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The SCC Community Suicide Prevention Project will allow Southeast Community College (SCC) to build a network of support for students. A Community Advocacy Council will bring together healthcare, higher education, and other key community resources with the goal of providing a safety net of services, including responding optimally to suicidal threats or attempts, coordination with medical care providers, aftercare and re-integration into college life. Training will be provided to SCC staff, faculty, and students with a goal of building a campus community of acceptance, inclusion, and support. The SCC Project will provide training and support to all Southeast Community College students at all three campuses (Lincoln, Milford, and Beatrice). The Project will build infrastructure by creating a network of supportive services for students who are experiencing emotional distress, which may lead to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. In addition, the project will train a select group of SCC leadership to conduct Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR) training to staff, faculty, and students. The QPR training will be provided in conjunction with SCC's Suicide Prevention Protocol training. Educational seminars will be provided to SCC's CARE Team, which was developed to foster meaningful connections and emotional and psychological support to students. The seminars will assist the team in developing the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to offer support to students regarding a variety of issues they may be experiencing. In addition, SCC will develop a process to select and train Safe Students, who will serve as an additional layer of support for students. They will receive training in the skills required to support students in a positive and inclusive manner. This project will also develop prevention materials to share with parents regarding student wellness and the signs of suicidal ideation. Student wellness information will also be included on the SCC website, enhancing the Student Services page with prevention information, contacts for the CARE Team and Safe Students, and the SCC Counseling Assistance Program. All materials developed, including the website enhancement, will include promotion of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Finally, SCC will create a safe space on each campus for the LGBTQA+ community that will include networking and support information, as well as speaker and forum events. Project goals include: increasing intra and extra collegiate collaboration; increasing training; providing information to parents; increasing the scope of work and training of the CARE Team; developing a Safe Student Program; increasing inclusiveness and support to the LGBTQA+ community specifically; and increasing the promotion of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Measurable objectives include: number of staff, faculty, and students trained in QPR and the SCC Suicide Prevention Protocol; number of linkages/agreements with area health care providers through the work of the SCC Community Advocacy Council; number of students helped by improved community linkages; number of students who choose to become Safe Students; number of hits on the newly developed Student Wellness Support page; and number of parents and family members that receive information regarding suicide prevention and student wellness. This project has the potential to reach all SCC students, staff, and faculty. It is anticipated that 250 individuals will be directly served by the program in year 1; 540 individuals in year 2; and 540 in year 3; for a total of 1,330 directly served through the lifetime of the project.

The California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) GLS Campus Suicide Prevention Project aligns with the Higher Education Mental Health Alliance's belief that campuses can create a culture of caring through specific and continuous outreach and education. Establishing an infrastructure of prevention, identification, and risk reduction - through gatekeeper training, educational seminars, and materials - encourages shared responsibility to support students. This project serves all members of the campus community: students, staff, faculty, administrators, and family/supporters. This is done through collaboration with on- and off-campus stakeholders. All activities address the needs of the diverse and multicultural population at one of the youngest campuses in the California State University system. The current CSUMB student population identifies as 63% (4781) female and 37% (2835) male, with 6% self-identifying as African American, 7% as Asian American, 39% as Latino, 1% as Native American, 1% as Pacific Islander, 8% as two or more races, 32% as White, and 6% as other/decline. Of the 918 undergraduate students participating in the Spring 2015 administration of the National College Health Assessment, 11.7% indicated that they had seriously considered suicide at least once in the previous 12 months (up from 8.6% in 2013) and 2.7% self-reported having made a suicide attempt (up from 2.3%). Fall 2015 data from the CSUMB Personal Growth and Counseling Center indicated 10 students were involuntarily hospitalized for suicidal ideation, while five made an actual suicide attempt within the previous year. Throughout the lifetime of the project, 63 CSUMB community members will complete gatekeeper training: 18 in year one, 21 in year two, and 24 in year three. These individuals will serve as members of the Otter Support Network. By the end of the project, an additional 1920 individuals will participate in suicide prevention educational seminars - 320 per semester, 640 per academic year. Educational seminars will help break down negative attitudes, stigma, and barriers to help seeking for individuals in mental health crises. Suicide prevention and educational materials for family members and supporters will be developed and provided through a variety of methods, including supporter orientation, parent newsletters, websites, and social media.

