Objective:
This grant will leverage Project Safe Guard, a lethal means counseling intervention first tested by the GVRC (Anestis et al., 2021; American Journal of Public Health), adapting it to meet the needs of the National Guard and conducting training sessions with nominated Guardsmen across two states currently exhibiting elevated firearm suicide concerns (states TBD). These trainings will occur over the course of
15 months and will include evaluations aimed at determining the extent to which the intervention is used in subsequent months, whether trainees encounter obstacles in utilizing it, and whether the treatment is deemed acceptable by those who receive it. The overarching goal of this grant is to increase the reach and implementation of this GVRC-developed data-driven firearm suicide prevention tool within the National Guard.
Funded By:
Uniformed Services University & the Henry Ford Foundation
Project Status:
In progress
Principal Investigator (PI):
Michael Anestis, PhD
Amount Awarded:
$79,000