Advancing Learning Health Care Research in Outpatient Mental Health Treatment Settings (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages pilot effectiveness, implementation, data science, and services research studies that will advance data-driven learning health care in behavioral health treatment settings, leading to better knowledge and tools for implementing, sustaining, and optimizing evidence-based, high-quality, and equitable mental health services in community settings. Pilot studies could examine the adoption and sustainability of evidence-based practices in community-based settings that deliver care to people with mental illness, including Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics. • The opportunity is focused on advancing learning health care research in outpatient mental health treatment settings. • The research studies should aim to improve the implementation, sustainability, and optimization of evidence-based mental health services. • The opportunity is open to various types of applicants, including special district governments, small businesses, public housing authorities, and non-profits. • The application submission deadline is January 7, 2026.