The $400,000 grant is a key component of the state's initiative for the Columbia University TeenScreen Program, a voluntary youth mental health and suicide-risk screening program.
According to the program, results of these efforts will provide valuable insight to the state's suicide prevention plan and provide model guidance to the 35 other states that include screening as part of their state prevention plans.
Laurie Flynn, National Director of the Columbia University TeenScreen Program says, "Gary Waters and Barbara Ludwig with the Center for Health and Learning at the Department of Education have been instrumental in implementing TeenScreen in Nevada."
She says, "Their efforts resulted in more than 4,500 teens being screened for depression in the 2004-05 school year. This grant will enable them to offer a mental health check-up to thousands more teens in the current school year,"
