February 10, 2012  || Vol. 4, Issue 6
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding
Building the Science of Public Reporting (R21)
Deadline: March 28, 2012
This Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) FOA 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.

Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health: Integrating Mental Health into Chronic Disease Care Provision in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (R01)
Deadline: June 20, 2012  
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks research project grant (R01) applications that promote the establishment of an evidence base on contextually relevant, cost-effective integrated care interventions for the treatment of patients with co-morbid mental and chronic physical illnesses in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Specifically, this FOA will support research that builds on existing chronic disease care and treatment platforms to incorporate management of mental illness, employs a multi-disease care management approach with potentially high impact for improving patient- and system-level outcomes (e.g., patient morbidity and functioning; improved diagnosis of mental illness among patients with chronic medical illnesses; decreased cost to the health care system; improved care coordination), and establishes feasible methods for multi-disease management in LMICs. Click here for more information.

The New York Community Trust Silberman Faculty Grant Program
Deadline: April 30, 2012
Social work educators are among the first to become aware of emerging social problems. Their students, who are exposed to direct practical experience with diverse clients and agencies, bring these issues to their attention. New knowledge and its application to social services develop fairly quickly. Two factors, however, inhibit qualitative and quantitative exploration of this new knowledge and its dissemination: the expense of undertaking pilot studies and the cost of preparing manuscripts for publication. When funds to meet these expenses are made available, new knowledge for education and the delivery of social services can be tested and dissemination facilitated. The mission of the Silberman Fund Faculty Grant Program (FGP) is to support the systematic investigation of innovations in social work practice, policy and education. Its objective is to encourage full-time faculty of CSWE accredited MSW programs to contribute to the knowledge base and methodology employed in the education process by undertaking research and preparing professional journal and book publications.Beginning this year we will fund projects that advance new knowledge and its application to social work education and practice in three important areas:
*The changing role and place of males in American society inclusive of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
*The new poor: families affected by the recession and a widening income/wage gap.
*Immigration: understanding and meeting the needs of diverse immigrant groups.
Click here for more information.

Phased Services Research Studies of Drug Use Prevention, Addiction Treatment, and HIV in an Era of Health Care Reform (R21/R33)
Deadline: August 22, 2012
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits applications for Phased Innovation (R21/R33) research projects to conduct rigorous, objective services research to monitor and examine changes in drug use prevention, addiction treatment, and associated HIV and viral hepatitis services, that may occur as a result of healthcare reform. This FOA provides support for up to two years (R21 phase) for research planning activities and feasibility studies, followed by possible transition of up to four years of expanded research support (R33 phase). The total project period for an application submitted in response to this FOA may not exceed five years. Click here for more information.

Biomedical and Behavioral Research Innovations to Ensure Equity (BRITE) in Maternal and Child Health (R15)
Deadline: October 11, 2012
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) seeks to increase the diversity of the pool of researchers involved in health equity research related to NICHD mission areas including infant mortality; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); child, adolescent, and/or adult obesity; uterine fibroids; pediatric and maternal HIV/AIDS prevention; violence prevention; health literacy; and outreach and information dissemination.  Click here for more information.

NIJ Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Deadline: May 2, 2012  The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for funding under the Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program, which provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited academic universities that offer research-based doctoral degrees in disciplines relevant to NIJ's mission. The GRF program is intended to support universities that sponsor students who are in the final stages of graduate study. Awards are granted to successful applicants in the form of a grant to cover a doctoral student fellowship. Currently, the GRF fellowship is $25,000. Click here for more information. 
CallsCalls
Call for Contributing Editor
Journal of Social Work Education
The Journal of Social Work Education is seeking experienced scholars in social work education and related fields who can make studied judgments about manuscripts and provide helpful comments for authors. If you are interested in reviewing manuscripts for JSWE, please send a letter of interest along with a curriculum vitae to jswe@cswe.org.

