Project Grant H79SM091062

The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded Little Wound School Board, Inc., $735,000 on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.532) to lead the Pine Ridge Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Capacity Project.

Little Wound School Board will build a coordinated system approach for suicide risk screening, response, referral, safety planning, follow-up, family support, and postvention across education, juvenile justice, and additional youth-serving systems serving youth up to age 24 across Bennett, Jackson, and Oglala Lakota Counties in South Dakota. The project develops shared protocols, resources, and relationships to increase capacity for early identification of youth suicide risk and coordination of referral and follow-up across systems, with benefits extending to parents, families, community members, partner organizations, and aligned regional youth-serving organizations. Services target children 24 years or younger identified as at risk for suicide or who may benefit from early intervention, with the population experiencing elevated suicidal thoughts and behaviors alongside high co-occurring rates of adverse childhood experiences, depression, anxiety, PTSD, substance use, family incarceration, parental separation or divorce, housing instability, child abuse, neglect, and household violence.

Place of performance is Kyle, South Dakota. The period of performance runs from September 30, 2026, through September 29, 2031.