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April 3, 2013 || Vol. 5, Issue 17
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Funding Opportunities
Maternal and Child Health Measurement Research Network
Deadline: July 1, 2013
(Health Resources & Services Administration)
The purpose of the Maternal and Child Health Measurement Research Network (MCH-MRN) is to support a forum that will create a national agenda for health measurement research by producing an evolving compendium of available high quality measures of maternal and child health, and by identifying gaps in existing measures for future development purposes. The MCH-MRN will thus provide national leadership in enhancing and developing a set of culturally competent health measures for: MCH programmatic planning; screening; service provision; interventions that promote physical and psychosocial health and well-being; and clinical decision-making for primary and secondary prevention of disease, injury, and behavioral issues among at-risk mothers, children (including children with special healthcare needs), adolescents, and families. The MCH-MRN will address health measurement research for at-risk mothers, children (including children with special health care needs), adolescents, and families, with a focus on programmatic applications. The MCH-MRN will have a strategic focus on health measurements among at-risk MCH populations, which will complement existing investments by other HHS agencies, such as NIH and AHRQ. Click here for more information.
Evaluation of the Office on Violence Against Women's Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration InitiativeDeadline: June 8, 2013The National Institute of Justice seeks proposals to evaluate the implementation and outcomes of the Office on Violence Against Women's (OVW) Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration Initiative. The OVW Homicide Reduction Demonstration Initiative will fund up to six sites to move forward for full implementation of homicide reduction and prevention models. Click here for more information.
National Resource Center on Women and Retirement PlanningDeadline: May 30, 2013The Administration on Aging (AoA), an agency of the Administration for Community Living (ACL) plans to award one cooperative agreement to support a National Resource Center on Women and Retirement Planning (Center). The federal share will be up to $244,314 per year, for a project period of up to three (3) years, contingent upon the availability of federal funds. Through the Center the grantee will partner with the ACL/AoA to assist the National Network on Aging (Network) to implement objectives that help older adults, especially low income women and women of color to afford access to secure retirements by avoiding incidences of fraud or financial exploitation. Click here for more information.
Bridging the Gap in Victim-Related Research to Practice
Deadline: June 10, 2013
In response to concerns voiced by victim service providers, the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) recognizes a need to assist the field in becoming more educated consumers of-and contributors to-research and evaluation that can lead to more effective and cost-efficient services for victims of crime. There is also a need to assist the research community in disseminating findings in ways that are accessible, understandable, and useful for the victim services field. OVC will award a cooperative agreement for a comprehensive assessment of victim service providers to ascertain their level of awareness and knowledge about the benefits of social science research and program evaluation for their work with victims of crime, paired with an assessment of researchers' interest in, and capacity for, translating their work for a practitioner audience. Click here for more information.
National Crime Victimization Survey Instrument Redesign and Testing Project
Deadline: June 11, 2013
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks an agent to execute the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Instrument Redesign and Testing Project. The project is designed to provide scientific and technical support for the redesign and testing of the NCVS roster control card, crime screener (NCVS-1), and crime incident (NCVS-2) instruments in support of BJS's efforts related to increasing the efficiency, reliability, and use of the NCVS. In addition, the project will evaluate the use and content of the NCVS supplements. Through this project, BJS seeks to evaluate and modernize the organization and content of the NCVS instruments; improve the efficiency of the instruments and the current core-supplement design; develop a procedure for introducing routine improvements to the NCVS in order to capture emerging crime types and time-relevant topics; develop a systematic process for testing item reliability, validity, and burden; conduct cognitive tests of current and proposed items on the survey instruments; and pre-test the modified NCVS. BJS intends to fund the project through a cooperative agreement for a 3 year period. Click here for more information.
Health & Society Scholars ProgramDeadline: September 20, 2013The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is accepting applications for the 2013 Health & Society Scholars program, which provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at any stage of their careers to build the nation's capacity for leadership and research that addresses the multiple determinants of population health and contributes to policy change. Up to twelve scholars will be awarded $80,000 annually for two-year appointments beginning in the fall of 2014. Scholars will be trained to investigate the connections among biological, genetic, behavioral, environmental, economic, and social determinants of health, and will be expected to develop, evaluate, and disseminate knowledge, interventions, and policies that integrate and act on these determinants to improve health. Click here for more information.