Johns Hopkins Suicide Prevention Awareness, Response and Coordination (JH-SPARC) provides a continuum of suicide prevention training, screening and resources to advance the development of a comprehensive suicide prevention and early intervention service system for all Johns Hopkins students. JH-SPARC will increase the number of undergraduates, graduate students, medical students, and postdoctoral fellows identified, referred and receiving quality behavioral health services, with a focus on serving high risk populations (LGBTQ, veterans and military families, students with emotional and behavioral concerns). This project will be conducted in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Student Assistance Program, the JHU Counseling Center, and University Mental Health Services as well as several student groups including Active Minds. JH-SPARC will develop a feasible, practical, sustainable and effective approach to prevent suicide in students. Goals are to: 1) broaden public awareness of suicide by utilizing marketing and dissemination/ diffusion efforts related to suicide prevention for students; 2) use the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Interactive screening program; 3) increase training opportunities for resident assistants and others on campus who work with students by providing QPR gatekeeper training; 4) provide enhanced parent and student orientation sessions and materials; and 5) conduct continuous quality improvement and evaluation of outcomes. QPR gatekeeper training will include an engaging and interactive training session. This educational approach will be tailored to the JHU context and address 1) how to recognize suicide risk upstream, 2) communication and interpersonal skills including how to ask directly about suicide and how to provide support, and 3) how to address stigma and barriers to help-seeking. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Interactive Screening Program (ISP) approach aims to reduce barriers to care by providing a safe and secure online screening platform that allows individuals to anonymously connect and dialogue with a behavioral health professional. The number of students in any one year who would benefit from this project is approximately 22,311.

""Carleton College GLS Campus Suicide Prevention Initiative: Everyone’s Responsibility"" leverages existing campus services and community networks to ensure that suicide prevention is everyone's responsibility. This ambitious program will serve all 2000 students each year, with focus on particular vulnerable populations, including LGBT students and those experiencing substance abuse and mental health problems; provide training for 200 faculty and 100 gatekeeper staff; and develop yearly communications and programs for parents. The Carleton project incorporates goals and objectives from the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP) and aims to implement a comprehensive and data-driven approach to suicide prevention, with the vision that one death is too many. Carleton project goals include (1) adoption of zero suicides as an aspirational goal on the Carleton College campus; and (2) promotion of positive mental well-being as the norm on the Carleton College campus. Carleton will facilitate a comprehensive public health approach to preventing suicide, promoting prevention as a core component of all campus health care services. The project will build essential capacity and infrastructure to support expanded efforts to promote wellness and help-seeking of all students. Demographics of target audiences include students who identify as minority (24.4%), first-generation (11.1%), and GLBT (12.1%, plus 12.2% unsure/other), and those experiencing two or more stressors in the past 12 months (41.9%). As Carleton promotes its primary goal of zero suicides, it will achieve ambitious, measurable outcomes related to four objectives: (1) developing collaborative responsibility among campus and community partners to increase referral capacity, especially for high-risk students, and deliver the message that suicide prevention is everyone's responsibility; (2) providing educational seminars and informational materials for students, faculty, staff, and family members; (3) providing training to students, faculty, and staff on suicide prevention (4) increasing help-seeking among students, and reducing negative attitudes for seeking care for mental and substance use disorders among students. The primary goal will be complemented by a second goal of promoting mental well-being, which will include specific outcomes related to three objectives: (1) training students, faculty, and staff about protective factors and mental health promotion behaviors; (2) utilizing new and existing educational seminars and materials for students, faculty, staff, and family members regarding protective factors and mental health promotion behaviors; (3) providing sustained messaging regarding mental health awareness. A distinctive feature of the Carleton GLS suicide prevention project will be the leadership role of the new Office of Health Promotion (OHP), whose mission is to create the healthiest possible campus environment in which all students are able to flourish. OHP strategies include advocating for health-supporting environments guided by cultural inclusion, respect, equality and equity; focusing on population-level outcomes for the prevention of high-risk behaviors; and promoting overall well-being through the use of initiatives that are evidence based and/or theory informed. The OHP also coordinates a SAMHSA ""Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success"" (PFS) grant to reduce drinking and marijuana abuse on the Carleton campus. The Carleton GLS Suicide Prevention project will coordinate with and support the strategies of the PFS grant.

