. 2024 Mar;114(Suppl 3):S246–S249. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2023.307555

BOX 1—

Examples of Current National Institute of Mental Health Initiatives Addressing Mental Health Disparities and Youth Suicide Risk and Protective Factors

Setting/Topic	Initiatives
Acute care (e.g., emergency department, psychiatric inpatient)	• Notice of Special Interest: Priority Research Opportunities in Crisis Response Services^a
Ongoing treatment of psychiatric problems and suicide risk, attempts, and relapse	• Pilot Practice-Based Research for Primary Care Suicide Prevention (R34) • Systems-Level Risk Detection and Intervention to Reduce Suicide, Ideation, and Behaviors in Black Children and Adolescents (R34)^a • Systems-Level Risk Detection and Interventions to Reduce Suicide, Ideation, and Behaviors in Black Children and Adolescents (R01)^a • Systems-Level Risk Detection and Intervention to Reduce Suicide, Ideation, and Behaviors in Youth From Underserved Populations (R34)^a • Systems-Level Risk Detection and Interventions to Reduce Suicide, Ideation, and Behaviors in Youth From Underserved Populations (R01)^a
Universal intervention/environmental safety	• Addressing Mental Health Disparities Research Gaps: Aggregating and Mining Existing Data Sets for Secondary Analyses (R01) • Career Enhancement Award to Advance Research on Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention (K18)^a • Notice of Special Interest: Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention Research^a • Using Secondary Data Analysis to Determine Whether Preventive Interventions Implemented Earlier in Life Reduce Suicide Risk (U01)
Risk and protective factors and trajectories	• Understanding Suicide Risk and Protective Factors among Black Youth (R01)^a • Understanding Suicide Risk and Protective Factors among Black Youth (R21)^a • Approaches to Identifying Preteen Suicide Risk and Protective Factors (R01) • Data Coordinating Center for Approaches to Identifying Preteen Suicide Risk and Protective Factors (U24)

Note. Except for preteen initiatives funded in fiscal year 2024, these initiatives are supporting active grants as of fiscal year 2023. Designations in parentheses are grant mechanisms.

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