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June 3, 2011  || Vol. 3, Issue 22
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Calls 
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News & Notices
 
Funding OpportunitiesFunding

Improving prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV) within refugee and conflict-affected populations
Deadline: June 28, 2011
Limited Funding is available through the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) for proposals for globally-relevant capacity building, research, assessment, or evaluation projects that will strengthen the international community's ability to reduce and effectively respond to gender-based violence (GBV) among PRM populations of concern. Proposals must: 1) Seek to build the capacity of NGO and implementing partners to prevent and respond to GBV with worldwide application and/or implications; and/or 2) Involve research, assessments or formative evaluations that could inform and strengthen PRM (and/or the international community's) policy and programming for GBV prevention and response. Such research, assessments, or evaluations should include concrete policy and program recommendations for relevant stakeholders and focus on PRM populations of concern. Click here for more information.

 

Department of Defense Autism Pilot Award
Deadline: November 9, 2011
The ARP Pilot Award supports conceptually innovative, high-risk/high-reward research that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will drive the field of ASD forward. Research projects should include a testable hypothesis based on a strong scientific rationale. This award is not intended to support the continuation of existing studies or the next logical extension and/or incremental step. The Pilot Award emphasizes untested, novel, innovative, and potentially groundbreaking concepts, theories, paradigms, and/or methods. Click here for more information.

 

OJJDP FY 2011 National T&TA Center for Truancy Prevention and Intervention
Deadline: July 11, 2011
OJJDP seeks to establish a national training and technical assistance center that will advance the understanding and application of promising and evidence-based truancy prevention and intervention strategies and programs. The center will accomplish its mission through a broad range of activities, including training and technical assistance; information dissemination; collaboration with researchers and program developers; partnership with federal, state, and local agencies; policy development; and other leadership functions. The center will also assist OJJDP and the Office for Safe and Drug Free Schools (U.S. Department of Education) in establishing a new truancy prevention/intervention demonstration program, planned for launch in FY 2012. Click here for more 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.

Calls Calls
Call for Papers

Work & Family Researchers Network
Inaugural Conference Theme: Interdisciplinary Conversations
Deadline: September 30, 2011
We invite submissions of papers, posters, and symposia proposals that address all aspects of work and family issues, including basic research, theory, history, international comparisons, political analyses, policy evaluations, action research, ethnographic investigations and statistical analyses. As this will be a multidisciplinary conference, researchers and scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to participate including anthropology, business and management, economics, family studies, political science, psychology, public health, social work, sociology, and related fields. Examples of possible topics include (but are not limited to): alternative work arrangements, women's career opportunities, job performance, overwork, underemployment, non-standard work shifts, low-wage work, stress, health and well-being, work-family conflict and enrichment, family leave, organizational policies, public policy, international comparisons, time use, aging and older workers, dependent care, care work, after-school programs and the impact of the recession on today's families. Work and family issues for special populations including military families, immigrant families, single-parent families, and gay and lesbian families, are also welcome. Click here for more information.

Call for Nominations
NASW National Awards
The National Assocation of Social Workers (NASW) is now receiving nominations for its 2011 National Awards. Awards, and those who may submit nominations for them, are
* Social Worker of the Year - NASW Chapters only;
* Public Citizen of the Year - NASW Chapters, individuals and social welfare organizations;
* Public Elected Official - NASW chapters and members, individuals, and social welfare organizations;
* Lifetime Achievement Award - NASW Chapters and individuals.
Click here for more information.

Call for Papers
Integrating Primary Care and Public Health
Deadline: August 1, 2011
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) and the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) will publish a joint theme issue addressing the question: "How do we improve population health and promote health equity through the effective integration of primary care and public health?" Papers are invited in the following areas: science, education, practice, or policy.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are jointly sponsoring the special issue. Click here for more information.
Conferences & Trainingsconf
Summer Social Webshop (@Webshop2011)

Deadline: June 17, 2011
The faculty at the University of Maryland in sociology and computer science are hosting an NSF sponsored workshop on technology mediated social participation (TMSP) with a heavy emphasis on social networks and social media. The workshop is open to US graduate students in a variety of disciplines (social sciences, computer science, information science, etc.) and includes a stipend to support participation. The Summer Social Webshop (@Webshop2011) is 4-day interdisciplinary workshop for US graduate students (August 23-26, 2011) at the University of Maryland, College Park organized by leading researchers for graduate students at US universities studying social-networking tools, blogs and microblogs, user-generated content sites, discussion groups, problem reporting, recommendation systems, and other social media. For more information and application go to the website.

NIH Health Disparities Seminar Series
The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) is sponsoring a monthly NIH Health Disparities Seminar Series. The forum disseminates information on advances, gaps, and current issues related to health disparities research. It features national and international health disparities research experts, including many funded by the NCMHD, the other NIH Institutes and Centers, and federal agency partners.
June 9, 2011
: Dr. Julia Bradford will be presenting a talk entitled "Achieving Health Equity for Sexual and Gender Minorities."
July 28, 2011: Dr. Peter J Hotez will be presenting a talk entitled "Left behind in America: Our Nations Neglected Infections of Poverty."
For more information, please call (301) 402-1366 or visit the website. Each seminar will be video cast and made available in the NIH Video archives and on the NIMHD website within a few days following the seminar.
Research Publications & Data ResourcesResearch

National and State Foster Care Trends

(From Child Trends)

National Foster Care Month is held annually in May to highlight the needs of children and families involved with the U.S. foster care system. Child Trends has issued a Foster Care Data Snapshot which explores state and national trends in the number of children living in foster care each year from 2000 to 2009. The brief also summarizes the numbers of children entering foster care each year over that same time period. Approximately 424,000 children were in foster care in the United States in 2009, a 23 percent decrease from the 544,000 children in foster care in 2000.* Although the numbers of children in foster care and entering care each year have decreased nationally, there is wide variation among the states. Only two states, California and Illinois, have decreased their foster care rolls each year since 2000. Click here for the full report.

 

Federal Tax Policies and Low-Income Rural Households
(From Rural Assistance Center)
The authors analyze the increasing use of refundable tax credits targeted to low- and moderate-income households in the Federal individual income tax and determine their implications for rural America. The analysis finds that expansions to both the refundable and nonrefundable portions of the Earned Income and Child Tax credits have provided a major source of income support for low-income workers and their families. This is especially true in the South, where the rural poor are concentrated. Click here for the full report by Ron Durst and Tracey Farrigan.

 

ICPSR New Additions
Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive along with a list of released data collections that have been updated:
*28023 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study [United States]: Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999, Kindergarten-Eighth Grade Full Sample
*29001 Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Illinois Site Public Use Files, 2005-2006
*29002 Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Washington Site Public Use Files, 2005
*29644 Current Population Survey, November 2008: Civic Engagement Supplement
*31333 Police Arrest Decisions in Intimate Partner Violence Cases in the United States, 2000 and 2003
Click on the individuals links for more information.

News & Notices
Forthcoming Solicitation for Proposals for NIMH Outreach Partnership Program
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Outreach Partnership Program has posted an announcement for an upcoming Solicitation for Proposals. The Solicitation will be available on Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 10:00 AM (ET) at the NIMH Outreach Partnership Program website. NIMH will invite organizations to submit proposals for consideration as NIMH Outreach Partners for the following states: Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and New York City, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Texas Border Area, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Non-profit organizations that conduct outreach on mental health may submit proposals for participation in the NIMH Outreach Partnership Program, which is designed to facilitate and increase access to science-based information on mental disorders nationwide. Organizations with experience in child and adolescent mental health and/or mental health disparities are encouraged to apply.
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