Funding Opportunities

Improving Service Delivery to Youth in the Child Welfare System
Deadline: July 7, 2011
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to develop and evaluate programs that promote the safety and well-being of children and families and that allow youth, where safe and appropriate, to return to families from which they have been removed, by building relationship skills to mitigate risk and to promote protective and resiliency factors in youth who have experienced trauma or abuse.  Projects will target youth in the child welfare system, or those at risk of entering the child welfare system, including LGBTQ, pregnant and parenting teens, and other youth with significant risk factors. Click here for more information.

Integration of Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment in Primary Care Settings (R01)

Deadline: September 30, 2011 (letter of intent)

Primary care settings routinely provide detection, prevention and treatment of a wide range of chronic diseases and health conditions in patients of all ages, however, services related to the prevention and treatment of substance use remain serious exceptions.  The result is fragmented and incomplete care and missed opportunities for the prevention and treatment of substance abuse. There exist a number of prevention interventions and treatment services approaches with demonstrated efficacy or effectiveness.  However, further research is needed to identify and address the barriers and facilitators of implementing these interventions and service delivery models in primary care settings. This FOA will support multidisciplinary translation and implementation research to enhance adoption of evidence-based prevention, screening, detection, and treatment of substance abuse, across the age spectrum of clinical populations in primary care settings.  Primary care is defined in terms of obstetric, pediatric, adolescent medicine, family practice, general practice, or internal medicine specialties, as well as specialties that widely practice primary care such as emergency medicine.  Projects can utilize a variety of organizational settings in which primary care services are delivered, including those which are outside of traditional office practices or medical centers. Click here for more information.

Research on Human Services Philanthropy and Organizations
Deadline: June 27, 2011

(From Philanthropy News Digest)
With support from the Kresge Foundation, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University has announced a Request for Proposals on Advancing Knowledge in Human Services Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations. The Advancing Knowledge initiative responds to the need to build a research community of human services scholars whose work can improve the effectiveness of human services organizations and philanthropy.The goal of the initiative is to create a group of pre-tenure scholars working in collaboration with tenured mentors and an advisory council. Click here for more information.

Integrating Multi-Dimensional Data to Explore Mechanisms Underlying Mental Disorders (RO1)
Deadline: July 20, 2011
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit research grant applications to develop advanced bioinformatics and statistical tools to integrate genomic, environmental and phenotypic data.This FOA provides a mechanism to support the development of bioinformatic approaches focused on integrating multi-dimensional data sets.This may require the development of new methods for data reduction, the development of new statistical tools, and/or the development of new approaches to applying existing tools to the problems of integrating multi-dimensional data.Data sets of particular interest include genome-wide polymorphic assessment, epigenomic, neuroimaging, and physiological data with that of defined clinical phenotypes.These data sets should be derived from subjects of mental disorders, and although, not all modalities of measure may be available for the same cohort, the application should propose using as many data sets as deemed necessary to provide meaningful biological results.The desired outcome of this FOA is to establish links between one or more of the underlying genomic factors, biological networks, and environmental factors influencing mental disorders. Click here for more information.

Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse
Deadline: July 18, 2011
This grant will support the maintenance and support of an online Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse. The website will disseminate quality research and evaluation studies on TANF and low-income populations, focusing on self-sufficiency, employment, and family and child well-being. The clearinghouse is intended to be of use to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, assisting all three groups in accessing and using high-quality research. The clearinghouse structure will be built on a design framework that has been developed over the previous two years, which considered how to engage and serve the needs of these three user groups, while also developing approaches to research standards and categorization. Click here for more information.

Early Head Start University Partnership Grants: Buffering Children from Toxic Stress
Deadline: July 18, 2011
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announces the Early Head Start University Partnership Grants: Buffering Children from Toxic Stress. These grants fund research activities to implement promising parenting interventions which augment ongoing Early Head Start services, in order to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable infants and toddlers. The purpose of this announcement is to report the availability of grant projects to promote knowledge of how Early Head Start programs can buffer children from the effects of toxic stress by supporting parenting/caregiving. Grantees will be required to demonstrate a partnership or partnerships with Early Head Start programs as an integral part of the research plan development and execution. They will implement a promising parenting interventions model, augmenting existing Early Head Start services, for those children and families at the highest levels of stress. The evaluation component will include a validation of the selected risk factors as indicating a risk for toxic stress, an implementation study of the parenting intervention, as well as a rigorous test of the effectiveness of the intervention. While many caregiving relationships can provide buffering effects, the focus of this announcement is on the parental (or primary caregiver, foster parent, or guardian if biological parents are not available) relationship. Click here for more information.

