This federal Project Grant award of $2,483,351 was provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307). The award will fund a 5-year research project at George Washington University, in collaboration with sub-awardees Yale University, UC Davis, UNC-Chapel Hill, and RTI International, to identify and assess policy and community-level interventions that counteract the effects of...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), provides $1,097,280 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop and pilot a culturally tailored intervention for Latinx adolescents from mixed-status families. The intervention aims to: (1) increase youth discussions of mental health needs with caregivers, (2) reduce stigma around mental health...
This $6,000,000 Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (CFDA 93.104) program will enable the Utah Department of Health and Human Services (Utah DHHS) to sustain and expand its system of care for youth with serious emotional disturbances or severe mental illness. The funding will be used to increase access to evidence-based mental...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) is funding the "Advancing Health Equity Through Park Afterschool Programs" research project at Florida International University (FIU). The project aims to improve mental health and social-emotional outcomes for youth in underserved communities by enhancing the capacity of park afterschool program (ASP) providers to deliver evidence-based...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), provides $781,238 to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct a 4-year mixed methods study. The study aims to: 1) describe current trends in school-based health center (SBHC) staffing models and practices nationally and create a classification system to strengthen future research, design,...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program provides $1,066,666.68 to Housing Works Health Services III, Inc. to support the "Care Your Way" initiative. The initiative aims to improve health outcomes and address health disparities among Black and Latinx populations in New York City by integrating medical care, behavioral health, and social...
This $1,599,634 federal Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program will promote the wellness of and improve outcomes for low-income children from birth to 8 years in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. The funding will provide infant and early childhood mental health promotion, screening, referral, and treatment...
This $1,400,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Telehealth Programs (CFDA 93.211) will fund the "Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care through Telehealth" evidence-based telehealth network program. The grant, awarded to Centro De Salud De La Comunidad De San Ysidro, Inc. (dba San Ysidro Health), a non-profit federally qualified health center, aims to enhance healthcare access...
This Project Grant award of $370,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program will fund the Native Health Indigenous Resiliency Program for Urban Youth in Maricopa County, Arizona. The program aims to foster mental health promotion and enable prevention and reduction of risk for...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $367,829 Project Grant (CFDA 93.243) to Liberty Partnership Community Council, doing business as Lpknz, to implement the "Building a Strong Community- on the Southside" initiative. The 5-year project aims to reduce substance misuse and enhance mental health and well-being in Tucson's Ward 5, targeting 7,000 youth and 4,000 adult/caregivers from primarily Hispanic, African-American, and Caucasian...
This $599,997 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program will fund a 4-year initiative led by the San Diego State University Foundation and San Diego Youth Services. The project aims to address intersectional mental health disparities among housing-insecure youth, particularly those who are Black, Latino, and have limited English proficiency. The key products and services to be delivered include:
Implementing a youth-centered intervention that bundles evidence-based approaches targeting social determinants of health, such as expressive arts, health service navigation, and "warm hand-offs". This intervention seeks to increase housing-insecure youth's use and sustained engagement in preventative health services, including treatment for depression. The project will focus initial implementation at San Diego Youth Services' youth emergency shelter, then expand to transitional-age youth programs. Ongoing process and outcomes evaluation, as well as feedback from community partners and a youth advisory board, will be used to monitor quality and guide updates to the intervention.