Mental Health

Recent Grants

Mental Health

Number of Grants: 18

American Prospect (Washington, D.C.)
$50,000 in support of the production and publication of a special report on The Politics of Mental Health in "The American Prospect" magazine. (2008)

Campaign for Mental Health Reform (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000 in support of policy research and analysis and public education to improve mental healthcare in the U.S. (2006)

Columbia University School of Public Health (New York, New York)
$450,000 in support of a project to track the performance of the U.S. mental health care system and its effects on the well-being of people with mental illness (over three years). (2007)

Columbia University School of Public Health, National Center for Children in Poverty (New York, New York)
$432,000 in support of a research project on federal and state policies governing children's mental health services (over three years). (2006)

Council of State Governments, Eastern Regional Conference (New York, New York)
$300,000 in support of the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project (over three years). (2005)

Duke University School of Medicine, Services Effectiveness Research Program (Durham, North Carolina)
$450,000 in support of a virtual resource center for Psychiatric Advance Directives (over three years). (2005)

George Washington University National Health Policy Forum (Washington, D.C.)
$290,000 in support of the National Health Policy Forum (over two years). (2007)

Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy (Boston, Massachusetts)
$230,000 in support of research on the economic and social costs and benefits of mental health treatment and policy (over two years). (2007)

Judge Baker Children's Center (Boston, Massachusetts)
$3,900,000 in support of the Research Network on Youth Mental Health Care (over three years). (2007)

National Alliance on Mental Illness (Arlington, Virginia)
$100,000 in support of the Family Network to Promote Evidence-Based Practices for Children's Mental Health. (2006)

National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver, Colorado)
$375,000 in support of activities to educate legislators about collaborative mental health services delivery and to improve mental health policymaking across service sectors (over three years). (2006)

National Mental Health Association (Alexandria, Virginia)
$600,000 in support of the State Health Care Reform and System Transformation Program, and the Advocacy Training and Technical Assistance Program (over three years). (2006)

Project Hope - People to People Health Foundation Health Affairs (Millwood, Virginia)
$350,000 in support of the coverage of mental health issues in the policy journal "Health Affairs" (over two years). (2007)

Technical Assistance Collaborative (Boston, Massachusetts)
$300,000 in support of the Network on Mental Health Policy Research conference as the culmination of the Network's work and the stage for setting a new research agenda for the 21st Century. (2007)

University of California, Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute Health Services Research Center (Los Angeles, California)
$200,000 to research disparities in the performance of the U.S. mental health care system and their effects on the well-being of racial and ethnic minorities with mental illness (over two years). (2008)

University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Office of Research Services (Honolulu, Hawai'i)
$485,000 in support of the design and development of a clinical information management system for the Research Network on Youth Mental Health Care (over three years). (2005)

University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia)
$4,550,000 in support of the Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment (over four years). (2005)

University of Virginia School of Law (Charlottesville, Virginia)
$750,000 to support the Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment benefit-cost projects (over two years). (2007)