Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Centers (P50 Clinical Trial Optional)

Background
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for centers to support transdisciplinary teams of clinical and mental health services researchers, behavioral scientists, social scientists, health information and communications technologists, health systems engineers, decision scientists, and mental health stakeholders to engage in high-impact studies that will significantly advance clinical practice and generate knowledge that will fuel transformation of mental health care in the United States. The ALACRITY Centers program is intended to support research that maximizes synergies across various components of the mental health research ecosystem, including new discoveries in clinical research, transformative health care technologies, advances in information science, and new federal and state mechanisms for organizing mental health care.

Grant Details
The ALACRITY Centers will support the rapid development, testing, and refinement of novel and integrative approaches for optimizing the effectiveness of therapeutic or preventive interventions for mental disorders within well-defined target populations; organizing and delivering optimized mental health services within real world treatment settings; and continuously improving the quality, impact, and durability of optimized interventions and service delivery within diverse care systems. The centers are intended for transdisciplinary projects that could not be achieved using standard research project grant mechanisms. The ALACRITY Centers program is also expected to facilitate widespread sharing of relevant data, methods, and resources that will accelerate clinical research and practice.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include higher education institutions, nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS status (other than institutions of higher education), for-profit organizations (including small businesses), state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, Indian/Native American tribal governments (federally recognized), U.S. territory or possession agencies, eligible agencies of the federal government. Foreign institutions are not eligible to apply.

Period of Performance
The period of performance may not exceed 5 years.

Grant Value
Direct costs are limited to $1,500,000 per year. The total amount awarded and the number of awards are contingent upon NIH appropriations.