This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $867,858 to Northwest Prevention Science Inc. to culturally adapt the Family Check-Up Online (FCU Online) program for Hispanic families. The goal is to improve mental health outcomes and reduce disparities by delivering a mobile, web-based intervention that supports parenting practices and cultural socialization. The key...
This $1,702,558 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) aims to optimize a readily scalable online behavioral intervention to prevent and reduce substance use among high school seniors during a critical transition period. The key products and services to be delivered through this 5-year grant include: 1) designing an initial set of six theory-based online intervention components targeting social...
This National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) grant award under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) provides $193,336 to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to conduct a mixed-methods study examining the relationship between Latinx adolescent tobacco use and caregiver-adolescent cultural value differences, family conflict, and parental monitoring practices. The 3-year project aims to: 1) Evaluate how cultural values and caregiver-adolescent cultural value discrepancies...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $451,962 to address racial disparities in opioid overdose deaths among Black and Latinx people who use opioids. The key products/services include: Adapting an evidence-supported cultural and structural humility (CSH) training to interactive video modules for peer recovery coaches (PRCs) to enhance their telephone-based care coordination...
The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, a civilian agency, awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program (CFDA 93.276) to the Latino Community Wellness Association (LCWA) and its fiscal agent Tualatin Together. The grant funding will be used to implement prevention strategies, campaigns, and activities to reduce underage drinking, drug use, and promote youth and family mental health within the Latino community of Tualatin, Oregon. Key...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $3,503,736 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to Seattle Children's Hospital (doing business as Seattle Children's Research Institute) to develop and test a multilevel substance use disorder (SUD) and overdose prevention strategy for rural youth involved in the county legal system. The 2-year R61 phase will co-design the multilevel SUD/overdose prevention strategy and implementation plan with...
The federal Project Grant award R34MH134935 was awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The $740,023 grant funds the "The Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Study - III (LYFE-III): Bringing to Scale a Culturally-Adapted and Evidence-Based Intervention for Latino Families" project. The project aims to: 1) adapt the evidence-based "Nuestras Familias" intervention to an online format to improve...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $2,551,500.00 to support an implementation science study on substance use prevention for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander youth in rural Hawaii. The project aims to use a community-based participatory research approach to study the implementation of a culturally grounded substance use prevention curriculum called Hoouna Pono. The key activities...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $1,607,146 to NDRI-USA Inc., a non-profit research organization, for the project "TOGETHER AGAINST OVERDOSE: COMMUNITY DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGY TO ENCOURAGE DRUG CHECKING, DISTRIBUTION OF HARM REDUCTION SUPPLIES, AND LINKAGE TO SERVICES." The project aims to develop technology-based interventions in English and Spanish to increase...
This $668,110 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will fund the development and acceptability testing of a technology-based intervention to reduce cannabis misuse among college students. The intervention aims to increase young adults' knowledge of cannabis products, marketing, laws, and associated risks. The grant will support the refinement of the intervention content through focus groups...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $447,000 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to the University of Oregon to culturally adapt and evaluate the online delivery of the evidence-based Family Check-Up (FCU) intervention for Latinx families to reduce youth substance use.
The project aims to employ a community-based participatory approach to: 1) Culturally adapt the FCU online modules and implementation strategies with a community advisory board; 2) Iteratively refine the adapted online intervention through usability testing; and 3) Assess the feasibility, accessibility, adoption, and potential effectiveness of the culturally adapted FCU-L online intervention in a randomized controlled trial. The project seeks to leverage community health workers (promotores de salud) to deliver the adapted intervention and improve access and adoption among the Latinx community. Findings from this initial study will inform a larger-scale randomized controlled implementation trial to further test the effectiveness and scale up dissemination of the FCU-L online intervention.