This Project Grant award of $400,000 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243) will fund the "Increasing the Capacity for Trauma Informed EMS in Alaska's Rural Copper River Region" project. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2-year award, which runs from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2026, include: Significantly...
This $400,000 Project Grant (H79TI087089) awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243) will support the South Lincoln Hospital District (SLHD) in Kemmerer, Wyoming to provide comprehensive emergency medical services (EMS) training. Specifically, the grant will train up to 40 students to become certified as Advanced Emergency Medical...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program to the Upper Pine River Fire Protection District in Bayfield, Colorado. This three-year grant will fund the training and certification of approximately 50 EMS providers annually across the district's rural service area. The training will focus on advanced EMS skills,...
This $1,800,000 Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243) aims to improve mental health and substance use treatment outcomes in Alaska. The grant will fund three primary care providers in Alaska to implement the Collaborative Care Model for integrating behavioral health services into primary care settings. Key objectives...
This $386,949 Project Grant, awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program, aims to build the capacity of emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians in Sandoval County, New Mexico to provide culturally-relevant, trauma-informed, and recovery-based care for substance use disorder and behavioral health emergencies. Key objectives include...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $497,681 Project Grant to Mainehealth, a non-profit integrated health system in Portland, Maine, to implement the Rural Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Training Project in Franklin County, Maine. The project aims to increase recruitment, training, and retention of EMS personnel in the rural region, which has an aging, chronically ill, and economically disadvantaged population of 40,000. Key objectives include...
This Project Grant award of $581,859 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243) aims to address mental health and substance use disorder challenges within Maine's rural emergency medical services (EMS) workforce. The key products and services to be delivered under this two-year initiative include: Training approximately 150 EMS students per...
This Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program, provides $600,000 to implement a rural emergency medical services (EMS) training project in Franklin County, Maine. The primary awardee, MaineHealth d/b/a Healthy Community Coalition (HCC), will partner with Northstar, the sole EMS provider in the county, to achieve the...
The EMS Training & Opioid Response project, awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243), provides $599,829 in funding to Bennington Rescue Squad in Vermont. This project grant supports a series of targeted initiatives to improve the capacity and capabilities of emergency medical services (EMS) to respond to substance use disorder...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $331,356 Project Grant under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program to Memorial Health Care System, Inc. to enhance emergency medical services (EMS) personnel capabilities in rural Georgia. The grant will fund a multi-faceted project to significantly expand the capacity of EMS personnel to...