Project Grant 2018RQBX0001

The Peer Coalition Inc., a non-profit organization located in Suffern, New York, received a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (CFDA 93.276 - Drug-Free Communities Support Program Grants) to prevent and reduce youth substance use in the East Ramapo Central School District. The grant, awarded for the period of September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2029, will support the Peer Coalition's efforts to build a diverse community coalition, implement...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $481,384 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to enhance the Peer+ tool, which supports peer instruction techniques in STEM courses. The project aims to evaluate the effects of three different peer discussion modes - text-chat during lectures, pseudo text-chat after lectures, and traditional in-person peer discussions - on learning outcomes and student satisfaction across...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (CFDA 16.745) to Salt Lake County (SLCO) to implement the Person-Centered Peer Support Pilot Project (PCPS). The goal is to improve outcomes for 117 participants in the Salt Lake City Justice Court Familiar Faces Court over a 36-month period from October 2024 to September 2027. The project will embed three certified peer support specialists to...

The Prince George's County Health Department (PGCHD) received a $2,400,000 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants program (CFDA 93.732). The funding will support the implementation of the Powerful Youth Peers (PYP) program, a certified peer support specialist training initiative to address the county's behavioral health workforce shortage and improve...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,947,176.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Integrative Activities (IA) program (CFDA 47.083) to Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. The purpose of the "Partnerships for Enhancing ERI Research (PEER)" project is to transform the research enterprise at Bradley University, an emerging research institution (ERI), by enhancing research administration services, stimulating a campus culture of research, and...

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to advance peer-delivered mental health interventions for young adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. The grant, titled "ADVANCING PEER-DELIVERED MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS FOR YOUNG ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: ADAPTING AND TESTING STEPUP PEER PROGRAMMING," will be...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to The Dream Program, Inc. The grant will fund an innovative two-tiered, cross-age, peer-to-peer mentoring model to reach vulnerable youth, especially in rural areas of Vermont. The project will provide one-on-one and group mentoring services to 423 youth across 30 schools and neighborhoods, aiming to reduce the likelihood of high-risk...

This Project Grant award of $1,167,336.00 from the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560 - National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants) supports a rigorous evaluation of Police Peer Support Programs (PPSPs) across four well-established regional programs. The evaluation has two main objectives: 1) a process evaluation to document the structure, processes, and protocols of each PPSP, and 2) an outcome evaluation to examine implementation outcomes,...

The Petey Greene Program (PGP) was awarded a $900,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812). The purpose of this 3-year grant is to expand PGP's educational tutoring and college readiness program at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Chester (SCI-Chester) and integrate comprehensive reentry services to guide participants during and after incarceration. The program aims to...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $1,726,800.00 to Washington State University to conduct a longitudinal mixed-methods study examining the role of peer relationships in pediatric chronic pain. The study aims to identify specific peer relationship processes, such as social exclusion, cyber-victimization, and social connectedness, that...