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Train and EMPOWER A Community Health workforce (TEACH)

Award Number: U01MD019540
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/24/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 12/31/2028
AWARD TERMINATION DATE: 04/01/2025

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Train and EMPOWER A Community Health workforce (TEACH) - ABSTRACT This application is in response to the NIH Common Fund (RFA-RM-22-001). The objective of this project is to implement a scalable task-sharing model aimed at building capacity and supporting a workforce of non-specialist providers to deliver brief interventions for the indicated prevention and early intervention for depression and anxiety, combined with new content tailored to the local context in low resource, rural and urban settings with emphasis on assessing and addressing the social determinants of mental health in these communities, ultimately contributing to the improvement of outcomes in their communities. We will do so by recruiting from the undergraduate student population at a large university in Texas, one of the most under-resourced states for mental health care, and deploying an innovative suite of digital solutions to train, supervise and support these providers to deliver evidence based, brief, quality assured psychosocial interventions. The intervention, designed through a systematic process of co-production with students, and collaboration with community specialists, will aim to achieve trans-diagnostic intervention for common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. The long-term goal of the project is the creation of resources, opportunities, structure, and scaffolding that will establish a robust community mental health care system, through deployment of providers, trained and certified as Community Health Workers (CHWs) for scaling up and building capacity for delivery of interventions to shift mental health care away from specialty care toward high-frequency, low-cost interventions in the communities where the providers live. Increasing the number of providers who reflect the demographics of the community they are serving is key to addressing gaps in care as well as addressing social determinants of mental health and access to care.5 We propose to leverage EMPOWER, a platform developed by Patel and Naslund4 with support from the National Institute of Mental Health (U19MH113211), to train non-specialist undergraduate social work students, facilitate peer supervision for support and quality assurance, and provide consultation and real time support to certified CHWs in the community. The EMPOWER curriculum consists of evidence-based psychosocial interventions covering foundational counseling skills and behavioral activation and will be augmented with training content focused on recognizing and addressing the social determinants of mental health. Central to our implementation plan and sustainability strategy is to leverage the infrastructure of the Lone Star Depression Challenge, a statewide effort in partnership with the EMPOWER program which will engage, train, and deploy CHWs to health systems to reduce barriers for all Texans with depression, detect their needs earlier, and care for them more effectively.


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	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON	701 S NEDDERMAN DR	ARLINGTON	TX	76019	TARRANT	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	3	6/17/2026	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $758,329 )
2025	2025	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON	701 S NEDDERMAN DR	ARLINGTON	TX	76019	TARRANT	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	002	3	7/29/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$758,329
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON	701 S NEDDERMAN DR	ARLINGTON	TX	76019	TARRANT	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	3/31/2025	TERMINATION	$0
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON	701 S NEDDERMAN DR	ARLINGTON	TX	76019	TARRANT	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	2	11/8/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
														Subtotal = $758,329

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $902,932 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON	701 S NEDDERMAN DR	ARLINGTON	TX	76019	TARRANT	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	6/9/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$702,620
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON	701 S NEDDERMAN DR	ARLINGTON	TX	76019	TARRANT	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	2	6/11/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$59,306
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON	701 S NEDDERMAN DR	ARLINGTON	TX	76019	TARRANT	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	003	2	9/25/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$141,006
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON	701 S NEDDERMAN DR	ARLINGTON	TX	76019	TARRANT	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	5/31/2024	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $902,932

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $812,212 )
2023	2023	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON	701 S. NEDDERMAN DR	ARLINGTON	TX	76019	TARRANT	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	1	9/25/2023	NEW	$81,221
2023	2023	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON	701 S. NEDDERMAN DR	ARLINGTON	TX	76019	TARRANT	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	9/23/2023	NEW	$730,991
														Subtotal = $812,212

Grand Total All Awards = $2,473,473

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Train and EMPOWER A Community Health workforce (TEACH)

Award Number: U01MD019540

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

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

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/24/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 12/31/2028

AWARD TERMINATION DATE: 04/01/2025

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