Call for Papers
Nutrition and Aging: Nutritional Health Inequity
Journal of Aging Research
Deadline: May 4, 2012
Good nutritional health is critically important for the prevention and management of nutrition-related health conditions as well as the prevention of cognitive and physical functional decline. The achievement and maintenance of good nutritional health is particularly challenging for the burgeoning older population. Many seniors experience nutritional health inequity as a result of gender, race or ethnicity, education or income, country of birth, disability, or geographic location.We invite authors to submit original research and review articles that seek to improve our understanding of nutritional health inequity in older populations. We invite manuscripts that approach nutritional health at any ecological level from the individual to policy as well as those with application to community practice. We also invite submissions from traditional nutrition-related researchers and practitioners as well as researchers from other fields, such as sociology, anthropology, and planning. Click here for more information.

Call for Abstracts
ARNOVA
Deadline: March 26, 2012
The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Organizations (ARNOVA) meeting site this year at the home of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy provides an ideal setting to explore afresh the larger question of what is philanthropy, and how do we encourage a broad and diverse approach to understanding philanthropy in theory and in practice? Some would argue that "philanthropy" is both a core and an overarching concept for the fields of study ARNOVA embraces. Robert Payton's definition of philanthropy as "voluntary action for the common good" is contested, but has long been cited to describe such a view. Others would argue the concept of philanthropy is archaic. In recent years it has often been reduced to a synonym for giving, especially organized or institutional giving. Nevertheless, some vision of or connection to philanthropy underpins all that we study in examining nonprofit organizations and voluntary action. Click here for more information.

Call for Papers
Age in the Workplace: Challenges and Opportunities
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Deadline: March 31, 2012
It is estimated that by 2050, the population of older workers (55-64) in Europe will grow up to 60% (Carone & Costello, 2006). It is estimated that by 2018, approximately one quarter of the U.S. workforce will be age 55 or older (Tossi, 2009). This older, more age diverse workforce is raising new research questions. Researchers are examining how age affects a range of important work outcomes such as job performance (e.g., Ng & Feldman, 2008), motivation (e.g., Kanfer & Ackerman, 2004), career trajectories (e.g., Wang, 2007), age stereotypes (Posthuma & Campion, 2009), and job attitudes (e.g., Ng & Feldman, 2010). These shifts in age composition increase the importance of understanding the role of age in the workplace. The academic literature has begun to address age in the workplace in many respects, although advances are needed in terms of theory and practice. The goals of this special issue on age in the workplace are to advance theory and research in this field and to showcase top research from around the world. Click here for more information.

Call for Abstracts
The Gerontological Society of America
Deadline: March 15, 2012
GSA continually strives to provide the gerontological community with the most advanced research and education.  Present at this year's Annual Scientific Meeting to an engaged audience of professional peers, gain exposure of your work, and advance your career. Click here for more information.
Conferences & Trainingsconf
Maryland Health Equity Leadership Institute
Deadline: February 24, 2012
(From the ASPH Friday Letter) 
The Third Annual Health Equity Leadership Institute (HELI) is accepting applications from minority fellows, junior faculty, or post doctorates in health or social and behavioral sciences addressing research in minority health, health disparities and health equity, for an intensive weeklong "research boot camp" that will be held June 10-15. The HELI is a partnership between the Maryland Center for Health Equity (MCHE) at the University of Maryland School of Public Health and the Collaborative Center for Health Equity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  This institute aims to increase the number of investigators, particularly minority investigators, engaged in health disparities and health equity research, and increase the likelihood these scholars will be successful in tenure track academic appointments in schools of public health, medicine and other social and behavioral science disciplines. One critical objective is to help them in achieving research funding, such as R01 grants through the NIH, as a path to becoming independent investigators. Click here for more information. 

