November 29, 2013  || Vol. 5, Issue 47
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding     

Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects Centers Program: Minority-Serving Institution Field Initiated Projects Program (Department of Education)

Deadline: January 21, 2014

The purpose of the Field-Initiated (FI) Projects program is to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities. Another purpose of the FI Projects program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The purpose of this competition is to improve the capacity of minority entities to conduct high-quality disability and rehabilitation research by limiting eligibility for FI Projects grants to minority entities and Indian tribes. Click here for more information.  

 

Secondary Data Analyses to Explore NIMH Research Domain Criteria (NIH) Deadline: January 7, 2017

NIMH seeks applications which propose secondary analyses of existing clinical research datasets to investigate constructs identified in the NIMH's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative and to test novel hypotheses using the RDoC framework. Click here for more information.  

 

Notah Begay III Foundation Capacity Building Grants

Deadline: December 16, 2013

The purpose of the Native Strong: Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures Capacity Building Grant is to support: (1) community Health Assessments (new or ongoing): to better understand the root causes of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes which will result in strategies and an action plan to address this health issue; or (2) community Planning and Capacity Building: to create a community-driven action plan to address childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes (i.e. host stakeholder convenings, coalition building and collaboration efforts). Click here for more information.

 

The Pathways to Health Equity for Aboriginal Peoples Health Signature Initiative: Circumpolar Wellness, Resilience and Suicide Prevention

Deadline: January 8, 2014

In the Arctic, Indigenous peoples have experienced numerous challenges associated with rapid changes and historical policies, including: threats to language and culture; erosion of traditional support networks; and changes to traditional diet and communal food practices. These challenges, often coupled with a sustained lack of economic opportunity, due, in part, to relative geographical isolation, have contributed to poor social and health outcomes. Applications put forward should be from a participatory, community-based, evaluation research perspective, and should aim to determine what strategies and interventions are the most effective with respect to mental wellness promotion and suicide prevention in circumpolar communities, with a particular focus on Indigenous youth (aged 25 and under). Click here for more information.

  

HIV Prevention Trials Network Professional Scholarship Opportunity

Deadline: January 15, 2014

The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), a global network of HIV researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health, is proud to offer an 18 month scholarship program for early-career US minority investigators. This scholarship provides funding to cover a portion of scholars' time (typically ~25%), travel to two scientific meetings, and other expenses. Applicants should be U.S. investigators who have received their terminal degree (MD, PhD, etc.) and are eager for the opportunity to work with a mentor scientist to complete a research project based upon an existing HIV research study in the HPTN. Click here for more information.

  

American College Health Foundation Student Resources Initiatives in College Mental and Behavioral Health Grants

Deadline: January 31, 2014

The UnitedHealthcare Student Resources Initiatives in College Mental and Behavioral Health Grant will support the development of creative solutions and programs to address issues specifically related to mental and behavioral health issues affecting college students. American College Health Association Institutional or Individual Members are eligible to apply for this grant. Click here for more information.  

  

Morehouse School of Medicine Satcher Health Leadership Institute Health Policy Leadership Fellowship Program

Deadline: January 17, 2014

The Health Policy Leadership Fellowship Program (est. 2009) is a multi-disciplinary training program designed to provide postdoctoral professionals with the specific knowledge, experiences, and skills needed to prepare them for leadership roles promoting and implementing policies and practices that reduce health disparities and advance health equity. Click here for more information. 

 

Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program

Deadline: April 16, 2014

The Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program aims to create a cadre of leaders who will serve as change agents in health and aging policy to ultimately improve the health of older adults. The year-long fellowship offers a rich and unique training and enrichment program that is focused on current policy issues, communication skills development, and professional networking opportunities to provide fellows with the experience and skills necessary to affect change through policy at a local, state or federal level. Click here for more information.


DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY

Okura Mental Health Scholarship for Asian and Pacific Islander Social Workers

Deadline: March 30, 2014

Two scholarships will be offered each year to fund the planning, implementation, and results dissemination of an innovative and culturally competent research project that focuses on API mental health related issues. Eligible applicants are post-graduate (MSW, MSSW) API social work doctoral students at the dissertation stage, or non-tenured full-time social work professors in the early stage of their career doing API related mental health research/training/programs. Click here for more information.

  

DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY

Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) Scholars in Sexuality Research Grants Program

Deadline: January 31, 2014

It is the purpose of the SMSNA to increase public awareness of healthy sexuality and sexual problems, to foster the finest care for individuals suffering from sexual debility, and to encourage scholarship and research in human sexuality. Funding is available for graduate or medical students, residents in graduate medical education training programs, and post-doctoral/post-residency fellows. Because sexual medicine is a multi-disciplinary field and sex impacts almost every aspect of human endeavor in some way, we encourage applications from aspiring researchers representing diverse backgrounds including but not limited to urology, psychology, psychiatry, gynecology, internal medicine, geriatrics, public health, physiology, genetics, molecular biology, social work, and law. Click here for more information. Click here for more information.

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Call for Presentations

Head Start's 12th National Research Conference on Early Childhood - Collaboration and Coordination: Understanding Systems Supporting Young Children and Their Families

Deadline: December 9, 2013

Head Start's National Research Conference on 

Early Childhood will highlight research focusing on service integration, coordination, and alignment, while continuing to showcase evidence-based best practices and new research surrounding child care, 

Head Start, home visiting, and other early childhood programs and approaches. Click here for more information.

