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April 24, 2015 || Vol. 7, Issue 17
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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
Studies Program on At-Risk or System-Involved Girls (DOJ)
Deadline: June 1, 2015
OJJDP is seeking applications for funding under its fiscal year (FY) 2015 Studies Program on At-Risk or System-Involved Girls. This program will sponsor studies and/or secondary analyses of existing data to provide objective, independent knowledge about the extent and impact of girls' contact with the juvenile and adult justice systems including arrests, referrals to court, diversion, charges filed, placement in secure juvenile detention facilities and adult jails and lockups, findings of delinquency, placement in secure juvenile correctional facilities, probation, and transfers to the adult criminal justice system. Click here for more information.
NIMHD Pathway to Independence Award (NIH)
Deadline: June 23, 2015
The purpose of the NIMHD Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported, independent investigators conducting minority health and health disparities research. This program is designed to facilitate a timely transition of outstanding postdoctoral researchers from mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions, and to provide independent NIH research support during the transition that will help these individuals launch competitive, independent research careers. Click here for more information. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Large Pragmatic Studies to Evaluate Patient-Centered Outcomes Deadline: May 1, 2015 Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) seeks to fund pragmatic clinical trials, large simple trials, or large-scale observational studies that compare two or more alternatives for addressing prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or management of a disease or symptom; improving healthcare system-level approaches to managing care; or eliminating health or healthcare disparities. Click here for more information.
Family Strengthening Scholars Dissertation Grants
Deadline: May 8, 2015
OPRE intends to award up to three grants to support dissertation research on healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood policy issues (HMRF). These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to focus research on questions that have direct implications for HMRF policy decision-making and program administration, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high-quality doctoral students. These grants are intended to address issues of significance to inform policy decisions and solutions, particularly for underserved/understudied populations (e.g., low-income families, minority populations), utilize rigorous research methodology (both primary data collection and secondary data analysis), and help inform the development of future intervention research. Applicants may apply for project periods up to 24 months with two 12-month budget periods. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Abstracts
2015 National Conference on Health Statistics
Deadline: May 8, 2015
The goal of the Poster Session is to offer a venue for researchers from academia, industry, and government agencies to present original research on health, health data, and statistics, and provide a forum for informal discussion with interested colleagues. Research is not limited to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data. Click here for more information. REMINDER
Call for Abstracts
The 39th Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) Annual National Conference
Deadline: May 29, 2015
This year's theme is, "Integrating Policy and Research into Teaching and Practice." We have planned an exciting conference featuring oral abstract and poster sessions, skills-focused workshops, one-on-one career mentoring, and plenary sessions addressing issues of national and international importance. Abstract submissions will be accepted in recent substance use-related research and education innovations. Click here for more information. DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY Call for Presentations
39th Annual NASW/Texas State Conference - Student Poster Session
Deadline: June 1, 2015
The 2015 NASW/Texas State Conference Planning Committee is seeking poster proposals from social work students to present at our conference! Poster proposals must include topics that help build knowledge and skills in social work practice, theory, policy or research that are relevant to today's practice issues and clients/client systems we serve. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) Webinar Series: Part 1 of 2
May 8, 2015, 2:30 - 4:00 PM EDT
OPRE (Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation at the Administration for Children & Families, in the Department of Heath and Human Services) is sponsoring two webinars to orient researchers to the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) and its ongoing release of data files and documentation. The NSECE data are the first nationally-representative data in more than 20 years to describe the supply of and demand for early care and education in the U.S. This first webinar will present an overview of the NSECE study design, including types of research questions supported by the data and the interrelationships between the four surveys that comprise the NSECE. We will discuss the sampling approach and achieved sample size for each component survey. Finally, we will review the plan for NSECE data files, including currently available documentation and the expected timeline for availability of additional data files. Click here for more information.
United States Conference on AIDS
September 10-13, 2015 - Washington, DC
For nearly two decades, USCA has sought to increase the strength and diversity of the community-based response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic through education, training, new partnerships, collaboration and networking. This year, USCA will work to high-light the changes in our movement that have brought us closer than ever to ending the epidemic, and ways that we can move forward as a community to make this dream a reality. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
New Dataset Available - Cognition and Aging in the USA (CogUSA) 2007-2009
Cognition and Aging in the USA (CogUSA) is a national longitudinal study of cognition, focused on the age-related changes in cognition across cohorts and on the impact of cognition on key health and economic outcomes. Click here for more information.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Brief - States Expanding Medicaid See Significant Budget Savings and Revenue Gains
States that expanded the number of people eligible for Medicaid are seeing big budgetary savings without reducing services. Data from eight states show $1.8 billion in budget savings and revenue gains by the end of 2015 as a result of Medicaid expansion. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
ChildTrends Blog - Poverty's Pernicious and Persistent Toll on Young Children
Children are the poorest age group in the country, and among children, the youngest are the poorest. In 2013, 20 percent of all children in the U.S. were poor; 24 percent of children under age three were poor. That's 2.9 million children. Among black children, 43 percent are poor. Among Hispanics more than one-third are poor. Click here for more information.
New York Times - Senate Approves a Bill on Changes to Medicare
The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved sweeping changes in the way Medicare pays doctors, clearing the bill for President Obama and resolving an issue that has bedeviled Congress and the Medicare program for more than a decade. Click here for more information.
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About SWRnet
Formerly known as the IASWR Listserv, SWRnet (Social Work Research Network) was launched in October 2009 to continue serving the social work research community by providing regular updates on funding opportunities, calls for papers, conference deadlines and newly published research.
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