$1.4M to tribes for suicide prevention

PHOENIX — The Indian Health Service announced an additional funding opportunity for the Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative — Generation Indigenous Initiative Support, totaling more than $1.4 million for tribes and tribal organizations.

The funding will support project activities that focus on promoting early intervention strategies and the implementation of positive youth development programming to reduce risk factors for suicidal behavior and substance misuse by working with native youths up to and including age 24.

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