January 16, 2015  || Vol. 7, Issue 3
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding       
Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Violence (DOJ)
Deadline: April 8, 2015
NIJ is seeking multidisciplinary research and evaluation proposals related to childhood exposure to violence. Such violence may include children who are direct victims and/or bystanders or observers of various forms of violence in the home, school, or community, including but not limited to peer victimization, bullying, harassment, child maltreatment, domestic violence, and community violence. Other types of violence to which children are exposed may be addressed, with the exception of media violence (e.g., television and movie violence, music advocating aggression, and violent video games). In particular, NIJ seeks proposals that address justice system responses to children identified as being exposed to violence; polyvictimization and multisystem involvement; and resilience and help-seeking. Click here for more information.

Social Science Research on Implementation, Dissemination, and Translation (DOJ)
Deadline: April 9, 2015
NIJ seeks proposals for funding projects to study how criminal justice practitioners use research in their decision-making processes and how they implement evidence-based programs or practices. NIJ proposes two distinct research activities under this solicitation: incorporating the use of research in policy decisions and implementation studies. Applicants may apply to one or both sections of the solicitation; however, proposal titles should clearly identify the section of the solicitation for which the proposal is being submitted. Click here for more information.

Secondary Analysis of the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) Data: General Population and American Indian and Alaska Native Samples (DOJ)
Deadline: April 9, 2015
NIJ is seeking proposals for secondary data analysis of the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) data. Noting a critical need for a national surveillance system that would produce frequent, consistent, and reliable data on the magnitude and nature of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking using consistent definitions and survey methods to evaluate trends over time, the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCICP), in collaboration with NIJ and the Department of Defense (DOD), developed NISVS. The collaborative effort among federal agencies was motivated by the need to improve our understanding of IPV, SV, and stalking in the civilian, military, and American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) populations. Click here for more information.

Integration of Infectious Diseases and Substance Abuse Intervention Services for Individuals Living with HIV (NIH)
Deadline: April 14, 2015
The goal of this FOA is to develop and test organizational and systems level interventions to determine how best to provide comprehensive, high quality, integrated, sustainable, cost-effective interventions to improve the health outcomes of people living with substance use disorders and other comorbid conditions. This FOA will support: 1) multidisciplinary research to enhance the adoption and integration of evidence-based screening and treatment of substance abuse in HIV centers and closely related medical settings; and 2) multidisciplinary research to increase the adoption and integration of HIV testing and linkage to HIV care in addiction treatment settings. In both HIV and addiction treatment settings, research to enhance the adoption and integration of treatment services for comorbid conditions (e.g. coinfections, psychiatric disorders) is encouraged. Click here for more information.

Seek, Test, Treat and Retain For Youth and Young Adults Living with or at High Risk for Acquiring HIV (NIH)
Deadline: April 14, 2015
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to examine delivery models of HIV-focused services (testing, linkage, engagement and retention in care) for high risk or already HIV+ infected youth and young adults. Applications should incorporate substance use into study aims and service delivery objectives should address access to substance use prevention, screening, and treatment. Applications examining interventions that focus only on individual-level behavior and outcomes will be considered non-responsive, given the systemic and structural determinants of serostatus screening, treatment retention and viral suppression, which are the most striking areas of deficit among youth in the Seek, Test, Treat, and Retain continuum of care. The developmental, structural, and systemic factors related to serving youth need to be clearly incorporated into study aims, rather than simple incremental refocusing of existing interventions to younger people. Click here for more information.

Drug Abuse Prevention Intervention Research (NIH)
Deadline: September 7, 2017
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages R21 grant applications for research that will employ rigorous scientific methods to test theoretically derived hypotheses to increase understanding of the science of drug use prevention within diverse populations and settings and across the lifespan. The FOA seeks applications that encompass investigations of cognitive, behavioral, and social processes as they relate to: 1) development of novel prevention approaches; 2) efficacy and effectiveness of prevention interventions or programs; 3) processes that optimize the selection, integration, implementation and sustainability of science-based prevention, including systems-level and health economic factors; and 4) methodologies appropriate for studying complex aspects of prevention science. Click here for more information.

Kessler Foundation Signature Employment Grants
Deadline: February 13, 2015
Signature Employment Grants are awarded nationally to fund new pilot initiatives, demonstration projects or social ventures that lead to the generation of new ideas to solve the high unemployment and underemployment of individuals with disabilities. Preference is given for interventions that overcome specific employment barriers related to long-term dependence on public assistance, advance competitive employment in a cost-effective manner, or launch a social enterprise or individual entrepreneurship project, but are not limited to these ideas. Click here for more information.
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REMINDER
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Children and Youth Services Review - The Economic Causes and Consequences of Child Maltreatment
Deadline: February 5, 2015

The articles included in this issue should empirically address one of three areas: (1) the causal role of income and material resources in child maltreatment behaviors or involvement in the child welfare system at any level; (2) the role of prevention in mediating the effects of poverty on child maltreatment behaviors or involvement with child welfare services; or (3) the effects of maltreatment, child protective services involvement, and/or foster care placement on later educational, employment, and other economic outcomes. Click here for more information.