The Clark Atlanta University GLS Campus Suicide Prevention Initiative will help the University community develop a suicide protocol, provide suicide prevention training to school stakeholders and establish a network of community health professionals to expand our capacity to meet the mental health needs of our students. Clark Atlanta University (CAU) is a Historically Black, Private institution located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. CAU is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and has a current enrollment of approximately 3600 students. The purpose of the proposed project is to integrate and coordinate suicide prevention activities across multiple sectors and settings within the Clark Atlanta University campus community. The student body is comprised of 45% in state students, 51% out of state students, and 4% international students. A large majority of international students on campus are originally from Saudi Arabia and have chosen to attend CAU through a partnership that exists between CAU and the Saudi government. Close to 80% of the International students have completed the coursework needed to speak, read, and write the English language. The student body is also 74% female and 26% male. Currently, no data regarding sexual orientation or gender identity is collected by CAU but anecdotally; there is a large population of students who identify as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender. There are currently 50 students on campus with documented disabilities and approximately 30 students identified as receiving military benefits. The objectives of the proposed project are to: (1) develop a suicide prevention plan that will engage students, faculty, staff and administrators; and (2) establish a network of community health professionals to develop a sustainable campus-wide support structure to counter the prejudice, silence and denial that can prevent individuals from seeking help. The CAU GLS project proposes to serve an estimate 1500 students annually.

The School of Medicine of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (SOM/UTRGV) Campus Suicide Prevention Program (CSPP) in collaboration with the Counseling Center seeks to raise awareness of suicide as a critical but preventable issue. The School of Medicine of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), is located on the border between Texas and Mexico. The larger UTRGV serves a traditionally underserved population, which is largely Hispanic in ethnicity (89% as of Fall 2015). While Hispanics constitute a clear majority, UTRGV students are diversified among a broad range of special populations including medical students, veterans; athletes; international students; students with disabilities; and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning and intersexed (GLBTQI) students. An overwhelming majority of students are also economically disadvantaged, relying on financial assistance and external employment to subsidize their college educations. The CSPP will address the numerous risk factors facing its target population through seven goals focusing on the implementation of training programs and activities geared to educate the faculty, staff, and students of the School of Medicine and the UTRGV campus on the identification and prevention of suicidal behaviors and appropriate intervention measures. Furthermore, it will implement outreach activities for students and their families, awareness campaigns that seek to destigmatize mental illness, implementation of wellness programs and the development of collaborative partnerships with community-based mental health agencies. The School of Medicine, Office of Student Support, Counseling and Wellness (Office of Student Wellness) in collaboration with Counseling Center will lead the implementation of the CSPP. Through a contractual agreement, The Office of Student Wellness will provide specialized training, employing the QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer) Model, to over 300 faculty, staff and student leaders annually and 900 over the funding period. The QPR, a standardized program used in schools throughout the nation as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs, delivers a broad assessment and intervention strategy for addressing issues of suicidality on college campuses. Assessment of the efficacy of the CSPP will include collection and analysis of data sets from the process, performance, and outcomes of the Program as well as collection and analysis of the cross-site data required by SAMHSA. Ultimately, the CSPP will result in the establishment of a comprehensive plan designed to prevent suicidal behaviors among students and to facilitate the utilization of mental health services for those at risk.

