American Foundation For Suicide Prevention Announces Diversity As Priority Focus Area For Research Funding

The nation's largest private funder of suicide prevention research, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) announced the research priority areas for the 2020-2022 grant funding cycles. The new research priorities are suicide prevention within underrepresented racial and ethnic communities and the evaluation of technological tools for suicide prevention. Applications in these areas will be reviewed along with the general pool of grant applications, with priority given to strong grants in the designated fields.

This year's focus on diversity is a part of AFSP's larger commitment to addressing the disparity in mental health care access. With . . .