The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking applications to encourage research applications to develop and pilot test the effectiveness and implementation of family navigator models designed to promote early access, engagement and coordination of mental health treatment and services for children and adolescents who are experiencing early symptoms of mental health problems.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/16/2024
Size of the Grant: $450,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
For the purposes of this FOA, NIMH defines a family navigator model as a health care professional or paraprofessional whose role is to deploy a set of strategies designed to rapidly engage youth and families in needed treatment and services, work closely with the family and other involved treatment and service providers to optimize care and monitor the trajectory of mental health symptoms and outcomes over time. Applicants are encouraged to develop and pilot test the navigator models ability to promote early access, engagement and coordination of mental health treatment and services for children and adolescents as soon as symptoms are detected. Of interest are navigator models that coordinate needed care strategies, determine the personalized match to the level of needed service amount, frequency and intensity, and harness novel technologies to track and monitor the trajectory of clinical, functional and behavioral progress toward achieving intended services outcomes.
Responsive Areas of Research
Applicants are required to propose a navigator model that:
- Identifies factors that facilitate sustainability (e.g., utilization of existing navigator programs, shared public and private funding, enhanced economic strategies), scalability and generalizability to other settings;
- Utilizes innovative technology (e.g., dashboards, therapeutic milestone measurement, mobile assessment, sensory processing, digital tools, real-time analytics) to assist navigators in engaging, facilitating and optimizing personalized mental health care for each child and adolescent.
NIMH anticipates that studies funded by this FOA will substantially contribute to the development of the following:
- A body of generalizable knowledge regarding effective mental health navigation models;
- Identification of a set of research-informed strategies to improve care coordination;
- The use of novel technologies to tailor the ‘personalized match’ between the unique mental health needs of youth to the appropriate treatment and level of services;
- Enhance our understanding of the impact of navigator models on reducing mental health disparities among underserved populations.
Funding Information
Application budgets are limited to $225,000 direct costs per year, and $450,000 in direct costs over the three year project period.
Project Period
The total project period for applications submitted in response to this FOA may not exceed three 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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