July 12, 2013  || Vol. 5, Issue 27
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding   
Secondary Analyses of Alcohol and Chronic Disease
Deadline: September 7, 2016
(National Institutes of Health)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages R01/R21 applications that propose to conduct secondary analyses of alcohol as it relates to chronic disease etiology and epidemiology. The goal of this program is to facilitate innovative yet cost-effective research utilizing previously collected data. Click here for more information. 
 
Implications of New Digital Media Use for Underage Drinking, Drinking-Related Behaviors, and Prevention Research
Deadline: September 7, 2016
(National Institutes of Health)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages R01/R21 research grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to investigate whether, and how, heavy involvement in new digital media usage, particularly social media and social networking sites, may influence adolescent alcohol use and drinking patterns, as well as drinking-related problems. This FOA also encourages applications proposing to explore the ways in which new digital media may be utilized as platforms for preventive interventions aimed at underage drinking and related problems. Click here for more information. 
 
Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Solid Organ Donation
Deadline: November 20, 2013
This announcement solicits applications for fiscal year (FY) 2014 extramural grant program, Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Solid Organ Donation, a grant program administered by the Division of Transplantation (DoT), Healthcare Systems Bureau (HSB), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The overall goal of this grant program is to reduce the gap between the demand for organ transplants and the supply of organs from deceased donors by identifying successful strategies that can serve as model interventions to increase deceased organ donation registration or family consent. Accordingly, this program will support sound applied research efforts to test the effectiveness of strategies that target any of the three program objectives listed on the website. Click here for more information. 
 
Doctoral Training Grants in Oncology Social Work
Annual Deadline: October 15, 2013
Save the Date: Informational Call on 8/7/13 at 4PM EDT
These grants support the training of graduate students in doctoral programs focused on research related to oncology social work. They are available to outstanding students during all phases of a graduate program offered in an accredited school of social work. An application must outline a plan of study, and indicate how the proposed program will prepare the candidate for a career in social work oncology research. Students who have achieved candidacy will be required to submit a detailed research plan. Successful applicants must also agree to attend the American Cancer Society activities at the Society for Social Work and Research annual conference. The initial application is for a two-year grant with annual funding of $20,000 with possibility of a two-year competitive renewal. Click here for more information. 
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Call for Proposals 
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 13th International Conference 
Deadline: September 30, 2013  
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is convening our 13th International Conference, April 30 - May 3, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. At a time when community-campus partnerships are increasingly recognized as vital to solving our most pressing health, social, environmental and economic challenges, the CCPH conference promises to be our best yet as hundreds of community members, faculty, staff, students, funders and policy makers from around the world convene for four days of skill-building, networking and agenda-setting! The conference theme "From Rhetoric to Reality: Achieving Authentic, Equitable & Transformative Partnerships" builds on our 2012 conference "Where We've Been and Where We Need to Go" by boldly tackling the challenges that prevent us from "walking the talk" of true partnerships and fully realizing their transformative potential. As community engagement, community-based participatory research and service-learning gain prominence, we are concerned that some are using these terms in name only without embracing the commitment to diversity, equity, justice and impact that they demand. We are also concerned that significant resources are being invested in institutional infrastructure and capacity building without a parallel investment being made in communities. Click here for more information.

Call for Papers 
Journal for Nonprofit Management 
Deadline: ongoing 
The peer reviewed, online Journal for Nonprofit Management (JNM) is a forum for the publication, dissemination, and discussion of all aspects of nonprofit management practice. JNM is dedicated to encouraging mutual scholarly exchanges on practice methods, capacity building, theoretical framework development, tactics and techniques. Scholars, practitioners, and students are invited to submit their manuscripts for publication in the Journal for Nonprofit Management. The Journal for Nonprofit Management accepts submissions of articles, shorter contributions, case studies and book reviews. The Journal for Nonprofit Management accepts submissions on an ongoing basis with reviews occurring on the first of the month in January, May, and September. The journal welcomes submissions from all areas of nonprofit management practice. Manuscripts should be submitted via email to: JNMsubmissions@ssw.rutgers.edu.  
Conferences & Trainingsconf
Advanced Methods Webinars: Contributions to Planning, Executing, Analyzing, and Reporting Research on Delivery System Improvement
Formative Evaluation Webinar
July 15, 2013
An upcoming Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) webinar will focus on formative evaluation, a process that occurs before or during a project's implementation to improve its design and performance. The webinar, to be held on July 15 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. EDT, will feature Jeffrey Smith, Ph.D., Implementation Research Coordinator of the Virginia Mental Health Quality Enhancement Research Initiative. Dr. Smith's presentation will focus on Formative Evaluation: Fostering Real-Time Adaptions and Refinements to Improve the Effectiveness of Patient-Centered Medical Home Interventions, an AHRQ Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Research Methods Brief posted on AHRQ's PCMH Web site. Other webinar participants are Cheryl McDonnell, Ph.D., Director at James Bell Associates and AHRQ's Michael Harrison, Ph.D., Senior Social Scientist. Click here for more information.

