserved areas. The aim of this funding is to support the implementation of digital literacy programming for rural men aged 25 and older, increase access to computers with internet for telemental health utilization in rural communities, and engage with DHS in a multi-sectoral partnership designed to support comprehensive suicide prevention efforts throughout Wisconsin. Selected applicants will work closely with DHS staff and the contracted evaluation partner to ensure evaluation of implemented strategies and activities. ?
Contact information and FAQ
Please direct questions to?Rebecca Gonnering?at?[email protected]. FAQs for each of the funding opportunities will be regularly updated on the?Injury and Violence Prevention Program?website.
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