The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 5-year, $7,381,483 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program to Northwestern University. The grant, titled "Advancing Community-Driven Optimization for Equitable Implementation of Early Childhood Mental Health Prevention in Pediatric Learning Health Systems: Mental Health, Earlier Alacrity Research Center", aims to develop strategies to advance equitable implementation of early mental health...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, will pilot the Family Navigator Plus (FN+) program to increase access to mental health services for children in foster care aged 6-17 years. The $680,000 award to Northwestern University will fund a study to build foster parent capacity to recognize their child's mental health needs, address barriers to treatment, work with caseworkers, manage difficult...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $160,687 to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of a Spanish-language version of the "Unstuck and on Target" executive functioning intervention with Spanish-speaking neurodivergent children and their families in Mexico and Colorado. The project aims to pilot the intervention in the U.S. and gather contextual...
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)...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in the amount of $742,353.00. The grant, titled "Implementation Strategies for Caregiver and Teacher Use of Behavioral Interventions with ADHD: A Pilot Study", aims to develop and pilot test caregiver-facing implementation strategies (Supporting School Success-Caregivers, or SSS-C) to support caregivers of...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $768,260 to Rhode Island Hospital to improve the treatment of depression among youth with HIV. The project aims to train clinicians on a tailored, measured-care approach combining cognitive behavioral therapy and medication management, which has demonstrated impressive outcomes in prior studies with this population. The 5-year project...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $237,765 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct a longitudinal study on the impact of caregiver mental health on outcomes for children recovering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in Burkina Faso. The study aims to measure caregiver depression and anxiety over the course of SAM treatment and up to 1 year following,...
This $2,234,643 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to improve the mental health of underserved youth, families, and school communities. The 5-year award to the University of Oregon will fund a transdisciplinary center called ACCESS that focuses on testing effectiveness-implementation models of school-based mental health prevention programs during the middle school years. The center's key goals...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 5-year, $857,216 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Children's Hospital Corporation (doing business as Boston Children's Hospital) to study the neurodevelopmental trajectories leading to early symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and disruptive behaviors in socioeconomically disadvantaged, racially and ethnically diverse children. The key objectives of this project are to: 1)...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $2,285,036 to Northwestern University to conduct a 5-year randomized controlled trial examining the impact of parental income supplements on child mental health and neuroimmune function. The study will follow 1,200 lower-income youth, aged 5-14 at enrollment, who are randomly assigned to receive either a $1,000 per month or $50 per month...