Funder: National Institutes of Health
Due Dates: February 17, 2027 (Applications) | February 17, 2028 (Applications)
Funding Amounts: $3,000,000 estimated total program funding; uncapped, justified budgets for projects lasting up to 3 or 4–5 years
Summary: Supports scalable provider-training and quality-monitoring tools for delivering evidence-based suicide prevention services in community practice settings.
Key Information: Projects developing new suicide prevention interventions, rather than training or quality-monitoring approaches, will not be reviewed.
Description
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of NIH, supports research to develop, optimize, and test service-ready strategies for provider training and quality monitoring in suicide preventive care. Research may address scalable training in risk assessment, prevention, treatment, and crisis services, and/or pragmatic measures of service delivery and quality. The RP1 Science-Driven Research Project mechanism supports both exploratory/developmental and full-scale studies, with clinical trials optional.
NIMH prioritizes approaches that can be sustained using resources commonly available in practice settings, including specialty mental health, primary care, emergency departments, schools, and justice settings. Technology-supported training, automated assessment of provider behavior, and simulated patient encounters are priorities. Collaboration with community practice partners is encouraged to ensure tools are feasible, scalable, and useful for training, supervision, and quality improvement.
