This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports pilot work for subsequent studies testing the effectiveness of strategies to deliver evidence-based mental health services, treatment interventions, and/or preventive interventions (EBPs) in low-resource mental health specialty and non-specialty settings within the United States.
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:
The FOA targets settings where EBPs are not currently delivered or delivered with fidelity, such that there are disparities in mental health and related functional outcomes (e.g., employment, educational attainment, stable housing, integration in the community, treatment of comorbid substance use disorders, etc.) for the population(s) served. Implementation strategies should identify and use innovative approaches to remediate barriers to provision, receipt, and/or benefit from EBPs and generate new information about factors integral to achieving equity in mental health outcomes for underserved populations.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Testing the effectiveness of strategies to achieve EBP delivery and sustainment through training and support for existing personnel in the targeted setting(s) (e.g., testing the impact of alternative content, modalities or “doses” of training, supervision and/or organizational realignment)
- 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 systems into the targeted setting(s) (e.g. community mental health system case managers’ “in-reach” to incarceration settings to facilitate evidence-based community re-entry)
- Testing the effectiveness of strategies to impact organizational structure, climate, culture and processes to achieve implementation and sustainment
- 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 organization or prioritization 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 under-resourced settings
- 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. Proposed studies should be statistically powered to provide a definitive test of the implementation strategy’s effectiveness in comparison to usual care practices in the setting.
Funding Information
Direct costs are limited to $225,000 per year and $450,000 over the 3-year project period.
Project Period
Project period cannot 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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