April 15, 2016  || Vol. 8, Issue 16
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding
Family Strengthening Scholars (OPRE)
Deadline: June 6, 2016  
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), will solicit applications for Family Strengthening Research Scholars grants to support dissertation research on healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood policy issues. These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to focus research on questions that have direct implications for healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood policy decision-making and program administration, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high-quality doctoral students. Click here for more information.

Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Interventions to Promote Community Living Among Individuals with Disabilities (ACL) 
Deadline: June 7, 2016 
This particular opportunity is for an RRTC to conduct research and related activities toward interventions to promote community living outcomes among individuals with disabilities. The purpose of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTC), which are funded through the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program, is to achieve the goals of, and improve the effectiveness of, services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act, as amended, through well-designed research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities in important topical areas. Click here for more information.

University of Vermont Postdoctoral Fellowship in Child Welfare Research
Deadline: April 30, 2016
The Fellowship is designed to support early career scholars in their development of implementation research and evaluation in the field of public child welfare. The Fellowship is designed to foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees by permitting them to pursue their research and acquire teaching experience while gaining mentored experience in the Vermont Child Welfare Training Partnership (VT-CWTP). The Child Welfare Training Partnership's vision is to provide competency based training and research aimed at improving the safety, permanency, well-being for Vermont's most vulnerable children, youth and families. Click here for more information. 
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Call for Abstracts
ASPPH Fall Conference - Building for Health and Well-Being: Structures. Cities. Systems
Deadline: May 1, 2016
The 2016 ACSA/ASPPH Fall Conference is the first-ever joint conference between the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). We will connect academics, practitioners, and policy makers who are exploring issues at the intersection of design, the built environment and public health at all scales. The 2016 Fall Conference co-chairs invite abstract submissions from the ACSA and ASPPH communities, as well as non-member practitioners and faculty that address the range of topics related to built environment and human health. Click here for more information.

Call for Nominations
CSWE Child Welfare Track Awards - Career Achievement Award in Child Welfare
Deadline: June 1, 2016
This award is presented to a faculty member who has dedicated his/her career to scholarship related to improving (a) the lives of children, youth or families involved in the child welfare system and/or (b) the effectiveness of a child welfare agency and its workforce. Click here for more information.

DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
Call for Nominations
CSWE Child Welfare Track Awards - Transforming Child Welfare Dissertation Award
Deadline: June 1, 2016
This award is presented to a student whose completed dissertation demonstrates quality research, makes a substantial contribution to child welfare knowledge, and/or has the potential to advance child welfare practice. Click here for more information.
Conferences & Trainingsconf   
27th Annual Network for Social Work Management Conference - The Grand Challenges for Social Work Management and Leadership
June 16-17, 2016 - Los Angeles, CA 
The Network is the premier international organization advancing competence in Social Work and Human Service Management and hosts over 9,000 members who reside in 41 countries worldwide. Our 2016 Conference will focus on practical leadership and management skills for the executive, manager and of course the aspiring manager. Click here for more information.
 
International Social Work Congress 2016 - Social Problems and the Future of Social Work
November 21-23, 2016 - Ankara, Turkey
The purpose of this meeting is to bring academics, researchers, educators and practitioners to present their ideas on social work education, organization of social services, social policies, changing needs of vulnerable groups and service provisions, with a specific focus on the future of social work. Click here for more information.   
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata
Safety of Transgender Youth in Foster Care
Child welfare agencies provide services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth in foster care, but more needs to be done to ensure the safety of these youth. A recent article in the New York University Law Review examines the particular risks and challenges faced by transgender youth in foster care. Click here for more information.

AHRQ Report - Improving Cultural Competence to Reduce Health Disparities
An AHRQ review of studies of interventions to improve culturally appropriate health care for people with disabilities; lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender populations; and racial/ethnic minority populations found that none examined cultural competence's impact on disparities. Although many of the interventions studies were innovative, poor study quality prevented conclusions on whether they worked. Click here for more information. 
News & Noticesnews   
New York Times - The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters
The poor in some cities - big ones like New York and Los Angeles, and also quite a few smaller ones like Birmingham, Ala. - live nearly as long as their middle-class neighbors or have seen rising life expectancy in the 21st century. But in some other parts of the country, adults with the lowest incomes die on average as young as people in much poorer nations like Rwanda, and their life spans are getting shorter. Click here for more information.
About SWRnet
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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