Lab Projects

CA-LINC is a federally funded grant based on the LINC model developed by Drs. Gryglewicz and Karver. The overarching goal of this mixed-methods study is to pilot test a novel care coordination intervention aimed to improve risk detection, service referrals, treatment, continuity of care, and service engagement among Black youth and Black LGBTQ+SGL youth ages 14-17. This study will inform feasibility of a scalable trial for a future R01 study, which will have the potential to improve suicide care practices, reduce disparities, and prevent suicide-related outcomes for diverse black youth.

The Florida SMARTS Project is a five-year, federally funded grant with an innovative prevention model that will facilitate youth suicide prevention and early intervention strategies through a multi-system and interconnected approach across multiple delivery systems of care including middle and high schools and community behavioral health agencies. This project aims to reduce suicide rate, decrease mental health risk, and build sustainable prevention services to ultimately improve equity in access to high quality behavioral healthcare in school systems in Florida. 

The Florida LEADS Project is a five-year, federally funded grant based on the Zero Suicide Model and acts as a multi-system approach, rooted in cultural competency and evidence-based research. The project aims to reduce health disparities and inequalities that affect the lives of adults at risk for suicide and/or experiencing behavioral health disorders, serious mental illnesses, and substance abuse addictions. 

Collaboration with the USF Psychological Services Center to explore developmental differences in the formation of therapeutic alliance (Clinic Study).

Collaboration with the University of Denver for coding therapeutic alliance with depressed and suicidal adolescents (Denver Project).

SUPERBLY is a community-based participatory research project with an overarching goal of using literature and data from national and state public health surveys and databases as a foundation to conduct focus groups, interviews, and photovoice with a representative sample of Black youth in Hillsborough County, FL (ages 10-19). We anticipate the discovery of new risk and protective factors, which will allow us to decrease suicide ideology, attempts, and deaths among Black youth.

A Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grant: implementing the NSSP in Florida's suicide prevention infrastructure in partnership with the Inter-Agency Dissemination and Collaborative Network (IDCN) and AdventHealth. (FINS).

A Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grant: disseminating youth suicide prevention programing throughout the state. (FL LINC).

A multidisciplinary initiative to create a culturally-tailored, Spanish-language adaptation of the It’s Time to Talk about It Family Guide. (CSG).

Preventing suicide at the University of South Florida through a university-wide collaboration (Campus Grant).

Disseminating Florida's Youth Suicide Prevention Program: the Florida Youth Suicide (FLYSP) Prevention Program.

Preventing adolescent suicide through a community-based suicide prevention program: the Florida A.S.A.P. (Adolescent Suicide Awareness and Prevention) Partnership.

Preventing adolescent suicide through a school-based suicide prevention program (Albuquerque, NM).