This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages studies that develop and test the effectiveness of strategies for implementation and sustainable delivery of evidence-based mental health treatments and services to improve mental health outcomes for underserved populations in low-resourced settings in the United States.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/06/2024
Size of the Grant: $2,000,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
Studies should identify and use innovative approaches to remediate barriers to provision, receipt, and/or benefit from evidence-based practices (EBPs) and generate new information about factors integral to achieving equity in mental health outcomes for underserved populations. Research generating new information about factors causing/reducing disparities are strongly encouraged, including due consideration of the needs of individuals across the life span.
For the purposes of this FOA, NIMH uses the following definitions:
- Low-resourced settings are settings in which limited capital and human resources create barriers to meeting the mental health care needs of the population to be served
- Evidence-based practices are treatments or services that integrate the best clinical research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values for care delivery
- Underserved populations include members of minority groups or other individuals experiencing disparities in mental health outcomes, including Latinx populations, African American populations, American Indian and Alaska Native populations, refugees, individuals with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), individuals with disabilities, persons from sexual and gender minority groups. Also included are: people living in a geographic area with a shortage of health care services (e.g., rural or frontier areas); groups that face economic barriers to health care; individuals who are homeless or unstably housed; incarcerated, detained, under community supervision, or recently released from incarceration, and people with serious mental illness (SMI).
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Testing the effectiveness of strategies to achieve EBP delivery and sustainment through training and support of existing personnel in the targeted setting(s) (e.g., comparing alternative content, modalities or “doses” of provider training or supervision strategies)
- Testing the effectiveness of strategies to achieve EBP delivery and sustainment through integrated E-health, M-health, internet or other types of technology
- Testing the effectiveness of strategies to achieve EBP delivery and sustainment through cross-system collaboration that brings EBP-trained interventionists or related expertise from affiliated settings into the targeted setting(s) (e.g., via innovative telehealth or collaboratives care approaches, mental health system “in-reach” to non-mental heath settings)
- Testing the effectiveness of strategies to impact organizational structure, climate, culture and processes to achieve EBP implementation and sustainment (e.g., intervening with frontline practitioners vs top-down approaches)
- Strategies to enable sustained delivery by reducing burn-out and turnover of trained staff to maintain organizational capacity and fidelity of delivery
- Studies of policies and/or service system characteristics that influence the success of on-going implementation and delivery to improve outcomes
- Studies of the contribution of community participation and other types of partnerships in the successful engagement of clients in receipt of EBPs
- Strategies designed to overcome resource challenges associated with delivery/receipt/sustainment of EBPs in low-resourced settings
- Studies of implementation cost and/or comparative costs as organizational-level factors impacting approaches to or effectiveness of delivery of EBPs
- Studies to test the effectiveness of implementing components of the learning health care system model, including but not limited to: provider feedback, continuous quality improvement, service coordination, etc., to achieve sustained EBP delivery and client engagement
- Studies to test the effectiveness of evidence-based data harmonization across service-providing agencies (e.g., mental health, social services, foster care, elder care, aspects of the law enforcement and corrections systems) to foster retention in care and care coordination in support of EBP delivery
- Studies of the effectiveness of strategies targeting the provider- or clinic-level factors that support sustained delivery of EBPs.
Funding Information
NIMH intends to commit $2,000,000 in FY 2022 to fund 3-4 awards.
Project Period
The scope of the proposed project period should determine the project period. The maximum project period is 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Hispanic-serving Institutions
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
- Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
- Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs)
Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
Local Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- City or Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
Federal Government
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession
Other
- Independent School Districts
- Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
- Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Regional Organizations
Foreign Institutions
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are not eligible to apply.
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
- Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are not allowed.
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