The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation has issued a request for applications for its Transformation of Mental Health Care program. This program aims to improve access to high quality mental health care for children and adolescents in the United States, especially those from low-income families and under-resourced communities, by funding research to demonstrate the benefits of novel ways to access or deliver mental health care or prevention approaches that can be implemented at scale.
This application is specifically for research that builds upon promising pilot work, adapts interventions for future scaling using established principles from community participatory approaches and implementation science frameworks, and has the potential to lead to a larger demonstration project. Requests for service projects and applications that primarily focus on expanding services or measuring quality within an organization without a rigorous research component or without pilot data related to the intervention will not be reviewed.
The Foundation is especially, but not exclusively, interested in:
- Testing new models of care delivery
- Adapting and testing approaches to deliver care in atypical settings
- Testing scalable digital approaches
- Approaches that help parents access care for their children
$100,000 per year, including up to 10% indirect costs, will be awarded for a project period of 2 years.
Eligibility criteria include:
- Investigators can be at any stage in their career but must have collected enough pilot data to inform the development of the proposed research project and must be well enough established to lead an effort such as this.
- Applicants cannot apply for both a KTGF Fellowship grant and a Transformation of Mental Health Care grant in the same year.
- Investigators from underrepresented and minoritized groups and/or with lived experience applicable to their work are especially encouraged to apply.
Please see RFP for full criteria.
To Apply:
- This is an open RFP (UCSF may submit an unlimited number of applications).
- Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. Please notify your Grants Officer of your intention to apply as soon as possible to ensure that they will have enough time to support your application.
- Application deadline is December 15, 2025.
For more information and to review complete application instructions and eligibility requirements, please visit https://klingenstein.org/klingenstein-third-generation-foundation/transformation-of-mental-health-care/applying/.