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December 27, 2013 || Vol. 5, Issue 51
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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
Evaluating Promising Strategies to Build the Evidence Base for Sexual Violence Prevention (CDC)
Deadline: March 19, 2014
The purpose of this announcement is to support research to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of primary prevention strategies for the perpetration of sexual violence. The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control's research priorities for sexual violence prevention include evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of programs, strategies, and policies across all levels of the social ecology to prevent and interrupt the development of sexual violence perpetration. In addition, the Center's research priorities highlight the need to identify effective programs, strategies, and policies that might prevent multiple types of violence concurrently, including sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and other forms of violence, and evaluating the economic efficiency of such programs, strategies and policies. Click here for more information.
Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE) (NIH)
Deadline: March 23, 2014
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The goal of this NHLBI R25 program is to enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce . To this end, this funding opportunity announcement encourages the development of creative educational activities with a primary focus on Research Experiences, Courses for Skills Development and Mentoring Activities. Click here for more information.
Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2017
The purpose of the NIH Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) is to provide support and protected time (three, four, or five years) for an intensive, supervised career development experience in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical sciences leading to research independence. Although all of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) use this support mechanism to support career development experiences that lead to research independence, some ICs use the K01 award for individuals who propose to train in a new field or for individuals who have had a hiatus in their research career because of illness or pressing family circumstances. Other ICs utilize the K01 award to increase research workforce diversity by providing enhanced research career development opportunities. Click here for more information.
Russell Sage Foundation Program on Social Inequality
Deadline: January 31, 2014
The Russell Sage Foundation's program on Social Inequality supports research on the social, economic, political, and labor market consequences of rising economic inequalities in the United States. We seek investigator-initiated research projects that will broaden our understanding of the causes and consequences of rising economic inequalities. We are especially interested in projects that might use innovative data or methodologies to address important questions about inequality. Click here for more information.
Kessler Foundation Signature Employment Grants
Deadline: February 7, 2014
Signature Employment Grants are awarded nationally to fund new pilot initiatives, demonstration projects or social ventures that lead to the generation of new ideas to solve the high unemployment and underemployment of individuals with disabilities. Preference is given for interventions that overcome specific employment barriers related to long-term dependence on public assistance, advance competitive employment in a cost-effective manner, or launch a social enterprise or individual entrepreneurship project. Click here for more information.
DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
Deadline: Discipline Dependent
The National Science Foundation awards grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Click here for more information.
DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
Asian and Pacific Islanders Social Work Education Association 2014-2015 Doctoral Fellowship
Deadline: April 30, 2014
The Asian and Pacific Islander Social Work Educators Association (APISWEA) has
established two doctoral fellowships for Asian and Pacific Islander doctoral students. These fellowships will fund two doctoral students to attend the CSWE APM in Tampa, Florida. Awardees must present their dissertation proposal at the annual APISWEA meeting usually held in the afternoon prior to the CSWE APM opening ceremony. The objectives of these fellowships are: (1) to encourage doctoral students to share their current doctoral dissertation proposals with their colleagues and peers; and (2) to support doctoral students to attend CSWE APM. Click here for more information.
