Mercy大学获50万美元SAMHSA四年期拨款：Mercy RISE计划覆盖三个校区做自杀预防
主校区位于纽约州威彻斯特县Dobbs Ferry市的Mercy大学11月3日宣布，该校获得美国药物滥用与心理健康服务管理局（SAMHSA）50万美元联邦拨款，用于加强全校范围的自杀预防、心理健康教育与学生支持。这笔四年期拨款来自SAMHSA的Garrett Lee Smith校园自杀预防项目，拨款号SM-26-009。
拨款将支持名为Mercy RISE的计划，RISE取Resilience, Intervention, Support and Empowerment（韧性、干预、支持与赋能）之意，覆盖该校三个校区，内容包括扩大早期识别、增加行为健康服务可及性、落实循证预防策略，并建设能长期维持的学生福祉基础设施。计划的四项目标是：强化机构自杀预防能力；改善对出现行为健康问题学生的早期识别与转介；提升求助行为与服务知晓度；建立能延续到拨款期之后的政策、伙伴关系与预防体系。
背景数据方面，2024年全国药物使用与健康调查（NSDUH）显示，18至25岁人群中33.2%患有心理疾病，其中9.4%为严重心理疾病。Mercy大学2024至2025学年的Healthy Minds研究则发现，该校62%的学生至少有一项显著心理健康问题的症状，估计约3,000名已识别出需求的学生未获得治疗。
Mercy大学健康与福祉执行主任Colleen Powers说，这笔拨款是对学生健康与福祉的重要投资，将帮助学校在JED Campus等既有工作基础上，建立更全面、更主动的心理健康促进、自杀预防与学生支持体系。该校2025年加入了Jed基金会的JED Campus全国计划，此后一直在评估校内相关项目并查找缺口。
Mercy RISE的合作方包括JED Campus、BetterMynd、Lavender Psychiatry、NewYork-Presbyterian医院、NAMI Westchester、Jordan Porco Foundation及其他地区行为健康机构；学校将培训教职员工、学生领袖与学生识别预警信号并把同伴连接到帮助资源，同时开展年度需求评估、自愿筛查与转介、综合危机响应与去污名化宣传。Mercy大学在校生9,000多人，是纽约州最大的私立西班牙裔服务机构。
（来源：Mercy大学）
Mercy University Awarded $500,000 Four-Year SAMHSA Grant: Mercy RISE Brings Suicide Prevention to All Three Campuses
Mercy University, whose main campus is in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, New York, announced on November 3 that it has been awarded a $500,000 federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to strengthen campus-wide suicide prevention, mental health education and student support. The four-year award, grant number SM-26-009, comes through SAMHSA's Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) Campus Suicide Prevention Grant Program.
The funding supports Mercy RISE (Resilience, Intervention, Support and Empowerment), an initiative covering the university's three campuses that expands early identification, increases access to behavioral health services, implements evidence-based prevention strategies and builds sustainable infrastructure for student well-being. Its four goals are to strengthen institutional capacity for suicide prevention, improve early identification and referral of students with behavioral health concerns, increase help-seeking and awareness of services, and establish sustainable policies, partnerships and prevention infrastructure beyond the grant period.
The 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) reports that 33.2% of 18- to 25-year-olds experience mental illness, with 9.4% experiencing serious mental illness. At Mercy, the 2024-2025 Healthy Minds Study found that 62% of students experience symptoms of at least one significant mental health concern, and an estimated 3,000 students with identified needs are not receiving treatment.
"This award represents a significant investment in the health and well-being of our students," said Colleen Powers, executive director of Health and Wellness at Mercy University, adding that the funding builds on work already under way through JED Campus toward a comprehensive, proactive approach. Mercy joined JED Campus, the Jed Foundation's nationwide initiative, in 2025.
Partners include JED Campus, BetterMynd, Lavender Psychiatry, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, NAMI Westchester, the Jordan Porco Foundation and other regional providers. The university will train faculty, staff, student leaders and students to recognize warning signs and connect peers to help, and will conduct annual needs assessments, voluntary screening and referrals, integrated crisis response and stigma-reduction work. Mercy serves more than 9,000 students and is the largest private Hispanic Serving Institution in New York state.
(Source: Mercy University)
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