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New and Emerging Children's Mental Health Researchers Initiative (NECMHR) is sponsored by Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC). This initiative is designed to foster, encourage, and mentor junior researchers and trainees at TCMHCC institutions so that they can become successful mental health researchers. It supports projects and training in child, adolescent, or perinatal mental health.
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New and Emerging Children’s Mental Health Researchers Initiative – TCMHCC New and Emerging Children’s Mental Health Researchers Initiative Notice of Funding Opportunity – NECMHR03 FY2025/2026 NECMHR Awardee Information The New and Emerging Children’s Mental Health Research (NECMHR) initiative is designed to foster, encourage, and mentor junior researchers and trainees at TCMHCC institutions so that they can become successful mental health researchers.
Furthermore, the research funded by NECMHR will identify and validate new knowledge, tools, and practices that will improve child and adolescent mental health prevention and treatment services in Texas. This initiative focuses on advancing the knowledge and evidence base in the prevention and treatment of childhood mental illness.
Once promising and evidence-informed practices are identified, findings will be disseminated to inform providers, policymakers, advocates, and families about specific types of treatment approaches that can minimize the symptoms of childhood mental illness, promote recovery, and help all Texas children thrive.
There will be 3-types of grant opportunities: 1- Post-doctoral Fellow and Trainee Provides post-doctoral fellowship and fellowship to early career clinicians/researchers with children, adolescent, or perinatal mental health research training opportunities.
This grant provides support and protected time for an intensive, supervised career development experience in child, adolescent and perinatal behavioral health research leading to research independence. This grant can also be used for individuals who propose to train in a new field or for individuals who have had a hiatus in their research. This grant had a maximum amount of $75,000 per year for a maximum of $150,000 for the biennium.
2- Research Career Development Provides post-doctoral, residency, and fellowship to early career clinicians/researchers with individual and institutional research training opportunities in child, adolescent, or perinatal behavioral health research.
The purpose of this grant is to prepare junior clinicians with little to moderate research training for careers that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the State and to become an independent clinician-scientist.
This program provides support and protected time for an intensive, supervised research career development experience in the field of child, adolescent, and perinatal behavioral health research, including translational research. This grant has maximum funds of $150,000 per year for a maximum of $300,000 for the biennium per awardee.
Supports a discrete, specified, circumscribed child, adolescent, or perinatal mental health project to be performed by the investigator(s) in an area representing the investigator(s)’s specific interest and competencies while aligning with TCMHCC’s listed and HHSC priorities. This grant had a maximum amount of $250,000 per year for a maximum of $500,000 for the biennium.
The FY2026/FY2027 NECMHR Grant Notice of Funding Opportunity will be released shortly and the grant pre-application process will open on March 3, 2025.
For more information, you can register for one of the following informational webinars: NECMHR 2027-2028 Grant Cycle Informational Session NECMHR 2027-2028 Grant Cycle Informational Session NOFO Release Date – July 8, 2026 NECMHR NOFO Informational webinars – July 30, 2026, at 10am and Aug.
5, 2026, at 11am Request For Pre-applications Release date – September 1, 2026 Deadline for pre-application – September 30, 2026 Full Application invitations – October 1, 2026 Full application deadline – February 1, 2027 Notify candidates of conditional award – July 1, 2027 Start date of grant – September 1, 2027
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Junior researchers and trainees at TCMHCC institutions, including post-doctoral fellows and early career clinicians/researchers. Universities that are TCMHCC institutions would be eligible. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $250,000 per year (for research projects); up to $75,000 per year (for Post-doctoral Fellow and Trainee); up to $150,000 per year (for Research Career Development). Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for New and Emerging Children's Mental Health Researchers Initiative (NECMHR) are due September 30, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
New and Emerging Children's Mental Health Researchers Initiative (NECMHR) is funded by Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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