The Community Sleep Health and Public Awareness Grant supports a wide range of projects and initiatives that address needs on the local, national, and global level.

The AASM Foundation is pleased to announce the following recipients of the 2025 Community Sleep Health and Public Awareness Grant.

Mattina Davenport, PhD
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Rest Ambassador – A Multigenerational Framework for Developing a Community Sleep Campaign

The primary goal of this multigenerational community sleep campaign is to empower Black residents experiencing insufficient sleep across the lifespan (e.g., infancy through older adulthood). The project will aim to improve knowledge of sleep through educational workshops, seminars, and interactive webinars. In addition, the team will engage in local community outreach through a social media campaign, informational booths, sleep screenings, and an annual conference.

Chenlu Gao, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Translating sleep: Improving sleep literacy and access among Asian American communities in Massachusetts

Asian Americans experience high rates of poor sleep and underdiagnosed sleep disorders, while facing cultural and linguistic barriers to care. This project will develop, test, and disseminate culturally and linguistically tailored sleep health education materials for Asian American communities and healthcare providers that serve these communities. This project aims to improve sleep health literacy and screening for sleep disorders to advance sleep health equity.

Jessica Levenson, PhD, DBSM
University of Pittsburgh
Implementing a Sleep Health Program for Adolescents Involved in the Juvenile Legal System in Residential Placement

This project will implement a sleep health program for legal system-involved youth in residential placement. The team will train staff to deliver the sleep health program; evaluate the impact of the training on the knowledge of facility staff and on the sleep of adolescents in placement; evaluate the implementation of the program and disseminate training materials and plan, program evaluation results, and implementation.

Fan Li, MSW, LCSW and Xin Chen, MSW, LCSW
North East Medical Services
NEMS Insomnia Intervention for Seniors Project

This project addresses the lack of linguistically and culturally relevant sleep health services for Chinese-speaking seniors through a tailored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. This language-concordant, evidence-based approach aims to improve sleep quality, enhance patient engagement, and increase access to patient-centered, non-pharmacologic insomnia care for underserved Chinese seniors.

Amelia Stanton, PhD
Boston University
Addressing Trauma Through Sleep

This project will expand capacity to support trauma-exposed refugees and women with PTSD. Using a train-the-trainer model, providers from Boston Medical Center’s Immigrant and Refugee Health Center and OB-GYN Integrated Behavioral Health Program will be trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia to deliver equitable, scalable care within a safety-net setting.