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Calls
REMINDER
Call for Proposals
National Organization for Forensic Social Work Conference - 21st Century Forensic Practice: Moving Beyond Cultural Competence
Deadline: January 15, 2014
The conference planning committee invites presentations, workshops, symposia, posters, and advanced or innovative research and practice solutions that address the psychosocial determinants of health, well-being, and legal/justice involvement for individuals, families, and communities. Topics may include innovative clinical and policy responses to interpersonal and structural violence across the lifespan ('offenders' and/or 'victims'); mass incarceration; inter-professional collaboration; culturally responsive trauma informed care; criminal, family, juvenile, and restorative justice policies and interventions; family and community mediation; the use of the expressive arts and spirituality for rehabilitation; clinical assessment and treatment using the DSM-5; mitigation in capital cases; specialty courts; child, adolescent, adult, and elder welfare; end of life issues; forensic mental health and substance abuse interventions in correctional or community settings; custody vs. care ethical dilemmas, risk management for service providers, human rights education, and social media advocacy campaigns. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Clinical Social Work Journal (CSWJ): Has the Train Left the Station? Cyber Technology in Social Work Practice and Education
Deadline: January 15, 2014
This issue will explore the increasing use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in social work practice and education. The digital age has revolutionized how individuals of all ages interact. It is essential for social work practitioners and educators to understand the benefits and risks and learn how to adapt to this change, as ICT is increasingly becoming an inevitable component of social work practice and education. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Journal of Family Strengths: Family Engagement, Support, and Capacity Building for the 21st Century
Deadline: July 1, 2014Families do 90% of all counseling, education, caregiving, health care and norm enforcement for their members. While a vital backbone for services provided to their members across the lifespan, families often lack requisite skills, resources and supports. When challenged or overwhelmed, they may be blamed for poor outcomes. The Children's Bureau in its centennial year was heralded for its attention to families and for leading the nation in promoting more family supportive practices and policies. Building on this theme of more 21st century family-centered capacity building, there is a need to generate more evidence-based policy and practice knowledge. This special issue builds on such family strengthening agendas by seeking manuscripts which offer an array of contributions to advance an evidence base for practice and policy. To that end, we seek manuscripts which address prevention and early intervention with diverse families in diverse communities. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
REMINDER
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) Summer Research Institute
Deadline: January 31, 2014
The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (hereafter NDACAN) sponsors an annual Summer Research Institute (SRI) on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. The Institute provides an intensive experience in the secondary analysis of child abuse and neglect data. Participants represent a wide variety of disciplines (e.g., psychology, medicine, epidemiology, law, social work) and are selected on a competitive basis. The primary goals of the Institute are to increase utilization of NDACAN's holdings and to facilitate a medium-term secondary analysis project from which child abuse and neglect researchers can publish. Click here for more information.
21st Annual Children's Law Institute
January 15-17, 2014 - Albuquerque, NM
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Webinar - Using the CAHPS Database to Compare, Report, and Improve Organizational Performance
January 15, 2014
This free Webcast from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will present an overview of how organizations can benefit from use of the CAHPS Database. The Webcast will include: (1) a demonstration of the CAHPS Database's Online Reporting System, a Web-based platform for viewing results from the CAHPS Health Plan Survey and Clinician & Group Surveys; (2) two case examples of consortium users of the CAHPS Database and Online Reporting Systems; (3) an explanation of how survey users can participate in this free, voluntary program.
Since 1998, the CAHPS Database has accepted CAHPS survey results voluntarily submitted by health plans and, more recently, physician practices. Hundreds of CAHPS survey users rely on the CAHPS Database to assess their own results relative to key comparators, such as national and regional averages, in order to identify opportunities to improve patient experience with care. The CAHPS Database also provides a mechanism that national and regional consortia can use to compare CAHPS survey data collected by multiple health plans or medical practices using different survey vendors. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Using Data to Understand Your Community
This brief compiles a list of resources that community stakeholders can explore to use data to understand the community and population. Click here to read the brief.
Center for Poverty Research Policy Brief - Immigrant Mothers, Community
Organizations and Poverty
Community-based organizations (CBOs) serve low-income immigrants who face significant barriers to public aid. An increasing proportion of these populations includes families with children who live in poverty. In ongoing research, Faculty Affiliate Dina Okamoto, Valerie Feldman and Melanie Jones Gast find that Latin American immigrant mothers in high-poverty areas rely on CBOs to meet their diverse needs. Click here for more information.
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) CCDF Policies Database Book of Tables: Key Cross-State Variations in CCDF Policies as of October 1, 2012
This book of tables presents key aspects of CCDF-funded programs across all 50 States, territories, outlying areas, and the District of Columbia as of October 1, 2012. The book of tables highlights policy variations across four general areas of policy: eligibility requirements for families and children; family application, terms of authorization, and redetermination; family payments; and policies for providers, including maximum reimbursement rates. Along with each table, this report provides highlights of the policies in effect in 2012, as well as how those policies have changed since 2011. Click here for more information.
AHRQ Statistical Brief - The Long-Term Uninsured in America, 2008-2011 (Selected Intervals): Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population under Age 65
Using information from the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC) for 2010 and 2011, this Statistical Brief provides detailed estimates for the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized non-elderly (under age 65) population that was uninsured for the entire 2008-2011 period and identifies groups most at risk of lacking any coverage during that four-year period. Click here to read the full brief.
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News & Notices
Office of Minority Health Press Release: New project aimed at collecting health data for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have launched a new project aimed at improving health data collection for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. The information will be collected through the National Health Interview Survey, which is conducted by CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. As a way to increase the number of Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander households included in the survey, the Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander National Health Interview Survey uses the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, which collects data on approximately 3 million households in the United States annually. Click here for more information.
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