Stephen Lieberman

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Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviors

Substance use, addiction treatment, harm reduction, overdose, and recovery supports.

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Syringe Service Program GrantsFoundation grantComer Family FoundationSmall general operating grants, including money for harm reduction supplies, to syringe services and community harm reduction programs. Organizations led by people who use drugs are listed as the foundation's first funding priority.$3k–$20k · Several times a year · May, Nov
Prevention and Intervention Approaches for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), NIHPlanning grant for pilot or feasibility work on preventing prenatal alcohol exposure and on interventions for people living with FASD across the lifespan. Pilot data are not required to apply.up to $450k · 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
Prevention Science Early Career Reviewer ProgramTraining & capacitySociety for Prevention ResearchA two-year mentored training program in which advanced doctoral candidates and very recent PhDs co-review manuscripts for the journal Prevention Science alongside an experienced mentor. Builds peer-review and critical appraisal capacity across prevention topics from substance use to health equity. Recognition includes acknowledgment at the SPR annual conference and listing in the journal's editorial board.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Sep
FY 2026 Continuum of Care Program CompetitionFederal grantU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and DevelopmentAnnual competition funding local homeless-response systems. Alongside housing and services, eligible activity categories include HMIS data systems, CoC planning, and evaluation, which is the route a researcher partnered with a CoC can use.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug
Accelerating the Pace of Substance Use Research Using Existing Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Federal grantNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIHR01 support for secondary analysis of existing social science, behavioral, administrative and neuroimaging data on substance use, prevention and health service utilization. Primary data collection is not allowed.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Dec
Population Approaches to Reducing Alcohol-related Cancer Risk (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Cancer Institute (with NIAAA)Funds population-level work on alcohol and cancer: raising awareness of the alcohol-cancer link, shifting social norms, developing and evaluating alcohol policy, and testing interventions that reduce alcohol-related cancer risk.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
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
AmeriCorps New Jersey Formula and Competitive Notices of Funding OpportunityFederal grantNew Jersey Department of State, Office of Volunteerism (AmeriCorps New Jersey)New Jersey's service commission runs parallel formula and competitive AmeriCorps rounds covering disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families, with priority for organisations serving impoverished communities, addressing youth substance use, supporting veterans, and public safety. Distinctively, the commission publishes both one-year planning grants for organisations building a new AmeriCorps programme and three-year operating grants, so a community organisation can fund the design and measurement groundwork b$85k–$405k · Annual cycle · Feb, Mar, May
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
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
Injury Control Research Centers (ICRC)Training & capacityCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and ControlFive-year center grants funding academic injury and violence prevention research centers to run core operations, fill evidence gaps, evaluate interventions and train injury control professionals. Eleven centers are funded for 2024-2029.$849k per year · Periodic calls · Jan
Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)Federal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds implementation of the SBIRT public health model for children, adolescents and adults in primary care, community health settings and schools, focused on underage drinking, opioid use and other substance use. Requires client-level SPARS reporting.up to $995k 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
Prevention and Intervention Approaches for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), NIHTwo-phase award: an R61 pilot or secondary-data phase to establish feasibility, then a milestone-gated R33 phase to test FASD prevention or intervention approaches at scale.up to $500k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
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
Alcohol Health Services Research (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), NIHR34 planning grant for pilot and preparatory alcohol services research on treatment access, affordability, insurance and cost structures, implementation of evidence-based care, and reducing disparities.up to $450k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
Alcohol Health Services Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), NIHFull R01 support for research on closing the alcohol use disorder treatment gap: access to treatment, treatment appeal, cost and insurance structures, dissemination and implementation, and disparities in access.up to $500k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
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
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
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
TRDRP Research Awards, including the Community-Partnered Participatory Research AwardFoundation grantTobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), University of CaliforniaTRDRP is California's tobacco-excise-tax-funded research programme, spanning social, behavioural and biomedical science on tobacco-related disease, addiction and tobacco control policy. Its current call carries four families of mechanism: core research awards, the Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award for collaborative work with community partners, the Maternal Smoking Cessation Initiative, and the Smoke- and Vape-free Scholars Initiative for early-career researcher development. The participatory and policy strands make it one of the more accessible state-level research funders for Amount not published · Annual cycle
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
James and Esther King Biomedical Research ProgramFederal grantFlorida Department of HealthA state research programme established in section 215.5602, Florida Statutes and funded from Florida's tobacco settlement, supporting research on prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cures for tobacco-related cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke and pulmonary disease. Recent priorities include reducing mortality and morbidity among disproportionately affected populations and improving screening accuracy and detection in high-risk groups, which opens room for behavioural, health-services and community-facing research alongside laboratory work. Budget templates are published for project lengthAmount not published · Annual cycle
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
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
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
Overdose Data to Action: Limiting Overdose through Collaborative Actions in Localities (OD2A: LOCAL)Federal grantCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and ControlCooperative agreement funding 40 city, county and territorial health departments for overdose surveillance and prevention, with required linkage-to-care and harm reduction strands and explicit process and outcome evaluation.Amount not published · Periodic calls
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
Cannabis Public Health and Safety Research GrantsEvaluation contractCalifornia Department of Cannabis ControlCalifornia state programme funding academic research on cannabis public health and safety impacts. The department reports allocating nearly $80 million since 2020 across 72 research projects.Amount not published · Periodic calls
Second Chance Act Family-Based Substance Use Disorder Treatment ProgramFederal grantBureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of JusticeFunds family-focused substance use disorder treatment for parents with minor children or who are pregnant and are under correctional control, in jail, prison or alternatives to incarceration, with required process and outcome evaluation.up to $1M · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct
Juvenile Drug Treatment Court ProgramFederal grantOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), U.S. Department of JusticeSupports states, courts, local governments and tribes to plan and implement new, or enhance existing, juvenile drug treatment courts that improve outcomes for youth with substance use or co-occurring mental health disorders.up to $1M · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov

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