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Scope of Research
Proposals must align with the work of the TCMHCC or with state research priorities defined in the NOFO.
Proposals must focus on improving the children’s mental health system and/or children’s mental health services in Texas. This may include gaining an understanding of the causes of childhood psychiatric disorders. Proposals can also include perinatal research that clearly indicates and outlines the benefits to newborn and child health and wellbeing. Basic bench research and pharmaceutical clinical trials are NOT eligible for funding. Proposals must be for one-time funding of initiatives that are completed within two years and that serve as the basis to obtain future extramural funding from other sources.
Eligibility Criteria
Only those affiliated with one of TCMHCC’s participating health related institutions are eligible to apply. Principal investigators may partner with Texas-based investigators at non-TCMHCC institutions as needed. Prioritization will be given to applicants who have never been an NIH R-01 grant principal investigator and are at the rank of associate professor or below. Trainees including clinical and research fellows are eligible and encouraged to apply. Principal investigators must dedicate between 25% and 40% of their effort to the grant, if awarded. Investigators on training grants will need to dedicate at least 40% of their effort to the grant, if awarded. Proposals that include more than one TCMHCC institution are encouraged. No more than 6 investigators from each TCMHCC participating HRI will be eligible to apply. The Chair of Psychiatry at the HRI will be required to provide the names of the 6 applicants that they support.
Grant Details
Research sponsored by TCMHCC should address issues to include one or more of the following: organization, delivery, financing, utilization, patient and provider behavior, outcomes, effectiveness and cost, as it related to child, adolescent, and perinatal behavioral health. Perinatal health research has to clearly outline how it would benefit the health and well-being of newborns, children and adolescents. Grants can evaluate both clinical services and the system in which these services are provided. Grants should focus on improving the evidence base to enable better decisions about behavioral health care, including such areas as improving access, diagnosis and treatment in cost-effective ways and reducing disparities based on geography, race, ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic status. TCMHCC welcomes any area of behavioral health services research relevant to TCMHCC’s priority areas as well as the state priorities mention in appendix 1.
Candidates are encouraged to focus on topical areas listed in appendix 1, demonstrating how expected results can be used or made available to enhance child, adolescent, and/or perinatal behavior healthcare quality. Results should be directly relevant to customers, such as providers and practitioners, administrators, payers, consumers, policymakers, and insurers.
Candidates are encouraged to address health services research issues critical to Texas priority populations, including: individuals living in inner city or rural (including frontier) areas; low-income and minority groups; women and children; and individuals with special health care needs, including those with disabilities.
There will be three grant types, including:
1. NECMHR02-PDFT- Post-doctoral Fellow and Trainee
Description: Provides post-doctoral fellowship and fellowship to early career clinicians/researchers with children, adolescent or perinatal mental health research training opportunities. This grant provides support and protected time for an intensive, supervised career development experience in child, adolescent and perinatal behavioral health research leading to research independence. This grant can also be used for individuals who propose to train in a new field or for individuals who have had a hiatus in their research.
Amount: Approximately $75,000 per year for a total of no more than $150,000 for the biennium per awardee. This maximum amount is inclusive of indirect cost.
Eligibility: To be eligible, applicants must have a research or health-related professional doctoral degree, be a current trainee at one of the TCMHCC institutions and have the support of the HRI’s Chair of Psychiatry.
Requirement: Applicants will need to identify a research project that can be completed in less than 2 years and demonstrate the support of a mentor as well as the Chair of Psychiatry at their institution. Mentors can be affiliated with a different institution from the PI’s. Co-mentors can be affiliated with an institution outside of Texas but cannot have funded time on the grant. Applicants must include a career development plan that includes how they will develop competence in research methodologies and skills. They must commit to a minimum of 12 months with at least 40% full-time professional effort, directly on their research project and career development activities. The remaining effort can be devoted to additional research, teaching, clinical work, or other efforts complementary to the career development awardee.
