Mental Health
Mental health services, treatment, prevention, suicide, and psychiatric care.
183 opportunities · 133 traditional · 50 nontraditional
Traditional (133)
- Research grantsFoundation grantAmerican Foundation for Suicide PreventionA tiered ladder from pilot innovation grants through distinguished investigator awards, all focused on understanding and preventing suicide — including a dedicated postdoctoral track.$30k–$200k · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov
- Congressionally Directed Medical Research ProgramsFederal grantU.S. Department of DefenseDisease- and topic-specific programmes set annually by Congress, several of which fund psychosocial, caregiving and military-family research that has no obvious NIH home.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Apr, May, Jun, Jul
- Minority Fellowship ProgramFellowshipCouncil on Social Work EducationDoctoral and master's fellowships for social workers from under-represented groups preparing to deliver or research behavioural health services for under-served populations.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- Fund for Research and ExperimentationDissertation awardFahs-Beck Fund for Research and ExperimentationSmall grants for practice-relevant research and for doctoral dissertations, aimed squarely at social work and allied practice fields. One of the few funders whose scope is the profession itself.$5k–$20k · Annual cycle · May, Nov
- Behavioral health workforce education and trainingTraining & capacityHealth Resources and Services AdministrationFunds field stipends, integrated-care training and workforce pipelines in schools of social work. Not a research grant, but it pays for the students and placements a research programme is built on.$300k–$2M · Annual cycle · Dec, Jan, Feb
- Scholarships, fellowships and research awardsDissertation awardNASW FoundationSmall named awards for social work students and researchers, including dissertation support and practice-improvement awards administered through the profession's membership association.$1k–$10k · Annual cycle · Feb, Mar
- Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual NRSA (F31)Federal fellowshipNational Institutes of HealthDissertation-stage fellowship covering stipend, tuition and training costs while you finish the doctorate. A Diversity F31 runs in parallel under its own announcement.Amount not published · Several times a year · Apr, Aug, Dec
- Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)Early-career awardNational Institutes of HealthProtected time and structured mentorship for an early-career researcher moving toward independence. The most common K for social work faculty coming out of a postdoc or a first tenure-track year.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)Early-career awardNational Institutes of HealthTwo phases in one award: mentored postdoctoral time, then independent research funding that transfers with you to a faculty position. Carrying an R00 into the job market changes the conversation.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Research Project Grant (R01)Federal grantNational Institutes of HealthThe NIH's core investigator-initiated research grant, and the mechanism most social work research careers are measured against. Supports a discrete, hypothesis-driven project over several years.up to $250k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21)Federal grantNational Institutes of HealthShort, higher-risk projects: feasibility work, new measures, early-stage intervention development. No preliminary data required, which is what makes it the usual first NIH grant for a social work researcher.up to $275k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Patient-centered outcomes research fundingFederal grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research InstituteComparative effectiveness research where patients and caregivers are partners in the study team from question-setting onward — a structure that rewards the engagement skills social work already teaches.$500k–$10M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Behavioral health services and evaluation grantsTraining & capacitySubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services AdministrationService delivery, workforce and infrastructure money rather than investigator-led science — but most awards carry an evaluation requirement, which is a durable route into funded applied research.$100k–$5M · Periodic calls
- Health Systems ResearchFederal grantU.S. Department of Veterans AffairsResearch on care for veterans across the largest integrated health system in the country, with career development awards alongside project grants and unusually rich linked administrative data.Amount not published · Several times a year · Mar, Jul, Nov
- Discovery and health research fundingFoundation grantWellcomeA large international funder whose mental health, climate and health, and discovery research portfolios all fund social science, with awards that can be held outside the United Kingdom.$500k–$5M · Periodic calls
- FY26 Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program (TBIPHRP) Health Services Research AwardFederal grantU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencyFunds health services research that builds real-world evidence on deploying interventions, clinical guidelines or policies for psychological health conditions and TBI. Named focus sub-areas include suicide/sexual-assault postvention, crosscutting prevention of suicide and intimate partner and family violence, military and Family readiness, and access-to-care barriers. Community-based participatory research is required when prospectively enrolling human subjects.up to $4M · Annual cycle · May, Sep, Oct
- Broad Pragmatic Studies PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)PCORI's largest open competition for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research: randomised trials, natural experiments or observational studies. Cycle 3 2026 names special emphasis areas including perinatal mental health and substance use, cancer survivorship, diabetes, and pain management in people with IDD or dementia.up to $12M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Alzheimer's Association Clinician Scientist Fellowship For All (AACSFA)FellowshipAlzheimer's AssociationMentored fellowship for licensed, practicing clinicians building a research career in Alzheimer's and all other dementias. Applications are welcomed from all research areas including psychosocial investigations, care interventions and health equity, so a doctorally trained clinician in a patient-contact discipline can propose caregiving or care-delivery research.up to $200k · Annual cycle · Aug, Oct
- Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship For All (AARFA)FellowshipAlzheimer's AssociationPostdoctoral fellowship supporting scientists transitioning toward research independence in Alzheimer's and dementia research. The program page states applicants may pursue basic science, translational studies, clinical research and psychosocial investigations, including care interventions and health equity, making it open to post-doctoral social work researchers in dementia care.up to $200k · Annual cycle · Aug, Oct
- Open Competition: Implementation of Findings From PCORI's Research Investments PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds multicomponent implementation projects that move specific named PCORI-funded findings into practice, with a rigorous evaluation plan. Cycle 3 2026 evidence areas include pediatric OCD treatment, direct hospital admission for children, early palliative care in advanced cancer, and school-based caries prevention.up to $1.8M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- CURE Epilepsy Research Grants (Taking Flight Award and Rare Epilepsy Partnership Award)Foundation grantCURE EpilepsyCURE Epilepsy runs two open competitions. The Taking Flight Award gives $125,000 over 18 months to launch an independent epilepsy research program. The Rare Epilepsy Partnership Award gives $100,000 over one year to build research tools, model systems and data collection platforms for rare epilepsies, which is the mechanism that can carry registry, patient-reported outcome and family-facing data infrastructure work. Both awards fund salary, supplies and conference travel to present funded work, but neither pays equipment or indirect costs. International applicants are welcome if materials are $100k–$125k · Annual cycle · Jan, Mar, Jun, Sep
- Mind and Body Interventions to Restore Whole Person Health via Emotional Well-Being Mechanisms (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional) — PAR-25-449Federal grantNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), NIHA phased award for mechanistic trials asking HOW mind and body interventions — mindfulness meditation, yoga, acupuncture, massage and other brain- or body-based practices — change emotional well-being, and how that in turn relates to whole person health. The R61 phase establishes feasibility over one to two years and, on milestone review, the R33 phase funds the full trial for two to four more. The design requirement is unusual and worth reading closely: the primary outcome must be an innovative MECHANISM of emotional well-being, not symptom reduction, with the Whole Person Health Index as a sup to $475k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- NIA IMPACT Collaboratory ePCT Planning Grant ProgramPilot / seed fundingNIA IMPACT Collaboratory (Hebrew SeniorLife / Brown University)A twelve-month planning award to produce a fully specified, implementation-ready protocol for a Stage IV effectiveness embedded pragmatic trial in dementia care, restricted this cycle to non-pharmacological interventions for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in nursing homes. Requires a nursing home organisational partner, at least two nursing home sites, and a resident and care-partner advisory board.up to $150k · Annual cycle · Jun, Sep
- NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, Phase I and Phase II (R43/R44)Federal grantNational Institutes of Health (NIH SEED / America's Seed Fund)R&D funding for US small businesses developing health-related products — including digital health tools, behavioral and services technologies. Phase I establishes feasibility; Phase II supports full development toward commercialization. The current parent announcements are PA-27-100 (SBIR) and PA-27-101 (Phase IIB).$323k–$2.2M · Several times a year · Jan, Apr, Sep
