DRAW is a program aimed at reducing the amount of depression and suicide risk in students age 18 and older in Kings and Tulare Counties. With activities in the natural setting of college campuses and vocational schools that began in September 2013, it is funded by the Tulare and Kings Counties Suicide Prevention Task Force with Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63) Prevention and Early Intervention funds.
Participating educational institutions include the College of the Sequoias (in Hanford, Tulare, and Visalia), Fresno Pacific University, the Milan Institute, Porterville College, San Joaquin Valley College (in Hanford and Visalia), and the West Hills College campus in Lemoore.
This report is an evaluation of these efforts.