January 1, 2015  || Vol. 8, Issue 1
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding
MCH Research Network on Promoting Healthy Weight among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other Developmental Disabilities
Deadline: February 16, 2016
The HRSA autism research programs support research that advances the  evidence base regarding interventions and best practices to improve the health and well-being of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other developmental disabilities.  This cooperative agreement opportunity will establish and maintain an interdisciplinary, multi-site research forum for scientific collaboration and infrastructure building, which will provide national leadership in research that furthers scientific understanding of obesity risk factors and facilitates the development of interventions designed to improve the health and well-being of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other Developmental Disabilities (DD).  This research will help to advance the evidence base regarding best practices for the prevention and treatment of obesity in this high-risk group and improve Health Care Systems and Delivery, such as interdisciplinary team-based care and improve the health and wellbeing of children and youth with ASD and other DD. Click here for more information.

Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (NIH)
Deadline: Feburary 19, 2016
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to develop of a cadre of talented scientists prepared and willing to take an active leadership role in transformative change that will lead to improved health care outcomes. Click here for more information.

Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Data (NIH)
Deadline: May 7, 2016
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications proposing the innovative analysis of existing social science, behavioral, administrative, and neuroimaging data to study the etiology and epidemiology of drug using behaviors (defined as alcohol, tobacco, prescription and other drug) and related disorders, associated HIV risk behaviors, prevention of drug use and HIV, and health service utilization. Click here for more information.

Kessler Foundation Signature Employment Grants for Individuals with Disabilities
Deadline: March 18, 2016
Signature Employment Grants support non-traditional solutions that increase employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities.  Grants are awarded nationally to fund new pilot initiatives, demonstration projects or social ventures that lead to the generation of new ideas to solve the high unemployment and underemployment of individuals with disabilities. Preference is given for interventions that overcome specific employment barriers related to long-term dependence on public assistance or advance competitive employment in a cost-effective manner. Click here for more information. 
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REMINDER
Call for Proposals
3rd Annual Global Well-Being Conference - Global Poverty: Human Needs, Economic Justice, and Social Change
Deadline: January 30, 2016
Millersville University School of Social Work's Learning Institute invites presentations that investigate challenges faced by individuals here and abroad.  Poverty is among the greatest social issues we face today; its effects are pervasive and profound.  Poverty crosses boundaries of race, culture, and status and its consequences are of serious concern to the student, practitioner, and seeker of social change.  Poverty disproportionately affects people of color and the effects of living in poverty can be devastating for both adults and children. Click here for more information.

REMINDER 
Call for Papers
The Network for Social Work Management
Grand Challenges for Social Work Management and Leadership
Deadline: February 1, 2016
We are in an era of sweeping changes in the social and political landscape that affect health and human services that is coupled with competing claims by many disciplines to manage in the human services arena. Our goal is to elevate the significance of Social Work Management through the advancement of new knowledge and innovative practice in health and human services. This year's theme challenges us to think about how key concerns within human services relate to the most compelling and critical social issues of our day. Specifically, we ask that all proposals address one of this year's conference sub-themes and how it relates to one or more of the following "grand challenges": (1) Ending homelessness; (2) Creating health equity and eliminating behavioral health disparities; (3) Providing a healthy start to all youth; (4) Reducing incarceration. Click here for more information.

Call for Abstracts
2016 Rural Sociological Society (RSS) Annual Meeting - Understanding Rural Social Class in an Era of Global Challenge
Deadline: February 5, 2016
Growing and arguably unacceptable levels of inequality have given rise to conflict and tension that revolve around class. There are worries about the disappearing middle and emergence of a social "precariat" class, about the unsettling reality of blocked opportunities for those struggling to survive, and about shifting definitions of "success" in the midst of leveled aspirations, resource scarcity, and climate change. We invite you to explore rural social class and a wide variety of other topics at our 2016 meeting. Click here for more information.

Call for Abstracts
APHA 2016 Annual Meeting & Expo - Creating the Healthiest Nation: Ensuring the Right to Health
Deadline: February 22, 2016
Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts on the theme and current and emerging public health issues. Click here for more information. 
Conferences & Trainingsconf  
REMINDER
Financial Capability and Asset Building (FCAB): Moving Forward 
January 14, 2016 - Washington, DC 
Please join FCAB scholars, educators, and researchers in a special one-day free forum and hear policy and funding experts discuss issues related to financial education, coaching, stability, and empowerment. Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 
Department of Justice Brief - Second Chance Act Adult Offender Reentry Demonstration Programs: Implementation Challenges and Lessons Learned
Designed to meet the multiple challenges facing former inmates upon their return to the community, the Adult Offender Reentry Demonstration Programs (AORDP) programs provide an array of pre- and post-release services, including education and literacy programs, job placement, housing services, and mental health and substance abuse treatment. Risk and needs assessments, transition case planning, and casemanagement are key elements of grantees' SCA projects. Click here for more information.

Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance
A recently released report, Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance, presents findings from an evaluation funded by the Children's Bureau that examined Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) delivered by 10 National Child Welfare Resource Centers (NRCs) and 5 Child Welfare Implementation Centers (ICs). Conducted by James Bell Associates and ICF International, this cross-site evaluation advances what is known about the delivery of T/TA to child welfare agencies and courts. A series of evaluation briefs, tip sheets and a topical paper are also available that summarize the implications and lessons learned about measuring, delivering, and participating in T/TA. Click here for more information. 
News & Noticesnews   
New York Times - An Aging Society Changes the Story on Poverty for Retirees
A typical American worker in the middle rung of the earnings ladder - whose career pay averaged out at about $46,000 a year in today's money - could retire this year at age 65 with a Social Security benefit worth 39 percent of the career average. But unless something is done to replenish Social Security's shrinking trust funds, by 2035 the first pension check for such a worker might amount to as little as 27.5 percent of her career wage, according to calculations published last year by the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration. Click here for more information.

Commonwealth Fund Blog - 2015: The Health Care Year in Review
When it comes to historic changes in the U.S. health care system, few years could compete with 2014, but 2015 gave it a run for its money. With 2016 knocking at the door, it's time to take a look back and round up the biggest health care events of the year. Click here for more information.
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Formerly known as the IASWR Listserv, SWRnet (Social Work Research Network) was launched in October 2009 to continue serving the social work research community by providing regular updates on funding opportunities, calls for papers, conference deadlines and newly published research.

 

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