Wayne State University: Suicide Prevention Initiative Wayne State University (WSU) is proposing a suicide prevention project whose purpose is to eliminate deaths by suicide in the University community through the development of an infrastructure of education, training, and dissemination of information to all faculty, staff, students and their families. WSU plans to create an environment in which mental health issues are not stigmatized, seeking help is encouraged and seen as a strength, and members of the campus community step in to prevent harm to each other. This will be accomplished through the development of collaborative networks, innovative marketing campaigns, gatekeeper training programs, and culturally-appropriate educational programs. Although all members of the campus will be included, this project will work to provide targeted programs and outreach to students at particular risk including those who identify themselves as LGBTQ, military veterans, and those living in campus residence halls. Particular attention will be paid to students who are often marginalized including those who are minority students or have mental health disabilities. WSU is a public university with an enrollment of over 27,000 students. It is located in Detroit Michigan. The University is primarily a nonresidential campus with nearly 90% of students living off campus. WSU is the most ethnically diverse public university in the State of Michigan. The need for comprehensive suicide prevention efforts is clear from data derived from the University. At least six suicides have occurred in the last several years; however, accurate tracking has not been possible. Nevertheless, other data from student surveys indicate that our students are highly stressed, juggle many responsibilities, and many are not fully prepared academically. Those who seek services at Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) have higher symptom levels than are typical at the counseling centers of universities the size of WSU. Five goals are designed to impact the campus as a whole by creating a permanent infrastructure change for prevention services as well as approximately 4000 persons directly over the 3 year project period. These goals are: 1) Create a networking infrastructure that links WSU with health care providers from the broader community and resources; 2) Develop a gatekeeper training program on suicide prevention and mental health issues for all members of the University community, including students, faculty and staff; 3) Develop and implement, both in person and online, culturally appropriate educational seminars to all members of the University community; 4) Develop a cohesive marketing strategy that is culturally appropriate and advertises the WSU network infrastructure (and resources), the gatekeeper training (Kognito modules and Mental Health First Aid), the education seminars, college and national suicide prevention hotlines and Crisis Text Line; and, 5) Develop culturally appropriate online and print educational resources for parents and families to supplement information received in person at orientation.

“HSU CAMPUS CONNECT SUPPORT NETWORK” or the “HSU SUPPORT NET” builds essential capacity and infrastructure to expand wellness promotion and help-seeking of all students at Humboldt State University (HSU), while providing targeted support for Latina youth, American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN), LGBT students, and student veterans and dependents, serving 8500 individuals annually, and 20,000 throughout the lifetime of the project. HSU SUPPORT NETWORK includes these goals and related strategies/interventions: 1) develop training materials that can be added to Campus Connect, QPR, Mental Health First Aid, or any gatekeeper training program that helps to prepare campus stakeholders across constituencies to respond following a campus suicide in a way that reduces the risk of contagion; 2) build essential capacity among our health and wellness staff in the area of suicide prevention, including the ability to deliver “Campus Connect” gatekeeper suicide prevention trainings along with a brief 15-20 minute postvention addition in campus-wide trainings – it is expected this will increase the number of people in the mental health and related workforce trained in mental health-related practices/activities as a result of the grant; 3) build awareness of issues affecting highly vulnerable populations and capacity among our health and wellness staff to deliver campus-wide intergroup dialogue trainings that reduce negative attitudes towards seeking care for mental and substance abuse disorders and encourage a sense of belonging with attention to intersecting identities including race, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran-status, and disability-status; 4) with the help of a Prevention Specialist build essential capacity across campus through ongoing training of faculty, staff, residence hall advisors, and student leaders, using the Campus Connect model, in the identification of vulnerable students, including those experiencing substance abuse and mental health problems, and which promotes linkage to on-campus resources – it is expected this will increase the number of individuals who have received training in prevention or mental health promotion; 5) increase direct outreach to identified vulnerable students, including those experiencing substance abuse and mental health problems; 6) increase awareness of services, warning signs, and educate campus about referral techniques to on-campus services and promote linkage to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and Trevor Project through campus-wide messaging; 7) reduce the use of tobacco on HSU’s campus through campus-wide psychoeducation and social-norms marketing; 8) create a network infrastructure to link HSU with health care providers from the broader community, and improve connections between existing services on campus – it is expected that this effort will increase the number of organizations collaborating/coordinating/sharing resources with other organizations as a result of the grant; 9) disseminate developed suicide postvention training materials and the results of our evaluation of programs for public use by other institutions of higher education to aid others in further building capacity and increasing prevention.

