Cooperative Agreement NU1ADP003092

The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $541,455 Project Grant under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) to Seattle Children's Hospital to update school-based measurement of organization, time management, and planning skills for the modern secondary classroom. The project involves developing and piloting improved assessment tools for these critical executive function skills in secondary school students. Seattle...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health awarded a $2,400,000 Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program to the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA). The project, titled "Care Coordination in Rural School-Based Health Centers for Improving Health Outcomes," aims to embed care coordination in 11 school-based health centers across New Mexico and West Virginia to serve Hispanic, Native American, rural...

This Project Grant award, totaling $556,806.00, was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The project aims to assess the causal effects of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) on students' short- and long-term health care utilization, behavioral, educational, and economic outcomes. Using difference-in-difference models, the research will examine...

This Project Grant award of $707,203 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will fund a short-term longitudinal study to examine how teacher behavior and children's psychophysiological functioning, specifically respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), work together to predict school readiness and early school success among low-income children. The study will enroll 270 children from approximately 30...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program provides $234,000 to the Oregon Social Learning Center, Inc. to pilot test the Strengthening Social-Emotional Skills for Relating and Thriving at School (SSTRS) program. The SSTRS program aims to increase social-emotional skills in kindergarten students, which are seen as transdiagnostic risk factors for a range of mental health problems. The pilot study will...

This 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), provides $781,238 to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct a 4-year mixed methods study. The study aims to: 1) describe current trends in school-based health center (SBHC) staffing models and practices nationally and create a classification system to strengthen future research, design,...

This $2,234,643 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to improve the mental health of underserved youth, families, and school communities. The 5-year award to the University of Oregon will fund a transdisciplinary center called ACCESS that focuses on testing effectiveness-implementation models of school-based mental health prevention programs during the middle school years. The center's key goals...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $470,351 to the University of Southern California (USC) to explore barriers and facilitators of school officials' participation in Child Death Review (CDR) meetings to address adolescent suicide mortality. The key objectives of this 2-year award are to: 1) explore facilitators and barriers to...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the School Safety National Activities (CFDA 84.184) program will fund the "SCHOOL-BASED COLLECTIVE WELLNESS: THE EAST BAY PARTNERSHIP MODEL PROJECT" at the California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. The project aims to improve student safety and well-being through comprehensive mental health and educational support initiatives. Key activities will...

This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by 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 aims to develop a coordinated, comprehensive system serving children birth to age 8 with social/emotional/behavioral challenges in Luzerne and Wyoming Counties, Pennsylvania. The grant funding will be used to screen 1,000 children annually (5,000 over the 5-year grant...