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Nebraska DHHS Awarded Grant Money for Suicide Prevention

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services was notified last week it will receive $500,000 per year for 3 years to implement best practices to prevent youth suicide. The grant is from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within the US Department of Health and Human Services. The Department of Health and Human Services will work with the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center and Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska to carry out grant activities and evaluate project progress.

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For more information, go to the Nebraska Suicide Prevention Project page

Nebraska Integrated Information and Referral Project

This project developed the technological link between propriety software and existing xml standards to enable resource information sharing (locally and nationally). Tools created by this project enable linking disparate resource databases using the market-leading proprietary software. The project identified and resolved semantic conflicts by developing a codified data format structure, and data conflicts by creating data conversion rules and routines. The solutions created were used in a Nebraska statewide pilot (ne211.org, debuted on February 11, 2005) that leveraged information assets already present in disparate state and local databases maintained by public and private organizations. The pilot will provide evaluative and best practices results regarding improved information and referral access: 1) through a consumer-friendly Internet site; 2) by dialing 2-1-1 in certain parts of the state, and 3) through helping organizations.

Key Partners
State: Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department; Nebraska Respite Network (Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services); Panhandle Partnership for Health and Human Services; United Way of the Midlands (host of the 2-1-1 Call/Resource Center)
National: Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (AIRS); AIRS XML Data Standards Workgroup; Information and Referral software vendors; Members of the Information and Referral community

Funding 
This project was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Commerce Technologies Opportunities Program – National Telecommunication and Information Administration.

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Related Publications:

A Case Study in Data Sharing: 211 Helplink and the AIRS XSD. Cottingham, I., Kutsch, B., & Shank, N. (2008, June 6).

Nebraska 211 System Cost/Benefit Analysis. (2000). PDF File

Recommendations on Creating a Statewide Information Resource for Human Services. Real Choice Project Data Team, University of Nebraska Public Policy Center. (2003 March). PDF Files

Lead Contact:
Name: Teri Perkins
E-mail: tperkins@nebraska.edu
Phone: (402) 472-5620


Staff Researchers:

Name: Nancy Shank
E-mail: nshank@nebraska.edu
Phone: (402) 472-5687

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