SAMHSA will award emergency suicide grant
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Filed Under:
Health
The
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration will award an emergency grant to the
Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe to keep a youth suicide program running.
The tribe had applied for a $1.5 million grant for the
Oniyapi
Program. But the application was rejected even through there have been 51 suicide attempts on the reservation this year alone.
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-North
Dakota), the chairman of the
Senate Indian Affairs
Committee, said SAMHSA agreed to provide the emergency funds during a conference call yesterday. The amount of the grant hasn't been announced.
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