Workforce Development for Culturally Specific Suicide Prevention

Description

Washington County is requesting proposals from qualified organizations to provide workforce development training and ongoing support for culturally specific suicide prevention services to residents of Washington County.  The goals of this funding opportunity are to: Create an equitable and diverse suicide prevention/behavioral health workforce that is equipped and supported to address the needs of the communities they serve. Expand comprehensive suicide prevention programs/services for populations disproportionately affected by suicide, with a focus on historically marginalized communities and persons with suicide-centered lived experience. The Workforce Development for Culturally Specific Suicide Prevention Activities NOFO will focus on developing culturally specific suicide prevention, intervention, and/or postvention services throughout Washington County, with an emphasis on reaching one or more of the following disproportionately impacted communities: Black/African American Indigenous/Native AmericanAsian/Pac