Program Description: Sewanee Flourish The purpose of this project is to develop a sustainable campus infrastructure at The University of the South, rooted in the two continua model of mental health and illness (Keyes, 2007), designed to promote suicide prevention and enhance student mental health and flourishing. While flourishing is most commonly associated with individual health, a public health approach based on this model will seek to enhance not just individual flourishing, but collective flourishing by involving the community as a whole in the work of suicide prevention. Sense of belonging and social connection are important predictors of both well-being and flourishing (Keyes, 2007) and decrease risk for suicide and mental illness (Keyes et al., 2012). Sewanee Flourish seeks to improve student mental health and cultivate student flourishing by accomplishing the goals outlined below, and plans to pay special attention to at-risk student groups (LGBTQIA students, students from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, students with disabilities, and male-identified students). Project Goals The goals of Sewanee Flourish are (1) to conduct a qualitative needs assessment of at-risk students (2) to develop a Wellness Task Force to activate the campus community in the work of suicide prevention (3) to increase the number of faculty, staff, and students trained as gatekeepers (4) to develop educational workshops and interventions to enhance student flourishing and resilience (5) to develop a social marketing campaign to increase awareness of crisis resources and (6) to develop accessible resources for families to promote mental health and flourishing and to increase awareness about the development of mental illness and suicide risk during college. Project Outcomes The anticipated overarching outcomes of Sewanee Flourish are the development of a sustainable campus infrastructure designed to identify and respond to students in distress, to reduce barriers to help-seeking among students, and to promote and improve student mental health and flourishing. All project goals will be systematically assessed to evaluate the impact of Sewanee Flourish on suicide prevention. Sewanee Flourish aims to train

Abstract Western Oregon University—Western Oregon Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Project The overall goal of the Western Oregon University (WOU) Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Project (SPMHPP) is to strengthen the WOU infrastructure by developing a comprehensive, collaborative, effective, and culturally inclusive approach to suicide prevention and mental health promotion on campus. Major components of SPMHPP are to develop additional protocols to strengthen the suicide response system on campus; to create a web presence for suicide prevention and mental health promotion; to train students, faculty, and staff in the risk factors and warning signs of suicide and how to intervene; to reduce the stigma associated with help-seeking behavior; and to increase the awareness and utilization of resources. This project will serve approximately 5,400 students for the duration of the grant. WOU has an annual enrollment of 5,400 students. The campus population is primarily White (65%). Hispanic/Latino students comprise approximately 13% of the student body, American Indian/Alaska Natives 2%, Black/African American 4%, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 3%, Asian 3%, and unknown 4%. International Students represent 6% of the student body, with the primary countries of origin being Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, and South Korea. Activities will be designed to address the needs of high-risk student populations such as first-generation, low-income, Hispanic, veterans and military families, American Indian and Alaskan Natives, and students who identify as LGBTQ+. The project has identified the following six objectives as our foci: (1) establish a Suicide Prevention Task Force; (2) develop postvention protocols for supporting the campus in the event of a student suicide; (3) increase the capacity for staff, faculty, and student leaders to respond to, assist, and refer students at risk through gatekeeper training; (4) develop and implement ongoing educational programs/seminars/events on suicide prevention and mental health promotion, some of which will be designed to engage and respond to at-risk students (e.g., first generation, low income, LGBTQ+, veterans, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Hispanic); (5) develop and disseminate informational materials addressing issues related to suicide that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for students and families; and (6) promote the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and local suicide prevention hotlines within the campus community. Additionally, we will evaluate all components of the project through process, performance, and outcome measures.

