ACT—Adults and Children Together—Against Violence is a national early violence prevention initiative that focuses on adults who raise and care for children ages 0 to 8 years. It is designed to prevent violence by educating parents and other adults to be positive role models and create environments that protect children from violence and teach them positive ways to resolve conflicts. ACT includes national and local training programs for professionals, a web site, and publications. For more information, download or order publications go to:

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Graduate Student Fellowship program

Under a partnership between APA and CDC/ National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, graduate students in psychology receive a grant to conduct research or intervention in either unintentional injury prevention or violence prevention. Read more.

APA/CDC Student Fellowship in Injury Prevention and Control

The American Psychological Association ACT Against Violence Program is accepting applications for 1-year fellowship to be awarded to a graduate student working on research or intervention projects in either unintentional injury prevention or violence prevention from the public health and behavioral science perspectives.  The fellowship is funded by the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; starting in    “ACT Program/CDC Fellow in Injury Prevention” will receive a $ 1,500 stipend for one year.

Eligibility and Requirements

• Applicants must be enrolled as a full time student in a masters or doctoral degree program in behavioral science or related field. Students are not required to be members of the American Psychological Association;
• Students must submit the original and three copies of: a) Completed application form; b) a current resume; and  c) a project proposal including objectives, methodology, timeline, and potential contribution of the project in 800 words or less;
• In addition students should send two letters: one letter of recommendation and one letter of support from a professor or supervisor sealed in the envelopes with authors’ signatures across the seal;
• Proposed projects on unintentional injury should address injuries related to home, leisure, and transportation including falls, fire, bicycle, motor-vehicle, sports, etc.
• Proposed projects on violence prevention should apply the public health model and address early violence prevention including program evaluation, child maltreatment, impact of domestic violence on children, media influence, bullying, parenting style, etc;
• Proposed projects can be new or ongoing; and applicant must have the primary role in conducting the project;
• Recipients will be required to submit a progress report by    and a final report by    .

Selection Criteria

Proposals will be reviewed by a selection committee and should be related to surveillance, risk factor identification, or intervention development, implementation and evaluation.

Research projects will be reviewed based on:

a)      Significance to the field --- importance of the problem addressed; contribution to advancement of scientific knowledge

b)      Innovation of the approach --- challenges to existing paradigms; use of new concepts and approaches

c)      Design plan --- conceptual framework,  methodology, activities, analyses

Intervention projects will be reviewed based on:

a)      Project plan that includes rationale and statement of need; defined audience; description of goals, objectives and activities well integrated; evaluation plan; and dissemination plan

b)      Cultural competence of approach and materials developed

c)      Intended contribution to the field

Application Procedures:

Send the original and three copies of the complete application documents (application form, resume, project proposal); one letter of recommendation and one letter of support to:

Julia Silva
ACT Against Violence Program
American Psychological Association

750 First Street, NE Room 5128
Washington, DC 20002

Applications must be postmarked by   _____  to participate in the selection process. For more information contact Julia Silva at (202) 336-5817 or at jsilva@apa.org