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October 23, 2015 || Vol. 7, Issue 43
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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
REMINDER
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality New Scholars Grant Competition
Deadline: November 1, 2015
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality is focused on monitoring trends in poverty and inequality, explaining what's driving those trends, and developing science-based policies on poverty and inequality. Awards will be made to "New Scholars" (i.e., scholars who have received their Ph.D. no earlier than 2008) who will then work collaboratively with one of the CPI's Research Groups to carry out the proposed research project. Click here for more information.
NIMHD Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research on Chronic Disease Prevention (NIH)
Deadline: November 16, 2015
This initiative encourages investigators using a transdisciplinary, collaborative and systems approach to address disparities in chronic disease prevention. Priorities will be given to primary and secondary prevention activities that aim to prevent disease from occurring or aim to find and treat disease early. Click here for more information.
Personalized Strategies to Manage Symptoms of Chronic Illness (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2019
The purpose of this initiative is to encourage interdisciplinary research to decrease symptom burden and enhance health-related quality of life (HRQL) in persons with chronic illness through a) increasing knowledge of the biological mechanisms of symptoms and b) promoting innovative, cost-effective, targeted interventions to prevent, manage or ameliorate these symptoms. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Abstracts
Health Equity Initiative - Implementing Systems Level Change for Health Equity: A Partnership Summit
Deadline October 25, 2015
The goal of the summit is to offer professionals, students and community leaders across sectors and disciplines a forum to address the systemic barriers that contribute to health inequity and exchange ideas focused on building and sustaining a global community that works across sectors and disciplines to advance health equity. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Families in Society - Homelessness: Service Needs, Prevention, and Intervention
Deadline: December 1, 2015
The American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare recently issued a grand challenge calling upon the social work profession to end homelessness. Yet, while homeless people are those at highest risk across categories of concern, they remain outside of core service delivery. Both practice wisdom and research are key to better understanding the service needs of people who are marginally housed and homeless. Policy, program, and practice solutions can then be developed to respond to service needs, resulting in more stabilized functioning and well-being. Click here for more information.
GRADUATE STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
Call for Abstracts
Tulane University City, Culture, and Community Graduate Symposium - Social Justice and the City: Implications for Race and Equity
Deadline: December 1, 2015
This year's symposium seeks to understand social justice in urban settings in the United States with a focus on equity and racial implications. We intend to create an interdisciplinary space that can bring together scholars, students, and community members to engage across lines and further current conversations on race and equity in America. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care - Pain Issues in Palliative Care and End of Life: Expanding the Social Work Role
Deadline: January 15, 2016
Pain and/or the fear of pain is often experienced by patients receiving palliative care and those facing end of life. Failure to address the multidimensional sources of pain and related suffering can produce emotional and moral distress for both personal and professional care providers. Disparities continue in access to quality pain management, and too few providers feel well-prepared to care for those with complicated pain concerns. For this special thematic issue, manuscripts are encouraged that report on original research, including systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses, policy analysis, program evaluation, innovative educational programs, and evaluated community interventions. Manuscripts must specifically relate to palliative and/or end-of-life care topics in pain/symptom management for serious illness. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Office of Minority Health (OMH) Webinar - Getting to Know the Federal Government and Funding Opportunities
November 5, 2015, 3:30-5:00 PM EST
A federal funders panel reveals best practices in responding to federal funding announcements. Opportunities for federal funding are identified. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
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.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
ChildTrends Research Brief - What Works for Bullying Programs: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Programs and Interventions
The most commonly accepted definition of bullying is that it is a form of unprovoked, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance and is either repeated or has the potential to be repeated over time.1 This brief synthesizes findings from experimental evaluations of 17 bullying programs for children and/or youth to determine how frequently these programs work to improve the outcomes of physical and verbal bullying, social and relational bullying, bullying victimization, attitudes toward bullying, and being a bystander of bullying. Most of these programs served school-aged children; only two focused on children age five or younger. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
Deadline: November 2, 2015
The NIH is seeking input from researchers in academia and industry, health care professionals, patient advocates and health advocacy organizations, scientific or professional organizations, public agencies, and other interested members of the public about proposed goals and objectives for advancing research and other research-related activities with SGM populations. Submit comments to sgmhealthresearch@od.nih.gov. Click here for more information.
HHS Press Release - 10 Million People Expected to Have Marketplace Coverage at End of 2016
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today that she expects 10 million individuals to be enrolled in coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces and paying their premiums - so-called effectuated coverage - at the close of 2016. As part of that goal, HHS believes more than 1 out of every 4 uninsured Marketplace-eligible consumers will select plans during Open Enrollment. Click here for more information.
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About SWRnet
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