Project Grant 90XP0491

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration awarded a $2,478,028 Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program grant to the District of Columbia Department of Health (DC Health). The funding will support the implementation of the SafeCare Augmented and Parents as Teachers evidence-based home visiting models to provide high-quality services to 160 eligible families of perinatal women and children ages 0-5 in very...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports the development and validation of a primary care trauma-informed care questionnaire (TICQ) that screens for the unique traumatic experiences of Latinx children in immigrant families (CIF). The objectives of the $171,720 award, which runs from July 2024 to June 2029, are to: 1) generate and...

This $465,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) aims to compare technological and relational approaches to support families after a missed well-child visit. The study will: Demonstrate the feasibility of integrating a new referral protocol into existing resources for community health worker (CHW) outreach following missed well-child visits. Compare well-child visit...

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...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $825,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Children Exposed to Violence (CEV) program to SBCS Corporation, a non-profit organization based in Chula Vista, California. The three-year project, starting October 1, 2024, will address childhood exposure to domestic violence by implementing a trauma-informed, evidence-based, two-generation model of care for families residing at the Casa Segura...

This Project Grant award of $158,500 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to illuminate how a parent's adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and neighborhood environment influence their child's obesity risk. The study, led by Temple University, will create a Neighborhood ACEs Index (NAI) to examine how neighborhood characteristics associated with ACEs...

The Puerto Rico Department of Health received a $2.6 million formula grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to deliver early intervention services under the Special Education-Grants for Infants and Families program (CFDA 84.181). This funding supports Puerto Rico's implementation and maintenance of a statewide system to provide early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families from July 1,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $621,682 to Drexel University for the implementation and evaluation of the "Online Parent Training in Early Behavioral Intervention (OPT-IN-EARLY)" program. The goal of this program is to address the significant delays in accessing autism diagnosis and intervention services by empowering...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $645,792 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of South Carolina. The grant aims to develop assessment protocols with reliable and valid evidence for identifying language and reading disorders among Spanish-English bilingual learners in kindergarten through 2nd grade. The research will integrate static bilingual assessment, dynamic...

This $1,338,168 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program) supports research to assess the individual and combined effects of prenatal and early childhood programming on preventing child maltreatment. The primary awardee, the University of Notre Dame, will evaluate two preventative programs: the Pregnant Moms' Empowerment Program (PMEP) delivered during pregnancy, and...