The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $789,962 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to evaluate the effectiveness, implementation, and maintenance of an adapted school-based psychosocial intervention program for ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder in Mexico. The 5-year grant (8/15/2024 - 5/31/2029) will fund a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of the "Collaborative Life Skills" program, which...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA Program 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants provides $994,397 to conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial examining the use of an executive functioning intervention called "Unstuck and on Target" in community mental health settings. The primary goal is to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of this autism-focused cognitive-behavioral intervention, as compared to a...
This $811,056 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program will support research on the impact of societal stressors and adaptive factors on mental health trajectories for a diverse sample of Latinx youth from early childhood through young adulthood. The research will examine how distal societal stressors, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-immigrant rhetoric, and proximal stressors, like families'...
This federal Project Grant award, titled "STOP, FOCUS, PLAN, AND CHANGE: A TRANSLATIONAL APPROACH TO PREDICT PARENT AND CHILD RESPONSES TO A BRIEF, TELEHEALTH PARENT TRAINING", is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The $561,325 award aims to improve the effectiveness of parenting interventions for early childhood mental health concerns by:
Developing and testing an ecological measure of parental...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $255,855 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program to Texas A&M University System Health Science Center. The grant, effective August 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will support the adaptation and evaluation of the Nuestras Familias online program, an evidence-based intervention for improving mental health outcomes among Latino youth and families. Specifically, the project aims to: 1) adapt Nuestras...
This $367,708 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports research on the neural underpinnings of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The University of Southern California (USC) will use cutting-edge functional MRI techniques and advanced machine learning methods to investigate how connectivity patterns in the brain's reward circuitry differ...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $373,960 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, doing business as Bradley Hospital, to conduct an adaptation, implementation, and pilot testing of the Socio-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicidal Behaviors (SCBT-SB) protocol for suicidal youth in Mexico City, Mexico. The project aims to culturally adapt the SCBT-SB intervention, which was developed with NIMH support for...
This K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program) provides $132,033 to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston to develop and evaluate a culturally and linguistically adapted mental health intervention program (Iniciando! La Adultez) for Latino young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their Spanish-speaking parents.
The key...
This $411,480 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), will support the development and pilot testing of a culturally tailored intervention to improve mental health literacy, reduce stigma, and increase mental health treatment engagement among Latinx adolescents from mixed-status families.
The key objectives are to: 1) explore barriers and facilitators to...
This federal Project Grant award of $393,400 from the National Institute of Mental Health's (NIMH) Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to develop culturally responsive practices for assessing Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in indigenous Diné (Navajo) children. The primary objectives are to:
Determine how ASD assessment practices and contexts align or misalign with cultural beliefs, including "hozho", among Diné families through interviews with 15 Diné...