This federal Project Grant award of $991,613 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program) aims to understand intersectional family relationships and their impact on mental health among Latinx sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents and their parents. The award has three key objectives: 1) adapt and validate a measure of parental acceptance for Latinx SGM adolescents, 2) examine how family...
The University of Pennsylvania received a $1,783,402.98 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The goal of this 5-year award, beginning on September 16, 2024, is to test the efficacy of the "Parents ASSIST" intervention, which aims to improve parent-adolescent sexuality communication and support for sexual minority male adolescents...
This $1,955,745 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program will fund a 4-year study to measure and map trajectories of risk and resilience for suicidal thoughts and behaviors among sexual and gender minority (SGM) preteens. The study aims to: 1) develop consensus on best practices for safely and effectively sampling, recruiting, and retaining high-risk SGM preteens into research; 2) create and pretest an...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $2,516,511 to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. to elucidate how mental health during late adolescence and early adulthood (ages 18-24) is influenced by four types of LGBT-targeted policies: religious exemptions, gender-affirming healthcare bans, LGBT-restrictive school curricula, and LGBT-supportive school curricula. The project will use a multi-method...
This $103,948 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports a convergent mixed-methods study to examine psychosocial factors associated with parental self-efficacy in adolescent suicide prevention. The study aims to: 1) analyze associations between parent-level psychosocial factors, adolescent suicide-related characteristics, and parents' suicide behavior prevention self-efficacy; 2) qualitatively...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,156,700 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 fund a mixed-methods study to prospectively examine multi-level impacts on family formation plans among sexual and gender minority (SGM) couples. The study aims to quantitatively test the influence of factors like state-level structural stigma and couple...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $256,627.00 to the University of Denver to develop and pilot test a digital intervention for parents of pre- and early adolescents. The goal is to support parents in responding effectively to suicide risk alerts generated by digital monitoring apps, thereby decreasing suicide-related behaviors in their children. The project involves three phases:...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), will fund a quasi-experimental clinical trial study to implement and evaluate a multi-level "Youth Empowerment & Safety (YES)" intervention for public system-involved sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY) at risk of suicide. The $1,103,117 award, effective December 5, 2024 through November 30, 2027, will support the development and...
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 $867,858 to Northwest Prevention Science Inc. to culturally adapt the Family Check-Up Online (FCU Online) digital health intervention for Hispanic families. The goals of this Phase 1 study are to: Culturally adapt the FCU Online modules and online portal for promotores de salud (Spanish-speaking community...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1,248,897 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of California, Santa Barbara to design a gender-affirming training intervention for lay health workers (LHWs) to promote mental health care access for racially diverse transgender youth. The two-year project (9/1/2024 - 8/31/2026) will use human-centered design methods to (1) co-design the LHW training intervention with community partners, and (2)...
This Project Grant award, totaling $1,365,241.74 and granted by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), supports a sequential explanatory mixed methods study (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program) to explore the mental health and help-seeking behaviors of parents after their child comes out as a sexual minority.
The key objectives are to: 1) compare four recruitment strategies to engage parents of sexual minority youth in an online survey about their mental health and help-seeking, 2) describe parents' mental health and the help-seeking resources they utilized after their child's coming out, and 3) deeply explore the pathways, facilitators, and barriers to parents' help-seeking for individual and family-level needs. The project, awarded to the University of Southern California with sub-awards to Case Western Reserve University and Washington University, aims to inform upstream suicide prevention efforts for sexual minority youth by understanding how parents navigate their child's coming out and access support.