Funding

current grant funded projects

Development and Implementation of a Self-Directed Violence Prevention Training Program for the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections

Team: Cramer, R.J. (PI), Cacace, S., Bowling, J., Post, A., & Peiper, L.J.

Funder: North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections

Total amount: $410,003

Establishing and Sustaining a National Selective Suicide Prevention Program for LGBTQ+ Veterans

Team:  Hileman, M.M., Sperry, H., Wilcox, M., Wilson, S…, & Cramer, R.J. (Co-I)

Funder: Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Suicide Prevention Program (SPP), Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention (OMHSP)

Total amount: $1,182,217 ($50,100.00 subcontract)

Reconstruction of an SGM-specific sexual violence peer support program (SSS+)

Principal Investigator: Jessamyn Bowling

Co-Investigators: Annelise Mennicke, Laura Gunn, K. Edwards.

Funder: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) (R15)

Total amount: $452,587

Abstract: Sexual and gender minority (e.g. lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer; SGM) emerging adults (18-25 years) experience sexual violence at a rate nearly double that of their heterosexual, cisgender peers. SGM emerging adults who receive a negative social reaction after disclosure of SV have increased levels of hazardous drinking as well as negative mental health outcomes. To decrease excessive alcohol use and improve mental health among SGM survivors of sexual violence, we will reconstruct an existing intervention (SSS), with promising but mixed effects in an initial pilot, to be delivered to SGM emerging adults, which aims to improve the social reaction they provide to SGM survivors of sexual violence.