Project Grant 18918623822

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $542,314 to Boston Medical Center Corporation to develop and pilot a culturally responsive mental health services access measurement system for integrated mental health care services in Peru. The key objectives are to: 1) conduct a community-based needs assessment to inform the adaptation of the access measurement system, 2) adapt existing care...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop and validate a comprehensive, multi-dimensional scale to measure sexual well-being. The primary awardee, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, will lead a 5-year, $715,829 research project to create a robust sexual well-being scale that captures positive, strength-based...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to the University of Colorado Denver through the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support a research lab on the arts, health, and social/emotional well-being from April 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023. The grant funding will allow the University of Colorado Denver to establish and operate a research lab dedicated to exploring how participation in the arts can promote individual...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to examine the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of a combined Strategy Training and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ST+ACT) intervention to Strategy Training (ST) alone for improving social participation, psychological flexibility, and well-being outcomes among...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $1,647,117 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to develop, test, and validate a new transdiagnostic outcome-focused measure of mental health care quality. The key objective is to create a standardized patient-reported symptom measure that can be used to routinely assess and improve the quality of mental health services...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $768,172 to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy (MBT) for patients with serious mental illness (SMI) in a community mental health center (CMHC) setting. The study will randomize 160 patients with psychotic-spectrum and major mood disorders to receive either treatment as usual or treatment as usual plus MBT delivered by...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) supports a 3-year formative evaluation and evaluability assessment of the Atlanta Regional Commission's behavioral health coaching program for adults with disabilities living in subsidized housing. The Georgia State University Research Foundation, partnering with the Atlanta Regional Commission, Emory University, and other local organizations, will apply a...

The federal Project Grant award R43AT013060, valued at $241,102, was provided by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) under the Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health program (CFDA 93.213). The grant supports the development of an AI-based recommendation engine by Socialrx Inc., an arts-based social prescribing company, to scale the delivery of personalized arts prescriptions for addressing mental health and social isolation challenges in...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), is focused on elucidating the impact of discriminatory and supportive LGBT-targeted policies on mental health among adolescent and young adult populations. The primary objectives are to: 1) quantify the associations between LGBT-targeted policies, enacted stigma, and mental health outcomes using survey data from the National Healthy Minds Study; and 2) conduct...

This $150,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) will support a research agenda and associated studies to be designed and implemented by the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project at the University of Pennsylvania. The award, with a performance period from July 1, 2024 to May 31, 2025, will enable the university to conduct cutting-edge research across diverse scientific...