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November 2, 2012 || Vol. 4, Issue 44
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SWRnet provides a weekly update about new research funding opportunities, calls for papers and proposals, conferences and trainings, new data and research, and news for the social work research community.
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Funding Opportunities
Public Health Services and Systems Research
Deadline: December 18, 2012 (brief proposal)
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) seeks to expand the evidence base for effective public health policy and practice through investment in Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR). PHSSR, a multi-disciplinary field of study, provides a framework for examining the organization, financing, delivery and quality of public health services within communities and the impact of those services on the health of the public. This solicitation, guided by the national research agenda for PHSSR, aims to further advance the field with the ultimate goal of improving the performance and efficiency of public health agencies and their system partners and the health of the people they serve. Click here for more information.
Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
Deadline: November 30, 2012 (Letters of Intent)
The mission of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative is to improve the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders by funding, catalyzing, and driving research of the greatest quality. The program is seeking applications for SFARI awards from individuals who will conduct bold, imaginative, rigorous, and relevant research. Applications are invited for the following types of awards:
-SFARI Pilot Awards
-SFARI Research Awards
In addition to the pilot and research award programs, the SFARI Explorer Award program accepts applications at any time for rapid review and support through a rolling award program. The Explorer Award program provides timely resources on a one-time basis, not to exceed $60,000, including indirect costs, to support focused experiments highly relevant to SFARI's mission. Click here for more information.
Junior Researchers in United States and Israel Invited to Apply for New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer's Disease
Deadline: December 17, 2012
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
Funded by the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation and the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation and administered by the American Federation for Aging Research, the New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer's Disease program is designed to support research in areas in which more scientific investigation is needed to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The program also serves to encourage junior investigators in the United States and Israel to pursue research and academic careers in the neurosciences, and Alzheimer's disease in particular. Projects in basic and translational research related to Alzheimer's disease that are clinically relevant will be considered. Projects that focus on healthy brain aging also will be considered. Areas of research could, for example, include learning and memory, nutrition, exercise, and cardiovascular risk factors as they relate to the brain and the aging process. Click here for more information.
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Dissertation Fellowships
Deadline: February 4, 2013
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which assists high-achieving low-income students reach their full potential through education, is inviting applications for its Dissertation Fellowship Program. The foundation created the dissertation fellowships for doctoral candidates who are researching, within the populations served by the foundation, factors and contexts that help students with financial need overcome personal adversity and challenging socioeconomic circumstances to excel academically. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Papers
NOFSW Annual Conference
Deadline: November 15, 2012
Advancing Forensic Practice: Promoting Innovation Worldwide
The National Organization of Forensic Social Work (NOFSW) believes forensic practice best serves clients when it functions from an interdisciplinary perspective. NOFSW conferences offer a unique opportunity for social workers and allied professionals to learn from one another while enhancing their knowledge and understanding of the interconnectedness of the law, policy, and practice. Attendees include social workers, psychologists, attorneys, judges, law enforcement, physicians, nurses, child custody evaluators, and various other mental health, medical and legal professionals. Presentations welcomed from national and international speakers on topics including interpersonal violence across the lifespan (offenders & victims); criminal, family, juvenile and restorative justice; specialty courts; child, adult and elder welfare as well as end of life issues; mitigation in capital cases; family and community mediation; mental health and substance abuse treatment in forensic settings; legal and ethical concerns related to work with forensic populations; and risk management for service providers. Click here for more information.
CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Family Social WorkDeadline: December 15, 2012Understanding Kinship Care: Implications for Policy and PracticeKinship Care is defined as "the full time care, nurturing and protection of children by relatives, . . . godparents, stepparents, or any adult who has a kinship bond with a child," including close family friends. Often considered a way of preserving the family, placing children with relatives helps children maintain those familial connections. Over the past ten years, the number of children living in the Unites States in households headed by non-parent relatives has grown to around 8 million; 2.5 million without their parents present. Parents of children living with non-parent relatives struggle with many issues, such as substance abuse, mental illness, incarceration, economic hardship, divorce, and domestic violence. Some parents leave to find work, due to the poor economy, and their children remain with grandparents. This can cause significant upheaval in a child's life. Grandparents and other relative caregivers are a lifeline during these trying times. Placing children with family members prevents further disruption in the child's life. Click here for more information.
Call for PapersOne Child, Many Hands: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Child WelfareDeadline: December 20, 2012Join us in Philadelphia June 12-14, 2013 for an outstanding three days of learning, featuring compelling Keynote Speakers, cutting-edge Plenary Panels, a variety of Workshops presented by national and international experts, and two Networking Luncheons. Enjoy all that the beautiful University of Pennsylvania campus has to offer while attending One Child, Many Hands: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Child Welfare, the nation's premiere multidisciplinary conference geared for child welfare practitioners, policy makers and administrators alike. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is serving as Lead Community Sponsor of the conference. In honor of the Field Center's 10th anniversary, this year's conference will be held at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine's new Translational Research Center. Click here for more information.
