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June 15, 2012 || Vol. 4, Issue 24
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Funding Opportunities
Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment
Deadline: September 7, 2012
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director (OD) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), encourages innovative research to enhance the quality of measurements of dietary intake and physical activity. Applications submitted under this FOA may include development of: Novel assessment approaches; better methods to evaluate instruments; assessment tools for culturally diverse populations or various age groups, including children and older adults; improved technology or applications of existing technology; statistical methods to assess or correct for measurement errors or biases, methods to investigate the multidimensionality of diet and physical activity behavior through pattern analysis; or integrated measurement of diet and physical activity along with the environmental context of such behaviors. Click here for more information.
Information and Planning: Understanding the Capacity of the Aging Network
Deadline: July 16, 2012
The Aging Network reaches into every community in the nation, playing a vital role in strategic planning, program development and administration, and service delivery. To ensure that older Americans have access to the highest quality long term supports and services the Aging Network must enhance program design and service delivery in key priority areas. The successful applicant for this Funding Opportunity will seek to put a process in place that improves the Aging Networks understanding of the activities, including innovations and best practices, of Older Americans Act (OAA) Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) and American Indian, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian (Tribal Organizations) Networks. This will assist in understanding the capacity of these Networks to meet the current and future needs of a growing older population and their family caregivers and will serve as a foundation for future training and technical assistance designed to further advance the capacity of the Aging Network. Through this announcement, the AoA is looking to fund a project with the primary objective of assisting the Aging Network in understanding how they are doing in key programmatic areas related to systems change. The successful applicant will seek to capture Network progress in key programmatic priorities in health and long term care so as to gain an understanding of the future direction of training and technical assistance for the Network. Click here for more information.
Macroeconomic Aspects of Population Aging
Deadline: October 3, 2014 (National Institutes of Health) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites research on the macroeconomics of aging - the impact of population aging on the macroeconomy and in turn how macroeconomic factors impact health and well-being. Click here for more information. FY 2012 National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) Project: Phase 1
Deadline: July 9, 2012 The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is pleased to announce that it is seeking an applicant to provide project management and coordination, technological systems design, and implementation and technical assistance services in connection with the National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) Project. The NCS-X Project seeks to build an ongoing statistical collection from a nationally representative system of incident-level records on offenses known to law enforcement agencies. The sample-based system would leverage the capabilities of existing record management systems and automated information exchanges. NCS-X should enable analysts to provide reliable national crime estimates in a very short period of time and will also strive to return meaningful statistical information and analytical support to the law enforcement community. Click here for more information. Projects of National Significance: Data Collection on the Employment Status of People with Developmental Disabilities
Deadline: July 20, 2012 The Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is announcing availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 funds for a cooperative agreement authorized under Subtitle E of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000, Projects of National Significance. Under this Subtitle, funds will be awarded to collect, analyze, and report on data to describe services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities. The purpose of this project is to support investigations that examine the employment status of people with developmental disabilities and related outcomes as a result of programs that support their employment. The study will assess the effectiveness of State Mental Retardation Developmental Disabilities (MRDD) and vocational rehabilitation agencies in promoting full inclusion of individuals with developmental disabilities through employment and other community activities; and assess the employment and economic status of individuals with developmental disabilities on a State and national basis. Click here for more information on this topic and other related topics. Beth Meyer-Arnold Dissertation Fellowship
Deadline: August 20, 2012 The National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA) announces the new Beth Meyer-Arnold Dissertation Fellowship, which is designed to encourage original, doctoral-level scholarship in the area of adult day services. The award supports PhD Candidates in completing dissertation work in areas of interest to adult day services providers and consumers. Successful award applicants will have approved dissertation proposals that examine issues that impact the quality of life of participants and their family caregivers. In addition, applicants are encouraged to address one or more of the Institute of Medicine's six domains of health care quality as they can be related to adult day services (i.e., through providing safe, effective, person-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care). At this time, priority will be given to those applicants who examine issues of effectiveness and efficiency as they relate to adult day services. Click here for more information.
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Calls
CALL FOR PAPERS Special Edition of Advances in Social Work The Impact of Socio-Economic, Cultural, Political, and International Factors on Latinos/Latinas in United States Deadline: September 30, 2012 Guest Editor: Irene Queiro-Tajalli, Indiana University School of Social Work
This special issue, to be released in Spring 2013, seeks to highlight the assets, challenges, and opportunities of Latinos in this country and to make the connections between this community and the impact of the socio-economic, political, and cultural relations between the US and Latin America. Unlike other immigrant populations, large numbers of Latinos are impacted by events in Latin American countries and the US government's position on immigration and foreign policies toward Latin America. This special issue expects to contribute to the discourse on areas of mutual concerns for United States and Latin America. We are interested in conceptual, research, or practice-grounded manuscripts that cover a wide range of topics related to Latinos. Click here for more information.
