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August 22, 2014 || Vol. 6, Issue 34
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Funding Opportunities
Drug Abuse Prevention Intervention Research (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2015
The purpose of this FOA is to encourage Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to advance the science of drug abuse and drug-related HIV prevention through 1) the development of novel prevention approaches, 2) the testing of novel and adapted prevention intervention approaches 3) the elucidation of processes associated with the selection, adoption, adaptation, implementation, sustainability, and financing of empirically validated interventions, and 4) the development of new methodologies suitable for the design and analysis of prevention research studies. Programs of research are intended to provide pathways toward the discovery of population-level approaches for the prevention of drug abuse and dependence, drug-related problems (such as mental health, interpersonal violence, criminal involvement, and productivity loss), and drug-related disorders (e.g., comorbid drug and psychiatric disorders; infections such as HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C). Click here for more information.
NICHD Consortium for Research on Pediatric Trauma and Injury Prevention (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2017
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to encourage multidisciplinary collaborations to target gaps in research on pediatric trauma and injury prevention. The team science approach encouraged by this FOA could be used to generate a research resource, which may include discovery-based or hypothesis-generative approaches, to advance the relevant area of biomedical research or to devise breakthrough ideas, concepts and approaches to therapies in pediatric trauma and injury prevention research. Click here for more information.
Understanding Factors in Infancy and Early Childhood (Birth to 24 months) That Influence Obesity Development (NIH)
Deadline: February 5, 2017 This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations which propose to characterize or identify factors in early childhood (birth-24 months) that may increase or mitigate risk for obesity and/or excessive weight gain and/or to fill methodological research gaps relevant to the understanding of risk for development of obesity in children. Studies must propose research in children from birth to 24 months, although any proposed follow-up assessments, if applicable, may continue past this period. Studies may also assess factors relevant to families and/or caregivers of children from birth to 24 months. Applications should seek to fill unique research needs and involve expertise across disciplines as appropriate for the proposed research question. Click here for more information.
Developing Interventions for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity (NIH)
Deadline: September 7, 2017 This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications for Phased Innovation (R21/R33) grant awards to support highly innovative research aimed at developing multi-level interventions that will increase health-enhancing physical activity: 1) in persons or groups who can benefit from such activity; and 2) that can be made scalable and sustainable for broad use across the nation. Click here for more information.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization Grants Deadline: Open
Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) supports research, policy analysis and evaluation projects that provide policy leaders timely information on health care policy, financing and organization issues. Supported projects include: examining significant issues and interventions related to health care financing and organization and their effects on health care costs, quality and access; and exploring or testing major new ways to finance and organize health care that have the potential to improve access to more affordable and higher quality health services. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Nominations
ACOSA Awards
Deadline: September 15, 2014
ACOSA invites you to nominate a worthy candidate for the Career Achievement Award, Emerging Scholar Award, Outstanding Practitioner, and/or Outstanding Student Award to be given at the Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in Tampa FL on October, 23-26, 2014. P lease consider nominating outstanding colleagues and students who teach, conduct scholarship, and practice in the areas of community organization and social administration. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Public Health Reports - Implementation of Routine HIV Screening in Clinical Settings
Deadline: September 15, 2014
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommend that HIV screening be a routine practice in clinical settings. The Guest Editors are interested in manuscripts that describe experiences implementing routine HIV screening in clinical settings, especially those that directly address reaching scale in making HIV screening a routine practice in these settings. Manuscripts that describe routine HIV screening in all clinical settings are welcome, and the Guest Editors are particularly interested in reports from community health centers. Ideally, this Supplemental Issue will include manuscripts that provide evidence about the outcomes of implementing different approaches to routine HIV screening in these settings. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of the Journal of Public Child Welfare - Defining the Evidence Base for In-Home Services
Deadline: November 15, 2014
This special issue of Journal of Public Child Welfare seeks to stimulate intentional thinking about how child welfare systems -- the public sector and allied formal and informal community resources -- are currently working toward improving outcomes when children are at home and to help keep children at home. The issue strives to inform the field of practices with the strongest evidence base that have been applied to in-home child welfare services. Moreover, we are looking to improve practice and program development, addressing critical issues faced by program administrators and practitioners working toward keeping children at home in the face of limited resources. We are looking for original and well-executed quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods studies that use the most rigorous (and appropriate) methodologies to address in-home child welfare approaches such as those noted below. Strong conceptual articles will also be considered for this issue. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of The Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research (JSSWR) - Etiology and Treatment of Severe Mental Illness: From People and Programs to Public Policy
Deadline: June 1, 2015
All high-quality manuscripts addressing issues related to severe mental illness with relevance to social work are of interest. Thus, papers may report on practice issues at the individual, family, community, organizational, and provider levels, as well as U.S. and comparative policy. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
National Partnership for Action Webinar - Minnesota's Healthy Minnesota Partnership and Health Equity in All Policies Approach
August 22, 2014 - 3:00-4:00 PM EDT
This webinar will outline the purposeful efforts in Minnesota to change the narrative about what creates health and highlight the health in all policies approach being taken by state agencies that has evolved from the use of the new narrative about health and equity. The Healthy Minnesota Partnership is an effective example of a state health agency transforming their approach to integrate health equity through a state-wide partnership. The Healthy Minnesota Partnership brings community partners and the Minnesota Department of Health together to improve the health and quality of life for individuals, families, and communities in Minnesota. They developed public health priorities, goals, objectives, and strategies to improve the health of all Minnesotans and to ensure community ownership of these priorities across Minnesota through development of a statewide health assessment and plan. Click here for more information. Click here to register.
