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Welcome to SPRCL!
The Suicide Prevention Research in the Community Lab (SPRCL; "Sparkle") is a multi-disciplinary research team based in the Department of Psychiatry and affiliated with the Youth and Young Adult Depression and Suicide Prevention Program as well as U-M’s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention. Our team conducts community-engaged research and program evaluation. Our goal is to optimize the protective influences of the systems that surround youth such as family, schools, communities, and the health care system.
Pictured: Mai Tran, BS; Christina Magness, LMSW; Ryan Gilbert, BA; Dr. Cynthia Ewell Foster, PhD; Courtney Funk, MPH; Dr. Mike Henson-Garcia, PhD.
Team Members not Featured: Siwei Cao, MS; Lauren Majlinger, BA; Jordyn Oppenheim; Clarke Norris; Ellie Harris; Haadiyah Muhammad
Our Projects
Store Safely
Store Safely
Firearm injuries are the leading cause of death among youth in the US and rates of firearm-related suicides among rural youth are increasing at an alarming rate. Store Safely: Firearm Injury Prevention for Rural Families (R01CE003629) is a hybrid II implentation effectiveness trial conducted in partnership with the Marquette County Health Department in Michigan's Upper Peninsula to evaluate Store Safely, a multicomponent, online, primary prevention strategy for rural families who own firearms.
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Transforming Youth Suicide Prevention in Michigan
Transforming Youth Suicide Prevention in Michigan
The Transforming Youth Suicide Prevention in Michigan (TYSP) program is funded by SAMHSA and conducted in collaboration with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Injury and Violence Prevention Section. TYSP has a strong track record of developing and sustaining unique partnerships that facilitate the implementation and evaluation of best practice suicide prevention and intervention strategies across youth-serving organizations. Capitalizing on these partnerships, TYSP seeks to impact rates of suicide among youth/young adults up to age 24 across the entire state of Michigan by 1) expanding Michigan’s clinical safety net leveraging our established network of Emergency Departments, 2) advancing the decade-long partnership with Michigan’s Child Welfare system, 3) increasing the capacity of Michigan’s clinical service providers trained in evidence-based prevention strategies, 4) supporting local communities in implementing culturally tailored suicide prevention strategies, and 5) building Michigan’s postvention capacity through a network of Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors (LOSS) teams.
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YST Detroit
YST Detroit
Integrating the Youth-Nominated Support Team (YST) with CBT for Black Youth with Acute Suicide Risk (MH R34 131722) is an intervention development project funded by the NIMH. In response to alarming increases in suicide mortality among Black youth, YST Detroit uses a community-based participatory research strategy to iteratively develop and pilot test a two-component psychosocial intervention, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention plus the Youth-Nominated Support Team (CBT-SP + eYST), for Black adolescents, ages 12-17 years, who present to the ED with suicide risk and are served by Detroit/Wayne County’s community mental health system.
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Our Collaborators
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