Thursday, January 1, 2026 1/1/2026

The National Center for Health and Justice Integration for Suicide Prevention

Award Number: P50MH127512
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/22/2022
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2027

Group Awards By:

View Award Description

The National Center for Health and Justice Integration for Suicide Prevention - Justice-involved individuals have high rates of trait, state, and precipitating risk factors for suicide, account for a significant proportion of U.S. suicides each year, and many are not well-connected to care. The National Center for Health and Justice Integration for Suicide Prevention (NCHATS): (1) uses contact with the justice system (e.g., police contact, arrest) as a novel indicator of suicide risk in the general population; (2) demonstrates how big data systems that efficiently track justice involvement can be linked to health system records and scaled to identify individuals at risk for suicide and connect them to care; and (3) examines effectiveness and scalability of suicide prevention approaches using these methods. Center projects are hybrid effectiveness-implementation studies that examine effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and scalability of suicide prevention activities triggered through linkage of justice and health data. Given that contact with the justice system is a sign of risk for suicide, big data integration across justice/health systems to flag movement between systems (and therefore suicide risk) provides a novel method of identifying suicide risk in the general population. This approach does not require collecting new data from this hard-to-reach population. Rather, it sets up strategies to efficiently link existing data and to test methods to respond. This is an innovative and potentially scalable approach to identify/address suicide risk for individuals not well-connected with standard health care. The Center is innovative in that it: (1) establishes a suicide prevention intervention effectiveness base for a large and high-risk target population, conducting (a) 2 of only 3 fully-powered suicide prevention RCTs in justice populations, and (b) the largest RCTs of any intervention for any condition in a justice-involved population to date; (2) develops and manualizes strategies for scalability and sustainment -- understudied areas of implementation science; (3) uses contact with the justice system as a novel indicator of suicide risk in the general population; (4) uses sociometric identification of key individuals to promote diffusion and dissemination of Center approaches; (5) demonstrates how efficient, generalizable health and justice system big data linkage is achieved and can be used to automate suicide risk identification and response across health and justice systems at scale. This is extremely rarely done in practice and never before tested as a method of improving health outcomes in justice populations. By incorporating the few cases of which we are aware into this Center, we are poised to rapidly advance the field. Center aims are to: (1) Evaluate effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of suicide prevention approaches that use justice contacts as markers of risk and health/justice system data linkage to provide scalable ways to alert providers of this risk; (2) Maximize scalability, sustainability, relevance, and dissemination of identified approaches and identify, refine, and manualize scalability/sustainment strategies to be fully tested in future trials; and (3) Promote national research and practice capacity in suicide prevention at justice intercepts. Partners include jails, police, health plans, healthcare systems, courts, judges, community corrections, and lived experience.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2026	2025	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	426 AUDITORIUM RD RM 360	EAST LANSING	MI	48824	INGHAM	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	4	12/8/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $2,925,596 )
2025	2025	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	426 AUDITORIUM RD RM 2	EAST LANSING	MI	48824	INGHAM	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	001	4	9/18/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$2,925,596
2025	2024	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	426 AUDITORIUM RD RM 2	EAST LANSING	MI	48824	INGHAM	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	3	5/27/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $2,925,596

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $2,995,233 )
2024	2024	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	426 AUDITORIUM RD RM 2	EAST LANSING	MI	48824	INGHAM	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	3	9/6/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$2,995,233
														Subtotal = $2,995,233

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $2,985,597 )
2023	2023	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	426 AUDITORIUM RD RM 2	EAST LANSING	MI	48824	INGHAM	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	2	8/17/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$2,985,597
														Subtotal = $2,985,597

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $3,246,915 )
2022	2022	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	426 AUDITORIUM RD RM 2	EAST LANSING	MI	48824	INGHAM	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	1	8/22/2022	NEW	$3,246,915
2022	2022	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	426 AUDITORIUM RD RM 2	EAST LANSING	MI	48824	INGHAM	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	001	1	9/27/2022	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $3,246,915

Grand Total All Awards = $12,153,341

Top

All Categories

About

Search

Reports

Data Submission

Award Information

The National Center for Health and Justice Integration for Suicide Prevention

Award Number: P50MH127512

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/22/2022

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2027

Federal Websites

Department of Health & Human Services

HHS Operating Divisions

HHS Staff Divisions

Download A Document Viewer