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

Funds interdisciplinary research centers that speed up how mental-health treatments and services reach real-world practice, in youth and adults.

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Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness — ALACRITY — supports interdisciplinary teams of mental health researchers running practice-based research centers. T…

Interdisciplinary, practice-based mental-health research centers under NIMH's ALACRITY initiative, optimizing therapeutic and preventive interventions, developing patient-, provider- and system-level interventions for mental health care access and quality, and improving the durability of optimized interventions for people with or at risk of mental illness, including serious mental illness, in youth and adults.

CycleiHow often this grant runs — e.g. annually, on a rolling basis, or a one-off call.Multiple per year
Next deadlineiThe next date applications are due. Rolling means you can apply any time.27 May 2027
Decision timeiTypical time from the deadline to the funder's decision.26 weeks
Project durationiHow long the funded work is expected to run.—
Award typeiThe form of funding — grant, equity, loan, tax credit, etc.Grant
Match fundingiThe share of project costs you must cover yourself. 0% = fully funded.—
Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.$1.5M

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Last verified: 25 Aug 2026Funder reference: PAR-27-008Source: www.grants.gov