- ACS Postdoctoral FellowshipsFellowshipAmerican Cancer SocietyMentored stipend support for postdoctoral researchers in cancer research training programs, across ACS extramural discovery science priorities including behavioral, psychosocial and health services research. Includes a paid parental-leave provision with a matching extension of the award term.$66k–$70k stipend · Several times a year · Jun, Dec
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy FellowsFellowshipRobert Wood Johnson Foundation (programme office: RWJF Health Policy Fellows)The premier midcareer health policy fellowship, placing accomplished professionals in Washington to work inside Congress or the executive branch on federal health policy. Social work and behavioral health expertise is named among the accepted backgrounds, making this one of the few national fellowships that explicitly opens a federal policy channel to social work researchers.$175k · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct, Nov
- NIJ FY 2026 Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of CrimeFederal grantNational Institute of Justice (with the Office for Victims of Crime), U.S. Department of JusticeFunds research and evaluation on crime victims' needs and victim services. Category 1 covers law enforcement-based victim services and evaluations of other victim service programs; Category 2 covers technology-facilitated abuse, including nonconsensual deepfake images.up to $1.5M · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul, Aug
- OVC FY 2026 Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Formula ProgramFederal grantOffice for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of JusticeNon-competitive formula funding from the Crime Victims Fund set-aside for victim services in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Allowable activities explicitly include conducting a needs assessment and developing a strategic plan alongside direct services.up to $650k · By invitation · Jun, Jul, Aug
- Transformation of Mental Health CareFoundation grantKlingenstein Third Generation FoundationUp to two awards of $200,000 over two years to test novel mental health care delivery or prevention models for children and adolescents, including adaptations for non-traditional settings and digital approaches. Implementation and service outcomes must be measured.$200k · Annual cycle · Aug, Nov
- Addressing Substance Use PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds patient-centered comparative effectiveness studies of prevention, screening, treatment and recovery approaches for substance use, misuse and substance use disorders at individual, community or systems level. At least one primary outcome must be a substance-use outcome.up to $12M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03, Clinical Trial Not Allowed) — PA-25-302Pilot / seed fundingNational Institutes of HealthInvestigator-initiated small grant for a discrete, well-defined project completable in two years — pilot/feasibility work, secondary analysis of existing data, small self-contained studies, methods development. Clinical trials are not accepted under this announcement.up to $50k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Student Award ProgramDissertation awardBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan FoundationSmall research awards for doctoral and medical students at Michigan universities working to improve health care in the state. Past funded projects span applied research, pilot programs, demonstrations and evaluation studies in public health, nursing, psychology and related fields, which makes it a realistic first grant for a social work doctoral student based in Michigan.up to $3k · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct, Nov
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC): Planning, Development, and Implementation GrantFederal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds organisations to develop and certify new Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics. Recipients must build a sampling methodology and report client-level survey and administrative data into SPARS at intake, six months and closeout.up to $1M per year · Periodic calls · Aug
- NIH Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program, Phase I and Phase II (R41/R42)Federal grantNational Institutes of Health (NIH SEED / America's Seed Fund)The partnership version of the small business programme: a US small business applies jointly with a non-profit research institution, which is the route by which a university social work researcher can lead the science. Current parent announcement is PA-27-102.$323k–$2.2M · Several times a year · Jan, Apr, Sep
- NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Project Grant (Parent R21, Clinical Trial Not Allowed) — PA-25-304Pilot / seed fundingNational Institutes of HealthTwo-year exploratory/developmental grant for early-stage, higher-risk projects: novel ideas, new methods or measures, or feasibility work that would break new ground. Preliminary data are not required. Clinical trials are not accepted under this announcement.up to $275k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- NIH Research Education Program - Courses, Curriculum and Methods (Parent R25, Clinical Trial Not Allowed), PA-27-034Training & capacityNational Institutes of HealthSupports development and delivery of research skills courses and new curricula or research methods training that complement formal degree programmes. Useful for building methods capacity in a school or a community-partnered training programme.up to $500k per year · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation FellowshipFellowshipKlingenstein Third Generation FoundationTwo-year, $100,000 fellowship for postdoctoral or junior-faculty researchers studying the causes, prevention and treatment of ADHD or depression in children and adolescents, with emphasis on low-income and under-resourced communities.$100k · Annual cycle · Aug, Nov
- NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs (L30 Clinical, L40 Pediatric, L70 FOCUS)Training & capacityNational Institutes of HealthRepays qualified educational debt for researchers outside NIH who commit to at least 20 hours a week of qualifying research over a two-year period. Renewable. Not a project grant: it pays down the researcher's own student loans.up to $50k per year · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct, Nov
- Alzheimer's Association Research Grant For All (AARGA)Early-career awardAlzheimer's AssociationEarly-career investigator award across all areas of Alzheimer's and related dementia research, explicitly including psychosocial studies, care interventions, and health equity research — not only basic science.up to $200k · Annual cycle · Aug, Oct
- Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (Parent K24, Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed), PA-24-188Early-career awardNational Institutes of HealthUp to five years of protected time (25 to 50 percent effort) for an established mid-career patient-oriented researcher to deepen their own research and formally mentor junior clinical investigators, including K23 grantees.up to $50k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- NIH Pathway to Independence Award (Parent K99/R00, Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed), PA-24-194Early-career awardNational Institutes of HealthTwo-phase award: one to two years of mentored postdoctoral support (K99) followed by up to three years of independent support (R00) that activates on securing a tenure-track or equivalent faculty position.up to $249k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- AFSP Research Grants (Innovation Grant portfolio)Foundation grantAmerican Foundation for Suicide PreventionA ladder of suicide-prevention research grants from $50,000 pilot awards up to $500,000/year Focus Grants, open to all academic disciplines. Every funded project must include a suicide-related outcome measure.$50k–$500k · Several times a year · Aug, Sep, Nov
- Innovative Pilot Mental Health Services Research Not Involving Clinical Trials (R34 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthPilot mental health services research in understudied areas, using non-trial designs such as natural experiments, survey and mixed-methods work, clinical epidemiology, and new measures or financing analyses.up to $450k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Pilot Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trials for Mental Health Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Required)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthPilot-scale hybrid trials developing and testing mental health interventions together with implementation strategies in accessible community, school, online or routine care settings.up to $750k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Partnership GrantsFoundation grantAlaska Mental Health Trust AuthorityThe Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is a state corporate authority that administers a dedicated trust for Alaskans experiencing mental illness, developmental disabilities, substance use disorders, traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's disease. Partnership Grants fund capacity building, planning, outreach, workforce and service development against four priority areas: prevention and early intervention, crisis response, treatment and recovery, and ongoing support and wellbeing. For a social work researcher this is a route to funded planning, needs assessment and programme development work Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, May, Aug, Nov
- NWO Talent Programme – Veni (Social Sciences and Humanities)Early-career awardDutch Research Council (NWO)Veni is the entry rung of the Netherlands' flagship personal-grant ladder (Veni–Vidi–Vici), giving a recently graduated PhD three years of protected funding to pursue research of their own choosing. The SSH round covers pedagogics, sociology, psychology, public administration, development studies, law, demography and related fields, so social work questions are squarely in scope. The award is to the individual and is designed to buy independence early, before an academic career has hardened around someone else's agenda. Two-stage: pre-proposal, then full application and interview.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Sep, Jan
