Funding Opportunities

Research Center to Support Secondary Analyses of Head Start Impact Study Data

Deadline: May 2, 2011

This cooperative agreement will provide funds to support a research center focused on secondary analysis of the Head Start Impact Study data. The overarching goal of this cooperative agreement will be to utilize existing data from the Head Start Impact Study to answer applied questions related to program characteristics that positively influence outcomes for Head Start children and families. The grant will be awarded to a single institution that will lead a consortium of researchers in the implementation of several complementary studies using the Head Start Impact Study data to answer questions related to how aspects of Head Start centers, classrooms, and teachers moderate impacts on children and families. For information regarding the Head Start Impact Study, visit the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation website. Click here for more information.

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming (for Junior Investigators)
Deadline: May 5, 2011 (Brief Proposal)
New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming aims to expand the diversity of perspectives that inform RWJF programming and introduce new researchers and scholars to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation while simultaneously helping to meet staff needs for data analysis. The program invites Junior Investigators-scholars from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities-to submit proposals that address programming priorities for one of RWJF's program areas. Click here for more information.

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming (for Midcareer Consultants)
Deadline: May 5, 2011 (brief proposal)
New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming aims to expand the diversity of perspectives that informs RWJF programming and introduce new researchers and scholars to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In Round 6 New Connections invites Midcareer Consultants-scholars from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities who have between 10 to 15 years of research and/or evaluation experience-to conduct research and evaluation projects for RWJF's teams and portfolios. New Connections aims to enhance the research and evaluation capacity of researchers and consultants from underrepresented groups. Click here for more information.

International Research Collaboration on Alcohol and Alcoholism (U01)
Deadline: May 7, 2011
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) invites applications for the purpose of fostering international collaborations between alcohol research investigators within the United States and investigators located at non-United States laboratories and performance sites. The program is intended to facilitate, through international collaborations, advancements in the understanding of alcohol problems and the clinical and public health approaches to their solutions.Applications are invited across the full spectrum of alcohol research from basic science to clinical, public health and health services research. Click here for more information.

NIJ Visiting Fellows Program
Deadline: April 28, 2011
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding for the 2011 Visiting Fellows Program. This program furthers the Department's mission by sponsoring research to provide objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the State and local levels. Click here for more information.

Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Children (R01, R21)
Deadline: January 7, 2014
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute on Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to conduct research to reduce health disparities among minority and underserved children. Specifically, this initiative focuses on ethnic and racial minority children and underserved populations of children such as: children from low literacy, rural and low-income populations, geographically isolated children, hearing and visually impaired children, physically or mentally disabled children, children of migrant workers, children from immigrant and refugee families, and language minority children. Specific targeted areas of research include biobehavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular, organ systems), lifestyle factors, environmental (physical and family environments), social (e.g., peers), economic, institutional, and cultural and family influences; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known illness and/or disability; and studies that test and evaluate the comparative effectiveness of health promotion interventions conducted in traditional and nontraditional settings. Click here for more information.

Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities (U01)
Deadline: May 7, 2011
Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) and the Division of Cancer Biology (DCB), at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), invite cooperative agreement research (U01) grant applications from investigators interested in conducting basic research studies into the causes and mechanisms of cancer health disparities. These awards will support pilot and feasibility studies, development and testing of new methodologies, secondary data analyses, and innovative mechanistic studies that investigate biological/genetic bases of cancer health disparities. This FOA is also designed to aid and facilitate the growth of a nationwide cohort of scientists with a high level of basic research expertise in cancer health disparities research who can develop resources and tools, such as biospecimens, cell lines and methods that are necessary to conduct basic research in cancer health disparities. Click here for more information.

Public Health Law Research: Making the Case for Laws That Improve Health
Deadline: April 20, 2011 (brief proposals)
Public Health Law Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, seeks to build the evidence for and strengthen the use of regulatory, legal, and policy solutions to improve public health and help people lead healthier lives. PHLR is equally interested in identifying and ameliorating laws and legal practices that unintentionally harm health. PHLR's purpose is to answer important questions such as, How does law influence health and health behavior? Which laws have the greatest impact? Can current laws be made more effective through better enforcement, or do they require amendment? Click here for more information.

Early Childhood Dissertation Support
Deadline: June 13, 2011
The Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood (QIC-EC) is pleased to announce the release of a Request for Applications (RFA) for Dissertation Support for advanced-level doctoral students conducting research on preventing the abuse and neglect of infants and young children (0-5) and promoting child and family well-being. The Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood is a five-year project to generate and disseminate new knowledge and robust evidence about programs and strategies that contribute to child maltreatment prevention and optimal development for infants and young children (0-5) and their families, including those impacted by HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, or abandonment. Click here for more information.

Indian Country Jails Examined

(From the National Criminal Justice Reference Service)

"Jails in Indian Country, 2009" (NCJ 232223, 20 pp.) presents findings from the 2009 Survey of Jails in Indian Country. The report includes data on the number of adults and juveniles held, type of offense, number of persons confined on the last weekday of each month, average daily population, peak population, and admissions in June 2009.

Child Welfare Outcomes Data Site Launches
(From the Children's Bureau Express)
The Children's Bureau has launched a new website featuring data from the Child Welfare Outcomes (CWO) Reports. The site makes the latest CWO data available for users to view in a variety of ways according to their specific needs. CWO data for 2006 through 2009 are currently available. The site features a report builder that allows users to select the specific State(s), data, and data years that they would like to view. It also allows users to select the format in which they would like their data displayed: graph, table, or map outputs. Users also have the capability to compare data across States. Click here for more details.  

ICPSR Data Resources

Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive:

20345 Reducing Repeat Sexual Assault Victimization: Design and Testing of a Risk Reduction Program in New York City, New York, and Seattle, Washington  

23980 Age Discrimination, an Audit Study: 2002-2003 in Boston, Massachusetts, and St. Petersburg, Florida    

29428 Federal Justice Statistics Program: Arrests and Bookings for Federal Offenses, 2008 [United States] 

30061 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program II in the United States, 2009   

Assessing the Evidence about Work Support Benefits and Low-Income Families

Gregory B. Mills, Jessica F. Compton, Olivia Golden

(From the Urban Institute)

For low-income working parents, benefits received through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicaid, and child care subsidies provide vital work support. Access to these programs has been restricted, however, by barriers relating to federal and state funding, program policy, and administrative process, complicating program enrollment and benefit retention. As a result, many low-income working families do not receive the multi-program benefits for which they are eligible. This paper provides a strong rationale for the Work Support Strategies demonstration, enabling selected states to design, implement, and evaluate modernization strategies to dramatically improve families' access to a package of work support benefits.  Click here for the full report.