APF and Education Directorate fund schools in need
APF and APA's Education Directorate have awarded two $4,500 Jacqueline Anne Morris Memorial Grants to support efforts to improve clinical and mental health services for low-income students in their public elementary or middle schools.
Santo Domingo Middle School in Santo Domingo, New Mexico, will use its Morris Grant to develop a curriculum designed for Native American children. Using a Native American framework, the curriculum will deliver suicide-prevention and life skill-building tools in a culturally relevant manner to this traditional and rural Santo Domingo community.
Palmer Lake Elementary School in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, will use its Morris Grant to implement the "Coping Power Program," an evidence-based intervention to help students who exhibit defiant, disruptive and aggressive behavior. The program aims to reduce disruptive behavior by increasing students' social, anger management and study skills.
The grants are funded by a gift from child psychologists Richard Morris, PhD, and Yvonne Morris, PhD, through the Jacqueline Anne Morris Foundation.
APF funds research on reproductive health
APF has presented two Henry P. David Fund Grants to early career psychologists conducting research on human reproductive behavior:
- Savannah (Peters) Geske, a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of South Dakota, won the Henry P. David Research Grant for her dissertation research on "Contraception Use Differences between Rural and Urban High School Students." The work is an extension of her master's thesis, which is in press in the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.
- Bernadette V. Blanchfield, a PhD candidate in developmental psychology at the University of Virginia, won the Henry P. David Travel Grant for her research on women who seek fertility treatments. By analyzing representative samples of women in the United States, Blanchfield found that heterosexual white women are twice as likely as racial and/or sexual minority women to seek reproductive help. She will use the travel grant to present her research at the Association for Women in Psychology's annual conference, to be held March 3–6, in Pittsburgh.
For more information on the Henry P. David Grantsopens in new window, visit the APF website.
Henderikus J. Stam earns Joseph B. Gittler Award
APF has awarded the 2015 $7,500 Joseph B. Gittler Award to Henderikus J. Stam, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Calgary. The prize honors a psychologist who has made outstanding scholarly contributions to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge.
Stam is president of Div. 26 (Society for the History of Psychology), a former president of Div. 24 (Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology), and a founding member and chair of the Canadian Psychological Association's Section on History and Philosophy of Psychology. He is also the former president of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Stam is the founding editor of Theory and Psychology.
For information on the Gittler Awardopens in new window, visit the APF website.
Thank you, dues statement donors
APF appreciates the hundreds of APA members who support the foundation by checking the donation box on their dues statements each year. With the check of a box, you are expanding critical research, building psychology's future and launching careers in our field.
The foundation will award nearly $800,000 in grants and scholarships in 2015. Still, many worthy proposals go unfunded. APF must turn away 90 percent of the proposals from the many graduate students and early career psychologists who apply.
These gifts support psychologists doing such critical work as addressing the mental health needs of rural Latino communities, discovering the links between parental military service and adolescent mental health problems, and reducing the risk of suicide in adolescents.
For more information about APF and how your gift will make an impact, visit APFopens in new window, or contact us at (202) 336-5843.
