2018 Suicide Prevention Fund Grant Recipients
With the help of ACF, GCI awarded grants to the following 10 recipients this year:

Anchorage School District – suicide prevention training for 36 secondary teachers
Bethel Community Services Foundation, Inc. – support for the Healing through Music and Dance program to serve up to 2,000 people in Bethel and surrounding communities
City of Newhalen – delivery of an eight-week training based in Yup’ik culture, designed to prevent youth alcohol use and suicide through building resilience in the community 
Juneau Youth Services – support to build on the success of the Suicide Prevention Coalition
Kenai Peninsula Borough School District – support for program training for 300 students and 100 adults in Sources of Strength, a school-based program in middle school, high school or college, and also often used in community and cultural settings; it promotes and focuses on connectivity, school bonding, peer-adult partnerships, and help-seeking behaviors.
Maniilaq Association – funding for facilitated community conversations about youth suicide based in cultural norms, including training for over 300 people in the entire Northwest Arctic Borough and Point Hope
MyHouse – support for suicide prevention community awareness efforts in the Mat-Su Borough at this homeless youth drop-in center in Wasilla
Native Village of Chuathbaluk – presentation of three well-established suicide prevention techniques: SafeTALK, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training  (ASIST) and QPR – to involve the entire community
Nome Community Center – ASIST program support, workshop for the Nome community and attendance for two at a SafeTALK Training for Trainers workshop to increase community capacity to deliver this training the Nome area
Native Village of Unalakleet – expansion of Unalakleet’s annual Humpy Fishing Derby to include expanded opportunities for intergeneration connection and traditional community activities to foster an understanding of youths’ value within the community

AK Child & Family - Youth Suicide Prevention through Mental Wellness

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) - Native Ways of Knowing Craft Group

Covenant House and Southcentral Foundation - Building the Denaa Yeets' program

Juneau Youth Services - Sources of Strength

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District – Sources of Strength

Native Village of Paimiut – Beauty from Ashes workshop

Native Village of Tununak - Tununak Suicide Prevention Project

Perseverance Theatre - Touring Production of "The Winter Bear" (Kenai and Anchorage)

Wellspring Revival Ministries – Sources of Strength (Fairbanks)