Victoria S. Levin Award for Early Career Success in Young Children's Mental Health Research

The Victoria S. Levin Award for Early Career Success in Young Children's Mental Health Research aims to foster early career success in achieving funding for research that is informed by developmental science to address concerns affecting the early foundations of children's mental health. This non-renewable award of up to $25,000 supports promising pre-tenured, early-mid-career investigators by providing release time from duties to write and submit an NIH application in the area of early childhood mental health, travel funds for a trip to NIH to meet program staff, and a pre-review of the application by a distinguished scientist. In tribute to Victoria S. Levin's 30-year distinguished service at the National Institutes of Health, the award continues her legacy of encouraging new scientists and fostering scientific research examining development in the very first years of life. The award is designed to increase the likelihood that promising early career scientists succeed in securing NIH funding for research addressing issues relevant to early childhood mental health theory, policies, or practices.