- SNSF Project FundingFoundation grantSwiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)The SNSF's workhorse open call: researchers propose on a topic of their own choosing, in any discipline including the social sciences, and the scheme explicitly welcomes practice-related questions alongside purely theoretical ones — which matters for applied social work research. Grants run one to four years and can be held individually or as a collaborative project with up to three applicants, allowing a genuine multi-site design. Two fixed submission dates a year, so the planning rhythm is predictable. Note the 2026 rule change capping researchers at one submission per twelve months and two Amount not published · Several times a year · Apr, Oct
- Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials of Complementary and Integrative Interventions Delivered Remotely or via mHealth (R01 Clinical Trial Required) — PAR-25-268Federal grantNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), NIHAn R01 for fully remote efficacy or effectiveness trials of complementary and integrative interventions, with a strict design constraint: there must be no in-person contact at all between research staff and participants. Everything — recruitment, consent, delivery, assessment, retention — happens at a distance or through mobile health tools. That constraint is the point, because it tests whether these interventions can reach people who cannot get to a clinic: rural residents, unpaid caregivers, people with disabilities or transport barriers, and people whose work hours make in-person research Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- HRC Project Grants (2027 round)Federal grantHealth Research Council of New ZealandThe Health Research Council of New Zealand's main investigator-initiated project funding, open across the full breadth of health research including behavioural, social, public health, kaupapa Maori, Maori health and Pacific health work. Two-stage process: a short expression of interest, then a full application with external peer review and an applicant rebuttal stage. Projects run two to five years, which suits longitudinal or intervention-evaluation designs a social work researcher would run.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug, Nov
- VA ORD Career Development Program (CDA-1, CDA-2, CDEA)Early-career awardU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and DevelopmentVA-wide mentored award series. CDA-1 gives two years of entry-level support, CDA-2 covers three to five years of career development and research objectives, and the CDEA lets an established VA scientist spend up to a year acquiring a new research competency elsewhere.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct
- Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23, Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed), PA-24-185Early-career awardNational Institutes of HealthThree to five years of protected time and salary support for clinically trained researchers building an independent patient-oriented research career under a mentor. Companion versions exist for clinical trial required and basic experimental studies with humans.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Effectiveness Trials to Test Mental Health System Interventions (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthTwo-phase trials of system-level interventions that change how mental health services are organised, financed, coordinated or delivered, with a feasibility R61 phase preceding an effectiveness R33 phase.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Accelerating Solutions to Improve Access and Quality of Empirically-Supported Practices for Youth Mental Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthResearch on barriers to youth mental health care for people from birth to age 25, covering intervention optimisation, workforce development, system integration and service delivery strategies.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Development of Psychosocial Therapeutic and Preventive Interventions for Mental Disorders (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthDevelopment and early testing of novel psychosocial therapeutic and preventive interventions, with emphasis on demonstrating that the intervention moves a defined mechanism linked to mental disorder risk or maintenance.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institutes of Health (NIMH is a participating institute)Studies that identify, develop and test strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, sustainability and scale-up of evidence-based interventions, programmes and policies in clinical and community settings.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Mar, Jun, Jul, Oct, Nov
- Innovative Mental Health Services Research Not Involving Clinical Trials (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthFull-scale, non-trial research on mental health services delivery: mutable factors shaping access and quality, new research tools and methods, and analyses of large administrative or service datasets.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Effectiveness Trials for Post-Acute Interventions and Services to Optimize Longer-term Outcomes (R01 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthDefinitive effectiveness trials of therapeutic and service interventions for the post-acute phase of mental health conditions in youth, adults and older adults, including tests of mechanism.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Full-Scale Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trials for Mental Health Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthHybrid trials that test the effectiveness of a mental health intervention and an implementation strategy at the same time, in community, school, online, or routine care settings, including mechanisms of action.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Parkinson's Foundation Community GrantsFoundation grantParkinson's FoundationA $1 million annual pool for locally operated programs serving people with Parkinson's disease and their care partners. Two of the three published focus areas are squarely social-work territory: mental health and emotional wellbeing (anxiety, depression, social isolation) and care partner support, training and resources. The Foundation asks that funded programs be impactful, sustainable, scalable and measurable, which is the opening for an evaluation component designed with a researcher. Since 2011 the program has put more than $13.9 million into 1,065 community-based programs.$10k–$25k · Annual cycle · Jan
- FY26 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Lifestyle and Applied Health Research AwardFederal grantU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencySupports clinical research and clinical trials drawing on psychology, epidemiology, surveillance, implementation science and population health, explicitly including development of evidence-based practices and investigation of psychosocial patient outcomes. Applications must address one of the 52 congressionally directed FY26 PRMRP topic areas, which include Suicide Prevention, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Maternal Mental Health, Eating Disorders, Gambling Addiction, and Sleep Disorders and Restriction.up to $4.2M · Annual cycle · May, Jul, Aug
- APF Visionary GrantsPilot / seed fundingAmerican Psychological FoundationTen grants of up to $20,000 for research, education or intervention projects on social problems: serving at-risk populations, violence prevention, behavior-health connections, stigma and prejudice reduction, and racial equity. Preference for pilot projects likely to attract later federal or foundation funding.up to $20k · Annual cycle
- Feasibility Clinical Trials of Mind and Body Interventions for NCCIH High Priority Research Topics (R34 Clinical Trial Required) — PAR-25-274Pilot / seed fundingNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), NIHThe planning-and-feasibility rung of NCCIH's mind and body portfolio: a three-year R34 to work out recruitment, retention, intervention fidelity, dose and outcome measurement before committing to a full trial. For a social work researcher who has a promising group or community-delivered practice and no trial-scale preliminary data, this is the step that makes a later R01 or R61/R33 credible — and it is one of the few NIH mechanisms that will pay for the unglamorous work of proving a protocol can actually run in a real service setting. Restricted to conditions NCCIH has designated as high-priorup to $450k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- FY26 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Impact AwardFederal grantU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencyFunds applied, use-inspired and practice-oriented research with near-term major impact on one of the FY26 PRMRP topic areas — which include Suicide Prevention, PTSD and Maternal Mental Health. A Partnering PI option supports two collaborating investigators, at least one of whom must be a clinician researcher. Clinical trials are not allowed.$2.8M–$3.6M · Annual cycle · May, Jul, Aug
- FY26 TBIPHRP Clinical Trial AwardFederal grantU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencySupports clinical trials, from proof-of-concept feasibility through larger effectiveness trials, on treatment or management of psychological health conditions and/or traumatic brain injury. Applications must include a community-based participatory research approach, which makes behavioural and psychosocial intervention trials with community partners in scope.$2.1M–$4.1M · Annual cycle · May, Jul, Oct
- HDSA HD Human Biology Project (and companion HD Human Experience Project)Foundation grantHuntington's Disease Society of AmericaHDSA's flagship fellowship funds research on Huntington's disease as it occurs in people, using patient samples and clinical data. Read the scope carefully before applying as a social scientist: psychosocial, quality-of-life and behavioural projects are explicitly out of scope for the Human Biology Project itself. HDSA states on this same page that it launched a companion stream in 2026, the HD Human Experience Project, aimed at the cognitive, psychiatric and behavioural features of HD and at rehabilitation approaches, which is where a social work investigator's project belongs. A meaningful cup to $90k per year · Annual cycle · Apr, May, Jul
