April 5, 2013  || Vol. 5, Issue 13
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding   
Understanding the Use and Impact of Price Data in Health Care
Deadline: April 17, 2013
(Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) 
This solicitation seeks to fund empirical studies with strong research designs that would contribute to our knowledge base of the use and impact of health care price data, with the goal of providing reliable and generalizable evidence to inform policy makers and delivery system participants and to help accelerate progress toward using price information effectively. Research could focus on measuring how widely price information is used in health care, assessing awareness of price transparency on the part of consumers and providers, exploring the impact of price data on behavior by delivery system participants, and analyzing public policy related to the use of price information in health care. Click here for more information. 
 
OJJDP FY 2013 Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Program
Deadline: May 29, 2013 
This program will support methodologically rigorous research and evaluations that inform policy and practice consistent with the Department of Justice's mission. The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) will fund field-initiated studies that advance the understanding of how the application of a child and adolescent development framework to juvenile justice system approaches, policies, and programs impacts juvenile delinquency, justice system involvement, and recidivism. Click here for more information. 
 
Alcohol Use Disorders: Treatment, Services, and Recovery Research
Deadline: May 7, 2016
(National Institutes of Health) 
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to support research on behavioral and pharmacological treatment for alcohol use disorders; organizational, financial, and management factors that facilitate or inhibit the delivery of services for alcohol use disorders; and phenomenon of recovery from alcohol use disorders. Click here for more information. 
 
Data Resources Program 2013: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data
Deadline: May 30, 2013 
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) have entered into a partnership to request applications under this Data Resources Program (DRP) solicitation for original research using existing data available from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) and other public sources. Click here for more information. 

 

Research on Comparative Effectiveness and Implementation of HIV/AIDS and Alcohol Interventions
Deadline: May 29, 2013
(National Institutes of Health)
HIV+ alcohol users remain an underserved group at high risk for medication non-adherence and rapid disease progression, medication toxicities, organ failure, and poor viremic control leading to increased risk of transmission and premature death. It has been estimated that the effective implementation of alcohol interventions for HIV+ individuals may reduce the rates of new infections by nearly 20% and extend life by up to 15 years in some at-risk and patient populations respectively. This new initiative seeks to advance knowledge of the effective implementation and comparative effectiveness of alcohol-focused interventions among HIV+ individuals. Multiple factors need to be investigated, including potentially important patient and provider characteristics, and the organizational, financial, and structural factors that facilitate or inhibit the delivery of evidence-based services for HIV+ individuals with a range of alcohol use disorders. The overall goal is to inform clinical decision-making that will enhance treatment outcomes and reduce harms associated with interventions for HIV+ individuals with alcohol use disorders. This solicitation is divided into two parts, one or both of which an applicant may choose to address. These parts include: 1) comparative effectiveness research focused on understanding factors related to patient engagement in appropriate alcohol and HIV care and retention in treatment; and 2) modeling and testing alternative approaches to the implementation of effective interventions to reduce HIV disease transmission and progression. This announcement addresses the need to further develop patient- centered approaches for making informed health care decisions and to improve research on health care delivery and outcomes. Click here for more information. 
 
Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues: Trafficking in Persons, Organized Crime, and Violent Extremism
Deadline: June 5, 2013 
The National Institute of Justice NIJ seeks research and evaluation applications on the phenomenon of transnational crime issues. Transnational crime issues leverage geopolitical changes, globalization, and the information technology revolution to transcend sovereign borders and impact numerous countries simultaneously. This research will supplement work already underway at NIJ on three separate topics-trafficking in persons, transnational organized crime, and radicalization to violent extremism. The goal of this solicitation is to provide the information and evidence-based practices that State, local, and tribal criminal justice agencies need to secure their communities against transnational crimes. Proposals should develop and analyze information and data that have clear implications for criminal justice in the following focus areas: (1) transnational offenders, (2) similarities and differences between organized crime and violent extremist groups, (3) measurement of transnational organized crime and trafficking in persons, and (4) evaluations of efforts to reduce demand for transnational organized crime and/or trafficking in persons. Click here for more information. 
 
