January 20, 2012  || Vol. 4, Issue 3
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding
Research on Family Complexity, Poverty, and Public Policy
Deadline: March 1, 2012
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) seeks to fund research that will enhance our understanding of the relationship of family complexity to poverty and public policy, one of three integrated research themes shaping IRP's research agenda as a National Poverty Research Center. IRP anticipates funding up to five projects, with a maximum award of $20,000 each, to emerging scholars as defined below. Grantees will benefit from consultation with IRP senior affiliates, with each other, and during a workshop at which grantees will present their draft paper with other senior poverty scholars. Click here for more information. 

Building the Science of Public Reporting (R21)
Deadline: March 28, 2012
(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
This announcement solicits R21 Exploratory / Developmental grant applications that propose to build the scientific evidence base for effective public reporting for consumers through innovative, actionable studies that address pressing questions in the field. A number of studies suggest that consumers infrequent use of public reports of health care quality and resource use is due to reports poor design, irrelevant content, and inadequate dissemination, rather than a lack of consumer interest. Early evidence suggests that consumers want easy-to-understand, readily accessible reports that allow them to compare providers and sites of care based on quality and value at key decision points. In order for public reporting to be effective, reports need to provide consumers with transparent, timely information they can trust to help inform their conversations with providers and payers, and guide their health care decisions. Click here for more information.

Development and Testing of a Clinic-Based Intervention to Increase Dual Protection against Unintended Pregnancy and STDs among High Risk Female Teens
Deadline: March 26, 2012
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to develop and evaluate a clinic-based intervention addressing access to, motivation for, and adherence to dual protection strategies that concurrently protect against unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among high risk 15-19 year old females. Click here for more information.

NIA Program Project Applications
Deadline: January 25, May 25 annually until 2012
This program provides funding for integrated, multi-project research programs that have a well-defined, central research focus or objective relevant to the mission of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Genetic, biological, clinical, behavioral, social, and economic research related to the aging process, diseases and conditions associated with aging, and other special problems and needs of older Americans will be considered. Program project awards represent synergistic research programs that are designed to achieve results that cannot be attained by investigators working independently. They consist of at least three individual interrelated research (sub)projects that contribute to the program objective, and an administrative core all of which are active through all years of the program project. Investigators are encouraged to visit the NIA website for additional information about the research mission and high-priority research areas of the NIA here. 
CallsCalls
Call for Applications
2012 Military Child Education Coalition Research Training Symposium, Early Career Researcher Stipend
Deadline: April 1, 2012
The Military Child Education Coalition® (MCEC®) is pleased to announce its first annual Research Symposium, Understanding America's Military-Connected Youth Through Positive Youth Development, on June 26-27th, 2012, at The Gaylord Texan, in Grapevine, Texas. The MCEC is a 501(c)(3) global, nonprofit organization focused on the well-being and needs of America's military-connected children and youth, specifically in the areas of academic opportunity and excellence, school transition support, and developmental needs.  The goal of the symposium is to bring the best research knowledge to advance capability in these areas and to promote research attention to them. The symposium will consist of two parts: a morning keynote speaker focusing on current knowledge about a key topic related to the wellbeing and needs of military-connected youth and an afternoon workshop to facilitate research projects of a select group of early career scientists. The afternoon workshop will be limited to six successful applicants. This time will be for the purpose of meeting with members of the MCEC Science Advisory Board, leaders in their field of research, to discuss scholarship related to specific topics that might be pursued for research to help advance ability to support and serve military-connected youth. In addition to the opportunity to learn about the broad issues related to military-connected youth, successful applicants will be given the opportunity to further their research on positive youth development in military-connected youth in consultation with researchers who can help advise and support an ensuing research project for MCEC under the auspices of the Youth-Nex Center, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. Click here for more information.

Call for Abstracts
19th ISPCAN International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect
Deadline: February 29, 2012  
The International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) and the Turkish Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (TSPCAN) to invite you to submit abstracts for the 19th ISPCAN International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, September 09 - 12, 2012. Our Congress theme is: "Every Child Matters: Promoting Local, National and International Partnerships for Protecting Children". The Scientific Program Committee invites submission of abstracts for presentations on topics that align with the Congress theme and the specific streams listed here:
* Multidisciplinary and partnership responses
* Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment
* Developing the Evidence Base (new and emerging research)
* Child Rights and Child Abuse Prevention
* Child Exploitation and Cultural Differences in Maltreatment
The Abstract Submission Deadline is February 29, 2012. Abstracts submitted after this date will not be considered. To learn more or submit an abstract. visit our website.

