Through this effort, DASH will propel grantees forward as they strengthen and extend their data and information sharing initiatives for assessment, planning, program development, advocacy, monitoring, and setting and acting on community priorities. The DASH coordinating office will also initiate a learning collaboration through which they will create and share models, and document barriers, solutions, lessons learned, best practices, promising innovations, sustainable examples, and opportunities for replication. Within this learning collaboration, grantees will begin to define the body of knowledge to move this emerging field toward common action, by engaging with each other, the DASH advisory group, thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and other stakeholders. Click here for more information.

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Call for Contributors

Migrant Workers: Social Identity, Occupational Challenges and Health Practice

Deadline: August 1, 2015

The regulation of migration and the rights of migrant workers are among the most controversial policy issues around the world. In public debates, migrants can be development "heroes" for both receiving and departing communities, "free riders" who threaten the job and welfare security in host communities, and/or "victims" of exploitation by employers and by migration policies as well. Theoretical arguments that favor open-border policies emphasize the responsibility liberal democracies have to promote global and/or distributive justice; proponents for migration restriction argue that equal rights protection for migrants runs against the interests of states and even migrant workers themselves.  Consequently, countries around the world have adopted various practices of protecting (or regulating) migrant workers and promoting migrant friendly communities.  Differential policy regimes and practices are influencing migrant workers' wellbeing across diverse domains. This volume will address this timely and challenging topic. Click here for more information.

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Call for Papers

Special Issue of Journal of Public Child Welfare - Administrative/Big Data Sets and Child Welfare Research

Deadline: October 15, 2015

The special issue on Administrative/Big Data Sets and Child Welfare Research would consist of methods, research and discussion related to administrative/big data sets and its impact on as well as implications for the field of child welfare.  This call for papers solicits manuscripts reporting on original studies that illustrate framing the use and implications of administrative/big data sets research in effective child welfare administration, management, decision making, and practice. Click here for more information.