- Tourette Association of America Young Investigator AwardEarly-career awardTourette Association of AmericaA career-development award of up to $75,000 a year for two years for researchers moving into Tourette syndrome and tic disorders. Applications must pair an independent research project with an explicit career development component. TAA states the award supports biological understanding, clinical research aimed at improving patient care, and the development and testing of new therapies; the Association has historically seeded a behavioural sciences consortium alongside its genetics, neuroimaging and DBS consortia, so behavioural and psychosocial work has a place, though the emphasis on this pagup to $150k · Annual cycle · Nov
- Healthy Aging Grant ProgramFoundation grantMichigan Health Endowment FundGrants for projects improving the health of older Michiganders across access to care, aging in place, caregiver support, behavioral health, nutrition and food security, and age-friendly communities. Funded work has included landscape analyses, pilot evaluations and toolkit development.up to $750k · Annual cycle · Mar, Jun
- Jack Shand Research GrantsPilot / seed fundingSociety for the Scientific Study of ReligionSmall seed grants for direct research expenses on the scientific study of religion, judged primarily on intellectual merit. Well suited to social work researchers studying religion's role in health, help-seeking, family life or community organisation. Funds are transferred to the principal investigator's institution and no indirect cost recovery is permitted.up to $5k · Annual cycle · May
- FY26 Autism Research Program (ARP) Career Development AwardEarly-career awardU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencySupports early-career independent investigators, or established investigators transitioning into autism research, to pursue high-impact ideas or early-phase proof-of-principle trials addressing critical needs of the autism community. Preliminary data are required.$750k · Annual cycle · May, Jul, Oct
- New Ideas AwardFoundation grantSimons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)Early-stage support for exploratory research testing novel hypotheses in autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. Investigators who have not previously been funded by SFARI, including those new to autism research, are encouraged to apply.up to $600k · Rolling / open
- Wayne F. Placek GrantsFoundation grantAmerican Psychological FoundationTwo grants of up to $15,000 each per year for research increasing public understanding of sexual orientation, including heterosexual attitudes toward LGBTQIA+ people, family and workplace issues, underrepresented LGBTQIA+ populations, and issues affecting Black LGBTQIA+ communities.up to $15k · Annual cycle
- Alzheimer's Association Research Grant (AARG)Early-career awardAlzheimer's AssociationPilot funding for early-career faculty to develop preliminary data, test procedures and build hypotheses in dementia research. Sits within the Association's International Research Grant Program, which also funds dementia care and health services research.$140k–$200k · Annual cycle · Feb, May
- Community Grants ProgramFoundation grantThe Denver FoundationResponsive grantmaking of roughly $5 million a year across two cycles to charitable organizations in the seven-county Metro Denver region, in economic opportunity, environment and climate, housing, and youth well-being (including youth mental health and K-12 school funding reform).$20k–$50k · Several times a year · Jan, Mar, Jun, Aug
- Development of Interventions to Prevent and Treat Substance Use Disorders and Overdose (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIHPhased cooperative-agreement funding to develop and test interventions preventing or treating substance use disorders and overdose, including behavioral interventions and digital therapeutics alongside pharmacological and device approaches.up to $3M per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Pilot Health Services and Economic Research on the Treatment of Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use Disorders (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIHPilot and preliminary services or economic research preparing for a larger effectiveness trial: access, quality, affordability and uptake of substance use and tobacco treatment, including services for co-occurring medical and mental health conditions.up to $450k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Building Communities of Recovery (BCOR)Federal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds recovery community organisations to deliver peer recovery support services led by people with lived experience of substance use and co-occurring disorders, plus housing and employment linkage. Requires client-level SPARS data at intake, 6 months and closeout.up to $350k per year · Periodic calls · Jul
- One Mind Rising Star AwardEarly-career awardOne MindThree-year award of $300,000 for hypothesis-driven research on psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar, depression, OCD, PTSD, eating disorders and suicidality, plus a structured leadership and mentorship programme.$300k · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- Grawemeyer Award in PsychologyPrize or challengeUniversity of Louisville (Grawemeyer Awards)One of five annual Grawemeyer Awards, given for an outstanding idea in psychology; a companion award in Education runs on the same cycle. Both are relevant to behavioural-health and child-development scholarship.$100k · Annual cycle · Dec, Apr
- Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) ProgramFederal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Cooperative agreement to implement court-ordered community-based treatment for adults with serious mental illness, working with civil courts and community partners. Aims to reduce hospitalisation, homelessness and criminal justice contact.up to $750k per year · Periodic calls · Apr
- Tribal Behavioral Health: Suicide Prevention (TBH-SP)Federal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds community-wide suicide prevention for American Indian and Alaska Native youth and young adults through age 24, incorporating Indigenous knowledge and healing methods. Requires quarterly reporting on outreach, screening and linkage.up to $350k per year · Periodic calls · Jul
- Safety Through Recovery, Engagement, and Evidence-Based Treatment and Support (STREETS)Federal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Cooperative agreement for street-based outreach, treatment and recovery support for people who are homeless and have serious mental illness, substance use disorder or co-occurring disorders. Participation in evaluation and peer learning collaboratives is required.up to $3M per year · Periodic calls · Jul
- Small Grants Program for Early Career ScholarsEarly-career awardSociety for Research in Child Development (SRCD)Non-renewable grants of up to $7,500 for early career scholars conducting child development research. Covers equipment, software, participant incentives and data-collection travel; salary, conference travel and indirect costs are not allowed.up to $8k · Annual cycle · Jan
- Victoria S. Levin Award for Early Career Success in Young Children's Mental Health ResearchEarly-career awardSociety for Research in Child Development (SRCD)Up to $25,000 to buy an early career researcher release time to write and submit a major NIH application on early childhood mental health, plus travel to NIH meetings and a pre-review of the application by a senior scientist.up to $25k · Annual cycle · Jan
- Alcohol Treatment, Pharmacotherapy, and Recovery Research (R01 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), NIHR01 support for clinical trials on alcohol use disorder treatment and recovery: behavioral therapies, mechanisms of behavior change, precision medicine, recovery, and medications development.up to $500k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Mental Health Awareness Training Grants (MHAT)Training & capacitySubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds mental health awareness and literacy training for school staff, emergency responders, law enforcement, veterans, service members and caregivers. Grantees report quarterly on numbers trained and numbers linked to services.up to $200k per year · Periodic calls · Jul
- Wayne F. Placek GrantFoundation grantAmerican Psychological FoundationFunds research that increases public understanding of sexual orientation and reduces stress experienced by LGBTQIA+ people, including family, workplace, and Black LGBTQIA+ community topics. Two grants per year.$15k · Annual cycle
- BBRF Young Investigator GrantEarly-career awardBrain & Behavior Research FoundationTwo-year seed funding for early-career investigators studying serious mental illness, including schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety, ADHD, autism and eating disorders. Explicitly framed as proof-of-concept money to enable later federal grants.$35k–$70k · Annual cycle · Feb, Mar
- Behavioral Health and Community Safety Partnerships (BH-CSP)Federal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Supports communities in reducing the behavioral health impacts of crime, violence and disorder and improving outcomes for affected youth and families. Formerly known as ReCAST. Requires quarterly indicator reporting through SPARS.up to $750k per year · Periodic calls · Jul
- National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative — Category II Treatment and Service Adaptation (TSA) CentersFederal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds centres that provide national expertise on specific childhood trauma types, populations or service systems, and that adapt, refine and support implementation of evidence-based trauma treatments. Includes a SAMHSA-directed evaluation.up to $600k per year · Periodic calls · Jul
- Substance Use/Substance Use Disorder Dissertation Research Award (R36 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)Dissertation awardNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIHDissertation support for doctoral candidates working on substance use and substance use disorder, spanning epidemiology, prevention, treatment and services research. Alcohol-only projects are not responsive.up to $50k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- APF Visionary GrantsPilot / seed fundingAmerican Psychological FoundationSeed grants for research, education and intervention projects applying psychology to social problems. Named priority areas include advancing racial equity and eliminating stigma and prejudice based on race.up to $20k · Annual cycle
