During the 6-years of the R01 research grant from the National Institutes of Health, from 2018-2024:
Throughout the project, we provided 733 hours of training to community, academic, school, national, and international audiences, including five in-service trainings on suicide prevention and wellness promotion to 610 school staff.
We hosted Trainings of Facilitators in 2019, 2022 and 2024.
In 2019, 41 people from 14 Alaskan communities were trained as PC CARES facilitators. After the training, 134 people attended learning circles in 8 communities in three different regions of the state.
After Covid paused in-person learning circles, we sent mental wellness care packages to 493 recipients in 49 communities in remote Alaska, with a total of 1,319 packages sent.
238 people attended virtual learning circles 2020-2023 (three cohorts).
In 2022, 19 Rural Human Services students from 7 communities were trained. RHS students offered 35 suicide prevention sessions to community members, reaching approximately 300 additional people.
In 2024, 31 people from 9 communities were trained as PC CARES facilitators.
These facilitators hosted 10 learning circles in two communities, reaching 41 additional participants.