Partners allied for community excellence/pace coalition mental health awareness training grant - pace coalition is a community-based organization serving elko, eureka and white pine counties in…

Partners allied for community excellence/pace coalition mental health awareness training grant - pace coalition is a community-based organization serving elko, eureka and white pine counties in northeastern nevada. This area is the corner where utah, idaho and nevada all come together. IT is designated rural and rural/frontier. Pace's motto is "healthy communities . . . Whatever IT takes" and is reflected in our work with health services, preventing and reducing substance use and abuse and other needed resources in our communities. Pace serves three distinct counties which span 30,280 square miles with a population of 63,835. This project seeks to increase access to mental health services by increasing awareness of the issues and strengthening the qualifications of the workforce and increasing the referrals to services. By build collaborative partnership with rural hospitals, healthcare leaders, law enforcement, first responders, school districts and service providers in elko, eureka, and white pine counties to create a formalized network to meet the mental health care needs of community members. Develop a plan to improve mental health care services through in person and tele-health. Increase adult mental health awareness in community members, service providers, law enforcement. Increase youth mental health awareness in pace coalition's elementary and middle schools' educators, counselors, students, and parents, increase mental health awareness, in law enforcement, and first responders, while increasing their ability to identify signs and symptoms of mental illness, and DE-escalate incidents of mental health crisis