Project Grant H79FG000461

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is focused on developing and testing a novel personalized suicide prevention intervention called PRECISE. The $178,319 award to the University of California, San Diego will support refining the PRECISE intervention, which leverages idiographic statistical techniques and ecological momentary assessment data to tailor evidence-based treatments like...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $661,237 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Ohio State University to optimize brief coping skills interventions for suicide prevention. The 5-year project aims to leverage technology and novel statistical models to understand the individual-specific triggers, contexts, and timing of suicide risk states that indicate when these coping skills interventions should be used. The research will collect multi-method...

This Project Grant award, valued at $101,382 and funded by 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, aims to support the University of Puerto Rico's Rio Piedras Campus (UPRRP) in establishing a comprehensive Suicide Prevention and Mental Wellness Program for its diverse student population of approximately 11,500 graduate and undergraduate...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $1,291,159 to develop and test suicide prevention quality measures across three large healthcare systems. The 4-year project, which began in August 2024, seeks to: 1) develop and validate outcome measures for suicide ideation and attempts, 2) create process measures for screening, risk assessment, safety planning, and follow-up care, and 3)...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $1,366,396 to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals to conduct a quasi-experimental study on the implementation and effectiveness of a teen suicide prevention program with confidential care in primary care clinics. The key objectives are to: 1) test if the implementation increased the prevalence of suicide risk screening, assessment, safety planning,...

This federal Project Grant award, worth $391,894 and awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants), supports a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a smartphone-delivered treatment for suicidal thoughts and behavior (STB). The trial will enroll 120 adults with recent and frequent STB and randomize them to receive either an active "Therapeutic Evaluative Condition for Suicide" (TEC-S) intervention or an inactive control condition,...

This $256,627 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to develop and pilot test a digital intervention to support parents of pre- and early adolescents in responding effectively to suicide risk alerts generated by a digital monitoring app. The key activities include: Engaging 20 parents who use the digital monitoring app to co-create and refine a single-session intervention (SSI) and just-in-time...

This $974,932 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance's STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839) aims to address high youth suicide rates in Pacific County, Washington. The grant supports a comprehensive suicide prevention and response project with four key objectives: 1) delivering suicide awareness and prevention training for students, school staff, and parents; 2) establishing a trauma response protocol and providing implementation support; 3) implementing the Sources of...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $733,984 Project Grant (CFDA 93.243 - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance) to the Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene, Inc. to develop a multi-tiered system of suicide prevention support for adolescents and young adults ages 10-24 in Staten Island, New York. The 5-year "The MISSION Project" aims to integrate prevention activities across schools,...

This $204,000 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 support the University of Connecticut's (UConn) "BeWellUConnSP" suicide prevention initiative. The project aims to enhance access to evidence-based specialized suicide care, implement strategies to promote help-seeking and reduce stigma, and...