This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is issued by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to support research to test the therapeutic value of treatment, preventive, and services strategies for which there is already evidence of efficacy, for use in community and practice settings and to test hypotheses regarding moderators, mediators, and mechanisms of action of these interventions.

Objective: Applications might include research to evaluate the effectiveness or increase the clinical impact of pharmacologic, somatic, psychosocial (psychotherapeutic, behavioral), rehabilitative and combination interventions to prevent or treat mental illness.  This FOA also supports clinical trials to test patient-, provider-, organizational-, or systems -level services interventions to improve service access, engagement, quality, coordination, or delivery, with the goal of improved outcomes at the individual and population level.  The intervention research covered under this announcement is explicitly focused on practice-relevant questions.

Funding scheme: NIMH intends to commit approximately $9 million dollars across 2015 and 2016 to fund several projects under this FOA. Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 5 years; however, applicants are strongly encouraged to limit their proposed project period to 3-4 years.

Deadlines:

i. Official opening date: May 17, 2014

ii. VHIR's internal deadline: June 06, 2014

iii. Official deadline: June 17, 2014

More information: HERE