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Dr. Amy Brausch, Professor in the WKU Department of Psychological Sciences, recently received two new grant awards, totaling $231,000. Both projects aim to advance suicide prevention through clinical training in Kentucky and innovative research on suicide risk.
The first award, Equipping Kentucky Clinicians with Lethal Means Counseling and Suicide Prevention Training, is funded by the Kentucky Cabinet for Justice and Public Safety through the 2025 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program. The $158,000 grant runs from January 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027.
This second award, Testing a Novel Assessment Tool for Proximal and Distal Factors in the Lead-up to Suicide Attempts in Adolescents, is funded by the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital through The Center for Accelerating Suicide Prevention in Real-World Settings Pilot Grant program, whose parent grant is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. The $73,000 grant runs from August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2027.
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