Cooperative Agreement W81XWH0820195

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...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $204,788 to New York University to adapt and evaluate an innovative trauma-focused parenting intervention called Parenting-STAIR for military-connected mothers. The goal is to adapt the existing 23-session Parenting-STAIR intervention, which has shown promise in reducing trauma symptoms and improving parenting skills among...

This federal Project Grant award of $2,398,281.00 from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program aims to increase access to evidence-based PTSD treatment for military service members and veterans through Behavioral Health Technician-delivered Written Exposure Therapy (WET). The primary awardee, Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research (Pavir), will oversee the overall project objectives, which include providing WET training to...

This Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $2,326,715 to the Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. (BVARI) to develop and conduct a preliminary evaluation of a self-directed, internet-based Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) intervention. The funding period is from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Developing the web-based CPT...

This $3,823,679 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports the development and evaluation of a web-based training program for brief cognitive behavioral therapy (BCBT) for suicide prevention. The prime awardee, The Ohio State University, is collaborating with subrecipients The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of Memphis...

This Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $1,439,597.00 to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic to fund a 4-year research project titled "Targeting Knowledge and Cognition to Improve Quality of Life: An Innovative Telehealth Approach for Brain Tumor Survivors and Their Care Partners". The research aims to develop and evaluate a telehealth intervention to address cognitive and psychosocial...

This $375,463 Project Grant was awarded by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation). The grant will fund a 3-year project focused on "COUPLE-BASED CRISIS SAFETY PLANNING VIA TELEHEALTH TO REDUCE SUICIDE CRISIS SYMPTOMS AND SUICIDE RISK." The project aims to develop and evaluate a telehealth-based intervention to provide crisis safety planning for...

This Project Grant award of $838,966 from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the CFDA 16.560 National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program supports the development and pilot testing of a community-based, peer advocacy intervention for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) whose partners are enrolled in relationship violence intervention programs (RVIPs). The goal is to improve mental health, increase safety behaviors, and empower IPV...

The Department of the Army Medical Command awarded a $2,261,316 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to Stanford University on May 1, 2022 for completion by April 30, 2026. The grant will fund a randomized controlled trial comparing telehealth-enabled versus in-person parent-mediated behavioral treatment for challenging behaviors in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Stanford University will conduct the clinical trial and receive...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $1,440,659 to Duke University to develop a novel pregnancy-specific dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills intervention to target emotion dysregulation and improve maternal and infant health outcomes. The research aims to test whether the DBT-P intervention can increase maternal emotion regulation skills or physiological regulation, and in turn...