Project Grant H79TI080795

This $125,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy (CFDA 84.215) program, will fund the Best Buddies in Pennsylvania Inclusion Project. This initiative supports school-based programs that promote inclusion, leadership development, and friendship for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The grant will be used to establish meaningful one-to-one friendships, provide...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $601,615 will fund a contextual analysis of peer experiences during early adolescence under the agency's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The Research Foundation For The State University of New York will conduct online data collection via surveys and daily diaries from 300 socioeconomically and ethnically diverse young adolescents at three time points spanning one school year and summer. The project aims to...

This federal Project Grant award of $250,000 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy (CFDA 84.215) program will support the Best Buddies in Illinois Inclusion Project. The project aims to promote inclusion, leadership development, and friendship for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities through school-based programs. The award has an initial period of performance from July 8, 2024 to June...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded the University of California, Davis a Project Grant totaling $383,832 on September 10, 2025, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to support research extending through August 31, 2029. The project delivers a research intervention program called Family/Friend Network Support for Early Intervention (FANS-EI), designed to improve caregiver engagement in community-based autism early...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839) to Adult Friends For Youth (AFY), a non-profit organization based in Honolulu, Hawaii. The 3-year project, titled "Empowering Schools: AFY's Approach to Address Youth Violence", aims to create a safer environment and reduce truancy and academic failure at Keelikolani Middle School and its...

Project Team-Up, funded by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) under the Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program (CFDA 84.325), represents a $187,300 project grant awarded to the University of California, Santa Barbara effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. The project focuses on developing and delivering training initiatives that prepare educators and allied mental health...

DREAMS Program Summary Bee Busy Learning Academy Inc. received a $749,999 Cooperative Agreement award effective September 30, 2025, through the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants program (CFDA 93.086). Over the five-year project period concluding September 29, 2030, the organization will implement the DREAMS (Decisions, Responsibility, Empowerment, Accountability, Motivation,...

This Project Grant award of $286,418 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development and validation of an innovative integration of large language models with retrieval-augmented generation technology to enhance the effectiveness of peer mentoring programs in higher education. The project aims to create an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted mentoring platform that provides data-informed,...

PROJECT TEACH: Training Educators and Audiologists Working with Young Children with Hearing Loss The Washington University, through its Office of Sponsored Research Services, received a $283,164 Project Grant award from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) under the Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program (CFDA 84.325). The award, effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026,...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant will fund the development of a virtual reality platform to deliver applied behavior analysis therapy to individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Vriends Corp will create software to simulate social skills therapy environments and enable certified therapists to provide remote treatment sessions aligned with applied behavior analysis principles. The envisioned virtual reality clinic aims to improve...