Project Grant H79SM091282

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded $600,000 to Child Mind Institute Inc. on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.532).

Child Mind Institute will adapt, manualize, evaluate, and nationally disseminate RISE (Recognize, Identify, Soothe, and Empower), a dialectical behavior therapy-informed, trauma-responsive emotion regulation protocol for school-based and school-connected mental health settings. The National RISE TSA Center will strengthen provider and system capacity to support children and youth ages 5–18 affected by complex trauma, emotional dysregulation, and related functional impairment. Initial capacity development will occur in New York City and San Mateo County and the Bay Area, California, with national reach through the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, CMI's digital training infrastructure, and dissemination to school-based mental health and other child-serving systems.

The workforce and systems trained and supported will include school counselors, social workers, psychologists, mental health clinicians, supervisors, NCTSI Category I and III grantees, community behavioral health partners, and other K–12 child-serving providers. Ultimate beneficiaries are children and adolescents ages 5–18 with trauma histories, emotional dysregulation, interpersonal or behavioral health concerns, risk behaviors, or impaired school functioning. The project will address the lack of a manualized, school-contextualized protocol; limited training, consultation, and fidelity infrastructure; and the need for caregiver materials, implementation guidance, and scalable dissemination resources.

Period of performance runs through September 29, 2031. Place of performance is New York, New York.