VISITING SCHOLAR APPLICATIONS
Deadline June 28, 2013
(Institute for Research on Poverty)
Scholars from Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Groups: Applications are invited from U.S.-based social science scholars from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups for visits of 1 to 2 weeks during the 2013-14 academic year. Transportation, lodging, and meal expenses of Visiting Scholars are covered by IRP.
Food Assistance Scholars: Applications are invited from U.S.-based food assistance scholars for visits of 1 to 2 weeks during 2013-14 academic year. Transportation, lodging, and meal expenses of Visiting Scholars are covered by IRP and the RIDGE Center for National Research. Click here for more information.
Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Graduate Student Research GrantsDeadline: June 28, 2013The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) plans to provide funds for Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants to support dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are working in partnership with Head Start programs and with faculty mentors. Competitive applicants will 1) demonstrate a collaborative partnership with their program partners, and 2) pursue research questions that directly inform local, State, or Federal policy relevant to multiple early care and education contexts. Applicants should consider pursuing data collection across contexts, including child care, pre-k, home-visiting programs, Head Starts, Early Head Starts, and/or others. Applicants are expected to demonstrate an established partnership with their early care and education program partners that should be apparent throughout the research plan, from development and refinement of the research questions through the proposed data collection, interpretation, and dissemination. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Abstracts
AMERSA Annual National Conference
Deadline: May 31, 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. The Call for Abstracts and Workshops is now open! Submit abstracts and workshops on-line here.
Call for Presentations
Rural Multiracial and Multicultural Health Conference
Deadline: May 31, 2013
The Rural Multiracial and Multicultural Health Conference is one of the National Rural Health Association's fastest growing conferences. One of the only meetings in the nation to focus on rural multiracial and multicultural health issues, this event offers attendees the opportunity to meet with peers and experts who share unique concerns and interests. This conference is designed for those who are dedicated to bringing quality health care and health care services to this underserved and often under-represented portion of the rural population. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Improving the Health, Safety and Well-Being of Young Adults
May 7-8, 2013
Washington, DC
Please join the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council on May 7 and 8 for a workshop on Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-being of Young Adults. The workshop will be held at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, DC, and will also be available via live webcast. The workshop will bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and young adults themselves to discuss the latest research on the development, health, safety, and well-being of young adults. The workshop will also look specifically at how young adults are faring in systems and organizations such as health care and mental health care, educational institutions, workplaces, the military, the justice system, and in the transition out of foster care. Funding for this workshop has been provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). This workshop will begin a conversation that we hope will lead to a larger effort to guide research, practice, and policy aimed at improving the health, safety, and well-being of young adults. Click here for more information.
Early Childhood Data: Building a Strong Foundation
(From Child Trends)
States are at a critical juncture for incorporating new data practices and moving toward the development of comprehensive early childhood data systems. Two upcoming webinars (the last in a series of three) will provide an orientation to a new set of tools designed by the Quality Initiatives Research and Evaluation Consortium (INQUIRE) to support the development of high quality early childhood data:
-Data Management (5/6/13): Developing Data Governance Structures - Provides an overview of the need for and benefits of building strong data governance and system-wide data management policies and practices, using the example of QRIS.
-Data Management (5/16/13): Best Practices for Producing High-Quality Data - Presents an overview of best practices that promote data integrity and ensure that high-quality data are available for reporting, monitoring, and evaluation.
Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
The Affordable Care Act and Criminal Justice: Intersections and Implications
Andrea A. Bainbridge
Various provisions of the Affordable Care Act-including the expansion of Medicaid, investments to be made in health information technology, establishment of health insurance exchanges, and minimum essential coverage-have direct and indirect implications for criminal justice. Success in implementing the Affordable Care Act has the potential to decrease crime, recidivism, and criminal justice costs, while simultaneously improving the health and safety of communities. Conversely, the criminal justice population has been recognized by the U.S. Surgeon General as a cost containment opportunity for health care systems. Click here to read the full report.
