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Formerly IASWR Listserv Announcements
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January 14, 2011 || Vol. 3, Issue 2
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Funding Opportunities Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers 2011 (P30) Deadline: March 22, 2011 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites applications for Center Core Grants designed to advance the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and amelioration of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks applications from institutions that meet the qualifications for a program of IDD research. The grants fund core resources to support interdisciplinary research and research training. Funds for the research projects using these core facilities come from independent sources including Federal, State, and private organizations. Click here for more information.
OJJDP FY 11 Research on Best Practices for Mentoring Deadline: March 8, 2011 This program seeks to enhance what is understood about mentoring as a prevention strategy for youth who are at risk of involvement or already involved in the juvenile justice system. While mentoring appears to be a promising intervention for youth, more evaluation work is needed to further highlight the components of a mentoring program that are most effective. In addition, research is needed to demonstrate specifically the components of mentoring programs that have a significant impact in reducing juvenile delinquency and offending. This solicitation seeks to fund research studies that will inform the design and delivery of mentoring programs. OJJDP expects that the results of this effort will encourage a more effective utilization of resources as well as enhance the implementation of evidence-based best practices for juvenile mentoring. Click here for more details.
Economic Studies of Vaccines and Immunization Policies, Programs and Practices Deadline: April 12, 2011 The purpose of this FOA is to support economic studies that will inform CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases in the development of policy related to vaccines and vaccination programs. Click here for more information.
Research on Violence and Victimization Across the Life-Span
Deadline: April 6, 2011
NIJ is seeking applications for funding to support research and evaluation of violence and victimization, including basic research on violence across the life-span, special topics in violence and victimization, and elder mistreatment. NIJ's Violence and Victimization Research Division serves to develop innovative solutions to the problems of violence and victimization through strategic planning, support for research and evaluation, and dissemination of research information to the field and public. Click here for more information.
OJJDP FY 2011 Evaluation of Second Chance Act Juvenile Mentoring Initiatives Deadline: March 7, 2011 OJJDP seeks to conduct a comprehensive process and rigorous impact evaluation of the Second Chance Act Juvenile Mentoring Initiative to determine the effectiveness of combining mentoring with other reentry services for participating juvenile offenders during their confinement, through their transition back to the community, and post-release. OJJDP will select one national evaluator to assess the implementation of these programs and their impact on service delivery and key outcomes for participating youth, including recidivism. Click here for more information.
NIA Program Project Applications (P01) Deadline: January 25 and May 25 annually until 2013 This program provides funding for integrated, multiproject research programs that have a well-defined, central research focus or objective relevant to the mission of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Genetic, biological, clinical, behavioral, social, and economic research related to the aging process, diseases and conditions associated with aging, and other special problems and needs of older Americans will be considered. Click here for more information.
Translating Basic Behavioral and Social Science Discoveries into Interventions to Improve Health-Related Behaviors (R01) Deadline: February 5, June 5, and October 5, until January 8, 2014 This program provides funding to projects in which interdisciplinary teams of basic and applied biological, behavioral and/or social science researchers collaborate to accelerate the translation of promising discoveries in basic behavioral and/or social science research by developing and refining novel health-related behavioral interventions to improve specific health-related behaviors (e.g., dietary intake, physical activity, sun safety, or adherence to medical regimens) and/or prevent and reduce problem health behaviors (e.g., smoking, tanning, or alcohol or substance use, abuse or dependence). Click here for more information.
Department of Education (DOEd)/National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training (ARRT) Projects Deadline: February 11, 2011 This program provides funding for research training and experience at an advanced level to individuals with doctorates or similar advanced degrees who have clinical or other relevant experience. ARRT projects train rehabilitation researchers, including individuals with disabilities, with particular attention to research areas that support the implementation and objectives of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and that improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Act. Click here for more information. OJJDP FY 2011 Evaluations of Girls' Delinquency Programs Deadline: February 28, 2011 Over the past two decades, the number of girls entering the juvenile justice system has grown dramatically. This increase has raised a number of questions for the field and OJJDP, including whether programs and strategies exist to prevent and reduce the delinquency and involvement of girls in the juvenile justice system. This solicitation is designed to fund grants to document and measure the effectiveness of delinquency prevention, intervention, and/or treatment programs in preventing and reducing girls' risk behavior and offending. This program is authorized by an act appropriating funds for the Department of Justice. Click here for more information.
