Project Grant R01MH124437

This federal 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), supports a multi-year research investigation into the practices of foster caregivers and the developmental outcomes of youth in foster care. The $168,818 award to Virginia Commonwealth University aims to achieve three key goals: 1) Explore critical risk and resilience factors for youth in foster care,...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research on extended family support and housing stability among at-risk youth. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside will study how instrumental and emotional support from grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and adult siblings influences the sense of safety and housing stability over time for 80 youth aged 16-19 in rural and minority communities in two Southwestern states. Using mixed methods...

This $146,550 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program will support a mixed methods research study to investigate the impact of mental health distress, intimate partner violence (IPV), and female caregiver-adolescent girl communication on HIV risk behaviors among South African adolescent girls and young women (SA-AGYW). The study will conduct secondary analyses of...

This $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports collaborative research on extended family support and housing stability among at-risk youth. Over a 14-month period, researchers will study 80 youth aged 16-19 in two Southwest states to understand how instrumental and emotional support from grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and adult siblings influences the youths' sense of safety and housing...

This $599,997.00 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137), will implement a community-driven intervention to address intersectional mental health disparities among housing-insecure youth in San Diego, California. The project will bundle evidence-based approaches, including expressive arts, health service navigation, and "warm hand-offs," to...

This federal Project Grant award of $327,841 was provided by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305). The award was granted to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) to improve educational stability and opportunities for California's foster youth students. The project period runs from October 10, 2024 to August 31, 2025. As a prominent non-profit research organization, AIR will...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), under the Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324), provides $529,121 to Florida International University (FIU) to conduct a meta-analysis on the effects of mental health interventions delivered in schools. The project, titled "Effects of Mental Health Interventions Delivered in Schools: A Meta-Analysis," will run from Jul 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2025. As part of this...

This federal Project Grant award of $240,750 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support research to develop and pilot test the Navigate-Train-Referral-Intervention Mental Health (NTRI-MH) intervention. The goal is to promote access, engagement, coordination, and optimization of mental health services for preschoolers with mental health symptoms, particularly those from low-income and ethno-racial minority...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $199,993 to Trinity University to conduct a 2-year longitudinal study on how support from extended family members shapes the housing stability and safety of youth at risk of homelessness. The study builds on a previous 1-year study, following 83 youth aged 16-19 from two states in the Southwest U.S., including rural and minority communities. Through...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will provide $273,587 to develop model-based and design-based approaches to longitudinal causal decomposition analysis. Led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, the project aims to identify modifiable risk factors contributing to social disparities. Methodological guidance, an R package, sample code, and video tutorials will be created to help researchers...