Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation (KTGF) is soliciting applications for academic investigators conducting research to demonstrate the benefits of novel ways to access or deliver mental health care or prevention approaches that can be implemented at scale.
Donor Name: Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation (KTGF)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
This application is specifically for high quality research that builds upon promising pilot work and will lead to a larger demonstration project.
In particular, Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation is interested in improving access to high quality mental health care and prevention for children and adolescents through the use of novel models or promising approaches, including expanding the number of professional and paraprofessional treatment personnel who are trained to deliver mental health services, delivering care in non-psychiatric settings (e.g., primary care, schools, home, or other novel settings), digital technology (e.g., the internet, apps for cell phones), and approaches that help parents access care for their children.
The primary outcomes of the project include improved access and/or reduced time to service delivery, or implementation outcomes such as stakeholder involvement, acceptability, feasibility, and fidelity. Primary outcomes should demonstrate that the project is being designed for scalability. Secondary outcomes include clinical or functional outcomes that are likely to improve when access to care is high quality, such as decreased symptoms, burdens and maladaptive behaviors associated with mental health challenges; improved educational, relational and health outcomes; or enhanced youth and family functioning.
Funding Information
The foundation expects to make up to two grant awards. Each award will be in the amount of $100,000 per year over a two-year period, for a total of $200,000 per grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- Academic researchers from universities, research institutions, health systems or other settings that are positioned to provide rigorous high-quality research focused on transforming mental and behavioral health care that improves outcomes for children and adolescents are eligible. Investigators must reside within institutions based in the United States, where all research on the project will be completed.
- Investigators can be at any stage in their career but must have collected enough pilot data to inform the development of the proposed research project and must be well enough established to lead an effort such as this. For investigators who are early in their career, they strongly recommend collaborating with a more senior academic researcher who has expertise in program development and dissemination. Co-applicants / principal investigators are allowed if they reside at the same institution.
- Applicants cannot apply for both a KTGF Fellowship grant and a Transformation of Mental Health Care grant in the same year.
- Each applicant has the opportunity to re-submit one time.
Guidelines
- The proposal should build upon promising pilot data demonstrating improved access to high quality care or prevention approaches and functional outcomes in youth with mental health problems. This might include augmentation and larger-scale implementation of a program initially funded by the KTGF (for example, as one of its Fellowships), or a project not previously funded by KTGF. Requests for service projects and applications that primarily focus on expanding services or measuring quality within an organization will not be reviewed.
- The proposal should clearly outline how the project will use novel approaches to improve access to prevention or high quality mental health care for at-risk youth or youth with existing mental health problems. These novel approaches may include the use of non-professionals, health care providers other than mental health clinicians, digital technology (e.g., the internet, apps for cell phones), or other innovative approaches, including those that help parents access care for their children.
- The proposal must demonstrate that the program is easy to use and convenient for children and/or parents accessing mental health care.
- The proposal must demonstrate how the program has potential for scaling (e.g., production of a template which can be applied in real world settings).
- The proposal must include a plan to measure the effectiveness of the proposed project using established methods.
- After one year, and at the conclusion of the research project, the awardee will submit a report to the KTGF detailing the activities which have been conducted, recommendations to the field, and next steps required for program implementation and evaluation. Payment of the second year of funding is contingent upon adequate progress in the first year of the grant.
For more information, visit KTGF.
