Funding Opportunities     

MCH Autism Intervention Research Program(NIH)

Deadline: May 12, 2014

This program supports applied empirical research studies to advance the evidence base on the effectiveness of interventions to improve the health and well-being of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other developmental disabilities (DD) and to advance best practices for the screening and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities at an earlier age. Applicants are encouraged to propose research studies that address the unique and unaddressed needs of underserved populations, by considering ethnic/racial, cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic, literacy and geographic (e.g., rural/urban) diversity of individuals for whom there is limited evidence of the effectiveness of interventions or for whom disparities in identification of ASD exist with limited understanding of the reasons for these disparities and evidence-based ways to close these gaps. Click here for more information.  

 

National Institute on Aging (NIA) Butler-Williams Scholars Program

Deadline: March 28, 2014

The Butler-Williams Scholars Program - originally known as the Summer Institute on Aging Research - offers junior faculty an opportunity to be exposed to the NIH and the NIA. The program offers technical instruction on how to write a grant and succeed in a research career and scholars interested in aging biology, neuroscience, behavioral and social science, and geriatrics and clinical gerontology have participated. Click here for more information.

 

Youth Violence: Opportunity for Breakthroughs in Fundamental Basic Research (NSF)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is interested in receiving proposals that will enable a better understanding of the contributing factors, causes, and consequences of violence perpetrated by and against youth. The NSF seeks proposals that would advance the basic theories and methods to improve our understanding of the contributors to youth violence and to its reduction. The Foundation is especially interested in research relating to destructive violence as opposed to harm as a regrettable byproduct of other experiences or activities (e.g., contact sports). NSF is interested in a wide range of approaches to investigating these issues. Proposals that investigate at the level of individual, family, school, community, and/or culture are encouraged. Click here for more information.

Obesity Society Early-Career Research Grants

Deadline: March 31, 2014

This program (formerly, New Investigator Research Grants) is offered by The Obesity Society (TOS), as a member service, to foster and stimulate new research ideas in any area of investigation related to obesity. The program targets junior-level investigators and post-doctoral trainees by funding proposals that demonstrate a high likelihood of resulting in new and innovative approaches in obesity research. Click here for more information.

Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) RIDGE Center for National Food and Nutrition Assistance Research 2014-2015 Small Grants Program

Deadline: April 18, 2014
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) seeks to stimulate innovative research related to federal food assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP (formerly Food Stamps) and the National School Breakfast/Lunch Program, and to support training of researchers interested in food assistance issues. Click here for more information.

Moving to Opportunity (MTO) is a randomized housing experiment administered by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development that gave low-income families living in high-poverty areas in five cities the chance to move to lower-poverty areas. Families were tracked from baseline (1994-1998) through the long-term evaluation survey fielding period (2008-2010) with the purpose of determining the effects of "neighborhood" on participating families. These particular files include data from the 3,273 adult interviews completed as part of the MTO long-term evaluation and are comprised of variables analyzed for the article "Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults." Click here for more information and to gain access to these freely available data.

NEW DATASET AVAILABLE

Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP) 2003
The Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP) is the only national survey that gathers data directly from youth in the juvenile justice system. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) designed the survey in 2000 and 2001 to survey offender youth between the ages of 10 and 20. SYRP asks the youth about their backgrounds, offense histories and problems; the facility environment; experiences in the facility; experiences with alcohol and drugs; experiences of victimization in placement; medical needs and services received; and their expectations for the future. Click here for more information.

Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and Management Launches diversitydatakids.org

Explore hundreds of measures of child wellbeing and policy analysis from a unique information source that documents diversity, opportunity, and equity among US children. Click here for more information.

Children's Bureau Express Child Welfare Outcomes Data Site Update

Since its launch in December 2010, the Child Welfare Outcomes Data Site has provided child welfare-related data to research consumers using data from the annual Child Welfare Outcomes Report to Congress. This report assesses State performance in operating child protection and child welfare programs and presents State-performance data in seven outcome categories related to child safety, permanency, and well-being. New enhancements to the site now allow users to look at race and ethnicity data in a more detailed manner. Click here for more information.

The Discipline Disparities Research to Practice Collaborative Discipline Disparities Briefing Papers

The Discipline Disparities Research to Practice Collaborative, within a national context of troubling disparities and promising solutions, has used information from stakeholder groups, as well as knowledge of the current status of research in the field, to craft this series of informational briefs and supplementary research papers with targeted recommendations customized for different audiences. Click here for more information.

 

ChildTrends Research Brief - A Fifteen Year (1997-2012) Profile of Children's Overall Health: National and State Estimates, by Family Income Level

Here we estimate the proportion of children reported by parents to be in "very good" or
"excellent" health, between 1997 and 2012. We examine trends in health status for children ages birth through 17, nationally and across states, and across family income-levels. Click here for more information.