HomeMy WebLinkAboutGrant Applications - Behav HealthBonnie Baker
From: Tom Anderson
Sent: Monday, August 12,20133:12 PM
To: Jessica Jacks
Cc: Thomas Kuhn; Julie Spackman; Bonnie Baker; Judith Ure
Subject: RE: grant approval
Thanks Jessica. Grant application requests actually require Board approval. We can do that at the Wednesday afternoon
work session this week if that works for you all. Can you or someone from Health attend to answer any questions the
Board might have?
Tom
Tom Anderson
Deschutes County Administrator
1300 NW Wall Street
Bend, OR. 97701
541/388-6565
toma@co.deschutes.or.us
From: Jessica Jacks
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 11:08 AM
To: Tom Anderson
Cc: Thomas Kuhn; Julie Spackman
Subject: grant approval
Hi Tom A. -the substance abuse prevention program is currently working with the community to write two
grants to the same funder. It is my understanding that this requires administrator approval or perhaps BoCC
approval. I have provided a summary of each grant proposal below. Neither proposal was included in the
County's budget and neither includes personnel. Please let me know if I need to do anything further.
Grant funder for both applications: St. Charles Health System, Community Health Benefit Grant, due August
16, funds expenditure by December 31,2013
Grant A: Suicide Prevention-Capacity Building phase I
Budget amount: $12,100
Employee contact: Jessica Jacks
Project description: The Suicide Prevention-Capacity Building phase 1 project proposes to increase the
number of behavioral health professionals with the ability to practice evidence based guidelines to assess and
treat persons at-risk for suicide. Survey results indicate that local treatment providers have confidence in
being able to identify someone at-risk for suicide but that the majority are not confident with their current
skills to be able to assess and provide on-going treatment and management for at-risk clients. In order to be
successful at reducing suicide attempts and deaths in our region we must ensure that there are available and
knowledgeable resources to refer people to. This proposal will bring credible professional continuing
education training for behavioral health professionals in Central Oregon and the rural region to be able to
assess and treat clients at-risk for suicide.
Project partners and their roles:
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1. Deschutes County Health Services (Advisory Council member; coordination of Advisory Council and
suicide prevention training opportunities (ASIST and QPR); expertise in crisis management, expertise in
population based health; behavioral health professional recruitment to training; primary care
assessment coordination; project evaluation coordination; CHB grant fiscal agent)
2. OSU-Cascades (Advisory Council member/chair; counseling student recruitment to training; possible
training location host; expertise in suicide prevention; access to research professionals)
3. St. Charles Health System (Advisory Council members; CME coordination; behavioral health
professional recruitment to training; possible training location host; expertise in behavioral health;
primary care assessment recruitment)
4. Deschutes County Medical Examiner (Advisory Council member; access to data)
5. PacificSource (behavioral health professional recruitment to training; primary care assessment
recruitment)
6. Bend-La Pine School District (behavioral health professional recruitment to training; primary care
assessment recruitment)
7. Redmond School District (behavioral health professional recruitment to training; primary care
assessment recruitment)
8. Sisters School District (behavioral health professional recruitment to training; primary care assessment
recruitment)
9. Private citizens (Advisory Council member)
10. Professional citizens (Advisory Council member; expertise in behavioral health; expertise in suicide
prevention/intervention; trainers for QPR and ASIST)
11. Cascade East AHEC (rural behavioral health care professional recruitment to training)
Grant B: Alcohol Policy Summit
Budget amount: $lBD (5, 000-10,000)
DCHS employee contact: Julie Spackman
Project description: Population health outcomes are greatly influenced by the environments in which the
population works, lives and plays. This proposal is designed to impact Deschutes County's alcohol
environments by training our local policy makers to understand the connections between public policy and
population health behaviors and outcomes. There are many different types of existing public policy
surrounding alcohol, from traffic safety policies to public alcohol consumption policies, to policies regarding
furnishing alcohol to minors. By training our public officials about how policy impacts behavior, the Coalition
aims to empower these partners to help prevent underage and binge drinking through effective policy design,
awareness and enforcement. Negative health consequences as a result of underage and binge drinking occur
across the life-span, impacting both alcohol abusers and their loved ones. Community leaders can foster the
legal and safe use of alcohol by strategically designing and coordinating public policy, policy awareness and
enforcement of policies. For the purposes of this project local policy makers include the following for
Deschutes County: city council members, city managers, county commissioners and state representatives.
Project partners and their roles:
• Shared Future Coalition (sets project direction, engages local policy makers, maintains coalition related
activities)
Coalition membership includes:
o Alcohol & Drug Evaluation Specialist (Scott McGuire)
o Bend Police Dept. (Ofc. Amy Ward)
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o Celebrate Recovery (Norm Schultz -Coalition Vice Chair Person)
o COCC (Paul Wheeler -Coalition Chair Person)
o Community Member (Kori Kuaana)
o Deschutes County (Julie Spackman, Nick Stevenson, Jessica Jacks, David Visiko)
o DC District Attorney's Office (Jason Kropf)
o City of Bend Transportation Dept. (Robin lewis)
o DC Sheriff's Office (Cpt. Shane Nelson)
o lay It Out Events (lee Perry)
o Meth Action Coalition (Barb Stoefen)
o OlCC (larry Brown)
o State Parks and Recreation (Susan Bethers)
o Redmond Police Dept. (Chief Tarbet)
o The loft & Cascade Youth & Family Center (Mel Parker)
o US Forest Service (Sean Ferrell)
o Oregon Department of Transportation (Debbie Miller)
o Cascade Security & Investigations (Sue Meyer)
o 501 Drive (Pamela Trow-Johnson)
• Deschutes County Health Services (fiscal agent, maintains staff for coalition collaboration)
• Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) (provides expert in alcohol policy)
Thank you!
Jessica Jacks, MPH, CPS
Prevention Coordinator
Deschutes County Health Services
1130 NW Harriman, Suite A
PO Box 6005
Bend, Oregon 97708-6005
(541) 330-4632
jessica. jacks@deschutes.org
Our Mission: To Promote and Protect the Health and Safety of Our Community
To request this information in an alternate format, please call (541) 617-4747 or send email to
ken.harms@deschutes.org.
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