- BBRF Distinguished Investigator GrantFoundation grantBrain & Behavior Research FoundationOne-year award for senior investigators pursuing innovative neurobiological and behavioural research on serious mental illness. Companion mechanism to the Independent Investigator grant for associate-professor-level researchers.$100k · Annual cycle · Feb, Mar
- Developmental Sciences (DS)Federal grantU.S. National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesSupports research on the cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural and biological processes involved in human development across the life span — relevant to child, adolescent and family research.$100k–$200k per year · Varies by programme
- Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for ProfessionalsTraining & capacityHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health WorkforceFunds accredited graduate programmes, including master's and doctoral social work programmes, to establish or expand paid field placements and internships in behavioural health, with emphasis on children, adolescents and transitional-age youth, trauma-informed care, SUD treatment, interprofessional team-based care and clinical supervisor development.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan
- Health Fund Grant Programs (Healthy Aging, Healthy Kids, Behavioral Health, Capacity Building)Foundation grantMichigan Health Endowment FundThe Michigan Health Endowment Fund is a statewide fund created under Michigan law from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan restructuring, making grants to improve health and wellness across the state with a particular remit for children and seniors. Its 2026 grantmaking runs four programmes: Healthy Aging, Healthy Kids, Behavioral Health and Capacity Building. The Fund describes working with grantees to develop ideas and evaluate impact, so evaluation partnerships are within its normal way of working, and behavioural health is being folded into the Healthy Aging and Healthy Kids programmes Amount not published · Annual cycle
- Opioid-Impacted Family Support Program (OIFSP)Training & capacityHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health WorkforceFunds training programmes that expand the knowledge and expertise of behavioural health paraprofessionals, including peer support specialists and social services aides, who work on interprofessional teams serving families affected by opioid and other substance use disorder, with a focus on children and adolescents who have experienced trauma.Amount not published · Periodic calls · May
- Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for ParaprofessionalsTraining & capacityHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health WorkforceFunds community-based experiential training, field placements and internships for students becoming mental health workers, peer support specialists and other behavioural health paraprofessionals, with a focus on children and transitional-age youth who have experienced trauma. Optional second tier supports registered apprenticeships.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Jul
- Arizona Biomedical Research Centre Research Grant ProgramsFederal grantArizona Department of Health ServicesThe Arizona Biomedical Research Centre sits inside the state health department and directs tobacco tax and state lottery revenue, under the Health Research Fund established by A.R.S. sections 36-275 and 36-773, into research that improves the health of Arizonans. Its stated scope covers behavioural studies and attitude assessments alongside prevention, epidemiology and treatment research. At the time of retrieval the Centre's live solicitations were two clinical research programmes, the Psilocybin Research Clinical Trials Grant Program and the Marijuana Research Studies and Clinical Trials GraAmount not published · Periodic calls
- Behavioral Health Workforce Development Technical Assistance (BHWD-TA) ProgramTraining & capacityHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health WorkforceFunds a single national technical assistance provider that supports HRSA's behavioural health workforce grantees, including BHWET for Professionals, BHWET for Paraprofessionals and Graduate Psychology Education recipients, to help those training programmes expand the supply of behavioural health providers.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Mar
- Community Health Grants, Southern CaliforniaFoundation grantKaiser Permanente Southern CaliforniaKaiser Permanente's Southern California community health grantmaking, organized around safety net partnerships, community health initiatives, and knowledge development and dissemination — that last priority is the channel through which evaluation and research-adjacent work is funded. Worth tracking rather than applying to cold, because the pipeline runs through pre-identified partners.Amount not published · By invitation
- LAUNCH — Global Health Program for Fellows and ScholarsFellowshipFogarty International Center, NIHFogarty's flagship trainee pathway: one year of mentored global health research training at established biomedical and health research institutions and project sites in low- and middle-income countries. Fogarty funds seven consortia (ACHIEVE, Global Health Emerging Scholars, INSIGHT, NPGH LEADERs, HBNU, UJMT and GLOCAL), each with its own sites, mentors and application process, and trainees apply directly to a consortium rather than to NIH. For a social work doctoral student or postdoc, this is a route into field-based global research on mental health, HIV care engagement, maternal and child wAmount not published · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct, Nov
- NJCCR Research Grants and Fellowship Training ProgramFederal grantNew Jersey Commission on Cancer Research, New Jersey Department of HealthThe New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research funds cancer research in the state through investigator research grants, a Fellowship Training Program aimed at early-career researchers, and supplemental bridge grants for investigators between major awards. Funding comes from state appropriations, a designated line on the New Jersey individual income tax return, and proceeds from the Conquer Cancer specialty licence plate. Behavioural, survivorship and psychosocial cancer research falls within scope alongside laboratory science.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- Resilient Children and Families Request for ProposalsFoundation grantCambia Health FoundationAn RFP from the corporate foundation of Cambia Health Solutions supporting school-based health and wellness services, with explicit emphasis on centering student and parent or caregiver voice and leadership. School social work and youth behavioral health researchers working with districts in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West are squarely in scope.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Aug
- Strategic Focus Area GrantsFoundation grantBlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina FoundationStatewide grantmaking on three strategic focus areas: access to care, health through food, and youth mental health, connectedness and resilience. The Foundation states it values initiatives reflecting the voices, perspectives and lived experiences of North Carolinians facing barriers to good health, which opens room for community-based participatory work and evaluation partnerships.Amount not published · By invitation
- Templeton Religion Trust GrantsFoundation grantTempleton Religion TrustFunds work across Covenantal Pluralism, the Program in the Study of Mysticism, the Social Consequences of Religion, and Art, Science and Futures of Religion. The Social Consequences of Religion strand asks whether religions are good or bad for society — directly relevant to social work research on religion, cohesion and wellbeing. Listed here so researchers know the route exists and how it actually works.Not a cash award · By invitation
- CSR&D Brain, Behavioral and Mental Health (BBMH) Merit Review and Career Development ProgramsFederal grantU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development — Clinical Science Research and Development ServiceCSR&D's mental health portfolio funds clinical, interventional, effectiveness, epidemiological and technological studies with human participants, with stated focus areas including PTSD treatment and suicide prevention. Includes investigator-initiated Merit Review and mentored career development awards.Amount not published · Several times a year · Mar, Sep
- Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders Research Program (ASUDRP)Federal grantU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencyCDMRP programme funding research to identify, evaluate and advance treatments for alcohol, opioid and other substance use disorders in Service Members, Veterans, their families and the public, with stated emphasis on substance use disorder co-occurring with PTSD, TBI and suicide risk.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- FORE Grants (Request-for-Proposal cycles, including Community-Driven Responses to Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Mortality)Foundation grantFoundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)FORE funds work on opioid use disorder and overdose mortality across professional education, payer and provider strategies, policy, and public awareness. Its community-driven RFP supports organizational capacity, program development, and community partnerships. Grants are made only in response to a posted RFP.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Jun, Jul, Aug
- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Institutional Research Training Grant (Parent T32), PA-25-168Training & capacityNational Institutes of HealthInstitutional grant enabling a school or centre to run a structured predoctoral and postdoctoral research training programme, explicitly including behavioural and social sciences and health services research. Awarded to the institution, which then appoints trainees.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Psychosocial Research (PSR) GrantsFoundation grantCraig H. Neilsen FoundationFunds studies of psychological and social wellbeing after spinal cord injury, and the development and testing of interventions. Three mechanisms: Postdoctoral Fellowships, Investigational Grants (two years), and Interventional Testing Grants (up to three years).Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Mar, Jul
