This $400,000 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, will fund the Alaska Prehospital Education Consortium, Inc. (APEC) to enhance emergency medical services (EMS) training and capacity in the City and Borough of Yakutat, Alaska. The key objectives of this 2-year project are to: 1) train and certify EMS personnel in...
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...
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 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 $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...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $249,737 Project Grant under the Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services program (CFDA 93.958) to the Copper River Native Association (CRNA), a tribally-owned firm and tribal government entity in Glennallen, Alaska. The grant, titled "CULTURAL CROSSROADS: STRENGTHENING CONNECTIONS," aims to mitigate high-risk behaviors linked to suicide and substance abuse through evidence-based interventions....
The federal Project Grant award of $1,211,870.00 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Mental Health Disaster Assistance and Emergency Mental Health program (CFDA 93.982) supports the Wrangell Cooperative Association, a federally recognized tribal government in Wrangell, Alaska, to provide crisis counseling, outreach services, case management, and mental health worker training to individuals and communities affected by major disasters. This funding...
The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $360,000 Project Grant under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program to the Hawaii Department of Health. The project, titled "Malama First Responders: Support EMS Personnel Serving Rural Hawaii Through Training, Resources, and Enhancement of Peer-to-Peer Network," aims to: Expand and support existing emergency medical services...
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 Horizon Health Foundation of East Central Illinois, Inc. The grant, titled "Rural EMS Resilience and Response Initiative," aims to strengthen the capacity of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel in rural Edgar County, Illinois to provide...
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...
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 increasing the training of local EMS personnel in Alaska's Copper River region on trauma-informed care, mental health/substance use disorder treatment, and related emergency response procedures. The project aims to train at least 55 unique individuals, with 35 trained in the first year and 20 more in the second year.
Increasing the number of active local paramedics serving the region by 40% and the number of active local EMS instructors by 50%.
Recruiting 5 additional EMS personnel to actively respond to medical emergencies in the region.
Creating and distributing a comprehensive resource manual for the region's EMS personnel covering trauma-informed care, referrals, local resources, overdose response, data reporting, and other critical procedures.
The Copper River Native Association, a tribally-owned nonprofit organization, will serve as the primary grantee and lead implementation of this project across the rural Copper River region of Alaska.