Testing Geospatial Predictive Policing Strategies
Deadline: June 17, 2013
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is seeking applications for research that explores the relationship between theory (of any discipline) and geospatial predictive policing strategies. In particular, NIJ is seeking proposals that focus on linking theories to current policing strategies, discerning potential disconnects in the levels of analysis between theory and practice, explicating what effects this may have on findings, and, finally, addressing means of adapting theory and practice based on the results. Click here for more information. 

 

Human Fulfillment Research
Deadline: May 15, 2013 (Letters of Intent)
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
The New Paths to Purpose Project, an initiative of the Chicago Booth Center for Decision Research, is accepting Letters of Intent for projects that use behavioral science to explain or inform the ways in which people pursue, experience, or fulfill purpose in their lives. Grants of up to $250,000 will be awarded for projects that contribute to the ongoing development of rigorously scientific and readily actionable insights into the human experience of purpose. To be considered, projects must have a budget of at least $10,000 but not more than $125,000. Applications from both basic and applied behavioral science research teams are encouraged. The project also welcomes applications from principal investigators at senior and junior levels (faculty, senior research associates, postdoctoral scholars/fellows, or doctoral candidates) at educational institutions or other research centers in the United States and abroad. Click here for more information. 

 

Fulbright U.S. Scholars Program
Deadline: August 1, 2013
The 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program core competition is now open. The Fulbright Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries for the 2014-2015 academic year. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others. This year, there are over 25 awards available in the field of Social Work. Moreover, All Discipline awards offered in all regions of the world welcome teaching and/or research proposals in any area of study, including interdisciplinary projects. In order to meet the changing needs of academia and develop new options to better accommodate the interests and commitments of today's scholars, the program has introduced several innovations to the 2014-2015 program, including: Fulbright Flex Awards, Fulbright Postdoctoral/Early Career Awards, Salary Stipend Supplements, and Teaching English as a Foreign Language Awards. The application deadline for most awards is August 1, 2013. U.S. citizenship is required. For other eligibility requirements and detailed award descriptions visit our website or contact us at [email protected]

 

Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Research Scholars
Deadline: April 21, 2013 (letter of intent)
The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Policy, Research and Evaluation plans to solicit applications for Child Care Research Scholars grants to support dissertation research on child care policy issues. These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to focus research on questions that have direct implications for child care policy decision-making and program administration, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high-quality doctoral students. Click here for more information. 

 

Native American Crime, Victimization, and Justice Studies: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: May 20, 2013
The purpose of this solicitation is to support the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) tribal data collections, expand the body of policy-relevant research that uses these data, and enhance or inform NIJ's tribal crime and criminal justice portfolio. NIJ will award up to two postdoctoral Native American Studies Research Fellowships to applicants who show the greatest potential for future achievement as scholars and researchers, and who can demonstrate experience relevant to the unique demands of working with tribal communities, including experience working in Indian Country and Alaska Native villages. Click here for more information. 

 

2013 SFBTA Research Awards
Deadline: August 1, 2013
The SFBTA Research Awards are aimed at fostering the growth of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy by encouraging original research in solution-focused practices, and to support students or practitioners who wish to study solution-focused practices. The inclusion of practitioners is an effort to bridge the gap between research and practice in advancing knowledge of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. The 2013 SFBTA Research Awards will provide $2500 to support ongoing or proposed studies conducted by doctoral or master level students, practitioners where SF practices are the focus of their work, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty who are in their first three years past graduation. Priority will be given to research, which supports the evidence-base of SF practices, mechanisms of change research, or other research, which could directly or indirectly investigate the effectiveness of SF practices. Click here for more information. 
CallsCalls 
Call for Abstracts
SSWR Annual Conference
Deadline: April 30, 2013 
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) announces its Eighteenth Annual Conference "Research for Social Change: Addressing Local and Global Challenges" which will convene in San Antonio, TX, January 15-19, 2014. 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. Abstract submissions will be handled through the SSWR/Confex online submission website. Please note that the abstract submission deadline is Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 11:59pm, PDT. 
 
