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Depression Grand Challenge awarded funding to contribute to new research project integrating digital sensing and STAND for perinatal depression

March 12, 2025

DGC Co-Director Michelle Craske, PhD, was awarded funding from the Foundation for Women’s Health, which will contribute to a new DGC study pairing digital sensing technology with STAND for perinatal depression, a version of STAND specifically adapted for birth parents in the pregnancy and postpartum periods.

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New Moms Mood Tracking & Wellbeing study protocol published in journal Trials

August 08, 2024

A study protocol article on the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge’s New Moms Mood Tracking & Wellbeing study was published in the journal Trials on Aug. 8, 2024. Kate Wolitzky-Taylor, PhD, is lead author; several additional DGC-affiliated researchers received authorship credit, including senior author Michelle Craske, PhD.

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DGC pilots new STAND platform with STAND Wellness Resource

July 15, 2024

The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge is piloting a new platform for delivering STAND content with its rollout of the STAND Wellness Resource on July 15, 2024. The new public resource features Tier 1/Wellness content from the STAND content library and is hosted on the MyDataHelps app.

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DGC is part of Wellcome-funded study leveraging STAND content to study cognitive behavioral therapy mechanisms and effectiveness

April 12, 2024

The Depression Grand Challenge is part of a project investigating the effects of CBT using STAND content to improve the effectiveness of depression treatment. The project, a large-scale factorial trial, seeks to measure how changes in STAND content may affect the intervention’s effectiveness for repetitive negative thinking.

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UCLA STAND ALACRITY Center convenes experts, stakeholders for 2nd annual ALACRITY Stakeholder Retreat

March 12, 2024

The NIMH-funded UCLA STAND ALACRITY Center convened academics and stakeholders from UCLA, East Los Angeles College and Imperial Valley College for its second-annual ALACRITY Stakeholder Retreat on March 12, 2024 at UCLA.

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UCLA Depression Grand Challenge releases new library of STAND Tips for stress & anxiety management

November 29, 2023

The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge releases STAND Tips, a web-based toolkit available to everyone that provides effective strategies to help manage common stress, anxiety and grief, especially during periods of hardship or following traumatic events.

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STAR program integration into new UCLA student online wellness hub, signals value as important campus resource

November 03, 2023

When UCLA introduced an important new health resource this year for its students, Be Well Bruin, which included the STAR program as a key resource, the STAND program reached an important milestone — integration of the program into campus operations.

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DGC STAND for All featured by Mental Health Coalition as top resource for college students

August 21, 2023

The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge STAND for All program has been featured by the Mental Health Coalition as a top resource for college students in its inaugural College Student Mental Health Toolkit. The MHC designed and launched the toolkit for the start of the 2023 school year to equip college students with reliable resources, services and support needed to thrive as they transition into adult life.

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Findings from open trial of STAND system of care among UCLA students published in JMIR Mental Health

July 24, 2023

Findings from an open trial of the STAND system of care were published in the journal JMIR Mental Health on July 24, 2023. UCLA STAND ALACRITY Center Co-Director Kate Wolitzky-Taylor, PhD, is the paper’s lead author; several other DGC-affiliated researchers contributed.

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Recruitment opens for first treatment study at ELAC

August 29, 2022

Beginning today, ELAC students who sign up for the STAND at ELAC program have the option of enrolling in the STAND at ELAC research studies and earning up to $275 for their participation.

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