 

Call for Abstracts

2nd International Science Symposium on HIV and Infectious Diseases

Deadline: December 10, 2013

Abstracts will be accepted in the fields of basic science, clinical science, public health, translational research and social/behavioral science relating to the following fields: HIV/AIDS, STDs, TB, viral hepatitis, other infectious diseases. Click here for more information.  

 

Call for Presentations

Foster Family-Based Treatment Association (FFTA) 28th Annual Conference on Treatment Foster Care

Deadline: December 18, 2013

Each year more than 600 treatment foster care and related family-based service professionals gather from around the world to expand their knowledge-base and learn new strategies and models that help vulnerable children and youth in out-of-home care thrive in a family-based treatment setting. The FFTA Conference Committee is interested in receiving proposals for advanced-level workshops on topics geared toward clinicians; agency CEOs and other senior-level staff; program managers and directors; supervisors; administrative staff; foster parent trainers, researchers and evaluators; and foster parents. To meet the professional development needs of our experienced audience, workshops will highlight new models and strength-based approaches, innovative interventions, current research and trends, emerging theories, or new ways to approach "tried-and-true" strategies. Click here for more information.

 

Call for Authors 

Encyclopedia of World Poverty 2nd Edition

Deadline: January 31, 2014

SAGE's Encyclopedia of World Poverty 2nd Edition is now under development. This completely updated five-volume reference will provide extensive and current information on the changing world of poverty, as well as insight into the contemporary debates. Articles will explore poverty in various regions of the world, and examine the difficulties associated with the definition and measurement of poverty, along with its causes and effects. Click here for more information.

Conferences & Trainingsconf
Unlocking Justice: The Impact of the Federal Drug Ban on Welfare Benefits Webinar
December 4, 2013
A recent report of The Sentencing Project, A Lifetime of Punishment: The Impact of the Federal Drug Ban on Welfare Benefits, found a provision of the 1996 welfare reform legislation passed by Congress subjects an estimated 180,000 women in the 12 most impacted states to a lifetime ban on welfare benefits. This webinar will review this research and discuss strategies and tactics for challenging such policies at the federal and state level. Click here for more information and to register. 

Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse Webinar - Family Structure, Stability and Child Wellbeing
December 11, 2013
Dr. Terry-Ann Craigie, the current Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse (SSRC) Emerging Scholar, will host a Webinar titled Family Structure, Stability and Child Wellbeing. Dr. Craigie will discuss the determinants and effects of family structure and instability, as well as the pathways through which child wellbeing is affected. Click here for more information and to register. 

California Center for Research on Women & Families 2014 Women's Policy Summit: Advancing Women's Health, Wealth & Power
January 16, 2014 - Sacramento, CA

The Women's Policy Summit is a major policy forum held in the State's Capital to help launch the legislative session with proposals to advance the health, wealth and power of women and girls in all of their diverse communities.

This year we add a special focus on implementation. How can we be sure that laws supportive of women and girls are translated into programs and practices? Click here for more information.

 

University of California - San Francisco Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) Training Program for Scientists Conducting Research to Reduce HIV/STI Health Disparities

Application Deadline: January 17, 2014

The Training Program for Scientists Conducting Research to Reduce HIV/STI Health Disparities program is designed for scientists in tenure-track positions or investigators in research institutes who have not yet obtained RO1 funding from the NIH or equivalent funding from another agency. We seek scientists conducting theory-driven, culturally specific HIV prevention research with minority communities. Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to social and behavioral HIV research and related research topics (e.g. sexual and reproductive health) and experience conducting research and publishing scientific manuscripts. Click here for more information.

Visions, Inc. Conference - Being Culturally Responsive in Urban Settings:
What Mental Health Providers Working with Children and Families Need to Know
January 23-24, 2014 - Cambridge, MA
This conference is the first ever convening of mental health providers (social workers, psychologists, licensed mental health workers), administrators and others working with children and families in urban communities in school, health center, DCF, DYS, and other community-based settings. The two-day conference hosts training, resources, and networking opportunities for providers and explores pressing issues that providers encounter in their work. Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 
Data Quality Campaign (DQC) Annual Report - Data for Action 2013: Right Questions, Right Data, Right Answers

States have more capacity than ever to use secure education data, but they need to place a greater focus on using the right data to answer the right questions to improve student success. In DQC's annual report, find out more about: Data for Action 2013 key findings; the national landscape of education data and policy; examples from leading states; and information on how states are serving the data needs of teachers, parents, school and district administrators, policy makers, and the public. Click here for more information and to download the full report.


Study of Asian Americans identifies subsets of socially disadvantaged workers at risk of poor mental health
A well-documented finding is that individuals of the highest socioeconomic status (SES) have better health, particularly mental health, than those at the bottom and all intermediary levels. Yet, there is increasing evidence from studies of racial/ethnic minorities and immigrants in the United States showing more complex links between SES and health. In an effort to understand whether such a phenomenon exists in the fast-growing, heterogeneous Asian American population, researchers investigated the associations of nativity and occupational class with subjective health and 12-month mental disorders. They found that occupational class was not strongly associated with subjective health and mental disorder for Asian Americans, including immigrants. Click here for more information.
News & Noticesnews  
ChildTrends Blog Post - Homelessness among LGBT Youth: A National Concern
This post focuses on November as National Homeless Youth Awareness Month and discusses homeless among youth, particularly LGBT youth. Click here to read the full post.

 

New York Times Article - Medicaid Help Without Falling Into Poverty
This article discusses Medicaid eligibility, including changes under the Affordable Care Act, and particularly how these regulations impact older adults. Click here to read the full article.
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