Call for Abstracts
37th AMERSA Annual National Conference
Deadline: May 3, 2013
The Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse is pleased to announce its 37th Annual AMERSA National Conference to be held on November 7-9, 2013, at the Doubletree Hotel in Bethesda, MD. The meeting will reflect on AMERSA's interdisciplinary strengths and the commitment to disseminate the latest developments in substance abuse education, prevention, treatment and research that challenge all health care professionals. We have planned an exciting program featuring research abstracts, skill-focused workshops, and plenary speakers addressing issues of national and international importance. Both CME and CEU credits will be offered. Please click here for more information and to submit abstracts. 

 

Call for Submissions
COINS 2013
Deadline: May 15, 2013
The Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference (COINS) invites you to submit your papers, workshop proposals, and artifacts to the 4th annual international conference to be held in Santiago de Chile, hosted by Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica de Chile from August 11 to August 13, 2013. COINS13 brings together practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration to share their work, learn from each other, and get inspired through creative new ideas. Conference activities will take place throughout the historic cities of Santiago and Valparaiso. Attendees will be encouraged to engage with the community, meet local entrepreneurs, artists, and designers, take a guided tour of the city, and participate in hands-on workshops and interactive sessions. Where science, design, business and art meet, COINS13 looks at the emerging forces behind the phenomena of open-source, creative, entrepreneurial and social movements. Through interactive workshops, professional presentations, and fascinating keynotes, COINS13 combines a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as social network analysis, group dynamics, design and visualization, information systems, collective action and the psychology and sociality of collaboration. Click here for more information.
 
Call for Papers
Journal of Gerontological Social Work
Deadline: May 15, 2013
Who Cares for Caregivers? Innovative Approaches to Family Support
The editors of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work are seeking manuscript submissions for a special issue on Family and Informal Caregivers. More than 30 million family and informal caregivers provide ongoing care to older adults living in the community; yet, relatively few research and evidence-based programs and services focus on comprehensively addressing the needs and resources of caregivers. The aim of this special issue is to translate research into practice by highlighting effective programs, particularly geographically distinctive and culturally specific interventions that address the needs of family and informal caregivers. For this special issue, the editors seek empirically grounded manuscripts that involve forward looking models of community outreach and marketing, service delivery, and evaluative research addressing the needs of caregivers. Proposed areas to be addressed in this special issue include but are not limited to evidence-based or best practices, program evaluation and caregiver outcomes, public policy strategies, development of culturally competent services and programs, and innovative partnerships to increase capacity to address caregiver needs. Click here for more information. 
Conferences & Trainingsconf
National Organization of Forensic Social Work 30th Annual Conference
April 14-16, 2013
Seattle, Washington 
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. Join in presentations 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. 
 
Certificate Program in Mixed Methods Research
University of Michigan School of Social Work
Deadline: April 15, 2013 
The Certificate Program in Mixed Methods Research (MMR) at the University of Michigan School of Social Work (UM-SSW) is designed for researchers and practitioners in social work, nursing, psychology, and other applied fields. Participants will learn ways to integrate various types of research methods; commonly used data analysis procedures; and approaches to research conducted in practice settings. Special emphasis on: critiquing theoretical foundations of research, forming research questions, applying mixed methods techniques, conducting statistical analysis, and interpreting research reports. This certificate program is a blended and interactive web-based learning experience led by UM-SSW Professor Daphne C. Watkins, PhD. Each course of the program includes: web-based instructor-led skill development sessions, self-paced podcasts and web modules, and interactive course work from personal or work computer. Participants must agree to complete the web-based certificate program in 4 weeks (on Mondays and Wednesdays from May 20th through June 12th) and can earn 45 hours of macro social work continuing education credits. To enroll, click here. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2013, so enroll today! For more information contact the SSW Continuing Education Office at (734) 763-5723 or at [email protected]