Summer Training Workshop on African American Aging Research
Deadline: April 2, 2012
The National Institute on Aging has provided funding for the Summer Training Workshop on African American Aging Research. The workshop objectives are to identify and mentor investigators of multicultural backgrounds who are committed to conducting African American aging research, and to contribute to the improvement of the quality and quantity of research conducted with the African American aging population. Applicants must have a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent degree, Ph.D. candidate, or Advanced Graduate Student. Four stipends (of $1,250 each) will be awarded to those chosen to attend the 2012 training workshop to defray travel and hotel expenses. If you are interested in being considered for this workshop, please apply by mailing one copy of the following materials to PRBA (address below) by
April 2, 2012:
*An application in which you concisely describe your research plans,     detailing your current level of preparation for rigorous research, and    stating how participation in this workshop would be advantageous to   your professional growth (no more than 2-3 pages).
*Current curriculum vitae.
*The name and phone number or e-mail of one person who can speak of your research potential.
*One example of a research manuscript demonstrating your potential for rigorous social science research (e.g., dissertation abstract, chapter, article, or conference paper).
PRBA Summer Workshop
University of Michigan
5062 Institute for Social Research
426 Thompson Street P.O. Box 1248
Ann Arbor, MI  48106-1248
Materials must be received no later than April 2, 2012.  For more information contact Minti Henderson at minti@umich.edu.

Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health
July 9-13, 2012
San Jose, CA
Deadline: March 2, 2012
One of the most critical issues impeding improvements in public health today is the enormous gap between what we know can optimize health and healthcare and what actually gets used and implemented in everyday practice. The science of dissemination and implementation (D&I) seeks to address this gap by understanding how to best ensure that evidence-based strategies to improve health and prevent disease are effectively delivered in clinical and public health practice. One of the most critical issues impeding improvements in public health today is the enormous gap between what we know can optimize health and healthcare and what actually gets used and implemented in everyday practice. The goal of this 5-day training institute is to provide participants with a thorough  grounding in conducting dissemination and implementation research in health. Faculty and guest lecturers will consist of leading experts (practitioners and teachers) in theory, implementation and evaluation approaches to D&I, creating partnerships and multi-level transdisciplinary research teams, research design, methods and analyses appropriate for D&I investigations and conducting research at different and multiple levels of intervention (e.g., clinical, community, policy). Participants will be expected to return to their home institutions prepared to share what they have learned at the institute to help grow the field of D&I research (e.g., giving talks, leading seminars, forming new collaborations, mentoring, and submitting D&I grant proposals etc). Click here for more information.

Research to Reality (R2R) Cyber-Seminar on Tool to Track and Analyze Community Partnerships
February 21, 2012
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The upcoming Research to Reality (R2R) cyber-seminar will review the PARTNER Tool (Program to Analyze, Record, and Track Networks to Enhance Relationships), which is a free social network analysis tool designed to demonstrate how community organizations members are connected, how resources are leveraged and exchanged, the levels of trust, and to link outcomes to the process of collaboration. During the event, Dr. Danielle Varda, the PARTNER Tool developer, will provide an overview of the tool, how it can be used, and the potential benefits for measuring and analyzing partnership activity. Additionally, two practitioners, Dr. Lea Ayers LaFave and Ms. Julia Ruschmann, will share their experiences implementing PARTNER in their respective communities and organizations, their lessons learned, and implications of this resource for other local health departments and organizations.  Click here for more information.

The White Privilege Conference: Understanding, Respecting, & Connecting
March 28-31, 2012
Albuquerque, NM
The White Privilege Conference (WPC) examines challenging concepts of privilege and oppression and offers solutions and team building strategies to work toward a more equitable world. It is not a conference designed to attack, degrade or beat up on white folks. It is not a conference designed to rally white supremacist groups. WPC is a conference designed to examine issues of privilege beyond skin color. WPC is open to everyone and invites diverse perspectives to provide a comprehensive look at issues of privilege including: race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, etc. - the ways we all experience some form of privilege, and how we're all affected by that privilege. WPC attracts students, professionals, activists, parents, and community leaders/members from diverse perspectives. WPC welcomes folks with varying levels of experience addressing issues of diversity, cultural competency, and multiculturalism. WPC is committed to a philosophy of "understanding, respecting and connecting." The conference is unique in its ability to bring together high school and college students, teachers, university faculty and higher education professionals, nonprofit staff, activists, social workers and counselors, healthcare workers, and members of the spiritual community and corporate arena. Annually, more than 1,500 attend from more than 35 states, Australia, Bermuda, Canada, and Germany. Click here for more information.