- Pfizer Competitive Grants (Independent Grants for Learning & Change)Foundation grantPfizerCorporate independent-grants programme that posts public Requests for Proposals in defined health topic areas, funding investigator-initiated research, quality improvement and education projects designed and run entirely by the applicant organisation.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Prevention Services Evaluation Partnerships: Supporting Adoptive FamiliesFederal grantHHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)Funds a summative randomized controlled trial or quasi-experimental evaluation of programs supporting adoptive families at risk of adoption disruption or dissolution. The design must meet Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse standards for moderate or high causal evidence.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- Community Partnerships and InvestmentsFoundation grantWounded Warrior ProjectWWP makes grants and investments to military and veteran organisations across five focus areas, and separately funds applied research and white papers on caregiving, brain injury telerehabilitation and military family well-being.Amount not published · By invitation
- Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNIH (multi-Institute, including NIMHD)R01 for etiologic, intervention development/adaptation/testing and dissemination-implementation research to improve health in Native American communities, building on community knowledge, resources and resilience.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jan, Oct
- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32), PA-25-423Federal fellowshipNational Institutes of HealthIndividual postdoctoral fellowship supporting mentored research training in health-related fields, including behavioral and social science. Award covers stipend, tuition and fees, institutional allowance and childcare costs.Amount not published · Several times a year · Apr, Aug, Dec
- Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) ProgramFederal grantNational Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community LivingFunds national centres that combine advanced research, training and information dissemination on a defined disability topic, aimed at improving employment, independent living, family support and economic self-sufficiency. Awards are typically five years.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
- Model Systems Program (Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Burn Injury)Federal grantNational Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community LivingFunds centres that deliver coordinated rehabilitation care and run longitudinal and multi-site collaborative research on recovery and long-term outcomes after spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury or burn injury, feeding national longitudinal databases.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
- Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)Federal grantU.S. National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesFunds research that increases understanding of how individuals, organizations and societies make decisions, including judgment and decision making, decision aids, risk analysis and communication, and public policy decision making.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Research Grants for Preventing Interpersonal Violence and Suicide Among Youth and Young Adults (R01), CDC-RFA-CE-26-020Federal grantCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (Division of Violence Prevention)CDC Injury Center investigator-initiated R01 research grants to study prevention of interpersonal violence and suicide among youth and young adults. Recurring roughly annually under the CE-xx-020/021/030 numbering.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul, Dec
- Firearm Injury Surveillance Through Emergency Rooms: Advancing Violence Epidemiology in Real-Time (FASTER: AVERT), CDC-RFA-CE-23-0007Federal grantCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Violence PreventionFunds 12 jurisdictions to collect near real-time emergency department data on firearm injury, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, suspected child abuse and neglect, youth violence and mental health conditions. Runs 9/1/2023 to 8/31/2028.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- VA Advanced Fellowship Program in Mental Illness Research and Treatment (VISN 5 MIRECC)FellowshipU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs — VISN 5 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical CenterTwo-year postdoctoral research and clinical training fellowship in serious mental illness. Offers two positions, one for an MD fellow and one Allied Health slot explicitly open to social work alongside psychology, nursing and pharmacy.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Nov, Dec
- Homelessness strategic initiativeFoundation grantConrad N. Hilton FoundationFunds work to end long-term homelessness in Los Angeles County: housing and early-response services, person-centered supports including mental health and income, data-backed prevention including predictive modeling, and cross-city knowledge exchange.Amount not published · By invitation
- Ballmer Group — Housing impact areaFoundation grantBallmer GroupMulti-year funding for direct services and for what the funder calls levers of change that transform systems, across impact areas that include Housing, Child Welfare, Behavioral Health, Criminal Justice and Tech & Data.Amount not published · By invitation
- Michigan Health Endowment Fund grantmaking (Healthy Aging, Healthy Kids, Behavioral Health, Capacity Building)Foundation grantMichigan Health Endowment FundPeriodic RFPs across four 2026 programme areas supporting innovative, evidence-based work to improve the health and wellness of Michigan residents, including behavioral health and healthy aging.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Rural Healthcare ProgramFoundation grantLeona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable TrustFunds rural healthcare access across three pillars: telemedicine, behavioral health services, and clinical equipment/technology. The page cites a $13M pledge toward an adolescent behavioral health center serving four states.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Health Care program grantsFoundation grantThe Duke EndowmentFunds health care innovation in the Carolinas across five priorities: school-based mental health, population health, access to care for vulnerable populations, maternal and infant health, and the Healthy People Healthy Carolinas initiative.Amount not published · Several times a year · May, Jun, Nov, Dec
- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32)Federal fellowshipNational Institutes of HealthMentored postdoctoral research training support for candidates in health-related research, including behavioural, mental health and substance use research relevant to social work. Requires an identified sponsor and institution.Amount not published · Several times a year · Apr, Aug, Dec
- What We Fund (veteran, service member and military family grants)Foundation grantBob Woodruff FoundationGrants to veteran-serving organisations in three priority areas: health and well-being of service members, veterans, families and caregivers; local community capacity to improve veteran outcomes; and strengthening the military/veteran service sector.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Veterans program area grantmakingFoundation grantMay & Stanley Smith Charitable TrustGrants for direct services and policy/systems-change work on veteran access to benefits and resources, legal services, advocacy, and housing security, focused on non-career enlisted (E-1 to E-6) veterans including Guard and Reserve.Amount not published · By invitation
- DAV Charitable Service Trust GrantsFoundation grantDAV (Disabled American Veterans) Charitable Service TrustQuarterly grant cycles funding physical and psychological rehabilitation and direct-service programmes for ill and injured veterans and their families, including housing, mobility and therapeutic programming.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct
- Wellcome Discovery AwardsFoundation grantWellcome TrustLong research programme funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline, including social science, pursuing work that shifts understanding of human life, health and wellbeing.Amount not published · Several times a year · Sep
- Wellcome Career Development AwardsEarly-career awardWellcome TrustLong-duration awards for mid-career researchers from any discipline ready to lead their own substantial research programme related to human life, health and wellbeing.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Navigator Emergency Department Diversion Models for Non-Urgent Mental Health Concerns (R01) — PAR-25-289Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIHSupports research testing the effectiveness, implementation and optimisation of patient navigation models that divert youth with non-urgent mental health problems away from emergency departments. A companion R34 (PAR-25-288) funds pilot tests.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
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- Grants for veterans, service members and their familiesFoundation grantBob Woodruff FoundationFunds community programmes serving veterans and military families and, unusually, pays for the evaluation capacity those programmes need to show whether they work.$25k–$500k · Annual cycle
- Federal prize competitions and challengesPrize or challengeU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)Agencies post cash prizes for solutions to defined problems — including behavioural health, caregiving and child welfare challenges. You are paid for the result, so there is no grant to administer.$5k–$500k · Rolling / open
- Grants to address the overdose crisisRapid-response fundFoundation for Opioid Response EffortsA funder created specifically for the overdose crisis, moving faster than federal cycles on treatment access, harm reduction and recovery supports, and funding evaluation alongside services.$100k–$500k · Periodic calls
