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March 7, 2014 || Vol. 6, Issue 10
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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
W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research on Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime (NIJ) Deadline: May 12, 2014
NIJ seeks applications for the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research on Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime FY 2014. The Fellowship program seeks to advance knowledge regarding the confluence of crime, justice, and culture in various societal contexts. The Fellowship places particular emphasis on crime, violence, and the administration of criminal justice in diverse cultural contexts within the United States. Click here for more information.
Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic or Translational Mental Health Research (NIH) Deadline: May 26, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic or Translational Mental Health Research. The institute seeks teams of researchers working at different levels of analysis and employing integrative, novel, and creative experimental approaches to address high-risk, high-impact questions with the primary objective of: (a) advancing the state of the science in brain and behavior research that will ultimately provide the foundation for understanding mental disorders; (b) supporting the integration and translation of basic and clinical neuroscience research on severe mental illnesses; and/or (c) advancing our understanding of the neurobehavioral developmental mechanisms and trajectories of psychopathology that begin in childhood and adolescence. The Conte Centers program is intended to support interdisciplinary basic and/or translational research demonstrating an extraordinary level of synergy, integration, and potential for advancing the state of the field. This program is intended only for projects that could not be achieved using other, more standard grant mechanisms. The Conte Centers program also provides an opportunity to establish interdisciplinary basic and/or translational research experiences for individuals in training. Click here for more information.
Advancing Structural Level Interventions Through Enhanced Understanding of Social Determinants in HIV Prevention and Care (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2017
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications that propose to understand and address social determinants associated with the prevention and treatment of HIV. This FOA describes two research endeavors that are unique and overlapping. The first is to characterize those social determinants that are most relevant to HIV prevention and treatment outcomes, particularly in their association with inequities in HIV risk or disease outcomes. The second is to develop and test structural interventions aimed at reducing the negative impact or maximizing positive aspects of social determinants. Click here for more information.
Targeted Basic Behavioral and Social Science and Intervention Development for HIV Prevention and Care (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2017
The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to provide a global outline of areas for innovative, targeted basic behavioral and social science research and intervention development research to reduce the number of new HIV infections and improve the overall health of those living with HIV and encourage research grant applications in these areas. This FOA encourages research designed to (a) conduct basic behavioral and social science research that is needed to advance the development of HIV prevention and care interventions, (b) translate and operationalize the findings from these basic studies to develop interventions and assess their feasibility and (c) conduct tests of the efficacy of HIV prevention and care interventions. Click here for more information.
Improving Delivery of HIV Prevention and Treatment through Implementation Science and Translational Research (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2017
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages research designed to increase the public health impact of efficacious HIV/AIDS-related interventions for prevention and treatment. To maximize the public health impact of available interventions, significant progress is needed to advance science designed to get interventions to the men, women, and children who need them. The goals of this scientific agenda are to learn how best to deliver interventions more efficiently and effectively in real-world communities and clinics, to more readily transfer interventions from one setting or population to another, and to make better-informed choices for combination intervention packages. Click here for more information.
Behavioral Interventions to Address Multiple Chronic Health Conditions in Primary Care (NIH)
Deadline: May 7, 2017
his funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose to use a common conceptual model to develop behavioral interventions to modify health behaviors and improve health outcomes in patients with comorbid chronic diseases and health conditions. Specifically, this FOA will support research in primary care that uses a multi-disease care management approach to behavioral interventions with high potential impact to improve patient-level health outcomes for individuals with three or more chronic health conditions. The proposed approach must modify behaviors using a common approach rather than administering a distinct intervention for each targeted behavior and/or condition. Diseases and health conditions can include, but are not limited to: mental health disorders (e.g., depression), diabetes, smoking, obesity, chronic pain, alcohol and substance abuse and dependence, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, cancer and hypertension. Click here for more information.
William T. Grant Foundation Reducing Inequality Program
Deadline: May 6, 2014
The Foundation supports high-quality research that enhances our understanding of the programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequalities in youth development. Click here for more information.
DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (NIJ)
Deadline: May 12, 2014
NIJ is seeking proposals for funding innovative dissertation research under the NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) Program that provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited academic institutions that offer research-based doctoral degrees in social and behavioral academic disciplines relevant to NIJ's mission. NIJ invests in doctoral education by supporting universities that sponsor students who demonstrate the potential to successfully complete doctoral degree programs in disciplines relevant to the mission of NIJ and who are in the final stages of graduate study. Applicants sponsoring doctoral students are eligible to apply only if the doctoral research dissertation has direct relevance to providing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to better prevent and control crime and ensure the fair and impartial administration of criminal justice in the United States. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Abstracts
International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference
Deadline: March 14, 2014
The Family Research Laboratory and the Crimes against Children Research Center are pleased to announce the 2014 International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference. This conference is part of a three-decade series of conferences on all aspects of family violence and youth victimization. Our conferences have historically been a unique opportunity for researchers and scientist/practitioners from a broad array of disciplines to come together for the purpose of sharing, integrating and critiquing accumulated knowledge on family violence. Click here for more information.
Call for Proposals
2014 National Human Services Training Evaluation Symposium - Building a Professional Workforce: Evaluating the Spectrum of Professional Development
Deadline: April 1, 2014
We invite you to join some 40 to 60 national and international training evaluators in the human services field with a focus on child welfare to share your evaluation struggles, ideas, challenges, and methodologies in an atmosphere of collaboration and support. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Clinical Social Work Journal (CSWJ) - Mental Health and Social Work Services in the Aftermath of Disasters
Deadline: April 15, 2014
The Special Issue of Clinical Social Work Journal (CSWJ) will explore the topic of disaster behavioral health and traumatic stress response work. This is a timely issue given the increase in weather related disasters, the record number of school shootings in the U.S., and the increase of terrorist attacks and armed conflict worldwide. This issue will present the available research on both current concepts and trends in the disaster literature, the immediate, short-and long-term sequelae, and treatment and screening options for each respective disaster phase. This issue will also cover resilience building, addressing the needs of disaster-affected children, secondary traumatic stress, and other issues related to disaster responders and humanitarian workers. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and and Public Health - Eliminating Health Disparities to Achieve Health Equity
Deadline: July 31, 2014
The purpose of this special issue is to highlight the latest interdisciplinary and innovative research, tools, methods and approaches to assess, reduce and prevent environmentally driven social, racial and ethnic health disparities. We welcome manuscripts that link environmental, health and these factors including, but not limited to, spatial dimensions of health disparities, community capacity building for environmental justice and community based participatory research. Additionally, .we also encourage submissions on policy analysis/policy decision making that address social determinants of environmental health, and on analytical approaches that inform decision making for policy and program development/implementation to reduce/prevent environmental health disparities. Our aim is to advance health disparity research into the arena of environmental health and help accelerate efforts designed to improve access to healthy environments for vulnerable populations. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
National Child Welfare Workforce Institute Four-Part Webinar Series - Making a Difference: NCWWI Impact & Lessons Learned (2008-2013)
March 26, 2014
Part 1: Evaluation Findings, Strategies & Lessons Learned
NCWWI evaluators will share the results of the rigorous formative and outcome evaluations that informed our partnership and provided important data for how well we met goals and achieved outcomes. Participants will learn about the evaluation methods used, dissemination and outreach efforts, as well as the results of the service components. Click here for more information.
Community Justice 2014 International Summit
April 22-24, 2014 - San Francisco, CA
The Center for Court Innovation in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance and theCalifornia Administrative Office of the Courts will be hosting Community Justice 2014. The summit will provide an opportunity for practitioners from both inside and outside the justice system, including judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, probation officials, court administrators, police, clinical staff, and non-profit organizations to learn about a range of topics, including best practices in procedural justice, risk/needs assessment, alternative sanctions, and community restitution. Click here for more information.
