Year 6
January 15, 2025 - January 14, 2026
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Overview
Overview
PROGRAM GOALS
PROGRAM STRENGTHS
In its sixth year, GFOL made progress towards the goals for the grant. Significant strengths include recruiting and training 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 2025.
Through partnerships with community organizations, GFOL recorded services to 402 “at risk” youth. These services exceeded the benchmark for Year 6.
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 over 5,000 individuals served through 988 calls, chats, and texts during this review period. GFOL also successfully promoted the Lifeline through social media and static and local ads with an audience reach of 655,544.
In Year 6, significant progress was made in establishing the Focus on Life Coalition, which was incorporated in January 2026.
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 6.
PROGRAM BARRIERS
Few follow-up surveys were completed in Year 6. 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 beyond the life of this grant is going to be crucial for training assessment.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The GFOL team continued to deliver training and conduct outreach activities in Year 6. Utilizing data from 2020-2026, Guam Focus on Life should focus on targeting specific groups of people in the community who are most at risk 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. Regular communication should be established for those trained to ensure the effectiveness of the suicide prevention trainings, and consideration should be made for disseminating and incentivizing the survey.
The GFOL team should maintain community partnerships and establish new partnerships with organizations to continue screening “at-risk” youth and record services provided to these youth.
Now that the Focus on Life Coalition has been established, the Coalition officers and members should work with government and non-government organizations to complete a needs assessment. This assessment will assist Guam Focus on Life and the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center determine and prioritize the needs of the community and develop plans to sustain suicide prevention and training beyond the life of the grant.
CONCLUSION
Overall, the GFOL team should be commended for their achievements in this final year of the grant project having met or exceeded many of the benchmarks. Significant achievements were reached 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.
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Annual Report_Y6 2.pdf
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