Providence College will establish a comprehensive, integrated wellness promotion and suicide prevention program, offering a full spectrum of preventative interventions, ranging from the individual to the ecological. The multi-systemic array of evidence-based strategies includes gatekeeper training (online and in-person), crisis response planning, family engagement, network building, mental health screening, community-building, promoting hotlines, and facilitating access to mental health services. We will identify and support individuals at high risk as well as bring resources and access to vulnerable groups. A public health approach will be used to establish a new level of knowledge and understanding about suicide prevention for the entire community and enhance our readiness to support those who are most vulnerable. We will introduce the Kognito online gatekeeper training module in order to build skills and help students effectively engage and refer peers who are experiencing distress. We will build on the gatekeeper paradigm by developing a new in-person gatekeeper training curriculum named PC Lifelines. PC-Lifelines will use current research to increase effectiveness of current gatekeeper models. Integrating faith-based values is a unique component of PC-Lifelines which is appropriate to Providence College, and may also be of particular interest to the hundreds of faith-based colleges and universities in the United States. The online and in-person training will be evaluated to determine possible advantages to combined training. Outcomes of this evaluation and development initiative will be widely disseminated. Consistent with the College mission, we are determined to promote “the human flourishing of each member of the campus community.” Outreach initiatives and interventions will specifically seek out those groups most at risk for suicide and most likely to experience disparities in access to health services. These include students with mental health challenges as well as students of color, Native American students, first generation students, LGBTQ students, international students, and veterans. Our project will involve these groups as partners to build trust and to help develop suitable educational and intervention approaches. We will engage persons from diverse backgrounds with lived experience to share their stories, model recovery, reduce stigma, increase help-seeking, and inspire hope. This project will bring multiple campus resources to a new level of integration and collaboration. It will also be undertaken in partnership with off-campus organizations such as the National Association of Mental Illness/Rhode Island Chapter and the Rhode Island Department of Health. Providence area hospitals, mental health practices, and substance abuse clinics will be brought into our network of resources so we can offer coordinated and integrated care for our students. We will establish protocols, networks, training programs, and practices that will bring our suicide prevention capacity to a new level. It will become part of the culture at Providence College, a sustainable and meaningful confirmation of our commitment to health and safety.

Abstract The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) is a four year public university, founded in 1876 and located in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The university serves student 13,914 students, from Iowa, Other U.S states and several countries. UNI is seeking funding to implement the Building Capacity and Culture of Care at UNI, a capacity building program aimed at suicide prevention and awareness for UNI’s increasingly diverse campus population. Understanding that a large number of our students fall within high risk suicide groups, and having several recent suicides on our campus, the urgency to respond to this growing for suicide prevention awareness an education cannot be underestimated. This program will result in an increase in the institutions capacity to be sustained beyond the duration of the program. To achieve this, UNI proposes to 1. Build collaborations by developing a networking infrastructure with campus and community partners to deliver the message of shared responsibility in suicide prevention, 2. Increase the training available to students, faculty and staff, develop and increase educational seminars and availability of information materials for the campus community, 3. Foster an environment of help seeking by raising awareness to reduce the negative attitudes and perceptions towards help-seeking for mental health and substance abuse disorders while encouraging and educating on help-seeking behavior, and 4. Increase awareness on help resources such as the National Suicide Prevention lifeline to both students and their families. UNI’s capacity building effort will create a structured and fluid institutional suicide prevention and crisis response plan with effective suicide and postvention protocols, provide training to student services staff, faculty, students and general staff, and create and outreach efforts, including culturally and linguistically targeted resources to reach a minimum 7,000 students, families, staff and faculty.

