{"id":10642,"date":"2012-10-12T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T00:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=10642"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:55:49","slug":"suicide-prevention-program-receives-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/10\/12\/suicide-prevention-program-receives-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide prevention program receives grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/hilo.aerial.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial photo of U H Hilo campus\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/hilo.aerial.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/hilo.aerial-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo&#8217;s<\/a> Department of Student Health and Wellness Program received a three-year grant award of $261,000 to support <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/studentaffairs\/counselingcenter.php\">Counseling Services<\/a> in its suicide prevention efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The goal of this grant project is to prevent suicide and improve the mental health of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo students through a peer-to-peer outreach and support network,&rdquo; explained <strong>Sulma Gandhi<\/strong>, director for Student Health and Wellness. &ldquo;The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Suicide Prevention Grant serves a widely diverse student body that reflects multicultural <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to a fall 2010 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo student survey administered by the American College Health Association:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>46 percent of students felt overwhelming anxiety within the last year<\/li>\n<li>60 percent felt very sad within the last year<\/li>\n<li>33.8 percent of students felt so depressed that it was difficult to function within the last year<\/li>\n<li>6.6 percent seriously considered suicide within the last year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;Recent survey data from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo indicates that our students do experience notable levels of anxiety, distress and depression&#8212;all of which can be risk factors for suicide,&rdquo; said Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs <strong>Luoluo Hong<\/strong>. &ldquo;With Dr. Gandhi now here on campus to initiate our inaugural health promotion and wellness programs, it is timely that we have received this generous grant to educate the campus community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The grant program is authorized under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, which is named in honor of former Senator Gordon Smith&#8217;s son who died by suicide, and is operated by <abbr>HHS<\/abbr>&#8217; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;Adapted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=5315\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo news release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s Department of Student Health and Wellness Programs received a grant to support its suicide prevention efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[142,14],"class_list":["post-10642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-award","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10642"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135551,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions\/135551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}