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Advancing Research on Empirically-Supported Interventions for Older Adults Living with Serious Mental Illness (SMI)

Funds practice-relevant research on delivering and sustaining proven mental health care for older adults living with serious mental illness.

Older adults with serious mental illness fall between two systems — geriatric care that is not set up for psychiatry, and mental health services not set up for ageing. This notice funds research on closing that gap with treatments that already work.

The emphasis is on practice-relevant questions, and on settings where these patients are actually likely to be identified as needing care: primary ca

Practice-relevant research on optimising, delivering, sustaining and improving the effectiveness of empirically supported mental health practices for older adults with serious mental illness across primary care, geriatric clinics, assisted living, long-term care and community settings, including mutable factors affecting access and quality, new treatment and service interventions, and systems-level policy, care-transition and coordination approaches.

CycleiHow often this grant runs — e.g. annually, on a rolling basis, or a one-off call.One-off
Next deadlineiThe next date applications are due. Rolling means you can apply any time.15 Oct 2026
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.$3M

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Last verified: 25 Aug 2026Funder reference: RFA-MH-27-180Source: www.grants.gov