Year 5
January 15, 2024 - January 14, 2025
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Overview
Overview
PROGRAM GOALS
GFOL Stakeholders Meeting
World Suicide Prevention Day at Island Girl Power
PROGRAM STRENGTHS
In its fifth year, GFOL made progress toward the goals for the grant. Significant strengths include continuing partnerships with various community organizations and government agencies to recruit and train individuals as natural supports and for workforce development. GFOL exceeded both the yearly and overall benchmarks for training natural supports and direct service providers for workforce development during 2024.
The partnership with UOG resulted in the continued award of 2 fellows in Year 5. In addition to participating in numerous campus and university-related activities, the fellows completed data collection for their research project to expand data on individuals with lived experiences. The fellows used this data to create wellness activities for students.
GBHWC saw continued success providing a critical service for individuals in need of immediate assistance locally through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. This is evident from the 5,332 individuals served through 988 during this review period. GFOL also successfully promoted the Lifeline through social media and static and local ads with an audience reach of 453,291.
In Year 5, significant progress was made in establishing the Suicide Prevention Working Group and determining the mission and vision statements of the group. The Group identified resources and stakeholders needed for the Suicide Prevention Coalition. The Working Group’s foundation has been set for the coming year in preparation for next steps including conducting a needs assessment to review the current policies and protocols within youth-serving organizations.
Additionally, the GFOL’s team should be commended for their strong leadership and committed staff that are working to achieve each of the year’s goals. This is evident by the significant number of benchmarks met or exceeded in Year 5 and the overall progress made in all other goals.
PROGRAM BARRIERS
The GFOL partnered with one organization, WestCare Pacific Islands, to provide services to 50 “at risk” youth. WestCare’s summer program, Ready.Set.Summer!, was a success with a majority of participants expressing interest in attending a similar event in the future. The GFOL team should expand efforts to partner with past or new organizations to continue screening and providing services to “at risk” youth.
No follow-up surveys were completed in Year 5. Although feedback collected in the survey thus far shows that the training is beneficial to both natural supports and direct service providers, the current sample size is too small to effectively measure impact. Maintaining communication with training participants in Year 6 is going to be crucial to meeting this benchmark.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The GFOL team continued to deliver training, conduct outreach activities, and implement the ZSF in Year 5. As recommended in Years 4 and 5, the team should continue to focus on targeting specific groups of people in the community to further expand training for natural support and for workforce development.
In addition, GFOL will need to maintain contact with individuals trained as natural supports or direct service staff to collect follow-up data in the coming year. Regular communication should be established for those trained, and consideration should be made for incentivizing the survey.
The GFOL team should re-engage old partnerships or establish new partnerships with organizations to screen “at-risk” youth and record services provided to these youth in the coming year.
The Suicide Prevention Working Group is encouraged to work towards conducting a needs assessment in the coming year.
CONCLUSION
Overall, the GFOL team should be commended for their achievements in Year 5 of the grant project having met or exceeded many of the benchmarks. Significant progress has been made in all three of the project’s main goals. The team continues to be actively engaged with their community partners to increase awareness and break the stigma on suicide and mental health, generally.
annual report
annual report
Annual Report_Y5.pdf
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