The Thrive Without Drinking (TWD) Project, awarded a $120,000 Project Grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CFDA 93.243 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance), will implement evidence-based prevention strategies in Youngstown, Ohio to prevent and reduce underage drinking among youth and young adults aged 12-20, with a focus on underserved populations. The project...
This Project Grant award of $180,000 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 "Alcohol Attitude Adjustments in the Quaboag Hills - Our STOP ACT Program" over a four-year period from September 2024 to September 2028. The program will focus on reducing underage alcohol use and its impacts in the rural towns of Ware...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program, administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has awarded a $120,000 project grant to Parents And Children Together (PACT), a non-profit organization based in Honolulu, Hawaii. The grant will fund the "Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking in CWC 96744" project, which aims to change the community's belief that underage...
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded a $669,973 Project Grant (CFDA 93.273 - Alcohol Research Programs) to Loyola Marymount University (LMU) to develop and evaluate two parent-based interventions (PBIs) to prevent and reduce underage drinking among college students. The project aims to optimize a social media-inspired app (ParentCandor PNF+) and create a less time-intensive email-based social norms marketing campaign (SNMC+) to engage parents and influence...
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded a 5-year, $772,055 Project Grant (CFDA 93.273 - Alcohol Research Programs) to San Diego State University Foundation to conduct a factorial randomized controlled trial (RCT) on the "Kisoboka" intervention. The Kisoboka intervention aims to reduce hazardous alcohol use and improve antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence among men living with HIV in fishing communities in Uganda. The RCT will test the efficacy of the...
The federal Project Grant award R00AA030665 was provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program. The $249,001 award, effective May 1, 2025, supports a study entitled "Study Aimed at Increasing Alcohol Abstinence (DEDICATE)" to be conducted by the University of Illinois. The key objectives of this project are to (1) test the efficacy of combining contingency management (CM) with...
This Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CFDA 93.243) provides $120,000 to the Asian Health Coalition (AHC) in Chicago, IL to implement the "Together to Stop Underage Drinking" program. Over a 4-year period, the program aims to: 1) strengthen the capacity of the Coalition for Achieving Substance Abuse Prevention (CASAP) by increasing community engagement and collaboration to address youth...
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded a $618,932 Project Grant (CFDA 93.273 - Alcohol Research Programs) to Brown University to develop a virtual reality (VR) experience that can be used as part of brief motivational interventions (BMIs) to help reduce heavy drinking among young adults. The goal is to use the VR experience to enhance client engagement and elicit change talk in MI-based interventions by helping participants reflect more deeply on the discrepancy...
This Project Grant award, titled "ASPIRE TO CHANGE: LEVERAGING TEXT MESSAGING PEER SUPPORT COACHING TO MITIGATE HAZARDOUS ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN NON-COLLEGIATE YOUNG ADULTS", is funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program. The $1,389,316 award, which has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2028, will support a comparative study of a text messaging-based peer support coaching...
The Pacifica Prevention Partnership (PPP) STOP Project, funded by a $120,000 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, focuses on reducing youth substance use in Northern San Mateo County, California. The project implements evidence-based strategies targeting access and availability of alcohol and drugs, media messaging, youth-led...