American Enterprise Institute
Augusta Food Bank
Babies First Years
Kimberly D. Becker, Ph.D.
Frederick Bennett, M.D.
Aparna Bhaduri, Ph.D.
Bipartisan Policy Center
Center for Grieving Children
Lucas Cheadle, Ph.D.
Connecticut Early Childhood Funder Collaborative
Laura DeNardo, Ph.D.
Downeast Community Partners
Early Childhood Funders Collaborative
Annegret Falkner, Ph.D.
Family Connects International
Foundation for Portland Public Schools
Full Plates Full Potential
Grahamtastic Connection
Harvard Center on the Developing Child
Healthy Steps
Home-Grown Child Care
Hidehiko Inagaki, Ph.D.
Isha Jain, Ph.D.
Kids First Center
LENA
Charles P. Lewis, M.D.
Project Title Neurometabolite Markers of Suicide-Related Cognition in Adolescents Project Summary Suicide is the second-leading cause of death in adolescence, and rates of suicides and suicidal behavior among youth are increasing. However, current treatments are not based on the growing evidence of brain dysfunction in suicidality. Neurobiological treatments that correct disruptions in brain networks involved…
Locker Project
Matthew Lovett-Barron, Ph.D.
Maine Children’s Home for Little Wanderers
Maine Early Childhood Funders Group
Maine Resilience Building Network
Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS)
Giorgia Michelini, Ph.D.
Project Title Identifying prevention targets to avert ADHD persistence, depression and suicide in youth with ADHD Project Summary Over half of children with ADHD still experience clinically significant levels of ADHD as adolescents and young adults, which leads to numerous long-term negative outcomes. One of the most alarming outcomes is the emergence of depression, as…
Mount Sinai Parenting Center
My Place Teen Center
Tomasz Nowakowski, Ph.D.
Patient AirLift Services (PALS)
Yi-Rong Peng, Ph.D.
Prenatal-to-3-Policy Impact Center
Elizabeth Raposa, Ph.D.
Robbie Foundation
Nikhil Sharma, Ph.D.
Hongying Shen, Ph.D.
United Hospital Fund
United Way of Aroostook
Alecia Vogel-Hammen, M.D., Ph.D.
Project Title Neural Correlates of Emotion Reactivity and Regulation in Excitability and Irritability Project Summary Emotion dysregulation is “a pattern of emotional experiences or expressions that is experienced either too intensely or too enduringly to be adaptive”, or in other words, emotional responses that are too big in intensity, duration, or often both, to be…