Cooperative Agreement SM061330

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded The Ohio State University a $19.5 million Cooperative Agreement on August 18, 2025, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct a large-scale longitudinal study titled "Analyses to Reveal Trajectories and Early Markers of Imminent Shifts in Suicidal States" (IMPACT Study). The primary deliverable is a richly phenotyped dataset and predictive models identifying early...

This $2.9 million Defense Health Agency project grant funds research on suicide prevention among military personnel and veterans. The grant supports a multi-site randomized clinical trial through September 2026 to evaluate the efficacy of Written Exposure Therapy for Suicide Prevention compared to treatment as usual. Researchers at Boston University and partner institutions University of Colorado Denver and University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio aim to reduce suicidal thoughts and...

The Hope Center Inc. was awarded a $1.5 million project grant through the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration's Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program (CFDA 64.055) to provide suicide prevention services to veterans and their families in Louisiana from September 2022 through September 2023. Through outreach and the provision and coordination of suicide prevention resources, the Hope Center will meet the needs of eligible individuals and...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded Massachusetts General Hospital $854,029 under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) for a five-year project beginning September 1, 2025. The award funds the development and evaluation of a multimodality adaptive intervention to reduce suicide risk in patients during the critical three-month period following inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, when suicide risk is highest and engagement with...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded Columbia University's Health Sciences Division a $740,250 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to adapt and implement the Youth Nominated Support Team (YST) intervention for suicide risk prevention among youth on probation. The three-year project, running from August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028, will develop and evaluate a psychoeducational social support intervention...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health awarded $922,289 to the Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene, Inc. (through its New York State Psychiatric Institute division) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) beginning May 1, 2026, and extending through February 28, 2031. This Project Grant supports an optimization study titled "Making the Most of Relapse Prevention in Anorexia Nervosa: A Treatment Optimization Study Targeting...

Summary San Diego State University Research Foundation received a $213,381 K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030. This award funds advanced training and career development for the principal investigator to establish an independent research program addressing mental health service disparities among youth from...

This Project Grant award of $450,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753) supports the HOPE Initiative, a statewide outreach program in Rhode Island focused on identifying and engaging individuals at high risk of opioid overdose. The HOPE Initiative, led by the Rhode Island Police Chiefs Association and CODAC Behavioral Health Services, uses a customized data-gathering system to identify overdose victims and connect them with...

Federal Project Grant Summary Rhode Island Hospital, a division of Lifespan Corporation and an academic medical center affiliated with Brown University, received a $1.59 million Project Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) effective August 1, 2025 through April 30, 2030. The grant supports research to improve depression treatment outcomes among youth with HIV (YWH), a population experiencing depression...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $201,852 to support a 5-year study on the relationship between ambulatory glucose regulation and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) among adult psychiatric inpatients. The study aims to examine whether passively collected glucose metrics can prospectively predict proximal suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior, and affective-cognitive risk...