Data Resources Program 2011: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data
Deadline: February 28, 2011
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals to reproduce, replicate, or extend previous findings and conduct original research using or extending data from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). NACJD houses quantitative and qualitative data from NIJ-funded research and provides online access to downloadable, machine-readable (SPSS, SAS, or ASCII) files, as well as data dictionaries, study abstracts, and, in limited cases, MapInfo or ESRI geographic data. The archive is maintained by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan and is supported by NIJ. Learn more by visiting the Data Resources Program Website. NIJ is particularly interested in NACJD data, but will consider data from other sources. All data files produced with Data Resources Program (DRP) grants must be added to NACJD, regardless of origin. Click here for more information.
NIJ Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Deadline: February 28, 2011
The NIJ Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited universities that support graduate study leading to research-based doctoral degrees. NIJ invests in doctoral education by supporting universities that sponsor students who demonstrate the potential to successfully complete doctoral degree programs in disciplines relevant to the mission of NIJ. Applicants sponsoring doctoral students in policy and health sciences or in an education field are eligible to apply only if the doctoral research dissertation is in an NIJ-supported discipline (i.e., social and behavioral sciences, operations technology, information and sensors research and development, and investigative and forensic sciences). The GRF program is intended to support universities that sponsor students who are in the final stages of graduate study. Awards are granted to successful applicants in the form of a grant to cover a doctoral student fellowship. Currently, the GRF fellowship is $25,000. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for AbstractsJournal of Empirical Research on Human Research EthicsTheme: RESEARCH ON DECISIONALLY IMPAIRED ELDERSDeadline: April 1, 2011Special Issue Editor, Dr. James J. Kelly, encourages gerontological researchers to submit abstracts for paper that address ethical and practical issues of research with decisionally impaired elders. Decisionally impaired elders include, but are not limited to, elders with memory disorders in late life, elders with a mental or physical illness affects cognition and decisional capacity; dually diagnosed elders; mentally disabled elders; and elders with health crises that render them incapable of giving informed consent. Papers may present theory, methodology, policy analysis, history, and qualitative or qualitative data. Please email abstracts to jkelly@menlo.edu. Each abstract should state the purpose and rationale for the proposed paper, proposed methods, and intended outcome. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. Call For ApplicationsSummer Institute, The Center for Population Research in LGBT HealthDeadline: April 18, 2011The Center for Population Research in LGBT Health is pleased to announce this call for applications from graduate students and early career scholars for its Summer Institute. The Summer Institute provides participants with foundational training in interdisciplinary theory, knowledge and methods for conducting population research in sexual and gender minority health. Click here for more information. Call for AbstractsThe National Research Conference on Child and Family Program and PolicyDeadline: March 1, 2011The National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy are held at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. This is a small, but growing national conference that is among the first of research conferences to exclusively focus on policy issues pertaining to child and family well-being. We invite research abstracts for both papers and posters that focus on child and family programs, interventions, preventions, rules/regulations, and policies. Research that has strong implications for child and family programs and policies are also invited. Click here for more information. CALL FOR PAPERSSecond Biennial Conference of the International Family Aggression SocietyDeadline: January 28, 2011The Utah Criminal Justice Center at the University of Utah is hosting the second Biennial Conference of the International Family Aggression Society, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The aim of this conference is to bring together academics, researchers, policy makers and service providers who are involved in working towards understanding, preventing and/or treating family aggression or the consequences of it. The conference encompasses topics related to family aggression, including aggression between intimate partners, parent to child aggression, sibling aggression, and elder aggression. As aggression within the family home contributes to physical and psychological injury, family breakdown, disrupted schooling and employment, antisocial behavior and criminality, ill health and higher mortality papers on these topics are also encouraged. The multifaceted nature of family aggression highlights the need for a multidisciplinary approach and therefore papers from all disciplines are welcomed. Click here for more information. Call for ManuscriptsJournal of Juvenile JusticeThe Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) will launch its new online, peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Juvenile Justice, at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, which will be held March 1-5, 2011, in Toronto, Canada. