The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $597,366 Project Grant under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program to the Hampshire County Sheriff's Office in West Virginia. The purpose of this 2-year grant is to recruit and train rural EMS personnel to provide holistic, evidence-based, and trauma-informed care for mental health and substance use disorder patients. Key objectives...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $600,000 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 (UPRFPD) in Colorado. The grant will fund training and certification for approximately 50 EMT, paramedic, and community paramedic providers annually over the 2-year project period from September 2024 to September 2026. The...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $796,532 Project Grant under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program to Clark County Fire District No. 3 Fireman's Association. The two-year grant, awarded on September 30, 2024, will fund an EMS Training Enhancement Program to improve the district's EMS training capabilities through technological infrastructure development, advanced...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $799,772 Project Grant under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program to the Town of Bennington Rescue Squad, Inc. in Vermont. The grant, titled "EMS TRAINING & OPIOID RESPONSE 2024", aims to improve the capacity and capabilities of emergency medical services (EMS) response to substance use disorder and mental health emergencies...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program to the Alaska Prehospital Education Consortium, Inc. The grant, effective September 30, 2024 through September 29, 2026, aims to enhance emergency medical services (EMS) training and certification in the City and Borough of Yakutat, Alaska. The project will train and...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $938,360 Project Grant under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program to the City of Jamestown and Jamestown Community College. The project aims to increase the capacity of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel serving the rural areas of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties in New York to provide effective, trauma-informed, and...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $800,000 Project Grant under CFDA 93.243, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance, to F-M Ambulance Service Inc. (dba F-M Ambulance), a non-profit organization in Fargo, North Dakota. The 2-year grant, which runs from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2026, will enable F-M Ambulance and its partners to recruit, train, and maintain emergency medical services (EMS)...
This Project Grant award, totaling $425,788, was provided 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. The grant aims to enhance the capabilities of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel in Rowan County, North Carolina through specialized training focused on substance use and mental health response. The training initiative will equip first...
This federal Project Grant award, provided 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, is funding a $775,812 initiative led by United Ambulance in Maine. The initiative aims to 1) recruit and train approximately 295 EMS students, with 162 expected to obtain licensure and 75 entering the Maine EMS workforce, 2) improve the mental health...
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 $800,000 to Mainehealth d/b/a Healthy Community Coalition (HCC) to implement a rural emergency medical services (EMS) training project in Franklin County, Maine. The project aims to increase recruitment, training, and retention of EMS personnel by providing career...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $515,932 Project Grant under CFDA 93.243 (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance) to the County of Sandoval, New Mexico. The grant aims to build the capacity of Sandoval County Fire Rescue (SCFR) emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians to provide culturally-relevant, trauma-informed, and recovery-based care for substance use disorder and behavioral health emergencies. Key objectives include training 100% of the 50 career and 75% of the 200 volunteer EMS personnel, identifying and training 7 EMS clinicians as substance use and behavioral health patient care champions, increasing harm reduction efforts and access to opioid reversal agents, partnering with the county hospital's behavioral health division to develop a field response team, and developing the capacity to refer EMS patients to community support resources. The project will also establish EMS quality improvement measures related to substance use and behavioral health emergencies, to be implemented within the Sandoval County EMS system and disseminated nationally through a partnership with the National EMS Quality Alliance.