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September 9, 2016 || Vol. 8, Issue 37
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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 NLM Information Resource Grants to Reduce Health Disparities (NIH)
Deadline: November 16, 2016
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits resource grant applications for projects that will bring useful, usable health information to health disparity populations and their health care providers. Access to useful, usable, understandable health information is an important factor during health decisions. Proposed projects should exploit the capabilities of computer and information technology and health sciences libraries to bring health-related information to consumers and their health care providers. Click here for more information.
Rural Health Research Dissemination Cooperative Agreement (HRSA) Deadline: December 14, 2016
The purpose of this program is to disseminate and market rural health services research funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) to diverse audiences, such as decision makers and rural stakeholders at national, state, and community levels, with the goal of informing and raising awareness of key policy issues important to rural communities. Click here for more information.
Pilot Studies to Detect and Prevent Suicide Behavior, Ideation and Self-Harm in Youth in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System (NIH)
Deadline: September 7, 2019
This initiative supports research to test the effectiveness of combined strategies to both detect and intervene to reduce the risk of suicide behavior, suicide ideation, and non-suicidal self-harm (NSSI) by youth in contact with the juvenile justice system. This FOA invites intervention strategies that are designed to be delivered in typical service settings using typically available personnel and resources, to enhance the implementation of interventions that prove effective, enhance their future uptake in diverse settings, and thereby reduce risk of suicide and self-harm in this population. Click here for more information.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant - Increasing Openness and Transparency in Research
Deadline: October 5, 2016
The purpose of this solicitation is to encourage and support a series of projects aimed at increasing transparency and accountability throughout the research life cycle, with a special emphasis on open access, to increase the speed of the flow of information from funded research to action. Click here for more information.
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Calls
REMINDER
Call for Proposals
2017 NASW-NM Conference - Social Work in a Changing World: What's Identity Got to Do With It?
Deadline: September 16, 2016
We are looking for topics addressing identity as it relates to the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, culture, age, religion, language, nativity, and location specific to our clients, communities, policies and our profession. We are particularly looking for proposals that focus directly on the populations and cultures we serve in the Southwest. However all completed proposals will be reviewed and considered. Click here for more information.
Call for Abstracts
13th Circle of Harmony HIV/AIDS Wellness Conference - Comprehensive Approaches to Healthier Communities: Integration of STD, HIV, Hepatitis, and Harm Reduction Prevention and Services
Deadline: October 28, 2016
The planning committee seeks presenters who can address the complex and unique issues related to HIV/AIDS and have experience and expertise in working with American Indians/Alaska Native. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Families in Society - Adoption Competency and Trauma-Informed Practices With Adoptive Families
Deadline: November 1, 2016
The tides of adoption have shifted remarkably for all participants in the lifelong adoption journey. Many of today's adoption policies, services, and practices lag behind these shifts, resulting in a lack of relevant knowledge, supports, and services. This special issue seeks manuscript proposals that promote a trauma-informed and adop on-competent professional community equipped to support all members of the new family formed by adop on, including biological, adoptive, and fictive kin. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Everyday Feminism Webinar - Healing from Toxic Whiteness to Better Fight for Racial Justice
September 15, 2016 - 5:00-6:30 PST
Learn the underlying reasons why many white folks feel emotional resistance to addressing systemic racism and get the tools to free themselves from toxic whiteness and develop anti-racist white identities. Click here for more information.
OJJDP Webinar - Event Information: Understanding Trauma in the Context of Juvenile Justice Systems
September 16, 2016, 3:30-4:30 PM EDT
Nearly all youth who enter the juvenile justice system have experienced trauma - often as a result of exposure to violence. Building practitioner skills to understand the impact of trauma on youth and to structure systems that support youth is critical for successful outcomes. This webinar will define trauma and traumatic stress reactions, identify how routine juvenile justice practices can function as triggers for youth, provide real life examples of youth behavior resulting from experiences of trauma, and offer strategies for the juvenile justice system to address traumatic stress reactions. Click here for more information.
National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities Webinar -
SHEC's Cultural Competency Resource Guide Spotlight Webinar Series:
Hispanic/Latino Population
October 13, 2016 - 2:00-3:00 PM EDT
The Southeastern Health Equity Council (SHEC) released its Cultural Competency Resource Guide in fall 2015. This guide is comprised of resources, trainers, institutions and publications about cultural and linguistic competency. The focus of this webinar will be the Community Engagement and Cultural Diversity Program at the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the services it provides to bring cultural and linguistic assistance to the Hispanic/Latino community in Florida. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
11th Annual Liberation-Based Healing Conference (LBHC) - Revolutionizing Our Scholarship, Our Streets and Our Practices
November 11-12, 2016 - New York, NYThe LBHC offers strategies that promote healing by interrupting oppressive societal structures with justice-based practices. This two-day conference keeps intersectionality at the center of its planning and facilitation; we bring in a range of speakers representing and centering on the experiences of voices who've been marginalized and disenfranchised. We will examine systems of criminal justice, community and domestic violence, education, immigration, health and mental health, religious and spiritual practices, homelessness, mass incarceration, etc. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
New Dataset Available - Healthy Americas Survey, 2014
The Healthy Americas Survey interviewed Hispanics, white non-Hispanics and black non-Hispanics about their health status; smoking; leisure-time physical activities; consumption of fruit and vegetables, sugary drinks, and sodium; preventive health checkups and vaccinations; chronic conditions; health insurance and access to health care; knowledge of and opinions about the Affordable Care Act; and use of the ACA marketplace websites. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
Center for Health Journalism - Q&A: What has health reform meant for rural America?
Despite health reform's promise of expanding coverage, almost two-thirds of the rural uninsured live in states that are not expanding Medicaid. To learn more about rural health, we caught up with University of Washington professors Eric Larson and Davis Patterson, the director and deputy director of the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center. Click here for more information.
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About SWRnet
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