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Formerly IASWR Listserv Announcements
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June 10, 2011 || Vol. 3, Issue 23
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The IASWR Listerv Announcements are now SWRnet. Subscribers to SWRnet receive weekly email updates about funding opportunities, calls for papers, conference deadlines, and newly published research. Please visit the website to access other resources related to social work research.
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Funding Opportunities Department of Defense Spinal Cord Injury Qualitative Research Award
Deadline: December 1, 2011
The intent of the Qualitative Research Award is to support qualitative research studies that will help researchers and clinicians better understand the experiences of individuals with SCI, and thereby identify the most effective paths for adjusting to disability and/or improving overall quality of life, health, and functional status after SCI. This mechanism is specifically focused on military and veteran populations in the first few years after SCI, examining the issues, barriers,and promoters of success for Service members during the transition from initial injury and acute care through rehabilitation and community reintegration; therefore, collaboration with military researchers and clinicians is encouraged. Factors that may affect the rehabilitation and reintegration of spinal cord injured soldiers include, but are not limited to, age, gender, ethnicity, family members/caregivers, psychological health, severity of injury, type of medical care (e.g., civilian versus military facility), and co-morbid conditions. Click here for more information. 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. Juvenile Probation Census Project
Deadline: June 29, 2011
This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention program supports the implementation and ongoing development and maintenance of two complementary national data collection programs that make up OJJDP's National Juvenile Probation Census Project: the Census of Juvenile Probation Supervision Offices and the Census of Juveniles on Probation. 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. 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.
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Calls
Call for PapersSociety for Ethics Across the Curriculum: 13th International Conference on Ethics Across the CurriculumDeadline: September 15, 2011Professional Ethics: Responsible Practice in the ProfessionsThe Society encourages submissions on all issues regarding ethics across the curriculum and selects a theme each year to encourage a focus for the conference. This year's theme concerns the recommendation from Ethics Teaching in Higher Education (1980) that colleges and universities "ought to prepare future professionals to understand the types of moral issues they are likely to confront in their chosen vocations, introduce them to the moral ideals of the profession, and assist them in understanding the relationship between their professional work and that of the broader values and needs of the society." The goal of this year's conference is to promote continued dialogue about ethics education in higher education, especially in terms of preparing our students to become responsible professionals. Sessions may address foundational issues, case studies, pedagogical demonstrations, assessment techniques, and related topics. Submissions (papers or abstracts) should be formatted for blind review and sent by September 15, 2011. Click here for more information. Call for ManuscriptsJournal of Prevention and Intervention in the CommunityDeadline: June 24, 2011 (abstract)Research reveals the connection between "adverse childhood experiences" (ACEs) and serious subsequent adult mental health, substance abuse, and health problems. The Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community is seeking conceptual, empirical, qualitative, or mixed methods manuscripts for a special issue on "Prevention and Intervention of ACEs and ACE consequences across the lifespan." These articles will be explicitly connected to prevention of adverse childhood experiences or interventions and treatment that address and prevent ACE consequences among disadvantaged high ACE Score populations of any age group. Policy, community development, organizational climate, service systems, leadership, workforce development, and individually-oriented prevention and treatment perspectives are all appreciated. Articles further clarifying ACE prevalence, consequences, or interaction with protective resources in disadvantaged populations, including children and families, adults, and older adults, as well as the workforce are also of interest. Please direct inquiries to Guest Editors Heather Larkin, PhD and Joseph J. Shields, PhD using the email hlarkin@uamail.albany.edu. Your title, author(s), and brief abstract are due for editorial review by June 24, and you will be notified whether you are invited to submit by July 1. The article submission will be due September 10, 2011 for peer review.
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Conferences & Trainings
2011 NIJ Conference: Translational Criminology - Shaping Policy and Practice With Research
June 20-22, 2011
Arlington, VA
For more than a decade, NIJ's annual conference has brought together criminal justice scholars, policymakers and practitioners at the local, state and federal levels to share the most recent findings from research and technology. The conference showcases what works, what doesn't work and what the research shows as promising. It puts a heavy emphasis on the benefits to researchers and practitioners who work together to create effective evidence-based policies and practices. Click here for more details.
National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy
July 19-21, 2011
Registration for the 4th National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy has opened! The 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. The conference draws in researchers from many disciplines including family studies, psychology, sociology, social work, public policy, political science, economics, criminal justice, child development, and many others; practitioners from social and human services; and policy/decision-makers who are concerned about programming and policy to support child and family well-being. We hope that you will consider attending this growing conference with pre-conference workshops, where attendees have an opportunity to learn from one another, meet people outside of their disciplines, and network with others in an intimate academic setting. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Health Care Quality Gaps and Disparities Persist in Every State
(From AHRQ)
States are seeing improvements in health care quality, but disparities for their minority and low-income residents persist, according to the 2010 State Snapshots, released today by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). New Hampshire, Minnesota, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island showed the greatest overall performance improvement in 2010. The five states with the smallest overall performance improvement were Kentucky, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. As in previous years, AHRQ's 2010 State Snapshots show that no state does well or poorly on all quality measures. Among minority and low-income Americans, the level of health care quality and access to services remained unfavorable. The size of disparities related to race and income varied widely across the states. Click here for the full report.
PREA Data Collection Information Available
"PREA Data Collection Activities, 2011" (NCJ 234183, 4 pp.) describes Bureau of Justice Statistics activities related to the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108-79), which requires BJS to carry out, for each calendar year, a comprehensive statistical review of the incidence and effects of prison rape in randomly selected federal, state, and county correctional facilities. Click here for more information.
Data From SVORI Released
The National Institute of Justice has released data from the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) Multi-site Impact Evaluation, 2004-2007. This initiative funded agencies to develop programs to improve criminal justice, employment, education, health, and housing outcomes for released prisoners. These data, collected from 2,391 former offenders in 2004 to 2007, will allow for continued analysis of reentry issues. Click here for the full report.
Child Welfare Information Gateway Library Additions
Below is a selected list of new publications that were added to Child Welfare Information Gateway Library in May:
-Measuring Practitioner Attitudes Toward Evidence-Based Treatments: A Validation Study. Ashcraft, Rindee G. P.; Foster, Sharon L.; Lowery, Amy E.; Henggeler, Scott W.; Chapman, Jason E.; Rowland, Melisa D.
-Description of a UK Study of Onset of Sexually Harmful Behaviour Before the Age of Ten Years in Boys Referred to a Specialist Assessment and Treatment Service. Hawkes, Colin
-Differential Response in Rural Counties: Path Differentiation, Service Receipt, and Case Disposition. Franke, Todd.; Bagdasaryan, Sofya.; Furman, Walter
-Innovative Practice Approaches to Matching in Adoption. Hanna, Michele D.; McRoy, Ruth G.
Click here for full articles and more information.
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News & Notices
The National Academies Press Makes All PDF Books Free to Download
All PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press are now downloadable to anyone free of charge. This includes a current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports produced by the Press. The mission of the National Academies Press (NAP) -- publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council -- is to disseminate the institutions' content as widely as possible while maintaining financial sustainability. Click here for the list of books available. |
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