Project Grant 90CY7217

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants, provides $422,206 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to develop and pilot test a psychosocial intervention for sexual and gender minority autistic adults. The award will support Dr. Laura Graham Holmes, a clinical psychologist, to acquire skills in community-engaged intervention development, clinical trial design, and safety monitoring...

This $290,052 Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under the Cancer Cause and Prevention Research program (CFDA 93.393) supports the development and evaluation of a mobile-optimized intervention called PERCS-YA (Personalized Cancer Support for Young Adults) to reduce worry and distress among young adult cancer survivors. The award will fund stakeholder-engaged refinement of the PERCS-YA intervention, followed by a Phase II efficacy trial utilizing both a...

The Living Classrooms Foundation, Inc. will receive $1,950,000 under a three-year Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance to establish a trauma-informed crisis intervention management system in Baltimore, Maryland's East Baltimore communities of McElderry Park and Belair-Edison. The grant funds will support the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative program, which aims to reduce violence by persons at...

This Project Grant award, totaling $2,005,780 and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to develop digital strategies to advance help-seeking in youth at clinical high risk for developing psychosis. The key products and services to be delivered include: Characterizing help-seeking subtypes in 25,000 youth who screen above threshold for psychosis risk on the Mental Health America (MHA) online screening...

The LUK Crisis Center, Inc. was awarded a $972,406 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.818 Children Exposed to Violence program). The grant will support the implementation of the Personalized Approach to Healing (PATH) program in North Central Massachusetts over a 36-month period. PATH provides prevention, intervention, and treatment services for youth under age 18 who have experienced or witnessed violence in...

This $550,000 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (CFDA 16.745) will enable Horizon Behavioral Health to expand its collaboration with the Lynchburg Police Department (LPD) through the development of a co-response model between law enforcement and behavioral health professionals at Horizon's Crisis Receiving Center. The goal is to provide multiple treatment options for individuals...

The Project Grant award of $356,317 from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the Financial Assistance to Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking program (CFDA 16.063) supports the Crisis Center For South Suburbia, a non-profit domestic violence shelter, in providing flexible financial assistance to survivors of interpersonal violence. The funding will enable the Crisis Center to cover essential survivor-identified...

This Project Grant award for $300,000.00, provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control under the Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs (CFDA 93.136), will support the development and implementation of a cross-cutting, trauma-informed peer aggression and dating violence prevention program for preteens receiving intensive mental health services in Rhode Island. The award, with a performance...

The Central Iowa Trauma Recovery Center (CITRC), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was awarded a $500,000 three-year Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs' Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582). Under this award, CITRC will expand the University of California-San Francisco's Trauma Recovery Center model to provide mental health services, medication management, clinical care coordination, and therapeutic support services...

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime awarded a $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582) to the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, Inc. The purpose of the grant is to expand the capacity of CCRI's Image Abuse Helpline, the nation's only 24/7 hotline assisting victims and survivors of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA). Key services to be provided include crisis intervention, safety...