- Transition to Scale and innovation fundingPrize or challengeGrand Challenges CanadaStage-gated funding for bold ideas in global health and development — including mental health and humanitarian innovation — where evidence generation is a condition of moving to the next stage.$100k–$1M · Periodic calls
- Grants to prevent and end homelessnessFoundation grantMelville Charitable TrustThe largest US foundation devoted solely to homelessness, funding housing solutions, systems change, and the research and narrative work that supports them.$50k–$500k · By invitation
- Federal and state evaluation contracts (SAM.gov)Evaluation contractU.S. federal and state agenciesAgencies buy evaluation as a service through procurement, not as a grant. Deliverable-driven and less prestigious than a grant, but it is steady applied research money most academics never look at.$50k–$5M · Rolling / open
- Direct Action Visionary GrantsFoundation grantAmerican Psychological FoundationGrants of up to $60,000 for community interventions delivering an evidence-based psychological intervention or resource in real-world settings, aligned to priorities including serving marginalized communities, ending prejudice and stigma, and preventing violence.up to $60k · Several times a year · Jan, Mar, Apr, Jul, Sep, Oct
- Youth Advisory Council Grants — Northeast MichiganParticipatory grantmakingCommunity Foundation for Northeast MichiganStudent members of county Youth Advisory Councils allocate grants of up to $2,500 by consensus, with no staff vote, to youth-serving programs in four northeast Michigan counties.up to $3k · Several times a year · Jan, Oct
- El Camino Healthcare District Community Benefit Grant ProgramParticipatory grantmakingEl Camino Healthcare DistrictA public healthcare district re-grants community benefit dollars each year to programs addressing the five health needs selected through the 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment, for residents of Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Sunnyvale and part of Cupertino.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Dec, Jan, Feb
- MarinHealth Community Benefit Grant ProgramParticipatory grantmakingMarinHealth Medical CenterA single-hospital community benefit fund for programs serving Marin County residents, organised around four health priorities drawn from the hospital's community health needs assessment. Proposals that measure outcomes through evaluation methods are explicitly prioritised.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Aug
- El Camino Health Community Benefit Grant ProgramParticipatory grantmakingEl Camino HealthThe hospital-side companion to the healthcare district fund: annual community benefit grants for programs addressing the five priorities of the 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment in the cities served by El Camino Health's hospitals.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Dec, Jan, Feb
- Youth Participatory Grantmaking ProgramParticipatory grantmakingCarlson Family FoundationA cohort of 4-8 young people aged 13-24 is trained in philanthropy, then individually scores applications and decides by group discussion which Twin Cities youth-serving nonprofits receive microgrants, with staff facilitating rather than directing.up to $5k · Annual cycle · Apr
- Farm Aid grant programFoundation grantFarm AidGrants to organizations serving family farmers, explicitly including farm advocates, legal support, mental health services, hotlines, and emergency assistance — a rare direct source for rural agricultural behavioural health work.$5k–$10k · By invitation · Nov, Dec
- OneOhio Recovery Foundation Regional Grant Cycle #2Participatory grantmakingOneOhio Recovery FoundationOhio's statewide opioid settlement foundation distributes 55% of the state's national opioid settlement dollars through regionally-governed competitive cycles. Regional Grant Cycle #2 makes $45,780,885 available across 19 Ohio regions, allocated by the settlement formula plus Cycle 1 carryover. Awards support prevention, treatment, recovery and community-resilience work for people with substance use disorder (including co-occurring mental health conditions) and family members affected by another person's SUD. The RFP released 2025-12-10; a required Funding Inquiry stage opened 2026-01-14 and cAmount not published · Periodic calls · Dec, Jan, Feb
- Boston Children's Hospital Collaboration for Community HealthParticipatory grantmakingBoston Children's HospitalA multi-year community investment stream tied to the Massachusetts Determination of Need / Community Health Initiative, funding partner-led work on mental and behavioral health workforce, youth engagement, food access and housing, with published evaluation reports on each area.Amount not published · By invitation
- Hogg Foundation for Mental Health grant programsParticipatory grantmakingHogg Foundation for Mental Health (University of Texas at Austin)A Texas mental health funder running competitive RFPs on community-driven themes: rural and border community mental health, libraries as mental health infrastructure, flexible funding for under-resourced organisations, policy fellows, and arts-and-humanities research grants for early career faculty.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- External Research Partner RosterEvaluation contractColorado Evaluation and Action LabColorado's state-facing evaluation lab keeps a standing pool of outside researchers it draws on for paid project work, rather than running open grant competitions. You join by questionnaire and are contacted when a fitting project appears.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- DHCF Procurement OpportunitiesEvaluation contractDistrict of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance (DC Medicaid)DC's Medicaid agency directs prospective bidders to the District's central contracting portal for all open DHCF solicitations, including analytic and evaluation work. This page is the agency's standing entry point and names the contract compliance contact.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Illinois Judicial Branch Procurement OpportunitiesEvaluation contractOffice of the Illinois Courts / Administrative Office of the Illinois CourtsThe Illinois judiciary lists its own solicitations here, and they regularly include research-shaped work — most notably a comprehensive validation of the state's Adult and Juvenile Risk Assessment instruments and strategic planning consulting for the Judicial Conference.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Elrha funding calls (R2HC research and Humanitarian Innovation Fund)Rapid-response fundElrhaThe single portal where Elrha posts its humanitarian research and innovation calls, including crisis-triggered R2HC calls for research responding to current or anticipated humanitarian health emergencies.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- DBHDS Procurement (Behavioral Health Solicitations via eVA)Evaluation contractVirginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS)Virginia's behavioral health and developmental services authority competes its service, analytic and study contracts through eVA, the Commonwealth's eProcurement marketplace. This page sets out the rules, registration route and term-contract postings.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- OMH Requests for Proposals and Requests for InformationEvaluation contractNew York State Office of Mental HealthNew York's state mental health authority posts its RFPs and RFIs on this page, including data-collection and reporting work such as the National Outcome Measures project. A tentative forward procurement schedule is also published so bidders can plan.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Medicaid Evaluation and Research Solicitations via eVA (DMAS Procurement)Evaluation contractVirginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS)Virginia's state Medicaid agency buys evaluation, analytic and study work through competitive solicitations posted on the eVA procurement portal rather than through grant announcements. The DMAS procurement page explains how to find and bid on them.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Community Fund for Immigrant WellnessParticipatory grantmakingScattergood Foundation (with the Philadelphia Foundation, City of Philadelphia DBHIDS, and Paul D. Schurgot Foundation)A participatory fund for immigrant and refugee behavioral health in Greater Philadelphia, where a Community Advisory Board of immigrant-serving organizations writes the strategy and RFP and nominates the Decision Making Group that selects awardees.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- Add Health Restricted-Use Data ContractsIn-kind resourceCarolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillContractual access to the restricted-use files of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, covering four decades of one cohort's development, available either through a secure research workspace or a home-institution contract.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- AHCCCS Solicitations and Contracts (Open Solicitations and Bidders Library)Evaluation contractArizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)Arizona's Medicaid agency posts its open solicitations, closed solicitations, contract amendments and a bidders library here. This is the route by which analytic, monitoring and evaluation work for Arizona Medicaid is competed.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Global Genes RARE Patient Impact GrantsParticipatory grantmakingGlobal GenesA grant stream that puts money directly into rare disease patient advocacy organizations rather than into universities. Past cycles funded educational tools and resources to improve health equity in underserved and underrepresented rare disease populations, in-person convenings and community building, and programs addressing the health and mental wellbeing of the rare disease community, naming children, siblings, caregivers and care partners, and people who are grieving. That sibling-and-bereavement framing is rare in condition-foundation funding and maps directly onto family-systems social woAmount not published · Varies by programme