Evaluation of the Honest Opportunity Probation With Enforcement Demonstration Field Experiment (HOPE DFE)
Deadline: July 6, 2011
As part of a collaborative effort with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to implement and rigorously test important criminal justice interventions and programs, NIJ seeks competitive proposals for a single award that will support a multi-site randomized controlled trial (RCT) program evaluation of the HOPE DFE. Jurisdictions across the United States are seeking effective ways to maintain public safety by holding offenders accountable while at the same time reducing costs of imprisonment. A recent NIJ-funded evaluation of the Hawaii Opportunity Probation With Enforcement (HOPE) program showed that the program has great promise for reducing offending and ensuring probationer compliance by combining random drug tests with swift and certain sanctions for probation violations. Based on these positive findings, BJA will fund the expansion of the original HOPE program model implemented in Hawaii to four other sites. Every effort will be made to replicate the original program as closely as possible in the new sites. The demonstration field experiment (DFE) will examine the HOPE program's processes, outcomes, and cost effectiveness through a multi-site study conducted for the explicit purpose of generating evidence about this probation program. Click here for more information.

Prevention of HIV Transmission/Acquisition through a better understanding of Reproductive Health (R01)
Deadline: August 11, 2011
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), invites Research Project Grant (R01) applications to further our understanding of HIV acquisition/transmission by increasing our knowledge regarding the intersection between reproductive health and HIV prevention. The emphasis of the FOA is to encourage comprehensive behavioral-biomedical approaches that can lead to new insights in HIV prevention research. This FOA is not intended to fund drug discovery or large scale clinical trials. Click here for more information.

2012-13 Harkness Fellowships
Deadline: September 12, 2011

(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
The Commonwealth Fund's Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice is designed to provide a unique opportunity for mid-career health services researchers and practitioners from Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom to spend up to twelve months in the United States for the purpose of conducting original research and working with leading U.S. health policy experts. Click here for more information.

U.S. Scholars Core Fulbright Scholar Program Award
Deadline: August 1, 2011
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
Applications are now being accepted for Fulbright Scholar awards for teaching or research in the Middle East and North Africa are in public health and health administration in 2012-13.  Specializations in all fields will be supported for periods of 3-10 months in Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. The application deadline is August 1. For award information, application and guidelines visit the website.  Contact Mr. Gary Garrison at ggarrison@iie.org or 201-0686-4019 for additional information.

Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program
Deadline: July 14, 2011
The purpose of the Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRG) program is to enable doctoral candidates enrolled at institutions of higher education accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to complete their dissertations on policy-relevant housing and urban development issues. The FY 2011 DDRG program seeks to fund research studies that may impact federal problem solving and policy-making and that are relevant to HUD's policy priorities and annual goals and objectives. Click here for more information.

SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
Deadline: (see discipline-specific dates)
The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question. Click here for more information.

ICPSR New Releases through 2011-05-23

Below is a list of new data collection additions to the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data archive.

*27621 RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) Data Core Series: Cost-of-Living Indices, 1990-2000 [United States]  

*27862 RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) Data Core Series: Disability, 2000 [United States]  

*27863 RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) Data Core Series: Segregation Indices, 1990-2000 [United States]  

*27865 RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) Data Core Series: Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status (SES) Index, 1990-2000 [United States]  

*28281 Annual Survey of Jails: Jail-Level Data, 2008  

*29081 Annual Survey of Jails: Jail-Level Data, 2009  

*29501 Census of Public Defender Offices: State Programs, 2007  

*29502 Census of Public Defender Offices: County-Based and Local Offices, 2007  

*29762 Economic Integration Agreements: Historical database of entry into Economic Integration Agreements, 1960-2000  

*30422 Associated Press Health Care Reform Survey, by Stanford University with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, August-September 2010 [United States]  

Click on the individual link for more information.

The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
The NDACAN Update is your source for important Archive announcements. The following lists the recent data releases:
* AFCARS Adoption 2009 by the Children's Bureau (Dataset #152)
* National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-being II (NSCAW II), Restricted Release by RTI (Dataset #154)
* National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-being II (NSCAW II), General Release by RTI (Dataset #155)
* National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)-Child File, FFY 2009 by the Children's Bureau (Dataset #156)
* National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) State File, FFY 2009 by the Children's Bureau (Dataset #157)
Click here for more information about these and other datasets.