Goal 3
By 2024, Guam will have a 30-person Suicide Prevention Task Force that includes representatives from direct youth-serving providers, first responders, and community members like individuals with lived experience, including survivors of loss, survivors of suicide attempts, youth, and families, which work towards processes and protocols within and among organizations that are suicide-safer and integrated to other services.
On January 29, the PEACE Council meeting was held. A recommendation was made to have a Suicide Prevention Task Force as a working group under the PEACE Council. The first Suicide Prevention Task Force Working Group meeting was held in June and a Chair was selected from the group. Meetings were also held in July-October. At the October meeting, the Task Force reviewed the State Plan and ZSF.
By 2024, at least 75% of key direct services staff from GBHWC, and as identified by Guam Memorial Hospital (GMH), Division of Child Protective Services/Foster Care System (CPS), Guam Department of Education (GDOE), University of Guam’s Isa Psychological Center (UOG-Isa), Guam Community College’s Law Enforcement, Allied Health and Human Services Academics (GCC), and Department of Youth Affairs (DYA) are trained to identify, screen, refer, treat, and follow-up on individuals experiencing grief and feelings of loss and pain, or having suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
GFOL provided training to GBHWC staff as well as employees of the Breaking Wave Theatre Company, Guam Army National Guard, Guam Community College, KFC, Mañelu, Rainbows for All Children Guam, TOHGE, University of Guam, and WestCare. GFOL used four evidence-based programs—ASIST, LivingWorks START, SafeTALK and Assessing Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR)—to train direct service providers. 72 direct service providers completed training in Year 2.
The GFOL team submitted an IRB application to the UOG Committee on Human Subjects Research (CHSR) Institutional Review Board to collect data using follow-up surveys for all those who completed one of the training programs available to participants identifying as natural supports or workforce development on November 15, 2021 and received approval on November 22, 2021. GFOL will begin collecting data in Y3.
RESULTS FROM YEAR 2
