The foundation is pleased to provide a $3,000,000 joint grant to co-applicants, Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy and Brown University’s Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior for a research grant title “Targeted Intensive Case Management of Veterans at Risk for Suicide Post Impatient Hospitalization”. In order to examine the impact of Coping Long-Term With Active Suicide Program (CLASP) which has been developed at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University to prevent suicides after psychiatric hospital discharge. With assistance from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention in Canandaigua, NY the grant is to implement the protocol across 6 strategicalled selected VHA locations across the United States.
