September 11, 2015  || Vol. 7, Issue 37
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding       
MCH Secondary Data Analysis Studies (SDAS) (HRSA)
Deadline: November 6, 2015
The R40 MCH SDAS program supports applied research relating to maternal and child health services that exclusively utilizes secondary analysis of existing national databases and/or administrative records.  These projects should have the potential to improve health services and delivery of care for maternal and child health populations. Click here for more information.

Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy (NIH)
Deadline: May 7, 2016
The goal of this program announcement is to encourage methodological, intervention and dissemination research for understanding and promoting health literacy. Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Click here for more information.

Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (AHRQ)
Deadline: November 17, 2016
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to fund exploratory and developmental research grants that will contribute to the evidence base of how health IT improves health care quality.  This FOA supports the use of a wide variety of research designs in order to generate information regarding the design and development, implementation, use, or impact of health IT on quality. Click here for more information.

Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research Postdoctoral Fellowship in Child and Family Policy and Programs
Deadline: Ongoing
The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to join Dr. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale's research lab and will actively contribute to experimental and quasi-experimental mixed-methods evaluations and implementation studies. The multidisciplinary team is at the forefront of developing the theory, programmatic design, and research underlying two-generation initiatives that aim to improve low-income families' educational, economic, and health outcomes. Twogeneration programs expand the set of opportunities available to families by simultaneously investing in parent and child human capital. Click here for more information.
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Call for Proposals
46th Annual Urban Affairs Association Conference - Social Justice in the Global City? Contested Views on Social Control, Borders, and Equity
Deadline: October 1, 2015 
Social control in urban spaces has intensified in recent months and years. Clashes over policing, repression, terrorism, and border protection are becoming commonplace in diverse urban settings. Questions of equity and justice are becoming increasingly urgent as formal institutions of social control extend their reach. At the same time, cities continue to serve as sites for creative forms of political mobilization, citizen-based sustainable development, and innovation. Social movements are emerging, for example, in calls for the right to the city, improved livability, local sustainability, tactical urbanism and environmental justice. As inequalities become increasingly evident at local, regional and global scales, greater numbers of citizens are questioning current economic models that appear to widen economic and social gaps. Click here for more information.

REMINDER
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.

Call for Papers
Special Issue of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work - Social Work Continuing Education 
Deadline: November 30, 2015
We invite manuscripts that address all aspects pertaining to professional social work continuing education for the purposes of lifelong learning, professional replenishment, staff development, career advancement, maintenance of specialty credentials, and eligibility for licensure renewal. Click here for more information.
Conferences & Trainingsconf  
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) Online Book Club Series
September 16, 2015, 2:00-3:00 PM EDT
"Being poor isn't a crime - it just feels like it." That's one of the chapter titles in the hard-hitting and brutally honest Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado. The author will lead a discussion of her book and what it means to be poor in America as part of the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) Online Book Club series. Click here for more information.

HCUP Webinar - Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Database Overview 
September 16, 2015, 2:00-3:00 PM EDT
This one-hour session will introduce health services and policy researchers to the HCUP databases and related resources that can enhance their research studies by providing a general overview of the HCUP databases. Click here for more information.

Webinar Recording Available - Mental Health Disparities Research at National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Cross-Cutting Aspects of the NIMH Strategic Plan
This webinar presents exemplary studies that represent the four NIMH Strategic Objectives (SO) of the revised NIMH Strategic Plan for Research. The goal of this webinar is to bring recognition to the unique and compelling needs to reduce and eliminate mental health disparities in communities across the country. NIMH-funded researchers who have investigated disparities under each SO category will present their preliminary findings. Click here to listen to the recording.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 
Institute for Research on Poverty New Issue of Focus
The five articles in this issue all touch on place-based poverty topics; whether and how location matters. Click here for more information.

The Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief - How Strong Is the Primary Care Safety Net? Assessing the Ability of Federally Qualified Health Centers to Serve as Patient-Centered Medical Homes
By expanding access to affordable insurance coverage for millions of Americans, the Affordable Care Act will likely increase demand for the services provided by federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), which provide an important source of care in low-income communities. A pair of Commonwealth Fund surveys asked health center leaders about their ability to function as medical homes. Survey findings show that between 2009 and 2013, the percentage of centers exhibiting medium or high levels of medical home capability almost doubled, from 32 percent to 62 percent. Click here for more information.
News & Noticesnews   
September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month
The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA) is proud to have spearheaded the establishment of September as National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. The observance originated in 1975 when the National Association for Sickle Cell Disease (NASCD) (which changed its name to Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. in 1994) and its member organizations began conducting month-long events to raise awareness about sickle cell disease and the need to address the problem at national and local levels. Click here for more information.

IRP Press Release - Interim Report Released on Early Findings from Demonstration Designed to Identify Effective Policies to Help Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children
Early findings from the first two years of an ambitious national five-year demonstration designed to identify effective policies to help noncustodial parents support their children are reflected in an interim report issued today by the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin, along with its partner, Mathematica Policy Research. Click here for more information.

HHS Press Release - HHS Takes Next Step in Advancing Health Equity Through the Affordable Care Act
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a proposed rule to advance health equity and reduce disparities in health care.  The proposed rule, Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities, will assist some of the populations that have been most vulnerable to discrimination and will help provide those populations equal access to health care and health coverage. Click here for more information.
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