Call for Proposals
2013 National Mentoring Summit
Deadline: June 25, 2012
The call for 2013 National Mentoring Summit workshop and exhibit proposals is now active. Last week MENTOR announced that the 2013 National Mentoring Summit will be January 24 - 25 at the Renaissance Mayflower Washington, D.C., and that based on input from Mentoring Partnerships and mentoring colleagues across the country, the Summit theme will be: Mentoring Works: Inspire. Achieve. Advocate. The theme chosen for 2013 focuses on the research-proven impact of a quality mentoring relationship. Mentoring works in helping young people succeed academically, socially and emotionally. It inspires the mentee, as well as the mentor, and it can lead to long-term achievement. The call for workshop presentations is open to organizations, direct service providers, researchers and other key stakeholders who can demonstrate successful or innovative mentoring program models, research, technologies and resources that have positive implications for local communities and, therefore, for the mentoring field. Click here for more information.
Call for Applications
IRP Visiting Scholar: U.S.-based Poverty Scholars from Underrepresented Groups
Deadline: June 30, 2012
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) invites applications from U.S.-based social science scholars from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to visit IRP, interact with its faculty in residence, and become acquainted with the staff and resources of the Institute. The invitation extends (but is not restricted) to those who are in the early years of their academic careers. The intent of this IRP Visiting Scholars Program, which is supported by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is to enhance the research interests and resources available to visitors, to foster interaction between resident IRP affiliates and a diverse set of scholars, and to broaden the corps of poverty researchers. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
The National Research Conference on Child and Family Program and Policy
July 24-26, 2012
Bridgewater, MA
The National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy is 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.
Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Workshop
July 18-20, 2012
Washington, DC
(From ICPSR)
Registration is now open for the annual Microdata User's Workshop hosted by the Consumer Expenditure (CE) Survey from July 18-20 in Washington, DC. There is no fee to register. The only requirement is to complete and submit a brief online registration form (PDF). Registration materials are also available for the CE Survey Methods Symposium on July 17, also in Washington, DC. Several sessions are targeted to new and novice users of the data, including presentations by researchers currently using the data. For more experienced CE data users, several sessions will address more technical topics in using the CE microdata. Participants will also have the opportunity to talk one-on-one with CE staff about any issues or questions regarding using CE in their particular project. For more information on the upcoming workshop, visit the CE Workshop Web site.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
A Portrait of Teen Fathers (From Child Trends) Although an important part of the teen pregnancy dynamic, relatively little is known about teen fathers. Child Trends' latest research brief, The Characteristics and Circumstances of Teen Fathers: At the Birth of Their First Child and Beyond, presents a statistical portrait of teen fathers' characteristics at the time that their first child was born; their relationship status at the birth of that child; their subsequent experience fathering a child, if any; and their residential status at birth and in young adulthood. Click here to read more.
The Facts Hurt: A State-by-State Injury Prevention Policy Report
In a report from the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and RWJF, 24 states scored 5 or lower on a set of 10 steps that states can take to prevent injuries. Among the indicators states were scored on were whether they require bicycle helmets for children; the existence of prescription drug monitoring programs; and whether a state has enacted strong laws to prevent teen dating violence. TFAH and RWJF developed The Facts Hurt: A State-By-State Injury Prevention Policy Report with a committee of top injury prevention experts from the Safe States Alliance and the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Prevention (SAVIR). Millions of injuries could be prevented each year if more states adopted additional research-based injury prevention policies, and if programs were fully implemented and enforced, the report concludes. Click here to read more. Supportive Housing and Child Welfare Outcomes (From the Children's Bureau Express) The provision of concrete services, such as housing, can have a positive impact on child welfare outcomes. A new publication by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) highlights results from a longitudinal study in Minnesota evaluating the role of supportive housing on homeless children's well-being, specifically, educational and child welfare outcomes. Emergency and transitional housing programs often provide temporary housing solutions. Supportive housing programs, however, serve families with long histories of homelessness and provide other social services to help families move toward subsidized or unsubsidized permanent housing. Click here to read more.
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News & Notices
Medicaid Managed Care Toolkit (From the Children's Bureau Express) A new toolkit published by the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS)-Improving Outcomes for Children in Child Welfare: A Medicaid Managed Care Toolkit-offers States and communities strategies for improving collaboration between child welfare agencies and Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs). Because children involved with child welfare experience more physical, emotional, and behavioral health conditions than the general population and have higher health care utilization rates, the toolkit addresses ways to improve child health outcomes through better access to and appropriate use of Medicaid services. Many professionals will find the information in the toolkit timely and relevant-not only do a majority of States offer Medicaid to children in child welfare, but more are likely to do so as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 extends health care coverage to former foster youth up to age 26. The toolkit is based on the experiences of nine MCOs that participated in a CHCS Quality Improvement Collaborative funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation from 2007 to 2009. Through the collaborative, the MCOs assessed child health care systems, then developed and implemented plans to improve coordination and services primarily for children in foster care and those with subsidized adoptions, serving 71,000 children overall. Click here for more information.
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