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October 16, 2015 || Vol. 7, Issue 42
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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
Building Population Health Research Capacity in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands (NIH)
Deadline: December 9, 2015
The purpose of this initiative is to build the capacity of organizations in the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands to conduct ongoing population health research in this region. Click here for more information.
Multi-Site Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial Research Center on Alcohol's Health Effects (NIH)
Deadline: January 12, 2016
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Cooperative Agreement (U10) applications for implementation of investigator-initiated randomized controlled clinical trials on alcohols effects on neurological diseases, most especially stroke, and the health issues that are associated with aging. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (AHRQ)
Deadline: November 16, 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. Depending on the research design and intent of the project, applicants may receive support for: (1) pilot and feasibility or self-contained health IT research projects; (2) secondary data analysis of health IT research; or (3) economic (prospective or retrospective) analyses of a health IT project. Each grant application must clearly state which type of the three types of studies is being proposed. Click here for more information.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program in Global HIV Prevention Research
Deadline: December 15, 2015
The Division of Infectious Diseases of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is pleased to offer its Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program in Global HIV Prevention Research as a way to prepare physician, social, behavioral, and professional scientists for academic research careers focused on understanding and preventing HIV disease globally. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Presentations
Foster Family-based Treatment Association 30th Annual Conference on Treatment Foster Care
Deadline: December 16, 2015
Experienced and dynamic presenters from the fields of child welfare and children's mental health are invited to submit workshop proposals for the 30th Annual Conference on Treatment Foster Care, hosted by the Foster Family-based Treatment Association (FFTA). Click here for more information. Call for Abstracts 33rd Annual Conference of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work (NOFSW) - Forensic Practice: Courage to Change
Deadline: January 15, 2016 Next year's conference will explore courage already displayed as well as needed in the future to advance just and anti-racist individual, organizational, and systemic change. Conferences attendees will increase their knowledge, values, and skills for working with forensic populations in healthcare, social service, and legal settings, including the courts and corrections. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers Sexuality and Social Work Conference 2016 - Transgressing Boundaries and the Intersection of Sexualities in Social Work Deadline: January 31, 2016 The theme of this conference will explore the intersectionalities of sexuality with the complexities of contemporary society, specifically in relation to social work research, education and practice. The aim of this conference is to explore the boundaries of these complexities by linking the intersectionalities of sexuality with social work practice, research and education. It seeks to explore those issues and topics within sexualities that are of interest to social work academics, students, practitioners and service users. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
PerformWell Webinar - Develop a Culture of Continuous Learning in Your Organization
October 20, 2015, 3:00-4:30 PM EDT
Every organization has a culture that includes its philosophies for interacting with the people they serve. These philosophies reflect an understanding of what they are doing well and what they can improve upon. An organization's ability to demonstrate impact, and to deliver the outcomes that they set out to achieve, is what defines them. This webinar will review several ways to ensure that continuous learning becomes part of your organization's culture. Click here for more information.
American Society on Aging Online Gerontology Course - Health and Wellness in an Aging Society
October 19-November 20, 2015
During the five-week course, USC faculty members will discuss the common health issues faced by seniors, public health in an aging world, and the strategies for caring for older adults with various health challenges. Modules will cover demography, chronic diseases, self-care management, dementia and mental health issues, and medication management. Click here for more information.
2016 Aging in America Conference - Learn, Connect, Care
March 20-24, 2016 - Washington, DC
Every year we meet as a community at the Aging in America Conference to share ideas and knowledge, learn from the experts, gain new perspectives and get reinvigorated to do our best work.
The topics covered at the conference reflect the issues that all professionals face today. They are multifaceted and multidisciplinary, and go beyond the boundaries of geography and discipline. We will discuss the latest developments in aging in community, integrated care networks, Medicare at 50, poverty among older adults, reframing aging and much more. Click here for more information.
YTH Live Conference - Youth-Centered Health Design
April 24-26, 2016 - San Francisco, CA
YTH Live is the premier conference for trailblazing technology that advances youth health and wellness. Each year the brightest minds in youth advocacy, health, and technology gather at YTH Live to showcase what works, share ideas and learnings, and launch new collaborations. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Institute for Research on Poverty Focus on Poverty - Reducing Health Disparities by Poverty Status
Poor health and poverty are closely linked. It is well known that those with moderate and high incomes are healthier on average than those with low incomes. For every age group and on most health indicators, the poor are less healthy than the near poor and non-poor. Many factors influence health, including access to medical care. The first page of this brief summarizes survey data concerning disparities in health care access and health in the United States. The second page proposes my evidence-based solution that could be funded by shifting existing public funds from less-effective programs to those proven to improve the health of the poor. Click here for more information.
Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report - Opportunities to Promote Children's Behavioral Health: Health Care Reform and Beyond
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has several provisions that could greatly improve the behavioral health of children and adolescents in the United States. To explore how the ACA and other aspects of health care reform can support innovations to improve children's behavioral health and sustain those innovations over time, the Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health held a workshop titled "Opportunities to Promote Children's Behavioral Health: Health Care Reform and Beyond." The workshop explicitly addressed the behavioral health needs of all children, including those with special health needs. It also looked at evidence-based prevention and interventions programs and services that support children as well as their parents and families. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
NPR - On Campus, Older Faculty Keep On Keepin' On
Protected by tenure that prevents them from being dismissed without cause, and with no mandatory retirement age, a significant proportion of university faculty isn't going anywhere. A third are 55 and older, compared with 20 percent of the rest of the workforce, according to the University of Iowa Center on Aging. Click here for more information.
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About SWRnet
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