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April 29, 2011  || Vol. 3, Issue 17
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding

Department of Health and Human Services & National Institutes of Health
Research on Children in Military Families: The Impact of Parental Military Deployment and Reintegration on Child and Family Functioning (R01, R13, R21) Grant
Deadline:  Multiple submission dates - see announcement
The purpose of this FOA is to encourage interdisciplinary studies on the impact of parental military deployment, combat-related stress, and reintegration with the family on child social and affective development outcomes as well as on family functioning. Longitudinal prospective studies with diverse samples would address important gaps in the literature and are highly encouraged. Descriptive studies addressing the particular concerns of early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence are also encouraged. Click here for more information.

 

Assuring the Future of Public Health Systems & Services Research: Junior Faculty Program
Deadline: June 1, 2011
In the fall of 2005, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded the University of Kentucky College of Public Health to develop a database for Public Health Systems & Services Research (PHSSR) in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to strengthen the capacity to conduct research in the emerging field of public health systems. One of the project objectives was to disseminate information about the new NLM PHSSR database to the research community. The goal of our initial funding was to assure the future of PHSSR by encouraging young investigators to engage in research using datasets described in the public health systems research (PHSR) subset of NLM's Health Services Research Resources (HSRR). Since then, we have provided additional funding to continue to grow the field of PHSSR. This new round is intended to fund promising young investigators who will engage in research using data sets contained in the PHSR subset of HSRR, other relevant data sets that may be available, or data collected by the researcher. Click here for more information.

 

Public Health Services and Systems Research
Deadline: May 24, 2011
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to expand the evidence base for effective public health policy and practice through investment in Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR). PHSSR examines the organization, financing and delivery of public health services within a community and determines the links between the quality and performance of the public health system and population health outcomes. Click here for more information.

 

Round Two of Humanities and Social Sciences Data Challenge

Deadline: June 16, 2011
Eight international research funders have joined to launch round two of the Digging into Data Challenge, a grant competition designed to spur cutting-edge research in the humanities and social sciences. The idea behind the competition is to address how "big data" changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences. The challenge asks researchers: "How can we use advanced computation to change the nature of our research methods? That is, now that the objects of study for researchers in the humanities and social sciences, including books, survey data, economic data, newspapers, music, and other scholarly and scientific resources are being digitized on a huge scale, how does this change the very nature of our research? How might advanced computation and data-analysis techniques help researchers use these materials to ask new questions about and gain new insights into our world?" Click here for more information.

 

THE ROBERT L. SCHNEIDER ISP DISSERTATION AWARD
Deadline: May 10, 2011
One goal of Influencing State Policy (ISP) is to increase the Social Work profession's effectiveness in affecting state policy and legislation. Since 1997, ISP has been assisting social work faculty and students in learning about the formation, implementation, and evaluation of state-level policies. As part of this effort, ISP sponsors an annual $1,000 cash award to a social work Ph.D. student whose dissertation-in-process is focused on social policy research at the state (non-Federal) level. Click here for more information.

 

Assuring the Future of Public Health Systems & Services Research: Dissertation Grant Program

Deadline: June 1, 2011 

In the fall of 2005, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded the University of Kentucky College of Public Health to develop a database for Public Health Systems & Services Research (PHSSR) in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to strengthen the capacity to conduct research in the emerging field of public health systems. One of the project objectives was to disseminate information about the new NLM PHSSR database to the research community. The goal of our initial funding was to assure the future of PHSSR by encouraging young investigators to engage in research using datasets described in the public health systems research (PHSR) subset of NLM's Health Services Research Resources (HSRR). Since then, we have provided additional funding to continue to grow the field of PHSSR. This new round is intended to fund promising young investigators who will engage in research using data sets contained in the PHSR subset of HSRR, other relevant data sets that may be available, or data collected by the researcher. Click here for more information.

Calls Calls
Call for Workshop Proposals

Ohio Multiethnic Advocates for Cultural Competence (MACC) and the National Leadership Council (NLC) on African American Behavioral Health
National Cultural Competence Training Conference 2011

"Informing Cultural Competence through Research and Best Practices - Eliminating Disparities Across Systems"
Deadline: May 30, 2011
We are seeking workshop proposals for, but not limited to, the following topic areas:   health and mental health disparities; cultural competence assessment; integration of health and mental health; culture specific health seeking behaviors; organizational/management practices and cost effectiveness; outcomes, quality indicators and capacity building; best practices for specific populations (immigrants, LGBT, poverty, and others); adaptation of research into practice; culture specific outreach and use of modern media/social networks; children bullying and social media; cultural competence training effectiveness; collaboration with faith based communities and leaders; cultural competence in higher education; cultural competence in corporate world and what we can learn. Visit the MACC website to obtain and submit a workshop proposal.

Call for Abstracts
2012 National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence
Deadline: June 24, 2011
The 6th Biennial National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence provides valuable professional education on the latest research and innovative health prevention and clinical responses to domestic violence. Who should submit: physicians, physician assistants, dentists, nurses, nurse midwives, mental and behavioral health providers, social workers, health professional students, health policy leaders, advocates for victims of domestic violence and others. For more information, visit our conference website.

