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June 22, 2012 || Vol. 4, Issue 25
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Funding Opportunities
2012 National Survey of Victim Service Organizations Deadline: July 18, 2012 The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is pleased to announce that it is seeking an applicant to provide services in support for the development of a statistical system based on victim service organizations and their records on services provided to victims. The development work includes the design of an establishment survey to be administered to victim service organizations and a field test of that design. The results of this test will be used to recommend the design of a continuous statistical series on victim service organizations that may employ both establishment surveys and administrative record data. The test data will also be used for substantive reports on the nature and distribution of services to victims of crime and the organizations that provide them. Click here for more information. Advancing Exceptional Research on HIV/AIDS Deadline: December 17, 2012 (National Institutes of Health) This FOA will support highly innovative R01 applications on HIV/AIDS and drug abuse and will complement the Avant-Garde program. The Avant-Garde award supports individuals who conduct high-risk, high-payoff research and does not require a detailed research plan. This FOA focuses on innovative research projects that have the potential to open new areas of HIV/AIDS research and/or lead to new avenues for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS among drug abusers. Applications submitted under this FOA are required to have a detailed research plan and preliminary data. This FOA is open to both individual researchers and research teams and is not limited to any one area of research. Click here for more information. Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures Deadline: October 5, 2012 This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), NIH, and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose to: (1) conduct evaluation research on obesity-related "natural experiments" (defined here as community and other population-level public policy interventions that may affect diet and physical activity behavior), and/or (2) develop and/or validate relevant community-level measures (instruments and methodologies to assess the food and physical activity environments at the community level). The overarching goal of this FOA is to inform public policy and research relevant to (1) diet and physical activity behavior, and (2) weight and health outcomes of Americans. Click here for more information. Turn Civic Health Data Into Useful Applications and Visualizations Deadline: July 29, 2012 Presented by the National Conference on Citizenship in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Civic Data Challenge invites participants to turn existing civic health and community attachment data into applications and visualizations that make the information more valuable and accessible to decision makers and the public. The challenge seeks participants who can turn the raw data of "civic health" into beautiful, useful applications and visualizations, enabling communities to be better understood and positioned to thrive. The challenge's organizers hope that it will lead to new findings that illuminate why community engagement and attachment are critical to the development of thriving communities. Click here for more information. Healthcare Payment and Delivery System Reform Deadline: July 16, 2012 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has announced a call for proposals to identify one or more organizations that can assist the foundation with its healthcare payment and delivery system reform work. As part of its strategy to identify and provide models for national healthcare reform, the foundation is intensifying efforts to identify and understand novel payment and delivery approaches that might sustain high-quality, high-value care. The grantee(s) selected through this solicitation will undertake a comprehensive learning process that will involve synthesizing and monitoring RWJF payment and delivery system reform grants, analyzing public and private reform efforts in the field at large, and convening practitioners and researchers to identify common themes, challenges, and opportunities. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Abstracts The Journal of Public Child Welfare Deadline: September 30, 2012
This is a call for abstracts from which authors may be invited to submit an article to be included in a special issue of the Journal of Public Child Welfare. This special issue will focus on studies that contribute to our knowledge of child welfare practice with parents and/or children with disabilities and their families. Children with disabilities are over represented within the child welfare system, with nearly double the rate of substantiated maltreatment than their non-disabled peers. Less is known about the prevalence of parents with disabilities in child welfare caseloads, although recent studies also indicate an over-representation. Click here for more information.
Call for Manuscripts
Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care
Deadline: September 30, 2012 (Extended!)
Special Thematic Issue: Chronic Illness at the End of Life
The Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care invites manuscripts for a special thematic issue on chronic illness at the end of life. Appropriate topics may be related to a range of medical diagnoses: Cancer, ESRD, Alzheimer's, COPD, HIV, etc. and challenges encountered and opportunities presented at the end stages of the disease process. Issues could pertain to the needs of individuals diagnosed with the illness, caregivers (family and professional), health care systems, and policy. Also manuscripts could address: challenges faced by people facing multiple illnesses; challenges, innovations, and interventions in care of persons with chronic illness at EOL; pain management/palliative care issues; and the role of the social worker and the interdisciplinary teams consideration in care of persons with chronic illness at EOL. Manuscripts could focus on a single illness or compare issues/interventions across illnesses. Also, a range of practice settings, hospice, hospital, nursing homes, assisted living could serve as a focus for manuscripts. As always, international perspectives and cross-cultural research are welcome. Please address questions to Editor-in-chief Ellen L. Csikai, Ph.D. Manuscripts for this issue are due by September 30, 2012 and must be submitted online to ScholarOne.
