The purpose of this FOA is to support effectiveness research to test interventions or services that prevent opioid misuse or opioid use disorder specifically among youth, caregivers (including foster parents), and families served by the child welfare system.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $600,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
This FOA seeks applications that test the effectiveness of preventive interventions specifically for child welfare-involved populations, taking into consideration their unique and multifaceted risks, substance use related needs, and the implementation-related challenges that can hinder preventive interventions from reaching child welfare involved populations. Over the past few decades, the prevention field has made significant advances in developing evidence-based substance use prevention services. Yet, few existing interventions have been tailored for child welfare-involved populations; for example, interventions delivered in schools or to co-residing families might not be well-suited for delivery to populations that experience instability in child-caregiver relationships, transitional living arrangements, and multi-level risk for substance use. Research is needed to test interventions that account for and address social and contextual factors that might underly or exacerbate risk for involvement in the child welfare system and risk for substance use, and hinder intervention effectiveness for the target population. Depending on the selected population of interest, examples of these factors include trauma, exposure to violence or maltreatment, psychiatric comorbidity, limited social capital, stressed familial relationships, instability in housing and living arrangements, and instability in or disconnectedness from school or work.
Research Scope
This FOA will fund clinical trials to examine the effectiveness of interventions to prevent substance misuse and disorder among youth, caregivers, and/or families involved in or at-risk of becoming involved in the child welfare system. Involvement in or at-risk for involvement in the child welfare system is broadly defined for this initiative. Populations of interest include (but are not limited to):
- caregivers or families investigated by child protective services;
- youth, caregivers (including foster parents), or families receiving any type of child welfare services, including self-sufficiency services;
- children who are in out-of-home placement and/or children who are at risk of being placed in out-of-home care;
- pregnant and parenting youth in foster care;
- pregnant and parenting people with substance use disorders who are known to the child welfare system; and
- youth who are in the process of aging out or who recently aged out of foster care.
This FOA seeks a range of effectiveness research studies, including but not limited to:
- Studies that adapt and tailor promising or evidence-based interventions, or selected components of those interventions, for delivery to a selected population involved in the child welfare system; this may include adaptations to ensure the intervention addresses substance-related risk factors and can be feasibly delivered to the target population.
- Tests of intergenerational interventions that combine treatment of parental substance use disorders with preventive strategies for youth to reduce youth substance use. Interventions might target a range of contextual, social, or individual risk factors prevalent in child-welfare involved populations, including childhood maltreatment, psychiatric comorbidity, etc.
- Research testing interventions to prevent substance misuse that are trauma-informed and address post-traumatic stress symptoms or disorder among youth, caregivers, or families involved with the child welfare system.
- Research to test the effectiveness and implementation of screening, brief interventions, and referral to prevention services among youth, caregivers, or families. Referral may be across service systems (e.g., collaboration with or referral to primary care, community mental health centers, etc.).
- Studies of approaches to interventions that incorporate technology (e.g., mobile health, telehealth intervention delivery) to determine how they might improve effectiveness of, access to, and value of preventive intervention services.
Funding Information
- The application budget is not limited, but it is strongly recommended that applicants not request a budget of more than $600,000 in direct costs per year unless well justified.
- 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:
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 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.
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