 

Call for Abstracts

American Public Health Association 2015 Annual Conference: Health in All Policies Public Health Social Work Section

Deadline: February 13, 2015

Public Health Social Work Special Focus Areas include (but are not limited to): role of Social Workers in the ACA; role of Social Work in the National Prevention Strategy; moving from disparity to equity; advocacy in policy practice; equity in policy; policy for the changing face of the United States; widening the lens of social work practice in health; models of Public Health Social Work; international Social Work; social policy and social work outcomes. Click here for more information.

 

REMINDER

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.

 

Call for Papers

Special Issue of Social Work & Christianity - Religious and Spiritually-Oriented Interventions with Veteran and Military Populations

Deadline: June 30, 2015

This special issue invites practitioners, researchers, and educators to submit papers with an emphasis on demonstrating the effectiveness of integrating religious and spiritually-focused interventions with military populations. This special issue of Social Work & Christianity seeks to build upon the current knowledge and interest related to acknowledging the role of religion and spirituality in social work practice with soldiers and veterans. This issue is especially focused on the demonstration of spiritually-focused evidence based practices that have shown to be effective in alleviating the negative effects of the trauma that soldiers and veterans have experienced. In addition, this issue will focus on research that supports the integration of religion and spirituality in the treatment of veterans and military populations. Click here for more information.
 

Conferences & Trainingsconf  

Columbia University Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop 2015 

June 17-19, 2015 - New York, NY

Deadline: March 1, 2015

The Columbia Population Research Center is now accepting applications for the Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop 2015 to be held June 17th - 19th, 2015, at the Columbia School of Social Work in New York City. The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is 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 workshop is designed to familiarize participants with the data available in the study. The 2015 workshop will include special sections on the newly available genetic data in the Fragile Families Study, and the use of Fragile Families in examining gene-environment interactions in the child development and adult wellbeing. Click here for more information.


Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharamcy 8th Health Disparities Conference - From Cataloging Health Disparities to Creating Health Equity: Effective Models to Equalize Outcomes

March 12-14, 2015 - New Orleans, LA
Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy's Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, Research and Education will host its Eighth Health Disparities Conference. Conference participants will include clinicians (pharmacists, nurses, physician assistants, and allied health professionals), health policy makers, researchers, health educators, public and community health leaders, and students whose work incorporates the use of multidisciplinary partnerships to build collaborations to eliminate health disparities and achieve health equity. The objectives for the conference are: examine interprofessional and interdisciplinary co-partnerships between patients and communities to eliminate health disparities and create health equity; discuss interprofessional models that improve health equity and eliminate health disparities; examine interprofessional partnerships that result from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and other policy implications; and review the impact of patient and community partnerships designed to reduce racial and ethnic health and health care disparities. Click here for more information.

Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 
New Dataset Available - National Prisoner Statistics, 1978-2013 
The NPS provides an enumeration of persons in state and federal prisons and collects data on key characteristics of the nation's prison population. NPS has been adapted over time to keep pace with the changing information needs of the public, researchers, and federal, state, and local governments. Click here for more information and to gain access to these freely available data.

The Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief - State Trends in the Cost of Employer Health Insurance Coverage, 2003-2013
From 2010 to 2013-the years following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act-there has been a marked slowdown in premium growth in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Yet, the costs employees and their families pay out-of-pocket for deductibles and their share of premiums continued to rise, consuming a greater share of incomes across the country. Click here for more information.

Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report - Applying a Health Lens to Decision Making in Non-Health Sectors
Health is influenced by a variety of factors, many of which fall outside the health care delivery sector.  These determinants of health include the characteristics of where people live, work, learn, and play. Decision and policy making in areas such as transportation, housing, and education at different levels of government, as well as in the private sector, can have far-reaching impacts on health. On September 9, 2013, the IOM Roundtable on Population Health Improvement held a workshop to foster cross-sectoral dialogue and to consider the opportunities for and barriers to improving the conditions for health in the course of achieving other sectors' objectives, such as economic development and efficient public transit. This document summarizes the workshop. Click here for more information.
News & Noticesnews   
National Institute on Aging (NIA) Blog - Diversity Training and Health Disparities Research at the NIA
Late last year, more than $31 million was awarded to academic institutions to develop and test strategies that address the racial diversity of the United States biomedical workforce. Click here for more information.

PBS - Experimental Program Helps Seniors Move Out of the Nursing Home
Using federal funds from a special project, thousands of elderly and disabled nursing home residents have been able to move into their own homes in recent years. The experimental project has reached people in 44 states. It connects people to the medical and living support they need to move into private homes, so that they can live independently. Click here for more information.
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