2. NECMHR02-RCD - Research Career Development
Description: Provides post-doctoral, residency, and fellowship to early career clinicians/researchers with individual and institutional research training opportunities in child, adolescent, or perinatal behavioral health research. The purpose of this grant is to prepare junior clinicians with little to moderate research training for careers that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the State and to become an independent clinician-scientist. This program provides support and protected time for an intensive, supervised research career development experience in the field of child, adolescent, and perinatal behavioral health research, including translational research.
Amount: Approximately $150,000 per year for a total of no more than $300,000 for the biennium per awardee. This maximum amount is inclusive of indirect cost. The annual budget needs to be spent on salary (up to $100,000) and the project (up to $50,000)
Eligibility: To be eligible, applicants must be affiliated with one of the TCMHCC HRIs and have the support of the HRI’s Chair of Psychiatry. They must be an assistant or associate professor faculty (early/mid- career) with no prior independent grant federal funding.
Requirements: Applicants will need to identify a research project that can be completed in less than 2 years and identify and demonstrate the support of a supervisor at their institution. Applicants must include a career development plan that includes how they will develop competence in research methodologies and skills. They must commit to a minimum of 12 months and a maximum of 24 months with at least 40% full-time professional effort directly on their research project and career development activities. The remaining effort can be devoted to additional research, teaching, clinical work, or other efforts complementary to the career development awardee.
3. NECMHR02-RP - Research Project
Description: Supports a discrete, specified, circumscribed child, adolescent, or perinatal mental health project to be performed by the investigator(s) in an area representing the investigator(s)'s specific interest and competencies while aligning with TCMHCC’s listed and HHSC priorities.
Amount: Approximately $250,000 per year for no more than $500,000 for the biennium per awardee. This maximum amount is inclusive of indirect cost.
Eligibility: To be eligible, applicants must hold a faculty position at one of the TCMHCC institutions.
Requirements: Applicants must demonstrate that the research project proposed is specific to their interest and competencies. The research proposed would have a minimum of 12 months and a maximum of 24 months with at least 25% full-time professional effort directly on their research project.
FY2627 New & Emerging Children's Mental Health Researchers Initiative
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Scope of Research
Proposals must align with the work of the TCMHCC or with state research priorities defined in the NOFO.
Proposals must focus on improving the children’s mental health system and/or children’s mental health services in Texas. This may include gaining an understanding of the causes of childhood psychiatric disorders. Proposals can also include perinatal research that clearly indicates and outlines the benefits to newborn and child health and wellbeing. Basic bench research and pharmaceutical clinical trials are NOT eligible for funding. Proposals must be for one-time funding of initiatives that are completed within two years and that serve as the basis to obtain future extramural funding from other sources.
Eligibility Criteria
Only those affiliated with one of TCMHCC’s participating health related institutions are eligible to apply. Principal investigators may partner with Texas-based investigators at non-TCMHCC institutions as needed. Prioritization will be given to applicants who have never been an NIH R-01 grant principal investigator and are at the rank of associate professor or below. Trainees including clinical and research fellows are eligible and encouraged to apply. Principal investigators must dedicate between 25% and 40% of their effort to the grant, if awarded. Investigators on training grants will need to dedicate at least 40% of their effort to the grant, if awarded. Proposals that include more than one TCMHCC institution are encouraged. No more than 6 investigators from each TCMHCC participating HRI will be eligible to apply. The Chair of Psychiatry at the HRI will be required to provide the names of the 6 applicants that they support.
Grant Details
Research sponsored by TCMHCC should address issues to include one or more of the following: organization, delivery, financing, utilization, patient and provider behavior, outcomes, effectiveness and cost, as it related to child, adolescent, and perinatal behavioral health. Perinatal health research has to clearly outline how it would benefit the health and well-being of newborns, children and adolescents. Grants can evaluate both clinical services and the system in which these services are provided. Grants should focus on improving the evidence base to enable better decisions about behavioral health care, including such areas as improving access, diagnosis and treatment in cost-effective ways and reducing disparities based on geography, race, ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic status. TCMHCC welcomes any area of behavioral health services research relevant to TCMHCC’s priority areas as well as the state priorities mention in appendix 1.
