Grantees

Grantees

Recipients of the Transformation of Mental Health Care Request for Proposals have created innovative solutions to improving access to high quality mental health care for children and adolescents, especially those from low-income families and under-resourced communities, or other minoritized populations that may have limited supports and resources.

2025 Grantees

Lauren Ng, Ph.D.

Institution

  • University of California, Los Angeles

Project

  • Community Health Worker delivered PTSD treatment in pediatric primary care: Improving access to mental health care for low-income and under-resourced children and adolescents

Researcher Website

Leah M. Frerichs, Ph.D. and Charity Lackey, Ph.D.

Institutions

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Project

  • Preventing serious mental illness among rural Black youth by integrating appealing and culturally relevant mind-body interventions into physical education

Researcher Website (Frerichs)

Researcher Website (Lackey)

2024 Grantees

Molly Davis, Ph.D.

Transformation Of Mental Health Care

Institution

  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Project

  • Adapting Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescents Skills Training to Prevent Adolescent Depression in Pediatric Primary Care

RESEARCHER WEBSITE

Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ph.D.

Transformation Of Mental Health Care

Institution

  • Washington University in St. Louis

Project

  • Improving Access to Services, Preventing Eating Disorders, and Addressing Comorbid Depression and Anxiety in Diverse Adolescents

RESEARCHER WEBSITE