Call for Papers
Yellowbrick Journal of Emerging Adulthood
Deadline: September 1, 2012
Yellowbrick Journal of Emerging Adulthood is seeking papers for publication in Issue IV, to be published in fall of 2013. Papers can be original theoretical or empirical papers including but not limited to investigations of emerging adult mental health over time, case studies, family studies, intervention studies, or observation studies. Papers may have been published elsewhere, and Yellowbrick will waive exclusive rights to the publication of the paper. Abbreviated forms of already published work will be accepted. Papers selected for publication in Yellowbrick Issue IV, in addition to publication, will receive a $500 cash award. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Webinar series: Improving Children's Health through Federal Collaboration The Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, and the Health Resources and Services Administration, Region VIII, have organized, in collaboration with other Federal partners, a one-year-long webinar series titled Improving Children's Health through Federal Collaboration. Children, by their very nature, deserve our focused attention and care especially because: -Their bodily systems are still developing -They eat more, drink more, and breathe more in proportion to their body size -Their behavior patterns increase their exposure to environmental hazards. Protecting the health of children where they live, learn and play is fundamental to making the world a better place for future generations. The purpose of this webinar series is to encourage coordination, collaboration and information sharing across government agencies and organizations, health care providers, educators, and the general public in addressing children's health issues. Click here for more information and dates of webinars.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
How Social, Economic Conditions in New Orleans Are Linked to Poor Health Outcomes The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Orleans Parish, LA, Place Matters team today released a report documenting how neighborhood social and economic conditions in New Orleans powerfully shape racial and ethnic health inequities in the city. The report, "Place Matters for Health in Orleans Parish: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All," finds that residents' zip codes are an important indicator of the health and health risks. Importantly, because of persistent racial and class segregation, place of residence is an especially important driver of the poorer health outcomes of the city's non-white and low-income residents. The report, prepared by the Joint Center and the Orleans Parish Place Matters team in conjunction with the Center for Human Needs at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia Network for Geospatial Health Research, was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health. The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of social, economic and environmental conditions in New Orleans - which is the only municipal jurisdiction in the parish - and documents their relationship to the health status of the city's residents. Click here to read more. New Issue of Research Report Digest Released The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has released the fifth issue of its "Research Report Digest," an online publication that provides brief descriptions of studies in various criminal justice disciplines, such as crime, violence, and forensic sciences, along with evaluations of technologies in the law enforcement and corrections fields. Click here to read more. Reentry Clearinghouse Web Site Now Available (The National Reentry Resource Center) The What Works in Reentry Clearinghouse offers easy access to research on the effectiveness of a variety of reentry programs and practices. It provides a user-friendly, one-stop shop for practitioners and service providers who are seeking guidance on evidence-based reentry interventions, as well as a useful resource for researchers and others interested in reentry. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
Oxford University Press reports major deal with National Association of Social Workers Oxford University Press (OUP) is pleased to announce its partnership with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). OUP and NASW are working together to publish the organization's four academic journals: Social Work, Social Work Research, Children & Schools, and Health & Social Work. NASW Press' journals are the leading publications in their field and are in good company with OUP's well-established book programme, which includes The Encyclopedia of Social Work, a joint venture between NASW and OUP. The expansion of this publishing partnership allows NASW and OUP to accomplish their shared goal of supplying high-quality publications to the largest audience possible. Click here to read more. The 2012 ICPSR Data Fair The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will hold its second annual data fair October 1 - 3, 2012. Coinciding with the 2012 presidential election, the data fair will feature election studies distributed by ICPSR, where to find the most current election data, highlights of election-oriented projects conducted at the Institute for Social Research, voting behavior data focusing on minority populations, and teaching resources to bring election data into the classroom. Interested in participating or have ideas? Planning has begun, so contact ICPSR by clicking here.
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