The purpose of the East Central University (ECU) Campus Suicide Prevention Grant Program is to facilitate a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention on the ECU campus in Ada, OK. This program will increase collaboration of campus partners in the area of suicide prevention, increase suicide prevention/intervention trainings, increase the number of materials provided on campus related to suicide prevention, decrease stigma around mental health and help seeking, and increase promotion of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The program will also serve as a connection resource to better link students and families experiencing mental health or behavioral health issues to appropriate services. The entire University student population will be targeted with the proposed program. This includes approximately 4,500 students attending ECU. Within this population, a number of vulnerable groups will be served including veterans, Native Americans, and LGBT individuals. ECU is a public 4-year regional university and is located within the City of Ada, which has a population of approximately 17,303 and is the county seat of Pontotoc County with 38,194 residents. In addition, Ada is the seat of government of the Chickasaw Nation, and as much as 13% of the population within the targeted campus is Native American. Strategies and goals to be accomplished by this program include the following. Goal 1: Increase campus infrastructure and collaboration around suicide prevention. Objective 1A: Develop a Project Leadership Team consisting of a minimum of 10 campus partners by 12/31/2017. Objective 1B: Maintain 10 Project Leadership Team members throughout grant period (9/30/2020). Objective 1C: Facilitate Project Leadership Team members on a minimum of a quarterly basis through grant period (9/30/2020). Objective 1D: Via Project Leadership Team, develop a crisis response plan and revise as needed by 3/31/2018. Goal 2: Increase availability of suicide prevention and intervention training and materials on campus. Objective 2A: Provide at least 450 students & employees gatekeeper training programs by 9/30/2020 resulting in a ratio of 1 gatekeeper for every 10 students. Objective 2B: Increase peer helping via provision of Student Support Network to at least 30 students by 9/30/2020. Objective 2C: Provide 100% of students and employees with suicide prevention materials and other information by 9/30/2020. Goal 3: Decrease student rates of suicide risk factors. Objective 3A: Decrease number of students reporting substance misuse by 5% by 9/30/2020. Objective 3B: Decrease number of students reporting feelings of sadness by 5% by 9/30/2020. Objective 3C: Decrease number of students reporting feelings of overwhelming anxiety by 5% by 9/30/2020. Objective 3D: Reduce access to means by hosting at least 1 prescription drug take back event on an annual basis (9/30/2018, 9/30/2019, 9/30/2020). Objective 3E: Reduce access to means by providing safe storage information on prescription drugs and firearms to 100% of students and employees by 9/30/2020.

The primary purpose of the La Salle University Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Project is to reduce the potential for deaths of students due to suicide or alcohol/drug overdose by increasing outreach to our most vulnerable students; increasing by-stander interventions by faculty, staff and friends and increasing help seeking behaviors by students in need. La Salle has identified the following groups as being most at risk on campus: females whose average Blood Alcohol Level is .08 and above, commuter students, Hispanic students, first generation college, veterans, family members of the military. La Salle has also identified that most of the faculty, staff and students are not properly trained or equipped to deal with students who may be at risk for suicide. This grant will provide training for faculty and staff who come into contact with students on a daily basis. Gatekeeper trainings that help staff and faculty learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help will be one of primary methods of creating a preventative culture on campus. Students will learn intervention techniques through interactive simulations with Kognito. Resources will be available to all La Salle students, full and part time by promoting ProtoCall and the Jed Foundation Hotline. Along with these resources targeted printed materials will be developed for different audiences; students, families, veterans, LGBTQ students, etc. Since Spanish is the second most spoken language of campus these materials will be translated. A Grant Implementation Team will be created that will meet on a regular basis for ongoing review of the grant, assessment and evaluation.

The North Carolina Central University Honest Conversations in Safe Spaces Suicide Prevention Program will strengthen NCCU’s capacity and infrastructure to provide coordinated behavioral health programming that promotes mental health and suicide prevention. This comprehensive program will include campus/community collaborations, gate keeper training, and mental health promotion programming that targets those students considered at greater risk of suicide. Using a public health model, the project will bring together community and campus stakeholders as members of a Suicide Prevention Coordinating Committee which will be tasked with developing a comprehensive suicide prevention effort that includes the development of a suicide response protocol that campus mental health professionals and other administrators will follow when working with students with suicidal behavior and an organized tracking or monitoring system for those students. In addition, to reduce the risk of suicidal behavior, the proposed program will implement specific mental health promotion interventions and strategies to reduce risk factors associated with suicide, while also enhancing protective factors. While these strategies will be available to the entire NCCU student population of mostly African American students, a special focus will be placed on programming with targeted groups of students who are considered at high risk for suicide, including students who identify as LGBTQ, students with disabilities and veterans and military affiliated students. Goals for the program are described as follows: • To assemble a network of collaborators, a Suicide Prevention Coordinating Committee, who will provide advice, collaboration and resources for the development and implementation of suicide prevention initiatives and a written protocol for responding to students in crisis. • To produce and distribute to students, faculty, staff, written material and media messages related to mental health and suicide prevention. • To develop and provide to NCCU’s gatekeepers training that increases the campus community’s awareness of risk and protective factors of suicide, promotes help seeking behavior, and reduces stigma related to mental health and substance abuse disorders. • To develop and deliver culturally relevant programming which increases the awareness of mental health and substance abuse and reduces the stigma attached to mental health and mental health treatment with the general student population and with the targeted high risk groups. Specific interventions include focus groups with students from the targeted groups to achieve cultural competence of programs and materials, signature campus wide health promotion events, and on-line interactive training tools specifically designed for the targeted groups.

