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

The National Institute of Mental Health, through the National Institutes of Health, plans a discretionary grant opportunity for Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Centers to support practice-based mental health research. The program is designed to fund interdisciplinary teams conducting high-impact studies that advance clinical practice by optimizing therapeutic and preventive interventions and by developing, testing, and refining patient-, provider-, and system-level approaches to improve access, engagement, continuity, efficiency, and quality of care. Applicants are expected to propose research that leverages synergies across the mental health research ecosystem, includes strong data, methods, and resource sharing, and supports participation by graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career investigators. The opportunity uses the P50 activity code, carries no matching requirement, and is estimated to involve about $1.5 million in total program funding for two awards, with synopsis and application timing projected for 2027 and award and project start dates projected for April 1, 2028.