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June 10, 2016 || Vol. 8, Issue 24
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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 Transitional Living Program Special Population Demonstration Project: LGBTQ Runaway and Homeless Youth and Young Adults Who Have Left Foster Care After Age 18Deadline: August 1, 2016The Administration for Children and Families' (ACF), Administration on Children, Youth and Families' (ACYF), Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) announces a 24 month demonstration project period to implement, enhance, and/or support a framework or model to promote the effective transition from homeless youth to self-sufficient young adults. The target populations are LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness between the ages of 16 to 21 and young adults who have left foster care after the age of 18 up to age 21, but may need alternative housing and services. Click here for more information.
Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research Data Coordinating CenterDeadline: August 30, 2016This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development invites grant applications from institutions/organizations willing to participate with the NICHD as the Data Coordinating Center under a cooperative agreement in an ongoing multi-center international research network designed to perform randomized clinical trials, using common protocols, to reduce the major risk of maternal, neonatal, infant, and early childhood mortality and significant morbidity in low income countries. Click here for more information.
NIHCM Investigator-Initiated Research Grants
Deadline: July 11, 2016
This grant supports innovative research that will advance the existing knowledge base in the areas of health care financing, delivery, management and/or policy. Studies must have strong potential to yield insights that can be used to have a positive impact on the U.S. health care system by reducing spending, improving quality of care, and/or expanding access to insurance coverage and health care services. Click here for more information.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Focus Grant - Reaching 20×2025 Deadline: August 1, 2016
This Focus Grant will be awarded to a researcher, or group of researchers, to study potential pathways and interventions that can significantly reduce the national suicide rate if ultimately implemented on a large scale. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Abstracts
Policing in the 21st Century
Deadline: August 15, 2016
We are seeking submissions from scholars and practitioners that address at least one of the following areas of interest: Activism related to vigilantism, policing, the court process, and/or incarceration; Community expectations of police and the judicial system; Implicit and explicit biases (as held by law enforcement officers, vigilantes, and/or larger society); Insider/outsider experiences amongst law enforcement members; Intersectional analyses of emergent law enforcement issues; Policing in Black and Brown communities; Race, gender, class, and police policies; Recruitment of racial and ethnic minorities to policing agencies and/or law enforcement fields; Under examined issues shaping law enforcement members; Vigilantism. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of LGBT Health - LGBT Aging
Deadline: October 17, 2016The objectives of this special issue are to address the health needs of older (age 60 and over) LGBT adults and contribute to the developing evidence base in this important area of research. We encourage the submission of intervention studies and clinically relevant articles that address health promotion and disease prevention, early detection, and treatment. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings Catalyst Center Webinar - Addressing Health Coverage Inequities among CSHCN in Your State
June 20, 2016 - 2:00-3:00 PM EDT
The Catalyst Center has created "Health Care Coverage and Financing for Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Tutorial to Address Inequities" to help Maternal and Child Health (MCH) leaders, family leaders, and other stakeholders understand and address health care coverage inequities that exist among vulnerable subgroups of CSHCN based on race, ethnicity, language, immigration status, and level of functional difficulty. Join us to "get acquainted" with this new tutorial. Click here for more information.
Work and Family Researchers Network Congressional Briefing - New Health and Economic Research on Work and Family Policies in the United States and Canada June 22, 2016 - Washington, DC
Click here for more information. American Society on Aging Webinar - Times of Transformation: The Changing LTSS Environment for the Aging and Disability NetworksJune 29, 2016 - 10:00-11:00 AM PSTHealth and long-term services and supports systems are changing quickly, as are the roles of community-based organizations in those systems. Attend this web seminar to hear from the Administration on Community Living (ACL) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) about new efforts to integrate care for people with Medicare and Medicaid, and how aging and disability organizations can participate. Click here for more information. Foster Family-based Treatment Association 30th Annual Conference July 10-13, 2016 - New Orleans, LA Join over 600 social workers in New Orleans to learn best practices in family-based treatment services for children and youth. The conference will feature nearly 100 workshops on clinical interventions, foster parent recruitment, leadership, research and more. Click here for more information. ICPSR Data Workshop - Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey
August 8-9, 2016 - Ann Arbor, MI
Application Deadline: June 17, 2016Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (Baby FACES) is a descriptive study of Early Head Start programs designed to inform policy and practice at both national and local levels. Baby FACES followed two cohorts of children through their time in Early Head Start, starting in 2009, the first wave of data collection, through age 3, with the final round of data collected in spring 2012. Baby FACES project leads from Mathematica Policy Research will instruct this two-day data training, which will introduce researchers to the study's objectives, methods, instruments, key findings, and data structure. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Center for Poverty Research Brief - Supporting Motherhood Capital Could Benefit Children
This brief outlines a new study involving interviews with low-income Mexican immigrant mothers with limited English skills to understand informal barriers in education and healthcare settings as they advocated on behalf of their children. The study suggests that mothers are most effective in a less bureaucratized setting and when staff recognize how deeply they care for and understand their children. Click here for more information.
New Dataset Available - Assessing Different Levels and Dosages of the Shifting Boundaries Intervention to Prevent Youth Dating Violence in New York City Middle Schools: A Randomized Control Trial, 2011-2014
This study was a randomized controlled trial of a dating violence and sexual harassment (DV/H) prevention program called the Shifting Boundaries (SB) Program. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
NIH Twitter Chat on African American Men's Mental Health
In recognition of National Men's Health Week, please join the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and NIMHD for a Twitter chat discussing African American men's mental health on Thursday, June 16, 2016, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET. Click here for more information.
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About SWRnet
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