This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, is funding a research project titled "Parenting Profiles Among Black Fathers: Implications for Black Adolescents' Depression Symptomatology." The $146,816 award to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will support a methodologically rigorous examination of the heterogeneity of Black...
This $461,662 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund a study to adapt and evaluate the Text4Father mHealth intervention to directly reach first-time expectant fathers using social media. The goal is to improve infant and family health outcomes by increasing first-time fathers' infant care self-efficacy and engagement during the prenatal...
This $150,034 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) is funding research on the parenting behaviors and self-regulation of low-income ethnic minority mothers and fathers and their toddlers. The key products and services being delivered through this 2-year award to the University of Maryland, College Park include: 1) assessing the levels and changes...
The University of Southern California (USC) received a $830,053 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). The award, which runs from April 15, 2025 to April 30, 2030, will fund the development and experimental testing of the "Msingi Bora Familia (MBF)" intervention. MBF is a responsive parenting and family well-being program that integrates...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $567,052 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to Iris Media Inc., doing business as Trifoia, to develop an online, evidence-based parenting training program for LGBTQ+ families. The project, titled "Evidence-Based Parent Training for Diverse Families (PTDF)", aims to create numerous eLearning modules and user engagement tools based on...
This $167,626 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant will support research by the non-profit organization Father Flanagan's Boys' Home to examine the impact of intergenerational adversity exposure on parent-child linguistic interactions and child language outcomes. Leveraging an existing longitudinal dataset of 325 preschoolers...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to explore Black fathers' experiences with perinatal care and their potential role in mitigating maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity (MM/SMM) disparities. The $154,000 award, granted on September 10, 2024, will support a research project conducted by the University of Rochester....
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program will support a longitudinal study examining the relationships between low-income fathers' and mothers' parenting practices, infant locomotion, and the subsequent development of language skills in children from 9 to 24 months of age. The $168,608 award to Mount Saint Mary's University, Inc. will fund the...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $235,564 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to Duke University. The grant supports a research project investigating the long-term health consequences of childhood maltreatment and foster care placement from adolescence into mid-life. The project aims to: (1) extend the scope of existing studies on health outcomes from early adulthood to mid-life, (2)...
This federal Project Grant award from 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), will provide $1,855,707 to Florida International University to conduct a longitudinal study examining the transactional associations between family media use, caregiver-child interactions, and behavioral functioning in young children at risk for externalizing behavior problems....
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $553,522 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of Washington. The grant funds a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a 6-week video coaching program called "Filming Interactions to Nurture Development" (FINDF) in improving supportive parenting behaviors and child outcomes for a sample of 200 racially and ethnically diverse fathers and their young children (ages 12-36 months) enrolled in Early Head Start and related early childhood programs. The study aims to assess the main impacts of FINDF on fathers' supportive parenting, children's behavior and social-emotional competence, fathers' parenting stress and involvement, and fathers' identity, as well as identify underlying mechanisms and factors that influence program effectiveness. This grant represents one of the first large-scale randomized trials evaluating the impacts and theory of a fathering program focused on nurturing father-child interactions during early childhood.