Many RWJF grants are awarded through a network of more than 80 program groups, called national programs. By providing leadership, fostering communication and collaboration and serving as champions of innovation, national programs can help unite distinct efforts into a broader movement that can achieve social change. National programs are typically administered by universities, nonprofit groups or Foundation staff. Below is a list of current national programs.

Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth
To establish school-connected mental health services for students, with emphasis on overcoming cultural and language barriers of children in immigrant and refugee families.

Cash & Counseling
To expand a proven model of consumer-directed supportive services to more states, allowing thousands more older adults and people with disabilities to have choice and control over the care they receive.

National Demonstration of Early Detection, Intervention and Prevention of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults
To replicate the Portland Identification and Early Referral (PIER) Program that uses evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions in the early identification and treatment of adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness.

Reclaiming Futures: Communities Helping Teens Overcome Drugs, Alcohol and Crime®
To develop new service delivery models that integrate comprehensive services into the juvenile justice system and promote the creation of community-based systems of care for substance-abusing youthful offenders.

Advancing Recovery: State/Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care
To support partnerships between treatment provider organizations that deliver care and states.

Children's Futures: Improving Health and Development Outcomes for Children in Trenton, N.J.
To employ a comprehensive set of interventions to improve the health of children in Trenton, New Jersey.

Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living®
Program to provide grant support, technical assistance, and loan funds to states to create affordable models of assisted living targeted to low-income seniors and linked with existing community health care systems.

Community Partnerships for Older Adults
To foster the efforts of local public-private partnerships to improve long-term care and supportive services systems for older adults.

Injury Free Coalition for Kids: Dissemination of a Model Injury Prevention Program for Children and Adolescents
To reduce and prevent injuries to children through a hospital-based, research-driven model implemented in partnership with coalitions of community stakeholders.

Innovators Combating Substance Abuse
To highlight substance abuse as a leading health problem by recognizing those who are striving to bring creative solutions to the field.

New Jersey Health Initiatives
To support innovative community-based projects in New Jersey that address one or more of the Foundation's interest areas in health and health care.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships
To continue a matching grants program to establish partnerships between RWJF and local grantmakers in support of innovative, community-based projects that improve health and health care for vulnerable populations.

Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships
To fund a national effort to develop and implement effective strategies to prevent relationship violence among youth.

Substance Abuse Policy Research Program
To encourage experts in public health, law, political science, medicine, sociology, criminal justice, economics, psychology, and other behavioral and policy sciences to address issues of substance abuse.