ABSTRACT Project Name: Defending the Future Population Served: Rural Non-Reservation American Indian College Students Methods: Networking, gatekeeper training, seminars, QPR, and YMHFA Number Served: 375 annually and 1,125 over the project period The College of the Muscogee Nation seeks to establish an integrated public health approach to suicide prevention, substance abuse prevention, and mental health promotion to detect, prevent, and provide early intervention services to rural non-reservation American Indian youth and emerging adults who reside within the 11-county area of northeastern Oklahoma served by the College of the Muscogee Nation. This system shall develop infrastructure, expand and enhance current programs, and provide the foundation for creating a prevention-prepared campus, promote wellness, encourage student help-seeking behaviors, and increase collaborative partnerships for delivering and sustaining effective, efficient, and culturally appropriate services. The College of the Muscogee Nation’s (CMN) Defending the Future project shall define the need for services, the gaps between needed and available services, barriers to care, and other problems related to the need to implement suicide prevention and early intervention activities for American Indian students (youth and emerging adults) at risk of or currently experiencing issues that may lead to suicide. The project shall increase the number of individuals and gatekeepers trained to identify, assess, and manage students at risk for suicide within the campus service area. The result will increase early identification, improve the continuity of care, increase utilization of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and further implement the National Suicide Prevention Strategy. Goal 1: To increase the infrastructure, capacity, effectiveness, and efficiency of suicide prevention services for American Indian students who attend the CMN. Goal 2: To reduce the prevalence of suicide and suicidal behaviors among the at risk student population at CMN. Goal 3: To promote systems level change at the tribal college to embrace suicide prevention as a core strategy.

Project Suicide Awareness Violence Education and Response (Project SAVER) aims to build and support sustainable infrastructure for suicide and violence prevention at Montclair State University (MSU) and throughout campuses across New Jersey (NJ) by establishing The University and College Alliance for Prevention of Suicide (UCAPS). This statewide collaborative will inform and support all institutions of higher education in NJ as well as MSU, a diverse public institution of higher education located in Montclair, NJ, 14 miles from New York City. MSU is listed as one of Campus Pride's top 25 LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities and designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution. The University's nine colleges and schools serve more than 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students with more than 300 doctoral, master's and baccalaureate level programs. In addition to establishing UCAPS, Project SAVER endeavors to: (1) launch a statewide database of referral resources that MSU students and other universities can access, (2) implement gatekeeper training for all MSU staff and faculty, (3) bolster MSU counseling center clinicians' skills in assessing and treating suicidal ideation and other high risk mental health problems, (4) augment current outreach via social media and other technology based formats, linking students to crisis supports (National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and Crisis Text Line), (5) implement online psychoeducation and training that assists students in battling stress, anxiety and depression, and (6) shift campus attitudes toward help seeking and decreasing stigma related to mental illness through public messaging campaigns. These initiatives aim to provide universal prevention to reach all MSU students through one or more facets of Project SAVER, engage all MSU staff and faculty in gatekeeper training by the end of grant funding, and extend the reach of this project to students and staff at universities and colleges across New Jersey through the UCAPS consortium. Goals and objectives of this project will be evaluated using both quantitative data (data from electronic medical records, surveys, questionnaires, and analytics provided by social media and other web based programs) and qualitative data (Suicide Prevention Committee/UCAPS feedback as well as interviews with and reports from students, faculty/staff, and JED Campus experts). While the majority of Project SAVER programs are intended to reach and impact all MSU students, it is estimated that at least 25% of MSU students (~5,000) will be directly served by one or more components of the proposed project.