- Mother Cabrini Health Foundation grants - Mental and Behavioral HealthFoundation grantMother Cabrini Health FoundationLarge New York State health funder with a standing Mental and Behavioral Health funding area, including access to mental health counselling, alongside healthcare access, workforce, and basic needs. Two-stage LOI then invited full proposal.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health JournalismFellowshipThe Carter CenterStipends and training for journalists reporting on mental health, caregiving, and substance use. A documentation route rather than a research grant, and one of the few funded ways to spend a year on a single mental health story.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb
- Youth Grants (Youth Advisory Council)Participatory grantmakingCapital Region Community FoundationA council of high school students runs its own triennial youth needs assessment, sets the funding priorities from it, and reviews applications from programs serving teens in Michigan's tri-county capital region.Not a cash award · Annual cycle
- Nuestro FuturoParticipatory grantmakingThe Chicago Community TrustA Latine donor affinity fund at The Chicago Community Trust whose volunteer steering committee, led by two co-chairs, runs the yearly grantmaking to Chicago-area organisations serving Latine communities.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- VA Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) contracting pathwayEvaluation contractU.S. Department of Veterans AffairsVA's route for small businesses, especially veteran-owned ones, to win VA contracts, including the studies and evaluation work relevant to veteran mental health, homelessness and family services.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Peg's Foundation mental health grantsFoundation grantPeg's FoundationAn Ohio family foundation whose primary grantmaking area is mental health, awarded to tax-exempt organisations through an open-call application session managed via its online portal.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- NYS OASAS Funding Opportunities (RFPs and RFAs)Training & capacityNew York State Office of Addiction Services and SupportsRolling list of OASAS requests for proposals and applications covering substance use disorder services, gambling harm prevention, youth services, recovery residences and mobile medication units across New York State.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- WSIPP Contracted Research and University CollaborationEvaluation contractWashington State Institute for Public PolicyWashington's nonpartisan legislative research institute extends its own capacity by contracting outside experts and collaborating with university faculty on legislature-assigned studies of criminal justice, child welfare, and social policy.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- NIH STRIDES Initiative (Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability)In-kind resourceNational Institutes of Health, Office of Data Science StrategyNIH partnerships with commercial cloud providers that let NIH-supported researchers buy cloud services at reduced rates, with free enterprise support, training, and a no-cost Cloud Lab testing environment.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Centinela Valley Medical and Community FundsFoundation grantCalifornia Community FoundationCommunity foundation grants in South Los Angeles's Centinela Valley for integrating medical, dental, vision, mental health and substance use services, cross-sector work on health disparities tied to immigration status, and health policy and advocacy for universal access to coverage and public benefits.from $100k · Rolling / open
- TikTok Research API and Research ToolsIn-kind resourceTikTokAccess for qualified non-commercial researchers to public TikTok data on accounts, videos and engagement, usable for public-interest research on youth online experience, help-seeking, health information, harassment or community formation; requires a defined proposal and evidence of ethical review.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Allegheny County DHS Research and Data Requests (Data Warehouse)In-kind resourceAllegheny County Department of Human Services (Pennsylvania)Researchers can request de-identified, limited or (with IRB approval) identified client and service data from the Allegheny County Data Warehouse for human services research that builds knowledge, improves practice or informs policy.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Meta Content Library and API (researcher access)In-kind resourceMeta PlatformsFree researcher access to public content from Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp Channels, searchable across more than 100 data fields with up to 100,000 results per query, for scientific or public-interest research such as studies of online communities, help-seeking, misinformation or youth social media use.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Community Health Grants, WashingtonFoundation grantKaiser Permanente WashingtonHealth-system community benefit grants to organisations addressing needs found in Kaiser Permanente Washington's three-yearly community health needs assessment: access to care, mental and behavioural health, housing, dismantling structural racism, income and employment, and food security.Amount not published · By invitation
- CCW Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC)In-kind resourceCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), via ResDACVirtual research environment giving approved researchers timelier access to Medicare and Medicaid program data inside the CMS Chronic Conditions Warehouse secure environment, for health services research such as behavioral health care, long-term services and dual-eligible populations.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- DBHIDS Centralized Requests for Research (proposals, data requests, IRB unit approval)In-kind resourcePhiladelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS), Research UnitSingle intake through which researchers seek Philadelphia DBHIDS support for studies involving its data, staff, programs or providers, including research proposals, behavioral health data requests, IRB unit approval and publication review.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- NSCAW Restricted Release Data Licence (NSCAW I, II and III)In-kind resourceNational Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN), Duke University and Cornell University, a service of the Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of HealthA three-year licence to the restricted releases of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW I, II and III), the national longitudinal study of the well-being, service needs and service use of children in contact with child welfare.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- KP Mental Health Scholars Academy Community Grants (MHSA Community Fund)Training & capacityKaiser Permanente Northern California (Fund for Health Education at the East Bay Community Foundation)Grants to nonprofit organisations, via the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Fund for Health Education at the East Bay Community Foundation, to expand the pipeline of mental health professionals with an emphasis on California's communities; its first grant funded research and a UCSF Healthforce Center report on expanding the pipeline of behavioral health paraprofessionals.Amount not published · By invitation
- NCHS Research Data Center (restricted-use NCHS survey data)In-kind resourceNational Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProposal-based access to restricted-use NCHS survey data such as NHIS, NHANES and the National Survey of Children's Health, with variables from other data sources addable on request, for approved projects run through the NCHS Research Data Center.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- SAMHSA Research Data Center (NSDUH Restricted Use File)In-kind resourceSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and QualityOn-site access to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health restricted use file (2002 onward), including state and county codes, detailed industry and occupation codes and detailed demographic items, for approved substance use and mental health research.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Cook County Department of Public Health Data Request ServiceIn-kind resourceCook County Department of Public Health (Illinois), Epidemiology UnitThe suburban Cook County health department's Epidemiology Unit takes data requests for uses including research and academic studies, on topics such as mental and behavioral health, substance use, maternal and child health, mortality and adolescent health.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Kaiser Permanente Research Bank — external researcher accessIn-kind resourceKaiser PermanenteExternal researchers can apply to use Kaiser Permanente Research Bank resources (self-reported health survey data, KP clinical data, genomic data and biospecimens) in a secure on-premises data enclave, working with a required KP collaborator who acts as scientific partner and study administrator.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec
- YouTube Researcher ProgramIn-kind resourceYouTube (Google)Scaled access to YouTube's public data corpus, with as much quota as the research requires, global data, and technical support from YouTube staff, for academic researchers with a clear research goal who intend to publish. The researcher applies to use the data in their own study.Not a cash award · Varies by programme
Other clusters
- Adolescent and Youth Development
- Aging Services and Gerontology
- American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Global Indigenous Populations (Indigenous Cluster)
- Asian and Asian-Pacific Islander Focused-Research
- Black and African Diaspora Focused-Research
- Child Welfare
- Communities and Neighborhoods
- Crime and Criminal Justice
- Disability
- Gender
- Gender-Based Violence
- Health
- History
- Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy
- International Social Work and Global Issues
- Immigrants and Refugees
- LatinX Focused-Research
- Military Service Members, Veterans and Their Families
- Organizations and Management
- Race and Ethnicity
- Research Design and Measurement
- Research on Social Work Education
- School Social Work
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Social Work Practice
- Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviors
- Sustainable Development, Environmental and Climate Justice
- Work and Work-Life Policies and Programs