Cooperative Agreement 90ET0486

This Project Grant award of $430,252 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative multi-year research project examining the multi-sectoral determinants of health in low-income communities globally. The research uses qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the formulation, interpretation, translation, and implementation of health policies across local, national, and transnational scales. The project...

The Social Security Administration awarded an $8 million block grant to Mathematica Inc. to conduct a randomized controlled trial assessing Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for formerly homeless individuals with disabilities. The trial will combine IPS supported employment with supportive housing services. The goal is to help participants achieve competitive integrated employment and self-sufficiency as defined by weeks worked and earnings. The trial addresses two priorities of the...

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded the Center for Housing and Health $1.3 million on August 31, 2026, under the Social Services Research and Demonstration program (CFDA 93.647) to provide housing supports for families with young children experiencing homelessness in Chicago. The funded project will serve 46 households with minor children identified by Center for Housing and Health's healthcare partners as high utilizers of crisis systems....

The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the Research Institute At Nationwide Children's Hospital $645,887 on August 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop and test a clinical pathway for identifying and addressing social needs barriers to post-discharge mental health service engagement among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents. The project, titled "Targeting Social Needs to Enhance Post-Psychiatric Hospital Care for...

Forge Forward Project Summary The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department received a $740,289 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants program (CFDA 93.086), effective September 30, 2025 through September 29, 2030. The Forge Forward project delivers a 12-week evidence-informed workshop series using the Bringing Back the Dads curriculum to strengthen...

This $385,877 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program aims to optimize the integration of child psychosocial screenings in primary care. The grant will fund the development and testing of the CareLoop intervention, which uses process service mapping to enhance referral and linkage pathways and promote whole-person,...

This federal Project Grant award under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), will support a $142,864 project to use natural language processing and generative AI models to capture social determinants of health (SDH) information from patients. The goal is to process this SDH data into discrete elements that can be integrated into the electronic health record and used by clinical decision...

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded Friends Outside In Los Angeles County a $3.75 million cooperative agreement on September 30, 2025, under the Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants program (CFDA 93.086). Friends Outside In Los Angeles County will implement DADS BACK! ACADEMY, a community-based reentry program for fathers in South Los Angeles, including Watts, Inglewood, Lynwood, Compton, and surrounding...

This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226) supports a $400,000 randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a "whole person navigation" intervention for adults with multiple chronic conditions. The intervention combines predictive modeling to identify high-risk patients with a navigation strategy to help guide them in accessing social services and overcoming...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) received a $1.0 million Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR, CFDA 93.433) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, to develop and pilot the "Dignity of Work" intervention. This practical intervention aims to enhance employment outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental...