Sec. 3. Youth Mental Health Research Network
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The Director of the National Institutes of Health may provide for the establishment of a Youth Mental Health Research Network for the conduct or support of— youth mental health research; and youth mental health intervention services. The Director of NIH shall carry out this Act acting— through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health; and in collaboration with other appropriate national research institutes and national centers that carry out activities involving youth mental health research.
In carrying out paragraph (1), the Director of NIH may award cooperative agreements, grants, and contracts to State, local, and tribal governments and private nonprofit entities for— conducting, or entering into consortia with other entities to conduct— basic, clinical, behavioral, or translational research to meet unmet needs for youth mental health research; or training for researchers in youth mental health research techniques; providing, or partnering with non-research institutions or community-based groups with existing connections to youth to provide, youth mental health intervention services; and collaborating with the National Institute of Mental Health to make use of, and build on, the scientific findings and clinical techniques of the Institute’s earlier programs, studies, and demonstration projects.
The Director of NIH shall ensure that— each recipient of an award under subparagraph (A)(i) conducts or supports at least one category of research described in subparagraph (A)(i)(I) and collectively such recipients conduct or support all such categories of research; and one or more such recipients provide training described in subparagraph (A)(i)(II). The Director of NIH may make awards under this paragraph for not more than 70 entities. Any support received by an entity under subparagraph
(A)shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, other public or private support for activities authorized to be supported under this paragraph. Support of an entity under subparagraph
(A)may be for a period of not to exceed 5 years. Such period may be extended by the Director of NIH for additional periods of not more than 5 years. The Director of NIH shall— as appropriate, provide for the coordination of activities (including the exchange of information and regular communication) among the recipients of awards under this subsection; and require the periodic preparation and submission to the Director of reports on the activities of each such recipient. In making awards under subsection (a)(3), the Director of NIH shall ensure that an appropriate number of such awards are awarded to entities that agree to— focus primarily on the early detection and intervention of severe mental illness in young people; conduct or coordinate one or more multisite clinical trials of therapies for, or approaches to, the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of early severe mental illness in a community setting; rapidly and efficiently disseminate scientific findings resulting from such trials; and adhere to the guidelines, protocols, and practices used in the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study (NAPLS) and the Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) initiative. In connection with awards to entities described in paragraph (1), the Director of NIH shall establish a data coordinating center for the following purposes: To distribute the scientific findings referred to in paragraph (1)(C). To provide assistance in the design and conduct of collaborative research projects and the management, analysis, and storage of data associated with such projects. To organize and conduct multisite monitoring activities. To provide assistance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the establishment of patient registries. The Director of NIH shall— require the data coordinating center established under subparagraph
(A)to provide regular reports to the Director of NIH on research conducted by entities described in paragraph (1), including information on enrollment in clinical trials and the allocation of resources with respect to such research; and as appropriate, incorporate information reported under clause
(i)into the Director’s biennial reports under section 403 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 283). In this Act, the terms Director of NIH , national center , and national research institute have the meanings given to such terms in section 401 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 281). To carry out this Act, there is authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019.
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