An Introduction to the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)
February 27, 2012
Join us for an introduction to the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA).  NACDA acquires and provides access to data relevant to gerontological research with an emphasis on major issues of scientific and policy relevance.  This webcast will cover:
* Introduction to NACDA - Brief Background & History
* Data Exploration - Finding Data
   - Rapid tour of our Website
   - Search Strategies & the Study Home Page
* Training and Instruction Resources
    - On-line data analysis
* Data Access
    - Accessing restricted data
    - New and emerging studies
This webinar is open to the public. Click here for more information. 
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata
NIJ Research Report Digest, Issue 4
January 2012
In the National Institute of Justice (NIJ)'s Research Report Digest, you will find brief descriptions of studies in a variety of criminal justice disciplines, such as criminology and forensic sciences, and evaluations of technologies that are used in the law enforcement and corrections fields. This issue includes reports based on NIJ-funded research that were added to the NCJRS Abstracts Database from April-June 2011. Click here to read the full issue.

Child Maltreatment 2010 Released
(From the Children's Bureau Express)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released Child Maltreatment 2010, the 21st in a series of reports designed to provide national statistics on child abuse and neglect. These reports provide State-level data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) and include information on screened-in referrals (reports) of abuse and neglect made to child protective services (CPS) agencies, the children involved, types of maltreatment, CPS responses, child and caregiver risk factors, services, and perpetrators. Click here for more information.

Findings From Crime Prevention Working Group Available
On October 7-8, 2010, NIJ hosted the Crime Prevention Research Working Group Meeting: Research Issues, Questions and Gaps. Attendees discussed and identified research issues, questions, and gaps to be addressed in the field of crime prevention research. Participants represented both researcher and practitioner communities. Click here for more information.
News & Noticesnews
Social Work in the Great Recession
The Journal of Progressive Human Services
(Free content for a limited time)
This special section of Volume 23 Issue 1 of The Journal of Progressive Human Services focuses on selected aspects of the relationship between the social work profession and the ongoing financial disaster in the United States.  We interview a social worker pioneering in protecting seniors from financial fraud, analyze the significance to social work of our country's middle class in crisis, and resurrect a social work voice from the depths of the Great Depression.  With an Introduction by Dr. David Wagner, author of What's Love Got to Do with It: A Critical Look at American Charity. To access articles:
2)  Scroll down to the "Special Section" entries, and click on the "Access Free Content" Link for the articles in that section that you want. Offer valid through June, 2012.

Work and Family Commons is Live
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Work and Family Commons (WFC), the first open access work and family subject matter repository.  Hosted by the Work and Family Researchers Network, the WFC was created to gather and preserve the intellectual output of the work and family research community and to offer immediate, permanent and free online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, worldwide. WFC is a community-driven repository and represents a natural progression of the former Sloan Network by using contemporary technology to increase access and visibility of work and family scholarship via the major Internet search engines.  One of the unique features of the WFC is that it contains over 11,000 citations from the former Sloan Network Literature Database as well as the Sloan Network Encyclopedia Entries. The success and vitality of WFC will depend on the willingness of work and family scholars to share their knowledge by contributing their work.  Materials are submitted directly by authors with a free WFRN account.  We invite you to add working papers, reports, conference presentations, books and permissible versions of journal articles to the WFC.  You can browse and search the WFC free of charge. Click here for more information.
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