Call for Papers

Social Work Activist Reader
Deadline: June 21, 2011
Do you want to belong to a community of social workers who are committed to deepening and strengthening our skills as practitioners of justice-centered, anti-oppressive practice?  Social workers committed to this philosophy must regularly ask ourselves how we resolve the inconsistencies between our commitment to social justice and our agreement to work within systems that often contribute to systemic inequity. Rather than passively maintaining the status-quo, we strive to co-create personal and community healing with social work service recipients.  We acknowledge and account for the institutionalized hierarchy that permeates social work systems and strive to minimize the power and privilege differentials that pervasively influence social work systems, policies and interventions. Be a contributing writer to the newly forming social work activist zine and blog, The Social Work Activist Reader: Holding the Vision of Justice in Practice.  Articles should be in areas of social work that help to build our vision of social work activism and justice-centered, anti-oppressive practice.  The zine will be published quarterly with our first publication planned for this summer.   Submissions are due 6/21/11 and can be sent, along with inquiries, to Heather Greene. For more information, click here.
Conferences & Trainingsconf
6th Young Children Without Homes National Conference

June 20-21, 2011
Washington DC
Hosted by Horizons for Homeless Children, this conference will focus on the issue of child and family homelessness and its effect on young children; information sharing and advocacy; networking and collaboration; strategies and solutions. Conference speakers include Yvette Sanchez Fuentes, Director, Office of Head Start and Joan Lombardi, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development. Click here for more information.

1st Annual Qualitative Methods Summer Workshop

"Writing Proposals for Funding"
July 28-29,2011
New York, NY
This two-day intensive workshop provides instruction in writing qualitative methods proposals for funding. Attendees learn the specifics of writing a proposal (making the argument, specific aims, theoretical frameworks, methods, etc.) and how such proposals are reviewed and rated. The workshop involves three types of activities: lectures, group co-learning, and faculty consultation. NASW CEUs will be available upon completion of the program. For more information, please go to the website.
Research Publications & Data ResourcesResearch

Statistical Analysis Centers Publication Digest

The latest issue of the SAC Publication Digest is now available on the website of the Justice Research and Statistics Association.  This Digest contains abstracts of Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) reports published July - December 2010, including reports produced for the SACs by outside authors or organizations.  The SACs are state agencies that collect, analyze, and disseminate justice data, and these reports cover a wide array of topics and analysis approaches for criminal justice data at the state level. Click here for more information.

 

ICPSR Data Archive Additions
Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive:
25402 Indian National Election Study, 1967, 1971, 1979, 1985
29441 Detroit Area Study, 2001: Quality of Life in the Metro-Detroit Area  

 

New AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Review on TBI and Depression Is Available
AHRQ has released a new systematic review of 115 clinical studies involving depression after traumatic brain injury (TBI).  Comparative Effectiveness Review of Traumatic Brain Injury and Depression, prepared by researchers at the AHRQ's Vanderbilt Evidence- based Practice Center addresses key questions on depression after traumatic brain injury and finds there are many research gaps.  However, there are treatments available for people with depression and people should understand their options.  A pair of plain-language guides that summarize the evidence are also available. Click here for the full reports.

 

Poverty, Gender, & Youth
The Population Council
The working paper series is part of the Poverty, Gender, and Youth program, through which Population Council staff members seek to understand the social dimensions of poverty, the determinants and consequences of gender inequality, the disparities that arise during adolescence, and the critical elements of a successful transition to adulthood in developing countries. Program activities also include developing and evaluating innovative programs-especially those related to empowerment, health, education, and livelihoods-to address the needs of the poor, women and youth in particular. Program staff also continue the Council's long-standing tradition of providing demographic analysis of the links between population growth and development at the macro and micro levels. Click here for the full report.

News & Notices
New Feature Documentary Film Chronicles the Story of Foster Care Alumni Working to Change the System that Raised Them
MISSOULA, MONTANA (April 20, 2011) - The award winning Porch Productions announces the release of From Place to Place, the long awaited and eagerly anticipated feature documentary about the invisible children who grow up in America's foster care system. After aging out of foster care, From Place to Place follows plucky underdogs Mandy and Raif on an unlikely journey as they set out to change the system that raised them. The film unearths one of America's hidden tragedies, while providing glimmers of hope as to how we can better care for our most vulnerable children. Click here for more information.

Special Emphasis Notice (SEN): AHRQ Announces Interest in Grants focused on Health Issues of Minority Women
With this notice, AHRQ encourages grant applications that propose research that focuses on minority women in health services research designed to (1) improve clinical practice; (2) improve the health care system's ability to provide access to and deliver high quality, high-value health care; and (3) provide policymakers with the ability to assess the impact of system changes on outcomes, quality, access to, cost, and use of health care services. AHRQ Research Portfolios:  The focus of this special emphasis notice can be applied within any research portfolio of AHRQ.  Portfolios include Comparative Effectiveness, Prevention and Care Management, Value, Health Information Technology, Patient Safety and Innovations/Emerging Issues.  Applicants are advised to consult the AHRQ website for the most current information here.
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