The federal Project Grant award R41MH134727, totaling $622,826, was awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The grant aims to develop accessible, culturally-sensitive digital mental health tools for Asian American communities, who face significant disparities in mental health treatment access and outcomes. The key products and services to be delivered through this funding include: 1) Adapting and further...
The University of Pennsylvania received a $388,368 Project Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop a Natural Language Processing (NLP)-based therapist tool for culturally responsive mental healthcare. The goal is to create a prototype "HEAL" tool that can provide feedback to therapists on their cultural competency, addressing disparities in access and quality of mental healthcare for Black,...
This $478,120 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund a study investigating the relationship between race-related stress and attention bias to threat among Black Americans. The key objectives are to: 1) examine if race-related stress leads to greater attention bias to threat compared to non-race related stress, 2) test if a brief mindfulness meditation can reduce attention bias to threat,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $662,129 to Empathy Rocks Inc. to develop an AI and natural language processing (NLP) system that can detect and correct cultural attunement issues in real-time during provider-patient interactions. The goal is to improve patient engagement and clinical outcomes, particularly for racial and ethnic minority patients seeking mental health...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to develop and evaluate a novel telehealth intervention called "Tele-BE" that leverages behavioral economics strategies to increase clinician fidelity to core components of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The award of $243,750, spanning June 2024 to April 2027, will fund the participatory design, iterative refinement, and...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $812,184 Project Grant (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) to The Sweet I AM, PLLC (doing business as Anticipate Joy) to develop and pilot a guided group telehealth platform, called TheraGroup, to deliver evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy and coping skills training to Black college students. The goal is to address the growing...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), with the CFDA program title of Mental Health Research Grants (93.242), is for the development and preliminary evaluation of a digital, transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention for transgender and nonbinary (TNB) adolescents. The $499,530 award to the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, with a project period from May 1, 2024 to March 21, 2025, aims to create a...
This $295,234 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to develop ASSIST-MH, a new interactive digital support system for school mental health (SMH) providers. The key products and services to be delivered through this funding include: An interactive treatment planning tool that generates provider-led and student self-paced mental health strategies tailored to individual student needs, along...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is focused on identifying patients with true treatment failure for major depressive disorder (MDD) in order to connect them to alternative treatments sooner. The $156,500 award, with a period of performance from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026, will leverage trajectory classification methods to distinguish patients with consistent non-response to first-line...
This $195,196 federal Project Grant award under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) aims to refine and pilot a brief, culturally and identity sensitive, adaptive emergency department (ED) intervention. The intervention targets individual and systemic barriers to care to increase linkage to subsequent community-based mental health care for youth aged 10 to 14 years after an ED admission and referral. The study employs an...