Evaluation of Family Finding Services
(From Child Trends)
Ideally, children in foster care would have connections to adult relatives, and their parents would have the support of those relatives as they work to regain custody of their children. It's not always obvious, though, who or where those relatives are. The family finding model provides child welfare practitioners intensive search and engagement techniques to identify family and other adults close to a child in foster care, and to involve these adults in developing and carrying out a plan for the emotional and legal permanency of the child. In Client Voices: Youth, Parent, and Relative Perspectives on Family Finding, the fourth brief in a series, Child Trends authors capture the voices of participant youth, parents and relatives. Practitioners can use this feedback to develop or improve family finding services. Click here to read more.
Evaluating Home Visiting Programs
(From the Children's Bureau Express)
The Affordable Care Act increased investments in Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visitation programs, making evaluating program effectiveness more important than ever. A new publication presents the results of an evaluation of a home visiting program in Pennsylvania, as well as a discussion of the challenges inherent in designing and conducting reliable evaluation studies. In Evaluation of Maternal and Child Home Visitation Programs: Lessons From Pennsylvania, author Meredith Matone and other researchers at the PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia discuss their experiences in conducting an evaluation of the Pennsylvania Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program. Click here for more information.
National Health Care SurveysThe National Health Care Surveys are designed to answer key questions of interest to health care policy makers, public health professionals, and researchers. These can include the factors that influence the use of health care resources, the quality of health care, including safety, and disparities in health care services provided to population subgroups in the United States. Click here for complete details.
Health ownership in American indigenous communities
M. Nelson
(From the Rural Assistance Center)
Although the Indian Health Service (IHS) has adequately stifled acute infectious diseases that once devastated American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities, this system of health provision has become obsolete in the face of chronically debilitating illnesses. Presently, AIAN communities suffer disproportionally from chronic diseases that demand adequate, long-term health maintenance such as hepatitis, renal failure, and diabetes to name a few. A number of research endeavors have sought to define this problem in the literature, but few have proposed adequate mechanisms to alleviate the disparity. The objective of this study was to examine the efficacy of both the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the relative few tribal healthcare systems (PL 93-638) respectively in their sociopolitical contexts, to determine their utility among a financially lame IHS. Click here to read the full paper.
Child Information Gateway Library Additions
Below is a list of new publications that were added to Child Welfare Information Gateway Library in April:
-Working with Latino Individuals, Couples, and Families: A Toolkit for Stakeholders
-Watching the Numbers: A Six-Year Statistical Survey Monitoring New York City's Child Welfare System
-Working with Siblings in Foster Care: A Web-based NRCPFC Toolkit
-FY 2012 Annual Report on Intercountry Adoption
-Child Maltreatment 2011: Summary of Key Findings
Click here for more information.
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:
-28187 Transatlantic Trends Survey, 2007
-29041 Course of Domestic Abuse Among Chicago's Elderly: Risk Factors, Protective Behaviors, and Police Intervention, 2006-2009
-29742 Developing Uniform Performance Measures for Policing in the United States: A Pilot Project in Four Agencies, 2008-2009
-34586 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest, 2011
-34588 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 2011
-34590 CBS News/New York Times National Poll, January #2, 2012
-34594 Eurobarometer 75.1 EP: Women in the European Union, February-March 2011
Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
Nominations for AHRQ Quality Indicators Workgroups
Deadline: May 3, 2013 (Today!)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking nominations by May 3 for individuals with knowledge of AHRQ's Quality Indicators™, their technical specifications, and associated methodological issues to serve on two workgroups. The goal of each group is to provide feedback to AHRQ on making refinements to the QIs. Individuals can be nominated to either a time-limited workgroup or a standing workgroup, both of which will be convened by an AHRQ contractor. The time-limited workgroup will focus on specific clinical or methodological issues, while the standing workgroup will address broader issues related to the measurement cycle. AHRQ did not receive a sufficient response to a Federal Register Notice published on January 28 (Volume 78, No. 18, page numbers: 5810 and 5811) seeking candidates to serve on these workgroups; therefore, it is re-submitting this notice. Self-nominations are welcome and should specify the workgroup of interest. Candidates may apply for both workgroups. Third-party nominations must indicate that the individual has been contacted and is willing to serve on the workgroup. AHRQ will contact selected candidates by May 17. For more information, contact Pam Owens at 301-427-1412 or Pam.Owens@ahrq.hhs.gov.
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