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Contact Info
Injury and Violence Prevention Section
health.suicideprev.mdh@state.mn.us

Contact Info

Injury and Violence Prevention Section
health.suicideprev.mdh@state.mn.us

Suicide Prevention State Grantees

If you need free and confidential support call the
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
If you need immediate medical help call 911!

Minnesota currently funds 18 grantees across the state to implement prevention strategies at the local level.  Each grantee focused on one of four strategies: Capacity Building of American Indian Communities, Comprehensive Suicide Prevention, Community Readiness Assessments, or Suicide Prevention Training.

In addition to the 18 community prevention grants, the Suicide Prevention Unit also provides funding for four Minnesota-based National Suicide Prevention Lifeline centers. 

Capacity Building of American Indian Communities

Grantees awarded this grant are focused on building capacity in American Indian (Tribal or non-tribal) communities around suicide prevention as defined and identified by the community.

Grantees implementing capacity building of American Indian communities:

  • Ain Dah Yun Center
  • Dakota Wicohan for Lower Sioux and Upper Sioux communities
  • Northwest American Indian Community Development Center for Beltrami County and three Tribal Nations of Leech Lake, White Earth and Cass Lake
  • White Earth Mental Health for White Earth Reservation

Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Grantees

Grantees awarded this grant are focused on coordinating and evaluating a comprehensive community approach to suicide prevention.

Grantees implementing comprehensive suicide prevention:

  • Clay County
  • Polk County Public Health
  • Saint Louis County Public Health and Human Services
  • Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE)

Community Readiness Assessment Grantees

Grantees awarded this grant are focused on conducting a community readiness assessment to address mental illness, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts or deaths by suicide.

Grantees implementing Community Readiness Assessment:

  • Aitkin County Public Health
  • Itasca County Public Health
  • Lao Assistance Center
  • Somali Community Resettlement Center

Suicide Prevention Training

Grantees awarded this grant are focused on providing gatekeeper trainings and community-based suicide prevention trainings for community members and professions.  Gatekeeper trainings offered by grantees may include: Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR), safeTALK, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM).

Grantees implementing Suicide Prevention Training:

  • Evergreen Youth and Families for Beltrami County
  • Family and Children’s Center Network for Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha and Winona counties
  • Meeker-McLeod-Sibley Community Health Services for Meeker, McLeod and Sibley counties 
  • National Alliance on Mental Illness – Minnesota (NAMI MN) for statewide
  • Northern Pines Mental Health for Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Todd, and Wadena counties
  • Productive Alternatives, Inc., for Otter Tail County
  • Wright County Health and Human Services for Wright County

Minnesota-Based 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Call Centers

Grantees awarded this grant are certified call centers that answers calls from the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

To reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, please dial 988

  • Carver County
  • First Call
  • First Link
  • Greater Twin Cities United Way

Contact

For more information, contact the Suicide Prevention Unit at Health.suicideprev.MDH@state.mn.us.
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Last Updated: 10/03/2022

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