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December 14, 2012 || Vol. 4, Issue 50
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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
Cost-Benefit of Incentive-based Smoking Cessation for Pregnant WomenDeadline: March 4, 2013(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)The purpose of this FOA is to assist applicants with the preparation of an application that aligns with this announcement. The intent is to solicit proposals for a study to assess the cost-benefit of a smoking cessation intervention that targets pregnant smokers. The intent is to evaluate a high intensity and low intensity contingency management (CM) intervention on prenatal smoking cessation. The suggested approach is a three-arm randomized controlled trial to assess smoking abstinence at end of pregnancy and cost-benefit of different intensity levels of CM on prenatal smoking cessation. The 3 arms would include: 1) a high intensity CM intervention for smoking cessation during pregnancy; 2) a low intensity CM intervention for smoking cessation during pregnancy, and 3) standard of care. Click here for more information.
Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources (BCC-SBE/EHR)Deadline: February 27, 2013As part of the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure seek to enable research communities to develop visions, teams, and capabilities dedicated to creating new, large-scale, next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research for the SBE and EHR areas of research. Successful proposals will outline activities that will have significant impacts across multiple fields by enabling new types of data-intensive research. Investigators should think broadly and create a vision that extends intellectually across multiple disciplines and that includes--but is not limited to--the SBE or EHR areas of research. Click here for more information.
Mental Health Research Grants for Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in TexasDeadline: January 9, 2013(From the Philanthropy News Digest)The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is inviting institutions of higher education in Texas to respond to a Request for Proposals to fund mental health research projects conducted by tenure-track assistant professors. The primary purpose of the initiative is to increase the pool of junior faculty conducting mental health research. A secondary goal is to encourage the disbursement of research findings to the greater field of mental health researchers, policy makers, and service providers through grant recipients' presentation of their findings at state and national conferences and meetings. Click here for more information.
Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Research NetworkDeadline: February 4, 2013(Health Resources & Services Administration)The purpose of the Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Research Network is to foster a national scientific and clinical research network that will promote and coordinate research activities in behavioral, psychosocial, and developmental aspects of pediatric care to improve clinical services and health outcomes for, but not limited to, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities. The network infrastructure will support the design of multi-site, interdisciplinary research that focuses on the translation of research to practice; provide the mentoring environment in which to train a new generation of developmental behavioral pediatric researchers; and foster the implementation of research studies through both MCHB and external funding sources. Click here for more information. |
Calls
Call for Papers
25th National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work
Deadline: December 31, 2012 The Ohio State University College of Social Work announces the Call for Papers for the 25th National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work to be held March 28, 2013, on the campus of the Ohio State University. Focusing on the College's year long theme of "Be the Change", Dr. Elizabeth Segal, Arizona State University, will deliver the keynote, "Social Empathy: Using Interpersonal Skills to Effect Change". The symposium showcases dissertation research of recent Ph.D. and D.S.W. recipients. Dissertations completed between May 2011 and December 2012 are eligible for consideration; selected presenters will receive a $250 honorarium. Click here for more information and submission guidelines.
Call for Papers
SRIF Annual Conference 2013
Deadline: January 25, 2013
The Society for Research on Identity Formation (SRIF) is an interdisciplinary organization and strongly encourages submissions from a diversity of fields such as psychology, sociology, family studies, and anthropology. The committee is particularly receptive to proposals for sessions that are integrative regarding a particular aspect of identity and that encourage discussion. In terms of format, interactive sessions with short introductory statements followed by audience participation are especially welcomed. Posters are the best vehicle for the presentation of purely empirical studies, but well-integrated empirical paper sessions will also be considered. Registration and submission information are on the SRIF website.
Call for Abstracts
HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH AT THE INTERSECTION OF RACE, ETHNICITY, AND DISABILITY: A NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Deadline: January 14, 2013
The conference is intended to bring together researchers, advocates, and policy makers in racial and ethnic disparities and disability-related disparities to: -Learn about barriers to health care and health promotion for people with disabilities in underserved racial and ethnic groups -Share your own work on health disparities at this intersection -Discuss priorities for future research and action Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Global Health and Well-Being: The Social Work Response Conference
Deadline: January 2, 2013This conference, co-sponsored by NADD and NYU, will bring together colleagues from around the world to examine the challenges that contribute to global health and well-being, trauma, and social injustice and to identify innovative social work multidisciplinary responses to them. The conference invites contributions from academicians in social work and related fields as well as policy, government, and organizational leaders. An interdisciplinary approach will be prominent. Click here for more information.