CALL FOR PAPERSJournal of Sociology & Social WelfareDeadline: January 31, 2013 (see website)A Dual Opportunity: Inclusion in the program of The Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York City, August 9 - 13, 2013 and/or Inclusion in a special issue of the Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare Austerity versus Stimulus: International Challenges for Social Welfare. Special Issue Editors: Howard Karger, Professor and Head of the School of Social Work and Human Services, The University of Queensland, Australia. ; and James Midgley, Harry & Riva Specht Professor, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley. The austerity measures being forced upon smaller highly indebted European Union (EU) member nations by the larger and wealthier ones, is causing great hardship for the populations of Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain and other highly leveraged countries. Even larger economies like the UK are being impacted by deep budget cuts in virtually all areas of the public sector. This strategy is a direct repudiation of stimulus-based Keynesian principles that have been the accepted hallmark for nudging economies out of recessionary states. The replacement of Keynesian-based spending approaches by severe austerity measures is leading to widespread suffering by large swaths of Europeans, as well as developing nations that rely on exports to Europe. Even non-European countries like the U.S., Canada and Australia, are also feeling the pinch as the financial and capital crisis reverberates throughout the world. This special issue will focus on how the current economic crisis is affecting social policy and social welfare systems in various European nations, as well as the U.S. and non-European developing nations. Topics of interest include: *the impact of austerity policies on the social welfare system in the European Union, with a special focus on the more troubled economies like Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain *the impact of austerity policies on Nordic countries, such as Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland *the impact of the ongoing recession on the U.S. welfare state, with specific emphasis on the termination of the federal stimulus package and deficit-driven state budgets. Comparison of the Democratic and Republican approaches to the problems and choices. *the austerity-driven changes to the social welfare states in larger European Union countries like the UK, Germany and France. *the impact of the global financial crisis in key developing countries such as China and India, and on regional economies in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. How have one or more of these countries responded to the global crisis? *the historical perspective: Where have austerity measures historically been implemented and where have they failed or succeeded? Click here for more information.
Call for Proposals10th Annual Action Research ConferenceDeadline: January 31, 2012Developing Our Capacity for Action Research for Inquiry Through Dialogues That Matter In an increasingly global and complex society, there is a growing need for us to engage in open dialogues for improving and sustaining professional practice. As we encounter challenges in diverse professional, institutional, socio-political, economic, and cultural contexts, one way to sustain practice improvement efforts is by engaging in action inquiry. It is through such inquiry that new perspectives and the sense of empowerment could be truly developed in our hearts and minds. One of the key goals of this year's conference is to create an arena for action research dialogues that matter and to develop our capacity for high quality action inquiry through such dialogues. The conference will offer ample opportunities to engage in a variety of open and deep dialogues on action research through cross-disciplinary cross-institutional, and cross-cultural contexts in the form of presentations, panel discussions, workshops, symposium, and other social activities. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Bridging the Gap: A Symposium on Critical Considerations, Successes, & Emerging IdeasApril 5-6, 2013Houston, TXThe upcoming Bridging the Gap: A National Symposium on Critical Considerations, Successes and Emerging Ideas, hosted by the University of Houston, will bring together several nationally-known faculty, researchers and practitioners to further our profession's critical discussion on the translation of research into practice settings. Click here for more information.
Integrating Data Analysis into the Community College CurriculumNovember 19, 2012(ICPSR)Join Kathy Rowell, Professor of Sociology at Sinclair Community College, for a discussion of "lessons learned" about integrating data analysis into the community college curriculum. Kathy has been instrumental in the Integrating Data Analysis (IDA) initiative of the American Sociological Association and the Social Science Data Analysis Network since its inception in the early 1990s. She will share her favorite resources and sample activities, tips from her own classroom, and briefly address the challenges faced by community college faculty when bringing data into the classroom. Click here for more information.
Navigating Your IRB to Share Research DataNovember 28, 2012(ICPSR)Researchers wishing to share data often have concerns about how to apply to an Institution Review Board (IRB) for permission to share data. Older data collections may not have been designed with an intent to share the data. Planning new data collection activities with IRB oversight can be difficult given disclosure risks inherent in complex study designs and researcher demands for identifying data. These issues are particularly salient in the field of substance abuse research. This webinar will provide guidelines for working with your IRB to maximize data sharing. The Webinar will be presented by: Amy Pienta and Kaye Marz of the National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program at the University of Michigan. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Report on Parents with Disabilities and their Children
On Thursday, September 27, the National Council on Disability (NCD), an independent federal agency, released "Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children," a groundbreaking policy study, infused with real life stories of parents with disabilities, to provide a comprehensive overview of factors that support and obstruct Americans with all kinds of disabilities from exercising their fundamental right to begin and maintain families. If you have already received this, I apologize for the duplication and thank you for your ongoing support. "Rocking the Cradle" explores the pervasive prejudices faced by parents with disabilities by exposing the disparate treatment often encountered by parents with disabilities and their children within court and service systems and offers draft model state and federal statutory language to correct the discrimination faced by parents with disabilities in the United States. The full report is available on NCD's website.
