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January 29, 2016 || Vol. 8, Issue 5
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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
Increase Access to Care for Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (CDC)
Deadline: February 12, 2016 The purpose of this funding opportunity is to evaluate the effects of an intervention that provides in-person assistance with health insurance or Medicaid enrollment following HIV testing on insurance uptake and coverage, linkage and retention rates (for HIV-positive men), and other health outcomes among Black men who have sex with men (MSM). Click here for more information.
Early HIV Treatment to Optimize Patient Health and HIV Prevention (CDC)
Deadline: February 19, 2016
The purpose of this project is to evaluate the feasibility of initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) in persons diagnosed with acute or early HIV infection. We propose a prospective study of innovative approaches for initiating ART in persons diagnosed with acute or early HIV infection within days of their diagnosis. The primary outcomes of interest will be time to viral suppression and the proportion of patients who remain virally suppressed 12 months after diagnosis. Additional outcomes may include retention in HIV care, patient satisfaction with clinical care, changes in HIV transmission risk behavior, an evaluation of laboratory markers of viral suppression, and other outcomes as determined by patient input and the study investigators. Click here for more information. Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury (CDC)Deadline: March 1, 2016The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will help expand and advance our understanding of how best to disseminate, implement, and translate evidence-based primary prevention strategies, programs, and policies designed to reduce child abuse and neglect. NCIPC is also soliciting investigator-initiated research to expand our knowledge about what works to prevent violence by rigorously evaluating primary prevention strategies, programs, and policies, to address specific gaps in the prevention of injury caused by child abuse and neglect, teen dating violence, intimate partner violence, and sexual violence. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Presentations
International Symposium of the International Association for Social Work with Groups (IASWG)
Deadline: January 31, 2016
The International Association for Social Work with Groups, co-sponsored by the New York University Silver School of Social Work, invites group work students, practitioners, researchers, faculty, agency administrators, community workers and activists from various professional disciplines to submit proposals for papers, workshops and poster presentations. Proposals are welcomed in all areas of group work, especially related to multicultural approaches to group work, group work practice in developing countries or underserved communities, community development, activist group work practice, research, and training. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
8th Biennial Cancer Survivorship Research Conference - Innovation in a Rapidly Changing Landscape
Deadline: February 8, 2016This meeting will serve as a forum for researchers, clinicians, cancer survivors, advocates, program planners, policy-makers, and public health experts to learn about current and emerging cancer survivorship innovation in a rapidly changing landscape. All abstracts must describe research or programs relevant to post-treatment cancer survivors. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
Call for Papers
Journal of Gerontological Social Work Special Issue on Indigenous Older Adults
Deadline: February 28, 2016
The Journal of Gerontological Social Work is inviting submissions to a special section on Indigenous Older Adults. This section will focus on current and future challenges to and opportunities for Indigenous Elders to be active and engaged members of their families and communities as they grow older. Submissions are encouraged from scholars studying Indigenous older adults in the United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico and other nations with formally recognized Indigenous populations. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
Journal of Gerontological Social Work Special Issue on Health Care Reform and Gerontological Social Work Practice Deadline: March 31, 2016 This section is intended to highlight changes in professional practice with older adults in the last several years that are a result of reforms related to changes in health care policies including integrated care, acute care, long-term services and supports, consumer direction, social care, or other related areas. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
Journal of Gerontological Social Work Special Issue on Communities and Neighborhoods Deadline: May 31, 2016
This section will focus on understanding the role that communities, neighborhoods and regions play in supporting positive outcomes for older adults. For this issue, communities and neighborhoods are broadly defined to range from densely populated city street blocks to sparsely populated rural areas, from social friendship networks to Internet communities, and from same-age groups to intergenerational relationships. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
IOM Roundtable on Population Health Improvement - Framing the Dialogue on Race and Ethnicity to Advance Health Equity: A WorkshopFebruary 4, 2016 - Washington, DCThere are several areas of public health where the evidence for improving the underlying factors that shape poor health outcomes of vulnerable populations is robust, but is not effectively communicated and translated to inform the public and decision makers at various levels of government and in the private sector. This workshop will explore different strategies for framing the dialogue on equity and inequity among racial and ethnic groups to advance population health equity. Click here for more information. IRP Webinar - Who's Involved in the Child Welfare System and Why?Feburary 10, 2016, 1:00-2:00 PM CSTIn this webinar, Kristen Shook Slack and Christopher Wildeman will examine the likelihood of a child becoming involved in the child welfare system and discuss the relationship between child maltreatment, poverty, economic hardship, and other risk factors. Click here for more information.
DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
Fragile Families Data Workshop
June 15-17, 2016 - New York, NY
The Columbia Population Research Center is now accepting applications for the Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop to be held June 15-17, 2016, at Columbia University in New York City.
The workshop is designed to familiarize participants with the data available in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national study following a birth cohort of (mostly) unmarried parents and their children, providing information about the capabilities, circumstances, and relationships of unwed parents, the wellbeing of their children, and the role of public policy in family and child wellbeing. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
New Dataset Available - Project STRIDE: Stress, Identity, and Mental Health
Project STRIDE is a three-year research project that examines the effect of stress and minority identity related to sexual orientation, race/ethnicity and gender on mental health. The research describes social stressors that affect minority populations, explores the coping and social support resources that they utilize as they confront these social stressors, and assesses the associations of stress and coping with mental health outcomes including mental disorders and wellbeing. Click here for more information. Commonwealth Fund Online Resource - International Health Care System Profiles Across the globe, health care policymakers face mounting pressure to lower costs while improving the quality and safety of care. The U.S. can learn a lot by examining other health systems, their performance in relation to ours, and their health care delivery and payment innovations. This site presents profiles of the health care systems in 18 countries. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
NPR - Long Before They Were 'Apparent Muslims,' Sikhs Were Targeted In U.S.Some scholars estimate there are about 100,000 Sikhs in the U.S. and 25 million worldwide. The Sikh Coalition, a nonprofit legal group, has analyzed more than 140 actual or suspected hate crimes against Sikhs in the U.S. between 2001 and 2012. The group says that this past December alone, it received a surge of calls from Sikhs seeking legal help- three times as many as during the same time in 2014. Click here for more information.
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About SWRnet
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