Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action

[Announcement from SCRA listserv]

SCRA Award Nominations  2011

The Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action

This award was established in 1993 to recognize individuals working in the conceptually demanding, creative, and groundbreaking tradition of Seymour B. Sarason.

The criteria include:

1) novel and critical rethinking, reframing, and reworking of basic assumptions, approaches, and issues in the human services, education, psychology, mental retardation and other areas of community research and action;

2) major books and other scholarship that reflect these new approaches within the context of historical wisdom; and

3) action-research and other action efforts that reflect these new approaches.

Those working both in academia and applied settings, including government, are eligible for this $1,000 award, given biennially by the Society for Community Research and Action: Division 27 of the American Psychological Association. The award is presented at the SCRA Biennial conference and the recipient is invited to submit a manuscript relevant to their work to the American Journal of Community Psychology, the official journal of SCRA. The nomination deadline for the award is April 30, 2011.

A detailed letter of nomination (including a self-nomination) addressing how the nominee exemplifies each of the above criteria as well as a copy of the nominee's vita should be sent electronically to:  Judy Primavera, Chair of the Sarason Award Committee, at  jprimavera@fairfield.edu.  The award recipient will be notified prior to the SCRA Biennial Conference which takes place this year in Chicago, Illinois from June 16-19, 2011.

Past recipients of the award are:

Edward Zigler	1993
Emory Cowen	1995
Murray Levine	1997
Julian Rappaport	1999
James G. Kelly	2001
Rudolf H. Moos	2002
Rhona S. Weinstein	2005
Raymond P. Lorion	2007
Ed Seidman	2009

Invitation to Service-Learning and Indigenous Communities Forum

[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]

The Sixth Annual Service-Learning and Indigenous Communities Forum
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
8:30 AM – 1:00 PM
World Beat Cultural Center
San Diego, California

You are invited to participate in the Sixth Annual Service-Learning and Indigenous Communities Forum to be held on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at the World Beat Cultural Center in San Diego, California.  The Forum will be sponsored by Learn and Serve America and the Hawaii Pacific Islands Campus Compact and hosted by San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians.  It will be part of the 14^th Annual Continuums of Service Conference.

The Forum will focus on the Indigenous perspectives of environmental sustainability.  Our Indigenous Communities are especially vulnerable to environmental conditions such as climate change and insufficient access to clean water. The results include disrupting major food supply chains and health issues such as asthma, digestive and circulatory problems, metabolic disorders, and cancer. This Forum will engage in a discussion of possible solutions through the use of Service-Learning and will provide examples of how Service-Learning has been incorporated into a variety of STEM disciplines to play a role in addressing environmental sustainability.

To register for the Forum and the Conference and for hotel registration information, please visit: http://www.wacampuscompact.org/cosconference
General registration closes April 11, 2011. Registration after April 11, 2011 incurs a $50 late fee.

Service-Learning Funding Update

[Announcement from National Service-Learning Partnership]

The U.S. House of Representatives is currently considering a bill that would eliminate funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service and Learn and Serve America, the only federal program dedicated to funding service-learning activities in local schools and communities. If funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service and Learn and Serve America is eliminated, critical services for youth, schools, and communities will be lost. Click here to learn more about what our nation and your community stand to lose if Learn and Serve America ends. Click here to learn more about the implications of eliminating the Corporation for National and Community Service. YOUR VOICE AND PARTICIPATION MATTER. Service-Learning United and the National Service-Learning Partnership are joining with others who care about service and service-learning to fight back. As Tip O'Neil said, "All politics is local." Without vocal and visible support at the local level, we are unlikely to survive these attacks.  There are two important ways you can be a voice for service-learning: 1. TODAY, CALL CONGRESS. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives must hear from service-learning advocates NOW. Call to urge representatives to VOTE NO on H.R. 1 and/or any proposal to eliminate funding for Learn and Serve America and the Corporation for National and Community Service. Click here to download instructions and talking points for contacting your Members of Congress. After you make your calls, urge at least 5 other people to do them same. 2. ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, VISIT THE LOCAL OFFICE OF YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS. Sign up today to participate in "Save Service District Day" on Friday, February 25th. Meet up with students, colleagues, community partners, and neighbors to visit your local congressional district office to tell your Member of Congress about the value and impact of service and service-learning in your school and community. Our students cannot afford to lose the opportunity to learn and serve. Our local communities cannot afford to lose the critical support provided by youth engaged in service-learning. Click here to sign up as a voice for service-learning on a Save Service District Day Team in your local community. Are you ready to make a visit, but you’re not sure what to say or how to say it? Don’t worry. We’ll have sample tools, and materials to help you prepare. Visit us on Monday at www.servicelearningunited.org to download an online toolkit for service-learning champions participating in “Save Service District Day.” You can also visit the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse for tips and resources to help tell your service-learning story on District Day and beyond. We're working hard on your behalf. We'll continue to keep you up to speed and aware of ways you can educate and inform others about the value of service-learning and Learn and Serve America. Visit us online for policy updates and to access free tools and resources. You can also follow us on Twitter (@nslp), via our blog, or join our Facebook Community for ongoing updates. Thanks for all that you do to engage young people in service-learning! Nelda Nelda Brown, Partnership Executive Director

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Post-Doctoral Research Associate Position

[Announcement from SCRA listserv]

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

A one-year full-time post-doctoral research associate position with an
immediate start date is available to work on randomized trials of two
community-based youth development programs. One project is an ongoing
study examining the effectiveness of a comprehensive school-based health
promotion and prevention program (Positive Action). This research is
funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The other project is
focused on testing a youth development framework for enhancing the
effectiveness of one-to-one mentoring programs for delinquency prevention.
This research is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention (OJJDP).  The position would involve taking a leadership role
in advancing the scientific aims and productivity of each project under
the supervision of Dr. David DuBois.  Dr. DuBois is the co-Principal
Investigator on the IES-funded trial and the Principal Investigator on the
OJJDP-funded trial, and is affiliated with the Institute for Health
Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

Applicants should have a doctoral degree in a relevant field and
significant prior experience with community-based prevention science.
Excellent skills in the areas of multi-disciplinary and research-community
collaboration, scholarly writing, and multivariate data analysis are
essential.