Improving the Tracking of Child Abuse and Neglect
PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia announces the a new Evidence to Action brief, Tracking Child Abuse and Neglect: The Role of Multiple Data Sources in Improving Child Safety. This Evidence to Action brief identifies strategies to improve the surveillance and tracking of child abuse and neglect. To better to respond to and prevent child maltreatment, the brief provides tools and case examples to help agency administrators: 1) Compare aggregate results from multiple data sources, 2) Link case-based data from multiple sources, and 3) Establish uniform data definitions and data collection protocols. Recent data show U.S. rates of child abuse not declining as suggested by national reporting systems. Instead, hospital data indicate that rates of the most severe cases of abuse are increasing. To address this disconnect, the brief suggests the need for more comprehensive strategies to capture trends in maltreatment. Click here to read more.
ICPSR New Additions
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:
-29162 National Survey of Staffing Issues in Large Police Agencies, 2006-2007 [United States]
-33641 Well Elderly 2, Los Angeles, California, 2004-2008
-33783 Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), New York City
-33970 Providing a Citywide System of Single Point Access to Domestic Violence Information, Resources, and Referrals to a Diverse Population: An Evaluation of the City of Chicago Domestic Violence Help Line, 2004-2005
-34061 National Crime Victimization Survey, 2011
-34311 Evaluating the Impact and Effectiveness of New Connections: Increasing Diversity of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Programming, June 2011 - February 2012
-34318 A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States, 2005-2006
-34346 Measures of Effective Teaching: Item-Level Scores and Test Files, 2009-2011
-34387 Intergovernmental Organizations, Socialization, and Member-State Interest Convergence
-34390 Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Policies Database, 2011
-34406 Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx), 2003-2007
Click here for more information.
CASD Research & Policy Brief
The Center on Adherence and Self-Determination (CASD) conducts research aimed at promoting choice and full engagement in services that help people with serious mental illness achieve their recovery goals. An example of our work in the area of assessment and treatment of serious mental illness utilizing modern technology is the attached Research & Practice Brief (R&PB). This is the eighth in a series. These R&PBs are meant to summarize the CASD's research into succinct statements that might be used by advocates, policy makers, and other interested parties to promote the agenda of self-determination. Click here to read the R&PB.
Only Half of Workers in Small Businesses Are Offered, Eligible for Health Benefits
A new Commonwealth Fund study highlights a nearly decade-long trend of declining health insurance coverage and rising costs for workers in small businesses, particularly employees making less than $15 an hour. The report, released today, finds that in 2010 only 49 percent of workers in small businesses with fewer than 50 employees were offered and eligible for health insurance through their employer, down from 58 percent in 2003. In contrast, 90 percent of those working in firms with 100 or more employees were offered and eligible for coverage in both 2003 and 2010. Low-wage employees were the least likely to be offered and eligible for health benefits: just one-third of small-business workers making less than $15 were able to enroll in their company's health plan. Click here to read the full report.
My Child Welfare Library
Below is a list of new publications that were added to Child Welfare Information Gateway Library in October.
-A Child's Journey Through Placement; Fahlberg, Vera
-Extended Foster Care vs. Foster Care to 21 Program Comparison
-Hear Me Now: Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute's 2012 Foster Youth Internship Report.
-Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. Berry Brazelton; Lester, Barry M.;Sparrow, Joshua D.
-Counseling for Families and Children; Crosson-Tower, Cynthia
To view all 138 publications and their detail click here.
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News & Notices
NASW Social Work Policy InstituteThe following are 2 new briefs from the NASW Social Work Policy Institute. - New Policy Brief Highlights Use of Title IV-E Funding to Support Social Work Students For two decades, Title IV-E funding has been an important source of support for BSW and MSW students to be encouraged to pursue child welfare careers. The Social Work Policy Institute has created a new brief, Education Social Workers for Child Welfare Practice: The Status of Using Title IV-E Funding to Support BSW & MSW Education that describes the current status of the use of Title IV-E funding in social work education, addressing the value of this funding to promote professional social work practice in public child welfare agencies and describing some of the policy implementation challenges. - SWPI Convenes First Critical Conversation - Social Work in Health and Behavioral Health Care: Visioning The Future This period of change and uncertainty in health and behavioral care service delivery is an opportune time to highlight the essential and varied roles that social workers play in achieving better health outcomes and improved psychosocial well-being for individuals, families and communities. Social Work in Health and Behavioral Health Care: Visioning the Future brought together representatives from federal agencies, foundations, national organizations, service providers, front-line practice, research and education to further articulate a vision for social work in the increasingly complex health and behavioral health care service delivery arena and to make recommendations to achieve this vision. Click here to read more.
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