Program areas at RFMH
Substance abuse and Mental health services administration ("samhsa") - emergency crisis counseling "project hope": to provide supplemental emergency Mental health counseling to individuals affected by major disasters, including the training of workers to provide such counseling. The covid-19 public health emergency has left many new yorkers feeling anxious and stressed. Under project hope, new york has been conducting a number of Mental health specific response activities focused on the ongoing coronavirus public emergency since becoming a presidentially declared disaster.
National institutes of health ("nih") Mental health Research grant objectives are to increase knowledge of basic biological and behavorial processes that underlie Mental and behavorial disorders, and of processes that contribute to maintaining Mental health; to improve methods of Research relevant to these disorders and to conduct Research on Mental health services. Areas of Research support are: neurosciences including molecular genetics, behaviorial sciences, epidemiology, clinical assessment, etiological studies, treatment, prevention and reserach on hiv/aids behavior.
Substance abuse and Mental health services administration ("samhsa") - state opiod response: drug abuse and addiction response grant objectives are to support epidemiologic, basic, clinical and applied Research to develop new knowledge and approaches related to the prevention, treatment, etiology and consequences of opioid drug addiction.
Numerous additional Research projects, conduct of studies, teaching, training and Research into the causes, nature and treatment of diseases, disorders and defects affecting the mind, brain and nervous systems and to discover and apply more efficient measures of prevention, treatment and cure of nervous and Mental Hygiene disorders.