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Design of a Lay Health Worker Training to Promote Youth's Access to mHealth Interventions

Award Number: R21MH135234
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2024
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 12/31/2026

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Design of a Lay Health Worker Training to Promote Youth's Access to mHealth Interventions - Modified Project Summary/Abstract Section Youth today face a high risk for serious mental health problems (e.g., suicidality, depression, anxiety), which is exacerbated by significant barriers to mental health care. mHealth interventions have been developed to address the needs of youth and their caregivers, but are underutilized. Lay health worker (LHWs) are individuals who use their lived-experience, language and/or culture to support patients and/or families in mental health service access and engagement. In response to PAR-22-109 and NIMH Strategic Objective 4: Strengthen the Public Health Impact of NIMH-Supported Research, we seek to increase mental health care access for youth by enhancing the dissemination of evidence-based mHealth interventions through the design of a training intervention for LHWs – Getting Access on the INternet (GAIN). Specifically, we will use human centered design (HCD) to adapt a mental health provider training intervention (developed by MPI Price K23MH124670) based on data from MPI Barnett (R01MH117123-02S1) on the needs of youth and their parents receiving LHW services. The proposed R21 study involves working with community partners (i.e., youth, their parents, and LHWs) to (Aim 1) co-design GAIN - a mechanism-driven training intervention for LHWs, then (Aim 2) build the LHW training intervention via usability testing. This study will result in an acceptable and refined training intervention ready for testing in a large, multisite R01 study.


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	2024	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA	3227 CHEADLE HALL	SANTA BARBARA	CA	93106	SANTA BARBARA	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	1	12/10/2025	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA	3227 CHEADLE HALL	SANTA BARBARA	CA	93106	SANTA BARBARA	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	1	3/24/2025	NEW	$0
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA	3227 CHEADLE HALL	SANTA BARBARA	CA	93106	SANTA BARBARA	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	001	1	7/11/2025	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $416,299 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA	3227 CHEADLE HALL	SANTA BARBARA	CA	93106	SANTA BARBARA	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	1	8/29/2024	NEW	$416,299
														Subtotal = $416,299

Grand Total All Awards = $416,299

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Design of a Lay Health Worker Training to Promote Youth's Access to mHealth Interventions

Award Number: R21MH135234

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

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

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2024

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 12/31/2026

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