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Eastern Shoshone Tribe IHS MSPI Suicide Prevention Demonstration Program
The purpose of the Eastern Shoshone Suicide Prevention Demonstration Program is
to develop and implement a comprehensive and sustainable program to reduce suicide
attempts and the number of completed suicides in our communities.
The proposed
approach has been developed to address the identified needs described above
and has four primary goals:
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Increase community awareness, support, and coordination for suicide prevention.
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Strengthen community-based capacity and resources for providing screening,
early identification, referral, and follow-up of at-risk adults and youth
and support for their families.
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Develop and implement a community-based “crisis response” program to assist
families, friends, peers, and the community when a suicide occurs.
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Contribute to knowledge base of effective strategies for suicide prevention
in American Indian communities through participating in local and national
evaluations, building capacity for local data collection and evaluation,
and dissemination of findings.
Sundance Research Institute is assisting the Eastern Shoshone Tribal Health
Department as the evaluator of the demonstration program. Internal evaluation
and monitoring of the Eastern Shoshone Suicide Prevention Project will be conducted
on an ongoing basis.
There are three primary components of this internal evaluation and monitoring:
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Monitoring the implementation/operations of the program, problems encountered, resolutions
of problems, and lessons learned.
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Assessment of the effectiveness of the training components of the project
in terms of increased knowledge of participants and perceptions of training
program participants of effectiveness and usefulness of the training components.
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Establishing baseline measures for GPRA requirements and annually updating these data.
Annual reports on the progress and implementation issues and “lessons learned” will
be prepared and provide to the Tribe to assist in program monitoring and reporting.
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