Grand Rapids Business Journal
DETROIT â Nine organizations across Michigan will share $650,000 for suicide prevention programs.
The funding is from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, the Childrenâs Foundation, and the Detroit-based Ethel and James Flinn Foundation.
It will establish the Suicide Prevention Support for Health Care Clinics Working with Michiganâs Health-Disparate Populations initiative.
The program offers grants to develop evidence-based and sustainable programming aimed at decreasing the rate of suicide attempts and deaths by identifying children or adults who may be at risk. The program also will address their needs for appropriate medical, social and behavioral services, according to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
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May 2, 2021
Nine organizations across Michigan will share $650,000 for suicide prevention programs, including programs in Gladwin, Clare, Ogemaw and Gratiot counties.
The funding is from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, the Children’s Foundation, and the Detroit-based Ethel and James Flinn Foundation.
It will establish the Suicide Prevention Support for Health Care Clinics Working with Michigan’s Health-Disparate Populations initiative.
The program offers grants to develop evidence-based and sustainable programming aimed at decreasing the rate of suicide attempts and deaths by identifying children or adults who may be at risk.
Michigan organizations split $650,000 for suicide prevention
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DETROIT - Nine organizations across Michigan will share $650,000 for suicide prevention programs.
The program offers grants to develop evidence-based and sustainable programming aimed at decreasing the rate of suicide attempts and deaths by identifying children or adults who may be at risk.
The funding is from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, the Children s Foundation, and the Detroit-based Ethel and James Flinn Foundation.
It will establish the Suicide Prevention Support for Health Care Clinics Working with Michigan s Health-Disparate Populations initiative.
The program offers grants to develop evidence-based and sustainable programming aimed at decreasing the rate of suicide attempts and deaths by identifying children or adults who may be at risk. The program also will address their needs for appropriate medical, socia
WMUK s Andy Robins speaks with ISK Director of Systems Development Dianne Shaffer
The $75,000 from several nonprofits will be targeted at LGBTQ youth. Dianne Shaffer is ISK s director of systems development. Members of the LGBTQ population are more at risk for suicide than many other populations. We wanted to make sure that we were meeting their needs.
ISK officials hold a ceremonial check for the new grant
Credit Integrated Services of Kalamazoo
More than seven thousand people in Michigan took their own lives between 2014 and 2018. And LGBTQ teens are at three times the risk.
Shaffer says some of the the grant will be used to train ISK staff and contractors to better help LGBTQ youth, So that they have the clinical training that will take them competent and confident in working with the LGBTQ population in order to best meet their needs.
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