 

WREC 2013
May 29-31, 2013
Washington, DC
You are invited to attend the 16th Annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference, sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The conference will be held May 29 - May 31, 2013, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. Registration for the WREC is now open! WREC is a leading forum for family self-sufficiency and poverty researchers, State and local administrators, practitioners and program operators and Federal officials and policymakers to network with peers and discuss cutting-edge research on family self-sufficiency and social welfare programs and policies. This year's conference will feature presentations and discussions on the following topics:
-Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
-Education, Training and Success in the Labor Market
-Child and Youth Well-Being
-Fatherhood, Relationships and Strengthening Families
-Evaluating Social Programs: Building and Using Evidence
-Approaches to Alleviate Poverty and Strengthen the Safety Net
To register or for more information, including important dates, a preliminary agenda, travel options, hotel reservations and information about live streamed sessions, please visit the conference website. There is no cost to attend the conference, although all participants, those attending in person and those viewing the live stream, should register in advance through the conference website
 
Summer Policy Workshop
June 30-July 1, 2013
Washington, DC
The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), in collaboration with the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA), the Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology (SEPCP), and the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS), is delighted to announce a special summer Policy Workshop. This exceptional training opportunity will take place on June 30 and July 1 in Washington DC. The workshop content is diverse and applicable to psychologists at all career stages, but several sessions are targeted primarily at early career psychologists and graduate students. The Workshop will expose psychologists to policy work, consultation, and career opportunities, drawing on the expertise of the sponsoring societies. Participants will learn how to bring empirical research findings to bear on public policy and also about policy-related career opportunities. Specifically, the workshop will feature panel presentations and interactive sessions on: Communicating scientific research, Policy-related fellowship opportunities, Grass roots policy and advocacy work, and Policy-related careers. Speakers include renowned journalists, congressional staffers, American Psychological Association government relations staff, legal experts, community psychologists, policy analysts, and many other psychologists who have had a career-long policy focus. Please see more details, including application information, on the SPSSI website
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 
Hate Crime Victimization, 2003-2011
Lynn Langton, Ph.D., Michael Planty, Ph.D., Nathan Sandholtz, BJS Intern
(Bureau of Justice Statistics) 
Presents annual counts and rates of hate crime victimization that occurred from 2003 through 2011, using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The report examines changes over time in hate crime victimizations, including the type of bias that motivated the hate crime, the type of crime, whether the incident was reported to police, and characteristics of the incident, offender, and victim. In addition, the report compares characteristics of hate crime and nonhate crime victimization. NCVS estimates are supplemented by data from official police reports of hate crime from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Hate Crime Statistics Program. Click here for the full report. 
 
Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP) 2003
(Andrea Sedlak, ICPSR) 
The Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP) is the only national survey that gathers data directly from youth in the juvenile justice system. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) designed the survey in 2000 and 2001 to survey offender youth between the ages of 10 and 20. SYRP asks the youth about their backgrounds, offense histories and problems; the facility environment; experiences in the facility; experiences with alcohol and drugs; experiences of victimization in placement; medical needs and services received; and their expectations for the future. Click here to read more. 
 
New Research: Emphasizing Evidence-Based Programs for Children and Youth
Implementing evidence-based programs is a hot topic in child and youth development, and there's a lot we still don't know about it. Three research briefs Child Trends released recently suggest that it's not enough to invest in programs that have been shown to work--we need to identify and invest in the components that make these programs work better. The first brief, Key Implementation Considerations for Executing Evidence-Based Programs: Project Overview, introduces key themes that emerged during a convening of leading practitioners and researchers. The second, The Importance of Quality Implementation for Research, Practice, and Policy, identifies factors that impact implementation and discusses the steps that lead to quality implementation. The third, Core Intervention Components: Identifying and Operationalizing What Makes Programs Work, discusses the process of identifying, operationalizing and implementing the components of interventions that are likely to produce positive outcomes. A final brief will be released in late spring. The briefs are being prepared for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Click here to read more. 

