February 14, 2014  || Vol. 6, Issue 7
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding     

Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources (NSF)

Deadline: March 3, 2014

As part of NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences (SBE) and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) seek to enable research communities to develop visions, teams, and capabilities dedicated to creating new, large-scale, next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research for the SBE and EHR areas of research.  Successful proposals will outline activities that will have significant impacts across multiple fields by enabling new types of data-intensive research.  Investigators should think broadly and create a vision that extends intellectually across multiple disciplines and that includes--but is not necessarily limited to--the SBE or EHR areas of research. Click here for more information. 

 

National Rural Health Policy and Community Development Program (HRSA)

Deadline: March 31, 2014

The purpose of the program is to develop and maintain projects that will help support rural communities through a broad range of activities in 14 key areas. Click here for more information.

 

Availability of Funds for Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Research and Demonstration Programs (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health)

Deadline: April 24, 2014

The purpose of this announcement is to work with communities with high teen pregnancy rates to develop innovative strategies for preventing teen pregnancy in populations/areas with demonstrated need. These could include high-risk, vulnerable, and culturally under-represented youth populations, and/or youth residing in areas with high birth or teen pregnancy rates. The successful applicant is expected to bring together a team in each selected community made up of representatives from various sectors to develop a strategy or prevention framework to address teen pregnancy prevention in their individual community. Click here for more information.  

 

Advancing Exceptional Research on HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse (NIH)
Deadline: July 31, 2014

This FOA will support highly innovative R01 applications on HIV/AIDS and drug abuse and will complement the Avant-Garde Award Program for HIV/AIDS research. The Avant-Garde award supports individuals who conduct high-risk, high-reward research and does not require a detailed research plan. Applications submitted under this FOA are expected to have a detailed research plan and preliminary data. This FOA focuses on innovative research projects that have the potential to open new areas of HIV/AIDS research and/or lead to new avenues for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS among substance abusers. The nexus with substance abuse should be clearly described. This FOA is open to both individual researchers and research teams and is not limited to any one area of research on HIV and substance use. Click here for more information. 

  

RGK Foundation Community and Health/Medicine Grants

Deadline: Rolling

Within Community, the Foundation supports a broad range of human services, community improvement, abuse prevention, and youth development programs. Human service programs of particular interest to the Foundation include children and family services, early childhood development, and parenting education. The Foundation's current interests in the area of Health/Medicine include programs that promote the health and well-being of children and programs that promote access to health services. Click here for more information.

  

DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY

National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families Summer Research Fellowship Program 

Deadline: March 7, 2014

The newly launched National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families is a hub of research to improve the lives of Hispanic children and families across three research priority areas: 1) poverty reduction and self-sufficiency; 2) healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood; and 3) early care and education. The Center is both policy and program driven and is dedicated to providing timely research findings, tools, and scholar opportunities to advance the capacity of the policy, program, and research field serving Hispanic children and families. The goal of the Summer Research Fellowship Program is to attract, develop, and expand the pool of emerging scholars focused on studying issues of relevance to low-income and vulnerable Hispanic children and families. Fellows will have applied opportunities to work on research studies and policy-related projects relevant to the Center's mission. The fellowship program is open to those currently enrolled in an advanced graduate program (Master's, Ph.D., or ABD "all but dissertation"). Click here for more information.
CallsCalls 
Call for Workshop Submissions
North American Association for Christians in Social Work (NACSW) 64th Annual Convention and Training Conference 
Deadline: March 1, 2014
NACSW announces its 64th Annual Conference entitled "Harbor in the Storm: Beacons of Hope during Challenging Times." All are encouraged to submit proposals for workshop and poster presentations sensitive to the ethical integration of spirituality, faith and social work practice. Presentations are encouraged that present model integration practices, report on research findings, and/or provide valuable information and insights relevant to the project of integrating spirituality, faith and social work practice. Click here for more information.
 
Call for Abstracts
Proposal for Edited Book - Working with Children Affected by Armed Conflict: Theory, Method, and Practice
Deadline: March 1, 2014

Drawing from a diverse range of disciplines such as anthropology, education, human geography, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, public health, and social work, this edited book will: 1) highlight the realities of children living in circumstances of war and political violence in diverse country contexts; 2) explore novel theoretical and conceptual approaches in studying children affected by armed conflict; 3) examine innovative research methodologies that seek to both empower and engage children affected by armed conflict in the research process through participatory and arts-based methods; 4) critically consider strategies of intervention that validate the perspectives and participation of children themselves. Click here for more information.


Call for Abstracts
GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality 32nd Annual Conference - Innovation & Collaboration for LGBT Health Equality
Deadline: March 10, 2014
This conference is a forum for discussion and exploration of how best to address these needs as well as the needs of LGBT health professionals and health profession students. GLMA's Annual Conference also reports on research into the health needs of LGBT people. This year's conference theme will highlight local, grassroots as well government and national initiatives to address LGBT health disparities. GLMA is seeking abstracts that explore innovation and collaboration in LGBT health and access to care. Click here for more information.