Third International Conference on Practice Research - Building Bridges not Pipelines: Promoting Two-Way Traffic Between Practice and Research
June 9-11, 2014 - New York, NY
The organizers of this conference-practice research leaders from several countries-view the New York conference as a means of widening the discussion of practice research by engaging a broader international audience of current practitioners, users and researchers regarding the role practice research can play in knowledge-building. Additionally, we view the New York conference as a means of engaging social work educators regarding the role of social work practice research in educating future social workers. Click here for more information.
DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
2014 Research to Practice Institute
June 4, 2014 - Boston, MA
The 2nd annual Research to Practice Institute (RPI) is being held in conjunction with the 25th annual conference of the Network for Social Work Management. The RPI aims to strengthen professional networks and to build the capacity of doctoral students for whom human service management and leadership is an area of research and scholarship. The goal of this one-day institute is to support the research trajectory and professional development of leaders in the field of social work management through mentorship, collaboration, and technical support. Click here for more information.
DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
Columbia Population Research Center Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop 2014
June 11-13, 2014 - New York, NY
The Columbia Population Research Center will soon be accepting applications for the Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop to be held June 11-13, 2014 at Columbia School of Social Work in New York City. The workshop is designed to familiarize participants with the data available in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national study following a birth cohort of (mostly) unmarried parents and their children, providing information about the capabilities, circumstances, and relationships of unwed parents, the wellbeing of their children, and the role of public policy in family and child wellbeing. The 2014 workshop will include special sections on the potential for using the Fragile Families Study in comparative research, particularly making use of the Millenium Cohort Study, a contemporary birth cohort study from the United Kingdom. The workshop is targeted toward young scholars from social and biomedical science disciplines, including junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
New Database Available
The State of Preschool Yearbook: State-Funded Pre-K Program Data, 2011-2012 School Year
The State of Preschool Yearbook is annual review of access to, quality standards in, and resources devoted to state-funded preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children in the 54 programs in 40 states and the District of Columbia providing such programs, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs. This edition of data covers the 2011-2012 school year, and accompanies the 2012 State of Preschool Yearbook. Click here for more information.
Cost Analysis in Program Evaluation: A Guide for Child Welfare Researchers and Service Providers
Motivated by a growing need for accurate and comparable information about the costs of child welfare programs and services and by the lack of a standard methodology for calculating costs across its grant-funded demonstration and evaluation projects, the Children's Bureau brought together experts to address this need. The result is a guide for conducting cost analysis that can be integrated into and informed by a program evaluation. The guide and companion video shorts demonstrate how cost analyses, when integrated within a program evaluation, can promote better understanding of a program from initial implementation through full-scale roll out by requiring and defining key service components. In this way, cost analyses become an important piece of the conceptual framework for program planning and implementation and are viewed as another set of key evaluation measures. Click here for more information.
Guttmacher Institute Study: Abortion Incidence and Service Availability in the United States, 2011
A new study from the Guttmacher Institute shows the US abortion rate at its lowest level since 1973. This decline is partly due to increasing use of long-acting, reversible contraceptives like the Population Council-developed IUD, from 2% of contraceptive users in 2002 to 9% in 2009. Click here to view the full report.
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News & Notices
Social Work Month 2014
March is National Social Work Month! The National Association of Social Workers has chosen the 2014 Social Work Month theme: "All People Matter." NASW selected this year's theme and logo to help raise awareness about the American social work profession's 116-year commitment to improving social conditions and quality of life opportunities for everyone. Social workers across the globe believe that all people have dignity and deserve respect. Click here for more information.
President Obama Launches My Brother's Keeper Initiative to Build Ladders of Opportunity For Boys and Young Men of Color
President Obama is taking action to launch My Brother's Keeper - a new initiative to help every boy and young man of color who is willing to do the hard work to get ahead. For decades, opportunity has lagged behind for boys and young men of color. But across the country, communities are adopting approaches to help put these boys and young men on the path to success. The President wants to build on that work. We can learn from communities that are partnering with local businesses and foundations to connect these boys and young men to mentoring, support networks, and skills they need to find a good job or go to college and work their way up into the middle class. And the Administration will do its part by helping to identify and promote programs that work. Click here for more information.
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