 

Survey Finds Support for Rental Housing, More Balanced Housing Policy
A new national survey of housing attitudes finds greater support for rental housing and a more balanced approach to housing policy. The How Housing Matters Survey, conducted by Hart Research Associates and commissioned by MacArthur, finds that 61 percent of adults believe that renters can be just as successful as homeowners in achieving the American Dream. Sixty-five percent say the focus of national housing policy should be split fairly equally between rental and ownership. While recent data may suggest the housing crisis is over, the American public is not convinced: 77 percent believe that the nation is still in the middle of the crisis or that the worst is yet to come. MacArthur's How Housing Matters research initiative seeks to explore whether, and if so how, having a decent, stable, affordable home leads to strong families and vibrant communities. Click here to read more. 

 

Just the Facts, Ma'am: Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes in the U.S.
Harry J. Holzer and Erin Dunlop
(From the Institute for Research on Poverty)
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the United States using two nationally representative sources of data: the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS). We find that postsecondary educational attainment has risen modestly among young Americans over the past two decades, with greater gains in bachelor of arts (BA) attainment in the 1990s and in certificate and associate of arts (AA) attainment since 2000 (though attainment rose during the Great Recession at all levels). Both younger and older cohorts of blacks and Hispanics have made relative progress in the attainment of certificates and AAs but still lag behind whites in the entry into and completion of BA programs; completion rates in BA programs also lag substantially for those from low-income families or with weak academic achievement in high school. Young women (especially among whites and blacks) now achieve sub-BA and BA degrees at higher levels than their male counterparts and generally have higher achievement. There are labor market returns for all postsecondary credentials, including certificates and AA degrees, though these vary across field of study. Large gender gaps exist in field of study, with men more concentrated in high-paying fields. Lastly, we find that high school achievement measures can account for much of the racial gaps in BA completion and earnings and some of the gaps by family background, though they account for little of the continuing gender gap favoring young men in earnings. Click here for the full publication. 

 

Easing Readjustment to Post-Deployment Life
A new report from the Institute of Medicine recommends steps that are needed to support current and former service members and their families as they transition to post-deployment life and potentially face a range of health, economic, and social issues. Click here to read more. 
 
ICPSR New Data
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:
-33081 National Crime Victimization Survey: School Crime Supplement, 2011
-33242 HIV Stigma in a Population of Adults Age 50 and Over in the Pacific Northwest, 2003-2005
-33968 Massachusetts Early Care and Education and School Readiness Study, 2001-2008
-34242 Eurobarometer 74.2: Europe 2020, the Financial and Economic Crisis, and Information on European Political Matters, November-December 2010
-34263 Oregon Youth Substance Use Project (OYSUP), 1998-2010
-34321 Annual Probation Survey, 2010
-34353 CMS Medicaid Analytic Extract (MaxFile) Medicaid Claims Data: 100 Percent of Claims for 14 Southern States, 2004-2007
-34527 Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, March 2002
-34557 Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Under Public Law 280, 2003-2005 [United States]
-34573 Cooperation under the Shadow of the Future: Experimental Evidence from Infinitely Repeated Games 
Click here for more information.
News & Noticesnews  
Congressional briefing highlights substance abuse research with military and veteran populations
The Government Relations Office of the American Psychological Association's Science Directorate coordinated a congressional briefing on March 11 on behalf of the Friends of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) coalition, highlighting recent research relevant to military personnel, veterans and their families and efforts to address substance abuse issues in the military community. The briefing was the 18th in the coalition's Charles R. Schuster Educational Briefing Series on Capitol Hill, designed to educate policy makers about current initiatives and advancements in science funded by NIDA. Cosponsored by the Congressional Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus, the Congressional Caucus on Prescription Drug Abuse and 23 member organizations of the Friends of NIDA, the briefing was attended by over 100 congressional staff, federal agency staff and members of the science advocacy community. Click here to read more.
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