The Campbell Collaboration Methods Trainings
The Campbell Collaboration provides more information for individuals who would like to learn more about the methodological aspects of summarizing research or how to conduct research on effects. We provide advice, slide presentations and more. Topics include The Introductory Methods; The Advanced Methods/Applied Topics; How to conduct meta-analysis?; Workshop Agenda, Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis; Methods Links; and Evaluation of training sessions/workshops. Click here for more information. 
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 
Many State-Run Health Insurance Marketplaces Are Set to Exceed Requirements for Plan Choice, Quality Reporting
Consumers and small businesses in states that have opted to run their own health insurance marketplaces-a central component of the health reform law-will likely have a greater ability to make informed choices regarding their coverage as well as more information about plan quality than what current federal regulations require, a new Commonwealth Fund report finds. The report, by researchers from Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute, looks at the 17 states that, along with the District of Columbia, have elected to run their own health insurance marketplaces, also referred to as exchanges. The marketplaces, which will begin enrolling consumers this October for coverage beginning in January 2014, are designed to remedy the major shortcomings of the current individual and small-business health insurance markets, including high premiums, a lack of choice, and inadequate coverage. Click here to read more. 

 

Realizing Permanency, Well-Being through Authentic Engagement
(Alliance for Children and Families)
This paper seeks to showcase the strengths of a child and family engagement values system in which engagement isn't simply about activating family as a response to fill a placement challenge, but rather about respecting and empowering families to share responsibility for the safety, permanency, and well-being of their children. Over the last few decades, policy and practice have moved towards emphasizing kinship care and family-centered practices (i.e. Family Finding, concurrent planning, family team meetings) as tools and resources for working with children and their families. With more than 100 years of history and experience in child welfare and child, family, and community engagement through our national network, the Alliance believes these approaches, while positive, will only be able to achieve the long-term results when they are practiced within a system that truly embraces person- and family-centered, and strengths-based values in every aspect of system policy, organizational culture, and day to-day practice for every child, every time. Click here to read the full report. 

 

Results of "The Nation's Report Card" Released for 2012
(From COSSA)
The results of the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Long-Term Trend Assessment, The Nation's Report Card: Trends in Academic Progress 2012, were released in late June. Jack Buckley, Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics and 2012 COSSA Colloquium speaker, presented the results of the assessment during a recent webinar. Buckley explained that the Long-Term Trend Assessment differs from the main NAEP test in that it is administered every four years (as opposed to every two years), selects students by age (not grade level), and measures performance, not achievement (main NAEP rates achievement level on a basic-proficient-advanced rubric). Both tests assess math and reading performance (although they differ in the skills they measure). The Long-Term Trend Assessment has been administered since 1971 for reading and 1973 for math. Click here to read more. 

 

Youth Voting
(From ChildTrends)
Active civic participation is important for the future of a nation and a healthy democracy. In 1971, 18- to 20- year olds gained the right to vote, and 50 percent of young adults ages 18 to 24 voted in the 1972 presidential election. Since then, however, voting among young adults has fallen, causing concern among lawmakers and other policy leaders. While voting has also declined among older voters, the trend is steeper among younger voters. Studies examining the reasons for this decline in voting find that many youth feel uninformed about politics and the electoral process. A study conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that one-third of high school seniors lack a basic understanding of how the American government operates. The New Millennium Report, issued by the National Association of Secretaries of State, also found that youth believe that government and elections are not relevant to things they care about. It has been suggested that this may be why many prefer to engage in community service, which is on the rise among youth. Click here to read the full report. 
 
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:
-34495 Culturally Focused Psychiatric Consultation Service For Massachusetts General Hospital's Asian American and Latino American Primary Care Patients with Depression, 2009-2011
-34635 CBS News/60 Minutes/Vanity Fair National Poll, September #2, 2012
-34651 Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012
-34678 Household Travel Survey: Baltimore Region, 2001
-34683 Washoe County Travel Characteristics Study, 2005
-34684 Survey of Attitudes of Ecological Society of America (ESA) Members, April 2011
-34714 Greater Triangle Travel Study, 2006
Click here for the full list of data resources.
News & Noticesnews  
NAS Committee on Law and Justice Holds Roundtable on Crime Trends
The continuing reductions in crime rates over the past two decades have raised numerous questions about causation. On June 25 and 26, the National Academy of Sciences' (NAS) Committee on Law and Justice hosted a roundtable on these trends. This was the first of six meetings to take place over three years. The roundtable, sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, will focus its attention on addressing the basic conceptual and theoretical issues associated with explaining changes in crime rates over time. In addition to identifying and examining current theories of contributing factors, the group will work to develop new theories and the methods through which they can be tested. Richard Rosenfeld, University of Missouri, St. Louis, is the chairman. Click here for more details.
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