This $100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) aims to refine and evaluate a school-based prevention intervention called "Gender-Affirming School Practices (GASP)." The goals are to enhance the usability and acceptability of the GASP online training for school staff, develop a scalable implementation blueprint, and pilot the GASP intervention through a randomized trial in 6 public high schools. The expected outcomes are to increase school staff's knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy in implementing GASP, leading to improved mental health outcomes for transgender adolescents, such as reduced internalized transphobia and depression/anxiety. This project builds on evidence that gender-affirming school practices can mitigate mental health disparities faced by transgender youth. The grant was awarded to Trustees of Boston College, a leading private research university, and will run from February 2025 through January 2028.
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