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December 5, 2014 || Vol. 6, Issue 49
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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
Alcohol Education Project Grants (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2018
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) R25 program is to foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on Curriculum or Methods Development and Outreach activities for Health Professionals. Click here for more information.
Retirement Research Foundation Responsive Grants
Deadline: February 1, 2015
The Retirement Research Foundation is one of the first private foundations in the nation devoted exclusively to aging and retirement issues. The Retirement Research Foundation funds research projects that have a regional or national impact on older Americans. Of particular interest are projects that seek causes and solutions to significant problems facing older adults through support of applied and policy research for which federal funding is not available. Click here for more information.
American Psychological Foundation Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Prize
Deadline: April 15, 2016
The $20,000 grant supports "exceptional individuals working in the area of serious mental illness," including but not limited to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and paranoia (delusional disorder). The American Psychological Foundation provides financial support for innovative research and programs that enhance the power of psychology to elevate the human condition and advance human potential both now and in generations to come. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Ideas
The Commonwealth Fund Technology for Patient Engagement
Deadline: December 7, 2014
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Journal of Men's Studies - Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class in the Wake of a Crisis: The State of Boys and Men of Color Post-Ferguson
Deadline: December 30, 2014
The events that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri during the summer of 2014 affected communities across the United States and around the world. To underscore the aftermath of these events on individuals and communities - attending specifically to how they have impacted the lives of men of color - the Journal of Men's Studies (SAGE Publications) will be publishing a special issue on the intersections of race, gender, and class in the wake of a national crisis. Research on boys and men of color considers how their living and working conditions are determined by cultural, environmental, institutional, and economic factors associated with race, ethnicity and other socially defined identities and group memberships. We seek to publish manuscripts on the state of boys and men of color in the aftermath of the events in Ferguson, Missouri to mark the one-year anniversary of activism in Ferguson. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Journal of Public Child Welfare - Defining the Evidence Base for In-Home Child Welfare Services
Deadline: January 15, 2015
This special issue 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 Proposals
The Network for Social Work Management 26th Annual Conference - Social Work Management: Impacting Communities and Changing Lives
Deadline: February 16, 2015
The Network for Social Work Management brings together managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and emerging leaders from multiple disciplines to advance new knowledge and innovative practice for the 21st century health and human services. This year's theme challenges us to think about the critical role social work managers play in lives of communities and individuals. Rising diversity along with disparities compels inclusive excellence, attention to human rights, adaptive leadership and innovative practices. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
The Commonwealth Fund Webinar - Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care
December 10, 2014 - 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Behavioral health problems significantly affect people's health and quality of life, and often exist alongside physical health problems. This webinar will discuss the benefits of integrating behavioral health into primary care, especially for low-income individuals, drawing on lessons from the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a five-year demonstration that was supported by The Commonwealth Fund, Qualis Health, and the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at the Group Health Research Institute. Click here for more information.
Institute for Research on Poverty Webinar - Poverty and the Brain
December 17, 2014 - 1:00-2:00 PM CST
In this webinar, Seth Pollak and Barbara Wolfe will discuss their interdisciplinary study that examines how family socioeconomic status (primarily income) is reflected in the size of critical areas of a child's brain and the potential consequences for schooling attainment. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
West Coast Poverty Center Research Flash - Doing What's Right for the Baby: Parental Responses and Custodial Grandmothers' Institutional Decision-Making
More than 5 million children live with grandparent caregivers. An increasing number of these children are in skipped-generation households with no parent present for reasons including parental death, incarceration, and parental neglect or abuse. These arrangements vary from more to less formal with respect to their permanence and legal custody. Informal care with no child welfare system involvement is the most common arrangement. Formal adoption, which provides permanent legal guardianship, is the other extreme but is much less common. This study examines the role of family dynamics in shaping how families choose a type of care arrangement and the implications of different arrangements for families' material needs. Click here for more information.
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Research Tool - Income Segregation in the United States' Largest Metropolitan Areas
This website provides a look at the patterns and trends in residential income segregation over the past forty years in the two dozen most populated metropolitan areas of the United States. Click here for more information.
Institute for Research on Poverty Fact Sheet - Life Beyond Bars: Children with an Incarcerated Parent
While incarceration penalizes lawbreakers, it also has unintended punishing effects on the children left behind, often causing stress and family instability that may contribute to challenges to children's well-being immediately and over the course of their lives. Click here for more information.
SAMHSA Report - Results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Mental Health Detailed Tables
Results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Mental Health Detailed
Tables is a collection of tables presenting national estimates from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). These tables present information on past year mental health measures and past year mental health service utilization for youths aged 12 to 17 and adults aged 18 or older. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
Kaiser Health News - Millions Of Medicaid Kids Missing Regular Checkups
Millions of low-income children are failing to get the free preventive exams and screenings guaranteed by Medicaid and the Obama administration is not doing enough to fix the problem, according to a federal watchdog report. Click here for more information.
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About SWRnet
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