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CEMRRAT Implementation Grant Fund and Awardees
The APA Public Interest Directorate's Executive Office was allocated $100,000 to be used in support of the Association-wide implementation of the CEMRRAT Five-Year Plan. Approximately $68,000 of these funds is used to support small grants through the CEMRRAT Grant Implementation Fund, which is subdivided into six priority areas. Priority areas correspond to the goals and objectives outlined in CEMRRAT's Five-Year Plan.
Request for Proposals - CEMRRAT GRANTS for Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training
The American Psychological Association's Public Interest Directorate has been allocated $100,000 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 to continue implementation of the CEMRRAT Plan as recommended by the APA Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology (CEMRRAT). As in previous years, these funds will be used primarily to fund small grants. Eligible applicants for these grants are state psychological associations, APA divisions, departments/schools of psychology, APA boards and committees, other entities of organized psychology, and individuals. These small grants are intended to serve as "seed funds" to energize, empower, and support interested individuals, organizations, and educational institutions committed to enhancing ethnic minority recruitment, retention and training in psychology.
Emphasis will be placed on the funding of innovative start-up initiatives rather than the maintenance of on-going projects. It is anticipated that approximately three or four proposals will be funded under each of the five priority areas (see below). Applicants must be APA members at the time funds are awarded. So long as proposals are determined to be consistent with the identified funding priorities and the CEMRRAT Plan, they will be funded on a first-come-first-served basis.
It is hoped that those activities that receive funding will serve as demonstration models. Consequently, progress reports will be expected to be submitted annually by December 1, and a final report must be submitted 60 days upon completion of the funded activity.
The established funding priorities for FY2005 are:
Training/Professional Development - Linguistic Minorities - For activities that promote development of training programs (and associated professional development of faculty) that improve services to linguistic minorities. Examples of such activities include: a) collecting, publishing and disseminating model programs that focus on training for services with linguistic minority populations, b) designing, documenting, and evaluating mental health services, research and professional psychology training programs focused on linguistic minorities, and (c) establishing practicum or mental health services research training in settings serving linguistic minorities. (Approximately $5,000 is available.)
Training/Science - Math and Science Research and Training - For activities that serve to identify, demonstrate, document, or disseminate math, science, and research education and training procedures and strategies (including distance learning) that result in increased achievement and retention of students of color - especially in scientific psychology areas. (Approximately $10,000 is available.)
Faculty/Professional Development - For activities that serve to promote increased levels of multicultural competence in teaching, practice, and research among a program’s/department’s psychology faculty. Individual professional development will be considered only if applicant presents evidence of limited institutional support or resources for such activities. (Approximately $20,000 is available.)
Student Undergraduate/Graduate: Grants to Departments for Innovative Programs - For activities for undergraduate and graduate departments and professional schools related to developing innovative strategies for recruitment, retention and graduation of ethnic minority students in psychology. Applications that bear upon undergraduates and their matriculation to graduate programs in psychology are especially welcome. (Approximately $20,000 is available.)
Ethnic Minority Leadership Development - For activities that promote leadership skills and opportunities among ethnic minority psychologists. These funds are targeted to APA governance groups, divisions and their respective sections, and other organized entities of psychology that wish to undertake such leadership training and development activities. Applicants will be expected to provide matching funds equal to the amount requested. (Approximately $5,000 is available.)
There is no standard application form. The application (no more than five pages) should describe: (a) problem to be addressed and what is to be done (goals and activities), (b) how these goals are to be accomplished (procedures), (c) expected outcomes or findings, (d) a justified budget for the funding amount requested, and (e) rationales as to how the proposed effort is consistent with the CEMRRAT funding priorities and the provisions of the CEMRRAT Plan. [NOTE: In general, CEMRRAT funds may not be used to support travel, unless such travel is strongly justified and integral to project objectives.] Applications will not be accepted prior to January 1, 2005.
Questions should be directed to:
Benjamin Siankam
Special Project Manager
Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
202/ 336-6029 (Phone)
202/ 336 6040 (Fax)
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Committee on Children, Youth, and Families: Call for Nominations for Terms Beginning in 2006
The Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (CYF) is anticipating two vacancies in 2006. CYF welcomes nominations from individuals interested in linking research and policy for children and families within APA and the profession. The Committee is particularly interested in candidates with substantial expertise and demonstrated experience in applying psychological knowledge to the well being and optimal development of children, youth, and families; and in issues advancing psychology as a science and profession in the area of promoting health and human welfare. Candidates are sought who have particular expertise in contemporary issues facing children, youth, and families, including (but not limited to) rural mental health and promoting healthy lifestyles for children, youth, and families. Candidates who have particular interest in underserved and ethnic minority populations are also particularly encouraged to apply.
Members are expected to propose and take leadership on a targeted project to be completed during their three year term on the Committee. Some examples of projects previously implemented by the Committee include immigrant children, youth, and families; school drop-out prevention; sexuality education; social practices that induce violence; psychological implications of disasters; early mental health interventions; violence against children in the family and community; training psychologists to work in the public sector; cultural competence; day care; testing; and the mental health needs of children and adolescents in the juvenile justice system. Projects have included topic specific taskforces, working groups, conferences, publications, and public policy statements.
Each candidate is asked to submit (1) a letter indicating his/her willingness to serve; (2) a brief (not more than one page) description of a project promoting the application of psychological knowledge to the well-being and optimal development of children, youth, and families (e.g., convention programs, edited books, journal articles, policy resolutions or statements), and (3) a current curriculum vita. The Committee places a priority on maintaining representation within the Committee's membership that reflects the diversity of psychology and society (e.g., ethnicity, culture, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, geographic location, and those who are employed less than full time).
The candidates selected to serve on the Committee will serve for three years and will be required to attend two Committee meetings a year in Washington, DC, with expenses reimbursed by APA, and to participate in conference calls. The successful candidate is expected to attend, if possible, the informal CYF meeting held during the APA convention at the member's own expense. In addition, members are expected to work on projects and Committee business between meetings.
Nomination material including a letter from the candidate indicating a willingness to serve, project description and a current CV must be received by Monday, August 29, 2005. Nomination material received after August 29 will be held for consideration the following year. Although it is not required, candidates may wish to have letters (not more than three) supporting their nomination submitted to the Committee. Material may be sent to CYF Nominations, c/o Trena King, Public Interest Directorate at the APA Address, by Email or fax (202) 336-6040.
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