This Department Offers Grant for Kazakhstan’s Suicide Prevention Capacity Building

Project Goal:   Strengthen Kazakhstan’s ability to confront mental health challenges by promoting increased citizen awareness, formalized government support, and broader civil society capacity.  

Project Audience(s): Includes but is not limited to mental health professionals (psychologists, psychiatrists, school counselors, students of psychology/psychiatry/therapy); school administrators; crisis center hotline workers, law enforcement and first responders, civil society organizations assisting in mental health issues. 

Project Objectives:  

Objective 1: Improve the quality of support provided to at-risk individuals thoughformal certification trainings for at least 100 members of the target audience in American and international best practices in the following topics:   

·        1) recognize signs of someone at risk and promote resources for wellness;  

·        2) intervene by empowering individuals, mental health practitioners, and first responders to help those exhibiting suicidal thoughts and behaviors;  

·        3) create and promote post-intervention resources for recovery of suicide survivors; and  

·        4) counsel and provide relief for families and friends of those lost to suicide (postvention)  

Objective 2: Increase awareness of mental health challenges and resiliency by developing sustainable resources for suicide prevention efforts in the following areas:  

·        Suicide Prevention Hotline  

·        Training Resources  

·        Peer Groups  

·        Outreach Programs