Applications should include a cover letter, CV, and contact information
for at least two references, and should be emailed to Dr. DuBois at
dldubois@uic.edu. Applications received by Friday, February 25th, are
assured of receiving full consideration. Inquiries that are submitted
separate of a formal application are not assured a response.

UIC is an AA/EOE

Call for Manuscripts: Health Disparities in Latino Communities

[Announcement from SCRA listserv]

Call for Manuscripts: The California Journal of Health Promotion Special issue on Health Disparities in Latino Communities We invite manuscripts for a special issue that addresses health disparities in Latino communities. Manuscripts may include methodological innovations, theories, prevention, screening, interventions, policy change, and community collaborative approaches that target various health-related issues.  A special issue of the Californian Journal of Health Promotion seeks to keep pace with the increasing growth and diversity of Latino communities in the United States. Authors from any region are invited to submit manuscripts and other types of materials, such as multimedia presentations. We seek papers from multiple perspectives, including basic, applied, and evaluation research, any methodology or scope, and covering such topics, but not limited to: The relationship between health behaviors and risks for health outcomes. Psychosocial, environmental, economic, and health care factors related to health-related      behaviors and outcomes. The role of urban environments and health. Grassroots, public policy activities to alter social, built, physical, and service environments. Examining any of these topics by highlighting the diversity of different Latino ethnic origins or     ethnicities. Please contact guest editor Erualdo R. González (egonzalez@fullerton.edu) with any questions regarding the suitability of your manuscript for submission.  Full drafts of manuscripts are due by June 1, 2011. For author guidelines, please visit our website at: http://cjhp.org. To submit a manuscript, please register with the journal at http://cajhp.msubmit.net.  You will then be able to submit a manuscript. ****************************** Erualdo R. González, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies                                                  California State University, Fullerton Phone:(657) 278-7672   Fax: (657) 626-8184 http://hss.fullerton.edu/chicano/facultypage/egonzalez.asp

2011 IARSLCE Annual Conference Proposal Submissions

2011 IARSLCE Annual Conference

 

Research for Impact: Scholarship Advancing Social Change

November 2 - 4, 2011

Chicago, Illinois

The theme of the 2011 annual conference is Research for Impact: Scholarship Advancing Social Change. Service-learning and community engagement have evolved locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally as effective methods for teaching and learning. In what ways has the scholarship on these methods contributed to positive social change?  The conference will highlight research that critically evaluates and illuminates the long-term impact of service-learning and community engagement on students, faculty, and community partners and, most importantly, on the social, economic and political issues they seek to transform.

Submission of Proposals  

Proposals will be accepted beginning February 21, 2011. To be considered, all proposals must be received via online submission by April 1, 2011, 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time). Incomplete proposal submissions will not be reviewed. Proposals will be peer reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent in June 2011.

A new online proposal submission process is being implemented this year to facilitate the review process. Instructions will follow soon.

Please visit our website for further information.

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTE

Since IARSLCE is a research conference, research and scholarship must be at the center of all proposals submitted. Proposals that focus on program descriptions and models, program evaluations, or "how-to" strategies must describe how this topic will advance service-learning and community engagement research for impact. Pure program models of service-learning or other engagement programs are unlikely to be accepted.

 

ABSTRACTS should be limited to 100 words.

 

PROPOSAL NARRATIVES should be limited to 1000 words.

For questions about the proposal submission process, please contact Patrick Green at pgreen@luc.edu

For general questions regarding the IARSLCE, please contact Stephanie O'Brien at sobrien1@tulane.edu

www.researchslce.org

US Department of Housing & Urban Development Research Grants - Feb 4 & Feb 11 Deadlines

[Announcement from CBPR listserv]

Dear CBPR colleagues,

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) has announced two research grant opportunities with Feb deadlines.  Details are posted at http://bit.ly/hgkCUG

Sustainable Communities Research Grant Program. PD&R is sponsoring a grant program devoted to sustainability research and welcomes applications in the areas of affordable housing preservation, integrated housing and transportation planning, healthy community design, and other topics on sustainability. Applicants may request a minimum of $150,000, up to $500,000 for an award.

The application deadline for this program is February 4, 2011.

Homeless Families Demonstration Small Grant Research Program. PD&R is also announcing the availability of approximately $150,000 in grant funding to support research activities that will build off of HUDs newly launched study of The Impact of Housing and Services Interventions on Homeless Families, which is designed to provide critical information regarding outcomes for homeless families that are provided with different packages of housing and supportive services in an effort to identify "what works best for whom." Cooperative agreements in an amount up to $75,000 will be competitively awarded to researchers who propose innovative and substantive studies that will complement the existing research design, and will be rated on the policy relevance, contribution, and technical merit of the proposed research.

The application deadline for this program is February 18, 2011.

Thanks,

Rahma Osman
Program Assistant

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