March 23, 2012  || Vol. 4, Issue 12
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding    
Tribal Youth Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Programs
Deadline: May 2, 2012
(Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)

This solicitation will fund field-initiated research and evaluation studies to produce findings of practical use to communities, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers in the development of effective programs, policies, and strategies for tribal juvenile justice and delinquency prevention. This is a call for proposals for researchers to conduct participatory research within American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages with sensitivity to the cultural issues and historical trauma that tribal communities have experienced. This initiative seeks to further understand the experiences, strengths, and needs of tribal youth and how tribal families and communities can nurture positive youth development to reduce their risks for victimization and delinquency. Click here for more information.

Mentoring Best Practices Research
Deadline: May 1, 2012
(Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)
This solicitation seeks to fund research studies that will inform the design and delivery of mentoring programs. OJJDP expects that the results of this effort will encourage a more effective utilization of resources as well as enhance the implementation of evidence-based best practices for juvenile mentoring. Click here for more information.

Research on the Link Between Victimization and Offending
Deadline: May 29, 2012

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals to conduct research that enhances the knowledge of the relationship between victimization and offending, with an emphasis on criminal incidents or events. NIJ encourages applicants to submit proposals for bold, innovative approaches to enhance the understanding of processes linking criminal offending and victimization.  Click here for more information.

Misuse and Abuse of DEA Schedule II-V Opioid Analgesic Drugs: Researching Strategies to Ensure Safe Use and Reduce Preventable Harm
Deadline: May 9, 2012
As part of the FDA's Safe Use Initiative's mission to seek solutions to reduce preventable harm from suboptimal use (e.g., misuse and abuse) of medications, CDER is seeking to support a limited number of research projects aimed at examining interventions and strategies that can be used by prescribers to increase the safe use and reduce misuse and abuse of opioid analgesic drugs. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the FDA, will provide resources for research to further define the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors that lead to inappropriate use and abuse of opioid analgesics; to research and implement strategies impacting inappropriate use and abuse of these drugs; and subsequently reduce the preventable harm, morbidity and mortality caused by Schedule II-V prescription opioid analgesic drugs. Inappropriate use and abuse can include but is not limited to prescriber misprescribing or over-prescribing and patient or citizen use of a drug in a manner that is not its intended use (e.g., non-medical use), dose or schedule, or inappropriate or inadvertent mixing of multiple drugs that interact. The goal of this FOA is to increase the body of knowledge around effective strategies that can reduce misuse and abuse of prescription opioid analgesic drugs, and are applicable in a variety of settings and can be easily sustained by the people who will implement and use the strategies.  Click here for more information.

Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
Deadline: May 29, 2012
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for research and evaluation projects to address the knowledge gaps related to trafficking in persons in the United States. NIJ is particularly interested in studies that address the under-reporting of trafficking cases at the Federal, State, and local levels of criminal justice. NIJ is also interested in evaluation studies of counter-trafficking programs and tools. Click here for more information.

Violent Victimization Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Deadline: May 29, 2012
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for research on the violent victimization experiences of racial and ethnic minorities. NIJ's goal is to advance the body of research on this topic by examining the causes and correlates of differential victimization rates among these diverse populations, including demographic and socioeconomic risk factors. The research should take into account the argument that there is no single cause of violent victimization. Rather, it should consider multiple risk factors that contribute to racial/ethnic minorities' victimization, including individual, situational, family, school, peer, and community factors. Click here for more information.

Obesity Prevention Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: May 1, 2012
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The University of Minnesota Obesity Prevention Training Program is recruiting for a postdoctoral fellowship position that will begin on or after July 1. Trainees will engage in research that focuses on the biology of obesity, clinical research on human obesity, and applied studies of treatment and prevention in community settings. The deadline for applications is May 1. To learn more about the fellowship, click here.

Doctoral Research in Early Care and Education
 
Deadline: May 14, May 21, 2012
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is pleased to announce two new funding opportunities for dissertation research in the areas of Early Care and Head Start Education.
 
*Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Research Scholars: Child Care Research Scholars grants are intended to support dissertation research on child care policy issues. These grants are meant to build capacity in the field by focusing research on questions that will inform child care policy and practice as well as foster collaboration between researchers, early care programs, and policymakers. 
*Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants: Head Start Graduate Student Research grants are intended to support dissertation research Head Start issues. These grants are meant to build capacity in the field by focusing research on questions that will inform early education policy and practice as well as foster collaboration between researchers, Head Start programs, and policymakers.For more information, please see the funding announcements on OPRE's website. 
CallsCalls
Call for Papers
SSWR 2013
Deadline: April 30, 2012

The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) announces its Seventeenth Annual Conference "Social Work for a Just Society: Making Visible the Stakes and Stakeholders" which will convene in San Diego, CA, January 16-20, 2013. You are invited to submit abstracts for one of the three types of presentations of original research: (1) oral paper presentations; (2) organized symposia; and (3) poster presentations. The conference will also include workshop and roundtable sessions for which you can submit abstracts. Click here for more information.

Call for Papers

Research on Asia-Pacific Social Work Practice
Deadline: June 30, 2012
Journal of Social Service Research seeks multidisciplinary empirical research-related manuscripts, for a special issue on research related to Asia-Pacific Social Work. The special issue aims to increase awareness of social work practices in the Asia Pacific region as well as link the region's research and practice of social work to international level. The following sample topic areas, in addition to other manuscripts addressing Asia-Pacific social work will be considered for peer-review.
-Topic Areas: Studies that focus on Asia-Pacific region and/or population in all or some of the micro, mezzo, and macro practice. Elderly Asian as an ethnic minority in the U.S., Children and Adolescent, Individuals with Disabilities, Welfare and Social Development Policy, Administration of voluntary/Non-profit organizations, Community Practice, Mental health, Clinical Social Work, Substance Abuse Treatment,
-Submissions Guidelines: To submit a manuscript for consideration, send complete author's contact information including e-mail addresses and electronic copy of the article with a cover letter that describes the topic area of the study. Page limits for these submissions are 40 double-spaced pages including all supporting materials such as tables, graphs, and references. All supporting information needs to be in one file. Send Submissions and Questions to the Guest Editor:
Young Joon Hong, Ph.D.
Department of Family Welfare
Sangmyung University
E-mail: [email protected]

Call for Applications
AHRQ Student Internships
Deadline: rolling
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is supporting paid summer internship opportunities for qualified undergraduate and graduate-level students interested in health services research and/or policy at AHRQ's Rockville, Maryland location. Appointments run for 89 days starting in late May through early August. The AHRQ summer internship program provides students with an opportunity to work in a collegial environment with some of the leading researchers in the health services research community. The program exposes students to the conduct and support of research, administrative protocols, and understanding of the impact of health services research and knowledge creation. Click here for more information.

Call for Abstracts
2012 CDC National Conference on Health Statistics
Deadline: April 16, 2012
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics invites student and faculty researchers to submit poster abstracts for this year's expanded poster session at the 2012 National Conference on Health Statistics, held on August 6-8 in Washington, DC. Conference registration is free and attendees will have the opportunity to meet and talk with NCHS staff from all surveys and programs, as well as representatives from other government agencies. Abstract submissions are invited across all topic areas within the field of public health and health statistics. The objective of this year's poster session is for researchers to present research on health, health data and statistics and to provide a forum for discussion with colleagues interested in their research.  Prizes will be awarded for the best student abstract submissions and posters. For additional information or to submit an abstract to the 2012 National Conference on Health Statistics, click here.
Conferences & Trainingsconf
Child and Youth Mental Health Matters Conference
May 6-8, 2012
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The University of British Columbia Interprofessional Continuing Education organization is hosting a Child and Youth Mental Health Matters Conference on May 6-8. The conference has three parts: Parental Mental Health, Children of Parents with Mental Illness, and Young Carers. This is the first gathering of this nature, and it will provide a forum for focusing on the needs of young people and families as they encounter issues related to mental health concerns across the generations. The overall goal of the concurrent conferences is to develop a common language and understanding of the needs of young people and families. To learn more and to register, click here.

