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May 1, 2015 || Vol. 7, Issue 18
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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
Administrative Supplements for Common Basic Sociobehavioral Mechanisms and Processes that Facilitate or Impede Self-Management of Chronic Conditions (NIH)
Deadline: June 2, 2015
NIH's Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet) announces the opportunity of funds to support increases in costs on existing projects in order to elucidate basic mechanisms and processes that facilitate and/or impede an individual's attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, and behaviors involved with the self-management of chronic disease conditions within respective social and/or physical environment(s). Click here for more information.
Family Strengthening Scholars (OPRE)
Deadline: June 8, 2015
The Administration for Child and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation will solicit applications for Family Strengthening Research Scholars grants to support dissertation research on healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood policy issues. These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to focus research on questions that have direct implications for healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood policy decision-making and program administration, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high-quality doctoral students. Click here for more information.
Foundation for Women's Wellness Research Awards
Deadline: June 8, 2015
FWW Research Awards target early funding for small, short-term studies with promise for improving medical knowledge in cardiovascular disease, leading female cancers, the role of hormones in disease and stage-of-life health issues such as pregnancy and menopause and diseases disproportionately affecting women. Click here for more information.
2015 Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association (SFBTA) Research Awards
Deadline: August 1, 2015
The SFBTA Research Awards are aimed at fostering the growth of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy by encouraging original research in solution-focused practices, and to support students or practitioners who wish to study solution-focused practices. The 2015 SFBTA Research Awards will provide up to $5000.00 to support ongoing or proposed studies conducted by doctoral or master level students, practitioners where SF practices are the focus of their work, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty who are in their first three years past graduation. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Proposals
The Donaldson Adoption Institute Lynn Franklin Fund Options Counseling Project
Deadline: May 15, 2015 (requests for extension of the deadline will be considered)
Best practices in adoption require that pregnant women considering whether to parent their children should receive informed, non-directive counseling regarding the full range of options open to them. Too often, however, all options are not offered - or are presented in ways intended to steer, pressure or coerce women (and men when they are involved) into placing their infants for adoption. The Option Counseling Project aims to utilize the information acquired from the research to establish best practice standards, to disseminate them widely and to advocate for their broad implementation. Click here for more information.
Call for Abstracts
Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development 2016 - Promoting the Dignity and Worth of People
Deadline: July 31, 2015
The purpose of the conference is to bring together scholars, practitioners, agency leaders, and students from a wide range of social work and social development fields to discuss theoretical and practical issue of "Promoting the Dignity and Worth of People." Click here for more information.
REMINDER
Call for Papers
Special Issue of the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work - Microaggressions and Social Work Practice, Education & Research
EXTENDED Deadline: September 30, 2015
While blatant forms of racism and discrimination have largely been "condemned" in our society, systematic oppression and racism can be manifested in the less obvious forms as microaggressions. This special issue provides a platform for social work researchers, educators, and practitioners to exchange their research, ideas, and practices pertaining to ways in which microaggressions and other subtle, but powerful forms of discrimination impact marginalized populations within social work and human services. Click here for more information. Call for Papers Special Issue of Contemporary Rural Social Work - Raising Awareness of Global Rural Issues and Solutions Deadline: May 2015 Rural communities around the world face common challenges requiring their own unique focus of social work inquiry and competencies. Some of these interrelated challenges include lack of access to education and services, histories of colonization and exploitation, high levels of disease, poverty, isolation, hopelessness, and civic inertia. Local responses to these challenges offer an array of approaches and interventions which colleagues in other locales may find useful. This Special Issue of Contemporary Rural Social Work will feature practice, policy, theory, and research articles focused on global rural issues and local responses to these issues. International social workers, both scholars and practitioners, are encouraged to contribute. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
REMINDER
Online Certificate Program in Mixed Methods Research
June 1 - July 1, 2015
Application deadline: May 18, 2015
The Online Certificate Program in Mixed Methods Research (MMR) at the University of Michigan School of Social Work (UM-SSW) is designed for researchers and practitioners in social work, nursing, psychology, and other applied fields. Participants will learn ways to integrate various types of research methods; commonly used data analysis procedures; and approaches to research conducted in practice settings. Special emphasis on: critiquing theoretical foundations of research, forming research questions, applying mixed methods techniques, conducting statistical analysis, and interpreting research reports. Click here for more information.
National Title IV-E Roundtable
June 2-4, 2015 - Bloomington, MN
The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare will be hosting this year's National Title IV-E Roundtable in Bloomington, MN. The National Title IV-E Roundtable is a rare opportunity for child welfare stakeholders to gather and share ideas for education, training, research, and collaboration. Staff and faculty from Title IV-E education and training programs as well as state, county, and tribal partners enjoy the roundtable format of this professional conference, which allows participants to explore programs, initiatives, and ideas in-depth and through deep and meaningful conversations. Click here for more information.
Network for Social Work Management 26th Annual Conference
June 4-5, 2015 - Washington, DC
The Annual Management Conference is uniquely positioned to bring together social work and human service leaders, international experts, researchers, and practitioners in an informative event, resulting in attendees at all levels leaving with cutting-edge social service management strategies. You will have ample opportunities to network with colleagues at the conference venue and at social gatherings offsite. Click here for more information.
2015 National Summit on HCV and HIV Diagnosis, Prevention and Access to Care
June 4-6, 2015 - Arlington, VA
The mission of the 2015 Summit is to support improvement in HCV and HIV testing, prevention, and linkage to care in the United States. The nation's public health scientific and advocacy leadership will meet to discuss state-of-the-art mechanisms and initiatives to support the "National HIV/AIDS Strategy" and the HHS "Action Plan for the Prevention, Care and Treatment of Viral Hepatitis." Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Center for Poverty Research Policy Brief - Unaccompanied Migrant Children: A Humanitarian Crisis at the U.S. Border and Beyond
Intensified violence and poverty in the Northern Triangle countries of Central America have spurred migration among youth who seek to either reunite with family or to support families who remain abroad. Policies to protect these youth would promote their holistic integration into U.S. society, enforce safety and well-being along the U.S. southern border and help strengthen the youths' countries of origin socially, economically and politically. Click here for more information.
White Paper - Social Work & the Affordable Care Act: Maximizing the Profession's Role in Health Reform
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is generating sweeping changes in the financing, organization, and accessibility of health and social services in the United States. The expansion of Medicaid and the establishment of state health insurance exchanges have vastly expanded insurance access in the United States, with an estimated 15 million Americans gaining coverage (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, 2014; United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). Emphasis on integrated models of care and payment reform, including health homes and accountable care organizations, introduces new opportunities to improve care coordination, reduce unnecessary service use, and make care more cost-effective. An increased focus on health promotion seeks to redefine the aims of health care towards promoting wellbeing rather than treating illness. Realization of these changes will rely on the work of many health care professions, including social work. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
NIMH Science News - A New Look at Racial/Ethnic Differences in Mental Health Service Use Among Adults
New findings on mental health service use by racial and ethnic groups are now available in a report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Click here for more information.
How Housing Matters - Q&A on How Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) are Changing Affordable Housing
The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, is a national initiative designed to promote the use of health impact assessments (HIAs) as a decision-making tool for policymakers. HIAs help identify and address the health impacts of policies and decisions in non-health sectors. Click here for more information.
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