Project Grant H79SM062964

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico received a $972,405 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.818 - Children Exposed to Violence) to implement the Puerto Rico Intervention, Diversion, and Education (PRIDE) program. PRIDE supports children and youth aged 6-18 exposed to violence in two high-crime, high-poverty public housing communities in Puerto Rico. The program provides a three-tiered system of...

The American Institutes for Research (AIR) received a $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the Administration for Community Living's National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) to develop the "Dignity of Work" intervention. This intervention aims to enhance employment outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities by supporting community rehabilitation providers in evaluating and expanding "dignity of...

This $576,900 project grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) will implement and evaluate a peer recovery coach (PRC) program at three high-throughput jails in the Atlanta, Georgia area. The program aims to improve access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for individuals in these jails, particularly Black individuals and those experiencing homelessness who face...

The Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, Inc. (The Center) in New York City was awarded a $375,000 Project Grant 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. The grant, titled "Supporting LGBTQ Youth in NYC through Prevention, Resources, Information, Data, and Evaluation (PRIDE)," aims to reduce substance use and related...

This $677,589 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director's Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports the development and pilot testing of a novel HIV prevention program targeting women experiencing incarceration. The "FIT for PrEP" (F4P) program aims to link these high-risk women to post-release pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) services and address associated social determinants of health during community re-entry. Key aspects...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), totaling $444,826, is focused on adapting and testing an innovative, trauma-informed intervention to reduce overdose risk among women re-entering the community from prison. The key activities include: 1) Adapting the Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) approach by engaging stakeholders to align it with the unique needs of justice-involved women,...

The Department of Labor & Industry Pa, through a $3,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration's Reentry Employment Opportunities program (CFDA 17.270), will expand its existing PROWD (Partners for Reentry Opportunities in Workforce Development) program to provide job club, navigation, and peer mentoring services to help formerly incarcerated individuals in Pennsylvania secure sustainable, high-quality employment and reduce...

This $731,738 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants) will fund a pilot feasibility study to integrate pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) into emergency department and urgent care settings using a patient-centered decision support tool. The goal is to improve PrEP awareness, access, and uptake among groups at highest risk for acquiring HIV, such as men who have sex with men, young people, racial/ethnic minorities, and women of...

This Project Grant award of $665,225 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to improve access and adherence to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among adolescent girls and young women in Uganda. The 5-year project, titled "SUUBI4PREP: Improving PrEP Access and Adherence Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Uganda", will combine peer support interventions with economic empowerment initiatives to address...

This $5.37 million project grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse will fund the development of a context-aware digital adherence intervention called SMARTSTEPS to improve pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) adherence among men who have sex with men with substance use disorder. The grant will support two phases. Phase I will inform the specification of an algorithm that utilizes digital phenotyping data from a smartphone app to anticipate non-adherence based...