National Coordinating Center for PHSSR & PBRNs Research-in-Progress Webinar: Priorities in Rural Health
August 27, 2014 - 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Center grantees share their preliminary findings with the public in this webinar series. Researchers have the opportunity to glean information about data sets and sources, methods and study design from their peers during each webinar. Click here for more information.
The 4th Health and Wellbeing in Children, Youth, and Adults with Developmental Disabilities Conference
October 22-24, 2014 - Vancouver, BC
Children, youth and adults with Developmental Disabilities (DD) are vulnerable to high rates of general health and mental health concerns. These concerns impact significantly on the affected individual's quality of life as well as their families, caregivers and the community. This conference will provide educational and informative updates on psychiatric, behavioural and complex health components specific to individuals with DD, and showcase best practices in the field. The conference will focus on life transitions across the lifespan and health and mental health challenges associated with school transition, entering adult life and aging. This conference will engage health care providers and educators from a wide range of professional disciplines in knowledge transfer and interprofessional collaboration in order to maximize health and wellbeing so as to minimize disability and improve quality of life. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Child Maltreatment Data Available Online
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has launched an online access tool of national data gathered from the "Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-4): Report to Congress." The NIS-4 data, collected in 2005 and 2006 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, provide updated estimates of the number of children who are abused or neglected. NIS-4 data combine information about children whose incidence rates of maltreatment was investigated by child protective services with data on maltreated children identified by professionals. NIS-4 also provides information on the nature and severity of the maltreatment , as well as the characteristics of children, perpetrators, and families involved. Click here for more information.
New Dataset Available - The Survey of Criminal Justice Experience (SCJE), 2013
The Survey of Criminal Justice Experience (SCJE) is a household survey of the criminal justice experiences of United States adults ages 18-64. Measures capture supervision (e.g. probation, jail, and prison) and broader experiences such as arrests and convictions. Researchers are able to estimate 12-month and life-time prevalence rates of respondents' criminal justice experiences. Click here for more information.
Positive Indicators Project Data
The Flourishing Children Project was conceptualized and funded following the 2003 Indicators of Positive Development Conference, which brought together federal officials, foundation staff members, and researchers to consider indicators of positive development ranging from health behaviors, religiosity, frugality, and parent-child relationships. Click here for more information.
Institute for Research on Poverty Focus - Racial and Ethnic Infant Mortality Gaps and Socioeconomic Status
In this study, we use five years of micro-level data from 2000 through 2004 for non-Hispanic whites, blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Asians, and Native Americans. We examine how infant mortality is associated with several background characteristics, including maternal marital status, education, and age. Using Census Bureau data on new mothers, we also look at the association between these characteristics and income and poverty. Our results provide new insights on the role of socioeconomic differences in infant mortality rates across racial and ethnic groups. Click here for more information.
Oxford University Press recently published a new book about the intersection of social work and family law: Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships, by Clare Huntington, a former social worker and current law professor at Fordham Law School. Failure to Flourish explores the connection between families and inequality, arguing that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of families. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
Continuing Education Opportunities Available - University of Michigan School of Social Work
Two web-based certificates are available in addiction and in integrated behavioral health and primary care.
What Is the Result of States Not Expanding Medicaid?
A report by Urban Institute researchers illustrates the economic impact in states where Medicaid is not expanding. Click here for more information.
The Commonwealth Fund Blog - After Halbig: Considerations for States Revisiting the Option to Establish a State-Based Marketplace
Last month, a federal appeals court ruled in Halbig v. Burwell that consumers who purchase health plans through one of the Affordable Care Act's federally run insurance marketplaces cannot receive premium subsidies under the law. (A separate federal appeals court reached the opposite conclusion in a similar case.) Though resolution of these cases may be years away, Kevin Lucia and Justin Giovannelli of Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute explain in a new blog post that states with federal marketplaces have options they can consider now. Click here for more information.
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