Funding Opportunities
Practice Based Evidence Fund Grant
The purpose of the APF Practice Based Evidence Fund grant is to support psychologists and trainees who are primarily affiliated with community mental health settings, private practice settings, or other local outpatient settings.
The purpose of the Practice Based Evidence Fund grant is to support psychologists and trainees who are primarily affiliated with community mental health settings, private practice settings, or other local outpatient settings.
One annual grant is available to support efforts to document, evaluate, or implement practices in those settings. This grant is meant to provide the initial resources to support novel research in these settings.
Applicants may submit one of two types of project proposals:
1. Projects to evaluate clinical practice. Successful proposals will describe the identified innovation and a proposal for how to evaluate the effectiveness of that innovation.
2. Projects to implement evidence-based practices in typical practice. Proposals in this area will seek to evaluate clinical care and implementation of evidence-based practices.
Eligibility
APF encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography.
Applicants must be doctoral level psychologists of any career stage. The desired recipient will have primarily worked in clinical settings.
Private practice settings are eligible to receive funds.
Application Instructions
Application Materials:
- Proposal identification – Clinical Practice Innovation Project or Evidence-Based Practice Implementation Project.
- Personal statement on if/how the applicant is primarily working in clinical settings and if/how they are affiliated with community mental health settings, private practice settings, or other local outpatient settings.
- Attestation to if/how the project will impact marginalized or under-resourced communities or populations.
- Statement on how the applicant plans to publicize their funded project findings (publications, presentations, etc.)
- Project proposal, including:
- goals, relevant background/literature review
- clear description of the innovation or process to be evaluated and implemented
- anticipated outcomes, significance, and impact
- explanation of how the project will be sustained once funding has ended
- Timeline
- Budget:
- Funds can be used to develop research skills, pay for necessary consultation, provide training to staff, purchasing training materials, and/or supervision costs. More information on acceptable budget items appears on APF’s FAQs page: https://ampsychfdn.org/faqs/
- CV
- IRB Approval:
- This program requires that applicants specify how they will handle obtaining appropriate IRB approvals and finding any necessary collaborators in order to complete their work. Applicants are not required to have IRB approval at the time of application. Applicants must provide a copy of the project’s IRB approval letter (or a waiver that indicates that their project does not require IRB approval) before funding can be disbursed.
- This program requires that applicants specify how they will handle obtaining appropriate IRB approvals and finding any necessary collaborators in order to complete their work. Applicants are not required to have IRB approval at the time of application. Applicants must provide a copy of the project’s IRB approval letter (or a waiver that indicates that their project does not require IRB approval) before funding can be disbursed.
Evaluation Criteria
Applicants will be evaluated on:
- quality of the proposed innovation or process to be evaluated and implemented
- applicant competency
- criticality of funding
- impact
Special priority is given to projects with the potential to impact marginalized or under-resourced communities or populations.
Please be advised that APF does not provide feedback to applicants on their proposals.
Please review our program FAQs for important details on the application process.
Recent Recipient
Katherine Musacchio Schafer, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Implementing a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Help Emergency Department Providers Place Outpatient Mental Health Referrals for Patients with High Risk Suicidality”
Past Recipients
2024
Katherine Musacchio Schafer, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Implementing a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Help Emergency Department Providers Place Outpatient Mental Health Referrals for Patients with High Risk Suicidality”