Racine, Nicole M

Purpose

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to: • Identify solutions to strengthen the implementation of culturally safe interventions (i.e., programs, services, policies) for diverse populations to enhance early years mental health promotion, prevention, treatment and care. • Advance the field of implementation science related to equitable, coordinated, and sustainable implementation of culturally safe interventions that enhance mental health in the early years. • Catalyze interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaborations related to early childhood mental health promotion, prevention, treatment and care, for meaningful engagement and collaboration. • Build and foster implementation science research and knowledge mobilization capacity among researchers, trainees and knowledge users working to enhance mental health in the early years. • Ensure meaningful representation and participation of individuals who have historically faced barriers in the research ecosystem, including but not limited to those marginalized by gender, Indigenous Peoples, racialized minorities, persons with disabilities, and members of LGBTQ2S+ communities. • Strengthen research excellence and ensure maximum research impact through consideration of diverse biological and/or socio-cultural identity factors in research design, including diverse research methods such as those based in Indigenous ways of knowing and engagement of people with lived/living experience.