This federal Project Grant award of $251,250 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support a randomized trial to explore the effects of enriched parent-infant interaction on infant and parent health outcomes. The study will examine the impacts of a smartphone-based music intervention, where parents either receive training to sing interactively with their infants or...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $340,143 Project Grant to Teen Health Research, Inc. under the CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program. The grant will fund the development of "TheTalk", a customizable online platform to improve parent-adolescent communication about sexual and reproductive health. The platform aims to provide adolescents aged 10-13 with inclusive, medically accurate, age-appropriate, and...
This $150,034 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) is funding research on the parenting behaviors and self-regulation of low-income ethnic minority mothers and fathers and their toddlers. The key products and services being delivered through this 2-year award to the University of Maryland, College Park include: 1) assessing the levels and changes...
This $426,234 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund the refinement and pilot testing of a virtual reality (VR) parent training tool. The goal is to enable parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and severe challenging behaviors to learn and practice behavioral management strategies in a convenient, customized VR...
The federal Project Grant award R21HD115222 for $241,500.00 was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant supports research to investigate how speech from young children may influence language development in infants, with the overall objective of understanding why language development differs for later-born children compared to first-born children. The key...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $346,573 to Klein Buendel, Inc., a woman-owned small business in Colorado, to develop and evaluate a hybrid delivery model for the evidence-based Chicago Parent Program (CPP) called "EZParent." The project aims to increase access and sustainability of parenting skills training by creating a web-based EZParent...
This $256,627 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) aims to develop and pilot test a brief digital intervention for parents of pre- and early adolescent youth at risk of suicide. The key products and services to be delivered include: Co-creating and refining a single-session intervention (SSI) and a just-in-time digital intervention (JIT) to be triggered by suicide risk alerts from a digital monitoring app, in collaboration...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $623,746 to Florida International University (FIU) from September 1, 2024 to May 31, 2029. The project aims to investigate the transactional associations between family media use (including duration, content, and purpose of parent and child screen time) and the development of child...
This federal Project Grant award of $591,848 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) supports the development of a smart speaker-based application to improve housing stability and provide support for individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) living in supportive housing communities. The key products or services to be delivered through this award include: Collaborating with community partners to understand implementation determinants...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Federal Grant Program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, will fund the implementation and evaluation of the "Online Parent Training in Early Behavioral Intervention (OPT-IN-EARLY)" program. The OPT-IN-EARLY program is designed to empower caregivers of children aged 16-48 months who are on a waitlist to receive a formal autism diagnosis. The...
This $712,096 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) supports the development and evaluation of a smart speaker-based parenting intervention program called "Talk Parenting" (TP). The TP program aims to provide in-situ support to parents of 3-5 year old children in building healthy family routines, managing children's behavioral and sleep issues, and improving parent-child interactions. Key components include bedtime and morning routine guides, as well as a calming down mini-routine to support self-regulation skills. The project will complete development of the full TP program and conduct a randomized controlled trial to assess its acceptability and efficacy in improving parenting practices, parent stress, child behavior, and the parent-child relationship. The grant recipient, Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc. (dba Influents Innovations), is a for-profit technology company specializing in innovative, technology-based behavioral health interventions. The project will run from May 2025 through April 2028.