August 26, 2016  || Vol. 8, Issue 35
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding
Rural Policy Analysis Program (HRSA)
Deadline: November 14, 2016
The purpose of this program is to support research and analysis of key policy issues affecting rural communities that informs policy makers.  The program is national in scope and looks at cross-cutting rural health and human services issues in order to identify trends and challenges. Click here for more information.

Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury (CDC)
Deadline: January 31, 2017
NCIPC is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will help expand and advance our understanding about what works to prevent violence by rigorously evaluating primary prevention strategies, programs, and policies to address specific gaps in the prevention of teen dating violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and youth violence. Click here for more information.

Research on Autism Spectrum Disorders (NIH)
Deadline: September 7, 2019
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research grant applications to support research designed to elucidate the etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and optimal means of service delivery in relation to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Click here for more information.

Russel Sage Foundation Future of Work Grants
Deadline: September 9, 2016
The Russell Sage Foundation's program on the Future of Work supports innovative research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for less- and moderately-skilled workers and their families. We seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on the employment, earnings, and the quality of jobs of workers. Click here for more information.

Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF)
Deadline: November 14, 2016
The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) offers Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to encourage independence early in the Fellow's career through supporting his or her research and training goals. The research and training plan of each fellowship must address important scientific questions within the scope of the SBE Directorate and the specific guidelines in this fellowship solicitation. Click here for more information.

DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY  
Doris Duke Fellowships for the Promotion of Child Well-Being
Deadline: December 1, 2016
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago is pleased to offer the Doris Duke Fellowships for the Promotion of Child Well-Being. These fellowships are designed to identify and develop a new generation of leaders interested in and capable of creating practice and policy initiatives that will enhance child development and improve the nation's ability to prevent all forms of child maltreatment. Click here for more information. 
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Call for Studies
Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HOMVEE)
Deadline: September 19, 2016
Mathematica Policy Research seeks studies for a focused review on the effectiveness of model supplements, adaptations, and other aspects of addressing needs through home visiting service delivery. This special call for studies is focused on home visiting to address two outcomes: intimate partner violence and families' economic self-sufficiency. Click here for more information.

Call for Nominations
2017 Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy
Deadline: December 2, 2016
The Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy will recognize a nonprofit or public sector champion who exhibits persistence, courage, and determination in the field of health advocacy; embodies commitment to principled action and passionate leadership that advances social change; demonstrates a dedication to making progress in policy and practice despite challenging political environments; inspires philanthropy to support grantees who fight for social justice and meaningful access to health care for all Americans; advances a strategic vision that is focused on achieving effective results with a broad impact; embraces an attitude of optimism, good humor, and humility in their work. Click here for more information.
Conferences & Trainingsconf    
Valuing Black Lives: The Second Annual Global Emotional Emancipation Summit
September 15-16, 2016 - Washington, DC

We invite you to join Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists as we continue to develop a unified global response to the root causes of the countless injustices against people of African ancestry. Click here for more information.

The National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA) Webinar - Achieving Health Equity: One Policy at a Time
September 22, 2016 - 3:00-4:00 PM EDT

Public policies within and outside the health sector have a significant impact on population health and health inequities. Given its role in ensuring population health and eliminating health inequities, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) initiated efforts to apply a health equity lens to proposed state legislation. This webinar will discuss how the department used policy and administrative levers to make this change. Click here for more information.

Avance Center for the Advancement of Immigrant/Refugee Health
2016 Conference on Advancing Health Equity for Latino Youth & Families
October 5, 2016 - Washington, DC
This meeting brings together individuals committed to addressing health disparities that impact Latino immigrant communities. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and advocates to share emerging research, best practices, and community perspectives that shape the agenda for promoting Latino health and eliminating disparities. This year will focus on migration trends throughout the region, how migration impacts the health of Latino youth and families, and how communities have responded. Topics include family reunification, housing, education, behavioral health, and policy. Click here for more information. 
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata
Commonwealth Fund Report - Latinos and Blacks Have Made Major Gains Under the Affordable Care Act, But Inequalities Remain
According to the most recent Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act tracking survey, the uninsured rates for blacks and Latinos dropped from 2013-2016.Still, Latinos are significantly more likely than any other racial and ethnic group to be uninsured. Click here for more information.

Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) Brief - Incarceration and CPS involvement 
Despite a decline in the U.S. prison population in recent years, the incarceration rate remains exceptionally high, especially among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. This is well-known. Less well-known is that the incidence of child protective services (CPS) involvement in the United States is also quite high and, again, particularly so among disadvantaged groups. Incarceration
and CPS involvement may have a range of independent and interactive influences on parents, children, and families; involvement in one system may also be associated with subsequent involvement in the other. This brief describes our work using a unique longitudinal data system of linked administrative data from Wisconsin to describe overlap between parental incarceration and
child CPS involvement, and between adolescent CPS involvement and subsequent incarceration in young adulthood. Click here for more information. 
News & Noticesnews   
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Blog - How Social Spending Affects Health Outcomes
The United States spends more on health care than any other developed nation, yet a recent study suggests social services could have a greater impact on health outcomes. Click here for more information.

New York Times - More Older People Are Finding Work, but What Kind?
As men and women 55 and older looking for employment probably suspect, at a certain point the kinds of jobs available to them narrow significantly. New research by Matthew Rutledge, an economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, found that they are increasingly being funneled into what he describes as "old-person" jobs. 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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