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This bill allocates $300,000 from a state special revenue account to Montana's Department of Public Health and Human Services for suicide prevention activities targeting service members, veterans, and their families during the biennium beginning July 1, 2025. The funding will be used to implement several key strategies, including developing suicide prevention approaches in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, establishing screening standards to identify suicide risk, educating providers and peers about risk identification, increasing trained peer support workers, developing collaborative policies across military and civilian agencies to improve care continuity, and implementing statewide lethal means safety initiatives. Specific activities include creating screening standards, conducting safe storage campaigns, holding statewide lethal means safety training events, and convening a working group to support clinical safety planning guidelines. The department is required to report on these activities as part of its annual performance report. The bill will be effective from July 1, 2025, and will terminate on June 30, 2027, and copies will be sent to each federally recognized tribal government in Montana.

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2090