AHRQ Offers Instructor-led HCUP Training Courses  
Registration is open for Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Webinars giving an overview of the project and an overview of HCUP products and tools, and for the HCUP Data Users' Workshop giving intermediate level users experience working with data and software tools.
1. April 11, 2012 HCUP Overview Webinar
2. April 18, 2012 HCUP Products and Tools Webinar
3. April 25, 2012 HCUP Data Users' Workshop (in person at AHRQ)
Registration information is available on the HCUP User Support Website. There is no charge to attend these events. Each event requires separate registration. Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata
New Data from ICPSR
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community. Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive: 

*32506 CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #1, July 2010
*32546 ABC News/Washington Post Monthly Poll, October 2010
*33182 CBS News/New York Times New York State Survey Monthly Poll #3, October 2010
*33183 CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #4, October 2010
*33205 CBS News/60 Minutes/Vanity Fair National Survey, November 2010 

Click here for more information and more datasets.

  

Recently Released ACF Reports
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) recently released a few reports.
*42-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
*Coaching as a Key Component to Teachers' Professional Development: Improving Classroom Practices in Head Start Settings.  
*The Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation:  Interim Impacts on Low-Income Families
Click here for more information.        

 

Monitoring HIV Care to Improve Patients' Outcomes
(From the National Academies)
The National HIV/AIDS Strategy issued by the White House Office of National AIDS Policy along with provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aim to optimize health care and outcomes for the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV/AIDS. Monitoring HIV Care in the United States: Indicators and Data Systems, a new report from the Institute of Medicine, identifies reliable ways to measure and track the impact of these policies on health outcomes for people with HIV/AIDS. It also discusses the balance necessary between protecting patients' privacy and ensuring that appropriate health information is securely exchanged between clinical care and support programs that serve this population.  Click here for more information.     

 

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Below is a list of new publications that were added to Child Welfare Information Gateway Library in February:
- Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) Self Assessment for Conservatorship (CVS) Position
- Sexually Exploited Youth: A View From the Bench (Chapter 9 of Lawyer's Manual on Human Trafficking: Pursuing Justice for Victims), Comacho, Fernando.
- Trafficking and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Young Men and Boys (Chapter 10 of Lawyer's Manual on Human Trafficking: Pursuing Justice for Victims), Figlewski, Brett M.;Brannon, Lee W.
- Identity Theft Tip Sheet For Foster Care Coordinators
- Screenings and Assessments Used in the Juvenile Justice System: Evaluating Risks and Needs of Youth in the Juvenile Justice System.
To view all 14 publications and their detail click here

News & Noticesnews 
FORWARD FOCUS WORKSHOPS: STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR THE NIH COMMON FUND
The Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hosting public meetings in Chicago, IL and San Francisco, CA, as part of the strategic planning process for the NIH Common Fund. The meetings are intended to gather input from the broad community on the biggest obstacles to progress in biomedical and behavioral research or the greatest opportunities in biomedical and behavioral science that are ripe for exploration.  Input gathered from this meeting will help inform potential new program ideas for the NIH Common Fund. The public meetings will take place in two locations: 
�  May 1, 2012     Chicago, IL 
�  May 3, 2012     San Francisco, CA 
These meetings are open to all members of the public, but space is limited. A brief application is required to attend.  Applications will be accepted March 16th - March 30th. To apply, click on the "Meeting Information" link below for the meeting you would like to attend, and fill out the form found under the "Application" tab. The NIH Common Fund supports goal-driven, research networks in which investigators generate data, solve technological problems, and/or otherwise pilot resources and tools that will be stimulatory to the broader research community. Common Fund programs are designed to achieve their goals within a maximum of 10 years. More information about the programs currently supported by the Common Fund can be found here.  
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