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#HotOffThePress #GreatNews #MajorMilestone for #SuicidePrevention #Arkansas. The tragic loss of my best friend & only son #AlexBlackwood in 2008, my #HellBent #Mission to #SaveLives began. Today calls for #Celebration! It feels damn good to know that we overcame the ego(s), oversight and excuses which had long prevented Arkansas from Federal Funding for Suicide Prevention. It was one hell of a journey with some of the greatest people on the planet. #MissionAccomplished #JustTheBeginning It’s good news! Arkansas has been awarded the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial State and Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention funding! It’s good news! We have received the official Notice of Award. Arkansas has been awarded the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial State and Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention funding! The SAMHSA Cooperative Agreement is for $736,000 for five years for a total of $3,680,000 (subject to continuation approval). Until now, Arkansas was the only state in the nation that had never been awarded this funding. The funding will help to increase the number of youth-serving organizations trained to identify and refer youth at risk for suicide, increase the number of clinical service providers trained to assess, manage, and treat youth at risk for suicide, improve continuity of care and follow-up of youth identified at risk for suicide discharged from emergency department and inpatient psychiatric units, and increase the promotion and utilization of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. This would not have possible without your support and hard work and involvement and letters of support…and all the things you have done and already do to save Arkansas lives. There is a LOT to get in place over the next few weeks. As you all know, the next Arkansas Statewide Suicide Prevention Initiative meeting is already scheduled for the first Friday in November (Friday, November 7th). This is a critical organizational and planning meeting for the new state project – and we need you to attend if at all possible.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:15:07 +0000

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