Call for Papers
Journal of Family Social Work
Deadline: May 1, 2012
Special Issue: Rural Families & Reshaping Social Services
Guest Editors: Jeanne Cook & Keith A. Alford
The Journal of Family Social Work announces a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on "Reshaping Human Services for Rural Families." Prior to the recent economic crisis in the U.S., many rural families were struggling to meet their basic needs. During the best of times, service providers in rural locales have had to use creative strategies to develop and deliver needed resources to families in those communities. Within the current economic and political environments, the constraints on funding for services have expanded as the needs for those services have grown. Programs have been combined, services have been reduced, and funding cuts have been severe in virtually every category of public funding. At the same time, private nonprofit agencies have seen their donations shrink and their client applications swell. Generally, much of the emphasis on where and how to cut services is based on the number of people served. As a result, rural programs and service locations have been lost. The goal of this Special Edition of JFSW is to examine families in rural communities and identify creative strategies and program approaches that identify and meet rural families' needs. Click here for more information.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
140th APHA Annual Meeting
Prevention and Wellness Across the Lifespan
Deadline: February 8, 2012
The Social Work section welcomes abstracts on areas of special interest to public health social work for the 140th Annual Meeting & Exposition in San Francisco, CA from October 27-31, 2012. Submissions related to the 2012 Annual meeting theme of "Prevention and Wellness across the Lifespan" are encouraged. Click here for more information.
Conferences & Trainingsconf
Global Health & Innovation Conference 2012
Presented by Unite For Sight, 9th Annual Conference
Yale University
Saturday, April 21 - Sunday, April 22, 2012
The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference.  This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. Click here for more information.

33rd Annual Minority Health Conference
February 24, 2012
The Minority Student Caucus, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, presents its 33rd Annual Minority Health Conference, including the 14th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Ana V. Diez-Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, professor and director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan. Dr. Diez-Roux's lecture will be broadcast as a free, interactive webcast. Dr. Diez-Roux's keynote will kick off an exciting day, with sessions and speakers including presentations by Nina Wallerstein, Professor and Director of the Center for Participatory Research, Betina Jean-Louis from the Harlem Children's Zone, and Jane Perkins, Legal Director of the National Health Law Program. Register online here for the conference (registration fee $30-$80) or the broadcast (no fee).

FFTA 26th Annual Conference on Treatment Foster Care
July 22-25, 2012
Atlanta, GA
Building Permanent Connections
Join the Foster Family-based Treatment Association and over 600 family-based services professionals and foster parents to learn how treatment foster care is establishing permanent connections at the only North American-based Conference on Treatment Foster Care. The conference features over 70 workshops highlighting the best practices being applied in the field. Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata
Sex-Specific Reporting of Scientific Research
(From the Institute of Medicine)
In 2010, the IOM released a report that found that, among other things, data not being reported by sex had slowed progress in women's health. The number of women participating in clinical trials has increased over the last two decades, though they are still underrepresented. Even when women are included in these trials, however, the results are often not analyzed separately by sex. On August 30, 2011, the IOM's Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice hosted a workshop to address the recommendation in Women's Health Research: Progress, Pitfalls, and Promise that journals should adopt a guideline that, where appropriate, articles report the outcomes of clinical trials report on men and women separately. The workshop focus went beyond clinical trials, to look at sex-specific reporting in all types of scientific research. Speakers at the workshop discussed the need for sex-specific reporting, potential barriers to such reporting, as well as what must be done to report sex-specific results. Click here for the document summarizing the workshop.

Child Welfare Information Gateway Library
Below is a list of new publications that were added to Child Welfare Information Gateway Library in December:
*2010 Annual Report / Alaska Citizen Review Panel
*Differential Response in Child Protective Services in New York State: Implementation, Initial Outcomes and Impacts of Pilot Project: Report to the Governor and Legislature
*Standard: Mandatory Referral of Children, Birth to 3, for Infant Toddler Program (ITP) Services on All Child Abuse and Neglect Reports Dispositioned as Substantiated
*Adoption: Finding homes for Minnesota's Waiting Children
*Alaska Citizen Review Panel 2010 Report Response
Click here for full reports.
News & Noticesnews
Social justice funding takes a hit
(From The Grantsmanship Center)
Foundations and other institutions that make grants for social justice causes have been disproportionately affected by the current recession, and there's no relief in sight. In "Diminishing Dollars: The Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on the Field of Social Justice Philanthropy", the Foundation Center reports on its 2004-2009 study of 54 foundations "known to be active in the social justice sector." These 54 foundations were responsible for approximately 25% of all documented social justice grantmaking in 2009. The report found that, even with extraordinary measures being taken by many of the funders, 2009 grants were below 2007 levels. Its predictions for the future:
* If investment returns remain low, social justice grantmaking will remain below 2008 levels through 2015 and perhaps longer.
* The smaller the foundation, the longer it will take to recover from the downturn.
* The foundations that were studied are very unlikely to make grants to organizations they have not previously funded.
*  Some of these grantmakers are continuing to see the value of their endowments decrease.
The report recommends that social justice grantmakers help grantseekers strengthen their capacity to raise funds and to maintain program impact with smaller budgets. Source: {Centered} January 2012 - Volume 5, Issue 1, © 2012 The Grantsmanship Center, Inc. All rights reserved.  
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