Project Grant TI025127

The Los Angeles LGBT Center (the Center) was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the HIV-Related Training and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.145) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' HIV/AIDS Bureau. The grant will fund the establishment of a Transition in Care RN position to enhance early engagement and retention in care for low-income and underserved people living with HIV (PLWH) in Los Angeles. The initiative aims to improve linkage to care by ensuring newly...

The Institute for Family Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center network in New York, received a $942,079 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime under the Services for Trafficking Victims program (CFDA 16.320). The grant will sustain and expand the Trauma-Informed Linkage to Care (TLC) Clinics, which provide specialized medical, mental health, and related services for trafficking survivors/victims in New York City. Key objectives are to increase the...

The Healing Action Network, Inc. (DBA Healing Action) was awarded a $904,442 Project Grant on October 1, 2023 under the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs' Services for Trafficking Victims program (CFDA 16.320). The grant will fund two key service tracks over a 3-year period: Continuation of comprehensive trauma-informed services, including long-term therapy, intensive case management, housing assistance, and other support for sex and labor trafficking survivors in the St. Louis...

This $246,012 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) will assess whether a digital, survivor-crowdsourced intervention can increase HIV/STI/HCV testing and overdose prevention kit utilization among survivors of sex trafficking living in New York City. The project aims to: 1) develop crowdsourced digital messages to promote HIV/STI/HCV testing and overdose prevention service utilization, 2) compare the...

The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), a component of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Grants for Outreach and Services to Underserved Populations (CFDA 16.889) program to In Our Own Voices, Inc. (IOOV), a non-profit organization, for the period of October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. Through this continuation grant, IOOV will partner with Centro Civico to provide outreach and direct services to Black and Latino/a LGBTQ+ victims of sexual...

The Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, Inc. (The Center) in New York City was awarded a $375,000 Project Grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program. The grant, titled "Supporting LGBTQ Youth in NYC through Prevention, Resources, Information, Data, and Evaluation (PRIDE)," aims to reduce substance use and related...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to Temple University to develop and pilot test a trauma-informed intervention called RISE (Resilience-based Intervention for Stress Reduction and HIV-related Efficacy). The $721,833 award aims to address the high rates of trauma, depression, and antiretroviral treatment non-adherence among Black sexual minority men living with HIV, particularly those recently...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the HIV-Related Training and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.145) to St. John's Community Health (SJCH) for the period of September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026. The goal of the project is to improve HIV and behavioral health outcomes for 700 people living with HIV in South Los Angeles and Compton through increased access to behavioral health and...

The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $400,000 Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services Program (CFDA 16.016) grant to Trinity Healing Center Inc. (also known as The Healing Center) to enhance culturally specific services for Latinx survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the Sunset Park community of Southwest Brooklyn. The 3-year grant project, which began on October 1, 2023, will provide services including...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) to the AIDS Service Center of Lower Manhattan, Inc., doing business as Alliance for Positive Change. The funding will support the "Women Accessing Options for Opioid Management (OPTIONS)" program, which provides comprehensive substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, harm reduction strategies, and recovery support services...