This week there are three PhD students presenting online at CSWE at the end of this week. Congratulations to them all!
Kelsey Conrick (Y2) with co-authors Graves, J.M., Angell, L., Moore, M. (2020, November 12-15). “Assessing Training Needs for Social Workers Serving Clients with Traumatic Brain Injury.” [Conference session]. Council on Social Work Education.
Adam David (Y2) (2019, November 17). Biopsychosocial models of ethical and antisocial behaviors [Conference presentation]. Council on Social Work Education 2020 Annual Program Meeting, Denver, CO, United States
Hung-Peng Lin (Y2) (2020, Nov.) “Erased in Translation”: Decoding settler colonialism embedded in cultural adaptations to Family Group Conferencing (FGC). Paper presented at the 66th Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting, Denver, CO.
Selected Grant Opportunities
APF Queen-Nellie Evans Scholarship
Deadline: November 15, 2020
The Queen-Nellie Evans Scholarship will recognize outstanding minority graduate students who have a demonstrated commitment to improving the conditions of marginalized communities. Preference is given to those who are preparing for a career in academia, clinical service delivery, or public policy and see their work as helping to improve the condition of marginalized communities after the completion of their graduate studies. Both master’s and doctorate students are welcome to apply.
Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program
Deadline: December 12, 2020
The Outreach Program is a community-based grant program aimed towards promoting rural health care services by enhancing health care delivery to rural underserved populations in the local community or region. Through consortia of local health care and social service providers, communities can develop innovative approaches to challenges related to the specific health needs in rural areas that expand clinical and service capacity in rural communities.
Competitive and Administrative Supplements for Community Interventions to Reduce the Impact of COVID-19 on Health Disparity and Other Vulnerable Populations”
Deadline: December 30, 2020
Research is needed to test community interventions focused on the prevention (or slowing) of COVID-19 transmission, evaluate local and state policies and programs intended to mitigate COVID-19 exposure and improve adherence, and reduce the negative impact of the multifaceted consequences on the health of populations who experience health disparities and other vulnerable groups.
Digital Healthcare Interventions to Address the Secondary Health Effects Related to Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19
Deadline: December 30, 2020
In order to significantly improve near term impact of treatment and identification of individuals at risk for, or experiencing worsening health secondary to the COVID-19 pandemic across the full lifespan, supplements will focus particularly on NIH-designated health disparity (racial/ethnic minorities, less privileged socioeconomic status, rural residents and sexual and gender minorities) and other populations with medical or social vulnerabilities.
Health Policy Research Scholars
Deadline: March 17, 2021
Health Policy Research Scholars is a national leadership program for second-year doctoral students in any academic discipline who want to apply their research to help build healthier and more equitable communities.
Research Events
The Future of Aging Symposium
Join for a series of online lectures and conversations centered on how this newest generation of older adults is forever altering the aging experience.
-November 10, 1:30pm – Keynote
-November 12, 1:30pm – Karen Fredriksen Goldsen, Making Visible, Coming Out of the Shadows: Advancing Research on the Health and Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Minority Elders
-November 17, 1:30pm – Eric Larson, Aging into Health
-November 19, 1:30pm – Sara Curran, Forecasting an Aging Future in Washington: Imagining Possibilities in the Demography of Diversity
Speaker Series: Leaders in Prevention Science
The Social Development Research Group (SDRG) at the UW School of Social Work is pleased to present a Leaders in Prevention Science speaker series to share the work of leading scholars with our colleagues.
-November 12, 1:00pm- Denise Walker, University of Washington
-December 3, 12:30pm- Debra Furr-Holden, Michigan State University
-December 9, 2:00pm- Guillermo (Willy) Prado, University of Miami
-January 6, 1:00pm- Margaret Kuklinski, University of Washington
Dates and time vary depending on the speaker’s availability. Each event is schedule to last no more than 1.5 hours. A Zoom invitation will be sent for each event.
Fellowships, Internships and Job Opportunities
Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Professionals
Deadline: January 21, 2021
The purpose of the BHWET Program for Professionals is to increase the supply of behavioral health professionals while also improving distribution of a quality behavioral health workforce and thereby increasing access to behavioral health services. A special focus is placed on the knowledge and understanding of children, adolescents, and transitional-aged youth at risk for behavioral health disorders.
MD-PhD Training Program in Alzheimer’s Disease and Its Related Dementias and the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Deadline: February 3, 2021
NIA’s MD-PhD Training Program in Alzheimer’s Disease and Its Related Dementias and the Behavioral and Social Sciences is designed to help strengthen the pipeline of physician-scientist leaders dedicated to using social and behavioral science approaches to addressing the nation’s challenges posed by Alzheimer’s disease and its related dementias (AD/ADRD). This FOA provides support to eligible domestic institutions to develop and implement effective approaches to integrated dual-degree training leading to the award of both an MD and a research doctorate degree (PhD or equivalent).
Conferences, Trainings and Workshops
Activating Communities for Change
November 10, 12, 17, and 19, 2020 – online
This four-session distance learning series offers participants an interactive opportunity to explore the prevention and regulatory landscape in order to better understand the system, analyze the current state of laws and regulations, and work toward activating communities for change.
Register here
Data for Black Lives Conference
December 11-13, 2020 Cambridge, MA
Data for Black Lives is a movement of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people. But history tells a different story, one in which data is too often wielded as an instrument of oppression, reinforcing inequality and perpetuating injustice. Redlining was a data-driven enterprise that resulted in the systematic exclusion of Black communities from key financial services.
Call for Papers
Poverty, Inequality and Social Development: Innovations Around the World22nd Biennial Conference of the International Consortium for Social Development
Deadline: November 30, 2020
The global COVID-19 pandemic and numerous other social challenges have had devastating impacts on lives and livelihoods across the globe, exacerbating poverty, inequality, and other social challenges. We invite papers, poster presentations, and session proposals from practitioners, researchers, students, community organizations, and policymakers. The conference will critically appraise the social challenges of our time and advance novel
COVID-19
For general COVID-19 information and resources, go to The Huddle: UW Medicine and School of Social Work COVID-19 Information & Resources