Call for Studies
Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE)
Deadline: January 11, 2013
Mathematica Policy Research® seeks studies for a comprehensive review of the evidence base for home visiting programs. The review is being conducted for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by Mathematica (and subcontractor Dr. Brenda Jones Harden) and will be used to help inform the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, which emphasizes and supports successful implementation of high-quality home visiting programs that have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness. The purpose of this new call for studies is to continue and update the existing evidence review, conducted over the past three years. The results of the initial review, as well as detailed information about the review standards, are available on the HomVEE website.
Call for Proposals
XXXV Annual IASWG Symposium
Deadline: January 15, 2013
Please join us for the XXXVth Annual Symposium of the International Association for Social Work With Groups (IASWG), in Boston, Massachusetts, co-sponsored with the Boston University School of Social Work. We welcome practitioners, managers, program directors/designers, community workers, faculty and students who work with groups to submit proposals for papers, workshops and poster presentations. Click here for more information. |
Conferences & Trainings
2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities
December 17-19, 2012
National Harbor, MD
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under the leadership of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), invites you to the 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit (also called the 2012 Health Disparities Summit). The 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit is an HHS-wide endeavor involving a broad spectrum of the federal government that seeks to advance activities to eliminate health disparities. The agenda will build on the momentum of the 2008 Summit and the increased interest of federal agencies to demonstrate their commitment towards improving the health of all Americans. The 2012 Health Disparities Summit represents an ongoing focus on emerging science and its intersection with practice and policy, while maintaining momentum on current national and international trends in addressing the social determinants of health. Click here for more information. |
Research Publications & Data Resources ICPSR Data 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.
-34435 Current Population Survey, January 2012: Displaced Worker, Employee Tenure, and Occupational Mobility Supplement
Click here for more information.
Teaching Healthy Relationships to Youth in Foster Care
Research suggests that having the skills to manage intimate partner relationships can help youth make better decisions related to school, employment, pregnancy prevention, and establishing strong, constructive relationships. Growing attention is being paid to whether improving relationship education for youth currently in foster care can help improve their outcomes. To explore this topic further, Child Trends conducted a research and evaluation review, Putting Youth Relationship Education on the Child Welfare Agenda: Findings from a Research and Evaluation Review. Click here to read more.
The Concentration of Poverty Is a Growing Rural Problem
T. Farrigan, T. Parker
(From the Rural Assistance Center)
While the 2001 and 2007-09 economic recessions increased the incidence of poverty throughout the Nation, perhaps more troubling was the increasing concentration of poverty over the last decade. In the United States, people living in poverty tend to be clustered in certain regions, counties, and neighborhoods rather than being spread evenly across the Nation. Research has shown that the poor living in areas where poverty is prevalent face impediments beyond those of their individual circumstances. Concentrated poverty contributes to poor housing and health conditions, higher crime and school dropout rates, as well as employment dislocations. As a result, economic conditions in very poor areas can create limited opportunities for poor residents that become self-perpetuating. Click here to read the full report.
The Current and Future Role and Impact of Medicaid in Rural Health
(From the Rural Assistance Center)
Medicaid is the nation's largest public insurance program and is a crucial source of health insurance coverage and provider payments for rural people, providers, and communities. The program fills gaps in health insurance coverage for rural people, particularly low-income families and children, and elderly and disabled Medicare beneficiaries. The Medicaid program is also a critical source of health care financing for the rural health system, including hospitals, doctors, and providers of long-term services and supports, and contributes significantly to local, rural economies by supporting health care and related employment. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, (ACA) the importance of Medicaid in the rural health system will grow significantly. Expanding Medicaid eligibility is a key element of the ACA's strategy for achieving near-universal coverage, with over half of the expected gains in health insurance coverage coming from the Medicaid expansion. In addition, significant Medicaid financing and delivery system reform initiatives, including the Health Homes, Dual Eligible Coordinated Care, and other demonstrations, could have significant implications for rural providers and the rural health system. This brief outlines and describes the current Medicaid program and its importance to rural America. It also discusses rural implications of program expansion, including whether and how states choose to implement changes. Click here to read the full report. |
News & Notices
NICHD Releases "Scientific Vision: The Next Decade"(From COSSA)On December 6, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development released "Scientific Vision: the Next Decade." Director Alan Guttmacher notes in the message from the director that the Institute's 50th anniversary inspired it to "set compelling research directions for the future." He acknowledged that doing so "was no easy task." The Institute's science "spans the understanding of the basic mechanisms that transform cells into health and effectively functioning individuals, to clinical studies that can improve the lifelong health and well-being being women, children, and those with disabilities." According to Guttmacher, the resulting Vision Statement includes key concepts derived from workshops and the white papers they produced. The Vision Statement is divided into eight distinct sections: developmental biology, developmental origins of health and disease, pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes, reproductions, behavior and cognition, plasticity and rehabilitation, population dynamics, and conduct of science. The Vision is expected to inform an Institute-wide strategic planning process, to begin in early 2013. Click here to read more. |
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