Cooperative Agreement 2Y2CMS331897

This $413,660 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 Aging Research) will support a study to evaluate the impact of Illinois' Health Benefits for Immigrant Seniors (HBIA) and Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults (HBIS) programs on healthcare utilization and outcomes among aging Latino immigrants. The study aims to: 1) examine changes in emergency department visits and hospitalizations among Latino older adults, as well as uncompensated hospital care, following...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $132,033 to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston to conduct research on psychosocial and neural mechanisms for a culturally and linguistically adapted treatment for bilingual Latino young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The key objectives of this K99/R00 Pathway to...

This two-year, $138,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will support research investigating Latinx caregiver preparation for discussing immigration status with children in mixed-status families. The grant recipient, an early career scientist, will conduct a mixed-methods study from the perspective of caregivers in Latinx households with unauthorized immigrant parents. In Phase 1, the recipient will interview caregivers to...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $275,766 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA #93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) supports the development of a proof-of-concept for HealthYU-Latinx, a technology-based solution designed to improve health literacy for Latinx secondary school students and their families. The funding will enable the creation of a web/mobile-based, self-paced curriculum featuring animated videos, live...

This $156,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will fund a research project at the University of Colorado-Denver to study the long-term effects of Mexico's universal public health insurance program, Seguro Popular, on child health and household outcomes. The project will leverage the longitudinal, nationally representative Mexican Family Life Survey to identify the causal...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports the development and validation of a primary care trauma-informed care questionnaire (TICQ) that screens for the unique traumatic experiences of Latinx children in immigrant families (CIF). The objectives of the $171,720 award, which runs from July 2024 to June 2029, are to: 1) generate and...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $1,824,267 to Duke University to develop and evaluate the efficacy of the "Ser Familia" family-based intervention. The intervention aims to prevent or reduce a syndemic of substance abuse, intimate partner violence, HIV risk, depression, and anxiety among Latino immigrant families by decreasing acculturative stress and...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $990,614 to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. to conduct a mixed-methods study examining individuals' knowledge, attitudes, and intentions regarding the use of Massachusetts's confidentiality law (the PATCH law) for obtaining reproductive health services using health insurance. The study aims to fill...

This federal Project Grant award of $187,772 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), will support a study to characterize patterns of caregiver engagement among Latino families in early intervention services for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The key objectives are to: (1) examine multidimensional caregiver engagement (attitudinal and behavioral dimensions) by ethnicity,...

The federal Project Grant award of $400,000 was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families under the Social Services Research and Demonstration (CFDA 93.647) program. The award supports the "INSPIRA - Pathway to Success" program delivered by the Latin American Association, Inc., a minority-owned non-profit organization in Atlanta, Georgia. The program aims to provide comprehensive social services and support to Latino...