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Howard University (2005–2008 & 2009–2012)

Program Description:

Howard University's (HU) Department of Psychiatry and the University Counseling Service have developed the Suicide Prevention Action Group (SPAG).  The overall goals of the project are to:  (1) maintain and support the increase in HU students' help seeking behavior; (2) decrease suicidal behavior among HU students at all levels of matriculation; and (3) decrease the stigmatization of mental health seeking behaviors against any HU student at risk of suicide. Project objectivesinclude: (l) to continue and maintain the training of campus wide personnel who interact with HU students who may be at risk for suicide; (2) to deliver effective training for all HU resident assistants (RAs) in campus dormitories and first responders in the HU Hospital, mainly nurses and emergency room staff; (3) to implement an on-line training curriculum for incoming freshmen that will be proceeded by semester long dormitory-based discussions led by the RAs; and (4) to improve SPAG's existing strategies of education and outreach to new and existing students, and their parents. Target audience for SPAG's campus-wide program will be all incoming first-year students, resident assistants, and HU Hospital nurses and emergency room staff.

Contact Information:
Donna Barnes, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Howard University
2041 Georgia Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20060
Tel: 202-806-7706
Email: dbarnes@nopcas.org

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