Candidates are encouraged to focus on topical areas listed in appendix 1, demonstrating how expected results can be used or made available to enhance child, adolescent, and/or perinatal behavior healthcare quality. Results should be directly relevant to customers, such as providers and practitioners, administrators, payers, consumers, policymakers, and insurers.
Candidates are encouraged to address health services research issues critical to Texas priority populations, including: individuals living in inner city or rural (including frontier) areas; low-income and minority groups; women and children; and individuals with special health care needs, including those with disabilities.
There will be three grant types, including:
1. NECMHR02-PDFT- Post-doctoral Fellow and Trainee
Description: Provides post-doctoral fellowship and fellowship to early career clinicians/researchers with children, adolescent or perinatal mental health research training opportunities. This grant provides support and protected time for an intensive, supervised career development experience in child, adolescent and perinatal behavioral health research leading to research independence. This grant can also be used for individuals who propose to train in a new field or for individuals who have had a hiatus in their research.
Amount: Approximately $75,000 per year for a total of no more than $150,000 for the biennium per awardee. This maximum amount is inclusive of indirect cost.
Eligibility: To be eligible, applicants must have a research or health-related professional doctoral degree, be a current trainee at one of the TCMHCC institutions and have the support of the HRI’s Chair of Psychiatry.
Requirement: Applicants will need to identify a research project that can be completed in less than 2 years and demonstrate the support of a mentor as well as the Chair of Psychiatry at their institution. Mentors can be affiliated with a different institution from the PI’s. Co-mentors can be affiliated with an institution outside of Texas but cannot have funded time on the grant. Applicants must include a career development plan that includes how they will develop competence in research methodologies and skills. They must commit to a minimum of 12 months with at least 40% full-time professional effort, directly on their research project and career development activities. The remaining effort can be devoted to additional research, teaching, clinical work, or other efforts complementary to the career development awardee.
2. NECMHR02-RCD - Research Career Development
Description: Provides post-doctoral, residency, and fellowship to early career clinicians/researchers with individual and institutional research training opportunities in child, adolescent, or perinatal behavioral health research. The purpose of this grant is to prepare junior clinicians with little to moderate research training for careers that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the State and to become an independent clinician-scientist. This program provides support and protected time for an intensive, supervised research career development experience in the field of child, adolescent, and perinatal behavioral health research, including translational research.
Amount: Approximately $150,000 per year for a total of no more than $300,000 for the biennium per awardee. This maximum amount is inclusive of indirect cost. The annual budget needs to be spent on salary (up to $100,000) and the project (up to $50,000)
Eligibility: To be eligible, applicants must be affiliated with one of the TCMHCC HRIs and have the support of the HRI’s Chair of Psychiatry. They must be an assistant or associate professor faculty (early/mid- career) with no prior independent grant federal funding.
Requirements: Applicants will need to identify a research project that can be completed in less than 2 years and identify and demonstrate the support of a supervisor at their institution. Applicants must include a career development plan that includes how they will develop competence in research methodologies and skills. They must commit to a minimum of 12 months and a maximum of 24 months with at least 40% full-time professional effort directly on their research project and career development activities. The remaining effort can be devoted to additional research, teaching, clinical work, or other efforts complementary to the career development awardee.
3. NECMHR02-RP - Research Project
Description: Supports a discrete, specified, circumscribed child, adolescent, or perinatal mental health project to be performed by the investigator(s) in an area representing the investigator(s)'s specific interest and competencies while aligning with TCMHCC’s listed and HHSC priorities.
Amount: Approximately $250,000 per year for no more than $500,000 for the biennium per awardee. This maximum amount is inclusive of indirect cost.
Eligibility: To be eligible, applicants must hold a faculty position at one of the TCMHCC institutions.
Requirements: Applicants must demonstrate that the research project proposed is specific to their interest and competencies. The research proposed would have a minimum of 12 months and a maximum of 24 months with at least 25% full-time professional effort directly on their research project.