Call for Abstracts
4th Annual North American Refugee Health Conference
Deadline: April 1, 2014
The North American Refugee Health Conference is the premier conference for individuals working with refugee populations. Medical professionals from all backgrounds and specialty areas come together annually to discuss contemporary issues and best practices in refugee health. We invite you to submit a poster or oral presentation. Click here for more information.
Conferences & Trainingsconf

The Early Childhood Data Collaborative Webinar - The State of States' Early Childhood Data Systems: 2013 Survey Results

February 19, 2014

Are young children on track to succeed when they enter school?

How many children have access to high-quality early care and education programs? Is the early childhood workforce adequately trained to meet the needs of young children?

Most states cannot answer these basic questions because data on young children are housed in multiple, uncoordinated systems, managed by different state and federal agencies. This webinar will share results from the Early Childhood Data Collaborative's 2013 survey of state early childhood data systems. Click here for more information.

 

Northwestern University Rethinking the War on Drugs Symposium (From the ASPPH Friday Letter)

February 20-21, 2014 - Chicago, IL

The two day symposium will address federal and state criminal laws for possession, use, and sale of drugs; law enforcement, prosecutorial discretion, and sentencing for same; addiction programs; prison populations; social fabric of communities in which drug use is high; drug economics; EU approaches to the problem; and foreign policy directed at drug source. Click here for more information.

 

Health Care for Immigrant Families in the ACA Era Webinar

February 20, 2014 

Presented by the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University and the National Immigration Law Center will examine health reform law and regulations that affect the eligibility of immigrants and the access barriers they face, particularly when part of mixed-status families. The session will also look at which immigrant eligibility rules have not changed, showing a snapshot of the landscape of coverage options for immigrant families as health reform takes effect in 2014. Click here for more information.

 

UNC School of Law Conference on Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity (CRCGE) -

Captive Audience: Incarceration and the Family

February 22, 2014 - Chapel Hill, NC

This year, UNC School of Law's Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity will explore the myriad social dynamics implicated by incarceration's destabilized families, including both causes of the destabilization and their results. Click here for more information.

 

The University of Michigan Network on Inequality, Complexity & Health Conference - Complex Systems, Health Disparities and Population Health: Building Bridges

February 24-25, 2014 - Bethesda, MD

Join scholars and practitioners from the United States and abroad to learn about and see examples of how complex systems science can help guide our research and policy efforts to eliminate health disparities and improve the health of our population. Click here for more information.

 

The Rockefeller University Hospital Center for Clinical and Translational Science Webinar - Understanding the Research Participant's Experience: Outcome Measures to Improve Clinical Research

March 11, 2014

The objectives of this webinar are: 1. To describe how participant-centered measures are developed from qualitative and quantitative data; 2. To identify the utility of research participant experience measures (outcomes); 3. To describe how a health center would decide which participant experience outcome measure to attempt to improve. Click here to register.

The theme of this year's conference is: Considering Culture: Masculinities in International and Regional Contexts. Click here for more information.

 

22nd National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Conference on Mental Health Services Research (MHSR) - Research in Pursuit of a Learning Mental Health Care System

April 23-25, 2014 - Bethesda, MD 

Recent and ongoing changes in and concerns about our health care delivery system make the time ripe for evidence on how to structure and guide the mental health service system of the future. In particular, the recent National Academy of Sciences report Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America offers a useful framework toward managing increasing complexity in health systems and improving health outcomes-- the learning health care system. Applying these concepts to mental health care forms the nexus of a agenda for NIMH services research in the coming years and provide the basis for the MHSR 2014 agenda. Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 

Children's Bureau Express (CBX) Spotlight on LGBTQ Youth Toolkit

This month's CBX looks at an initiative by the Center for the Study of Social Policy on the challenges affecting LGBTQ youth in child welfare settings, a guide to help child welfare professionals better care for LGBTQ youth in foster care, and more. Click here for more information.

 

Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) Portfolio of Research in Welfare and Family Self Sufficiency: Fiscal Year 2013

This portfolio of research provides detailed summaries of OPRE's ongoing welfare and family self-sufficiency research efforts along with brief overviews of past projects. The featured projects cover topics that include TANF, the safety net, employment, education and training. The report also describes OPRE's efforts to disseminate rigorous research on welfare and family self-sufficiency.  This year's portfolio covers OPRE-funded projects for Fiscal Year 2013. Click here for more information.

News & Noticesnews  
Ron Haskins, Co-Director of the Brookings Center on Children and Families and Budgeting for National Priorities Project Testimony - Poverty and Opportunity: Begin with Facts 
Ron Haskins discusses the War on Poverty on its 50th Anniversary. Click here to read the full testimony.
 
Happy Anniversary, CHIPRA! Why it matters, and what's next 
On the fifth anniversary of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), which extended the authorization for CHIP, Community Catalyst reflects on all the great gains in children's health coverage that have been made through CHIP and discusses the future of this valuable program. Click here for more information. 
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