Project Grant P335A210033

The Parent Support Network of Rhode Island (PSN) was awarded a $240,000 Project Grant (H79SM089779) from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243). The grant will strengthen PSN's capacity as the statewide family network for children, youth, and young adults with mental health and co-occurring disorders and their families in Rhode Island. Key...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to develop and pilot a brief digital intervention to support parents in responding effectively to suicide risk alerts received through a digital monitoring app for pre- and early adolescent youth. The $256,627 award to the University of Denver will fund the three-phase project, which includes: 1) co-creating and refining a single-session intervention...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $346,573 to Klein Buendel, Inc., a woman-owned small business, to develop and evaluate a hybrid delivery model for the evidence-based Chicago Parent Program (called EZParent). The project aims to increase access and sustainability of positive parenting practices by combining a web-based program with human facilitator support....

Community Partners received a $1,066,300 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program. The three-year award will support Community Partners' PROJECT SOAR initiative, which will provide college and career support services to residents in public housing in Los Angeles, California through August 2025. FIPSE aims to support innovative strategies to improve postsecondary...

This federal Project Grant award for $244,190 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) supports the development and feasibility testing of the Parent Infant Interac(X)tion Intervention (PIXI), a telehealth-based early intervention program to support families of infants with rare neurogenetic conditions. The key objectives are to: 1) identify participation facilitators and barriers for Black/African...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324) provides $680,177 to Lehigh University for the "PARENTS PLUS EN ESPANOL" project. The award, with a performance period from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2025, supports the development of a culturally and linguistically responsive version of the "Parents Plus" program to improve educational and developmental...

The Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education awarded a $1.5 million Project Grant to the Los Angeles Community College District through the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) federal grant program. The three-year award will support the Re-Entry Initiative for Success in Education (RISE) Center and Family Resource Center Project from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The RISE Center and Family Resource Center Project will deliver support services...

This 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 $621,682 to Drexel University to implement and evaluate the "Online Parent Training in Early Behavioral Intervention (OPT-IN-EARLY)" program. This innovative program aims to address the harmful delays in accessing autism-specific early interventions by empowering caregivers of children...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $712,096 to Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc. (doing business as Influents Innovations) to develop a technology-based parenting intervention program called "Talk Parenting" (TP). The TP program aims to provide parents of young children (ages 3-5) with in-situ support via smart speaker devices to...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports the development and pilot testing of caregiver-facing implementation strategies (Supporting School Success for Caregivers, or SSS-C) to help caregivers of children with or at-risk for ADHD implement evidence-based behavioral interventions and improve home-school communication. The $742,353 award, which runs from August 2024 to June 2027, will be...