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration for publication in the first two issues of the journal scheduled for release in 2011. Proposed articles may address a broad range of juvenile justice-related issues, such as delinquency prevention, intervention and treatment, and juvenile victimization. Readers are anticipated to include researchers, clinicians, practitioners, administrators, policy analysts, educators, and students. Click here for more information. Call for PapersCouncil on Social Work EducationDeadline: February 28, 2011Increasing Access: Confronting Disparity and InequalityIn our society, differential access to health and social resources exists, which create social injustices and inequality. The 2011 APM will consider various strategies to broaden and establish access for diverse and vulnerable populations. Social work educational practice, policy, research, and approaches that promote fuller social inclusion will be highlighted. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers23rd National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social WorkDeadline: January 28, 2011Special Focus on "Embracing Difference"The College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 23rd National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work to be held on April 30 on the campus of The Ohio State University. Dr. Lorraine Gutierrez of the University of Michigan with deliver the keynote address. This year, the symposium will focus broadly on the College's 2010-11 theme of "Embracing Difference". The symposium showcases dissertation research of recent Ph.D. recipients. Dissertations completed between May 2009 and December 2010 are eligible for consideration and selected presenters will receive a $250 honorarium. Click here for more information and submission guidelines, Click here to see past symposium papers archived in The Ohio State University's Knowledge Bank. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
AMCHP/Family Voices National Conferences
February 12-15, 2011
Washington, DC
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The 2011 Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) and Family Voices National Conferences, with the shared theme of "Working Together to Improve Maternal and Child Health," will be held February 12-15, 2011 in Washington, DC. The conference will begin with the AMCHP Annual Conference Training Institute - one and a half days of in-depth interactive skills-building sessions and events - on Saturday, February 12. The general conference program begins mid-day Sunday, February 13 with a reception, the Welcome Plenary and the MacQueen Memorial Lecture, followed by sessions and networking opportunities. For more information, click here.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
SAMHSA: Changes, Regional Shifts in U.S. Treatment Admissions over Decade
(From Join Together)
A new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) reveals large regional shifts in rates of admissions to drug treatment between 1998 and 2008, even as national rates remained steady, according to a Dec. 22 press release issued by the agency. According to the report, "Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) 1998-2008: State Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services" (PDF), national treatment admission rates as a whole remained steady (at 770 admissions per 100,000 people) over the 11 years studied. Broken down by type of drug and geographic region, the data showed significant differences by region. Click here for details.
New report presents strategies to close disparities
(From HandsNet)
A new report We Dream A World: The 2025 Vision for Black Men and Boys identifies concrete policy solutions to close educational achievement gaps, ensure workforce success, reduce health disparities and improve conditions for low-income fathers. Click here for full report.
What Do We Know About Young Adult Relationships?
(From ChildTrends)
Three-quarters of all young adults ages 18-25 are in some type of romantic relationship. A new Child Trends brief, Characteristics of Young Adult Sexual Relationships: Diverse, Sometimes Violent, Often Loving, analyzes data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to identify important factors about the nature and quality of these relationships that may have long-term consequences. Click here for the full report.
JSSWR Latest Issue
The Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research has just published its latest issue. We invite you to review the Table of Contents and visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.
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News & Notices
National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The NIH has announced that as of January 1, 2011, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require the use of the eRA Commons xTrain system to electronically prepare and submit PHS 2271 Statement of Appointment forms and/or PHS 416-7 Termination Notices when required for institutional research training and career development awards, individual fellowships, and research education awards. After January 1, paper appointment forms and termination notices will not be accepted. Paper submissions will be considered noncompliant, and grantees will be required to resubmit appointment forms and termination notices electronically using xTrain. Click here for more information.
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