APF campaign now in its final year
After four years, APF's campaign to raise critical funding to support the research and careers of early career psychologists and graduate students will wrap up at the end of this year. So far, the Campaign to Transform the Future has generated $9.9 million.
Despite that success, the need for support continues to be pressing. APF must still turn away 92 percent of those who apply for grants and other support.
Donors are helping APF ensure that no worthy proposal goes unfunded and that psychologists will be able to address problems in society — violence, discrimination, and recovering from disaster, just to name a few. No amount of support is too small.
Nearly 100 psychologists, foundations, APA divisions, and psychological organizations and companies have made major gifts to the campaign. Thousands of donors have also contributed at other levels. Through cash gifts, pledges and bequests to the campaign, APF donors are supporting research, launching careers, and leaving their mark on the field of psychology.
This is the final year of the campaign. The next generation of psychologists needs support, and donors to the campaign will make APF ready and able to provide that support.
For more information on how to make a gift to APF and join your colleagues in the Campaign to Transform the Future, visit APFopens in new window or call APF's Senior Development Officer, Rachael Lipsetts, at (202) 336-5622.
APF announces winner of the 2016 Roy Scrivner Memorial Grant
APF is pleased to announce that Sasha N. Canan of the University of Arkansas received the $15,000 2016 APF Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant.
Canan is a student in the Community Health Promotion and project coordinator in the Sexual Health Research Lab at the University of Arkansas. Canan's APF-funded project will build on the research findings that lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people have higher rates of sexual assault victimization and less support from their families when compared with heterosexuals. She will use her Scrivner Grant to study how contextual factors of sexual assaults on LGB victims affect familial support following the attack.
The Roy Scrivner Research Grants provide graduate student funding (preference given to dissertation candidates) for empirical or applied research that encourages the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender family psychology and family therapy.
For more information on the Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant, visit APFopens in new window.
New funding opportunity: APF Div. 49 Research and Travel Grants
The new APF Div. 49 (Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy) grant program supports research and scholarly works that further the advancement of group psychology and group psychotherapy:
- The Div. 49 Group Psychology Grant ($2,000) supports innovative group psychology research focused toward groups in applied settings.
- The Div. 49 Group Psychotherapy Grant ($2,000) supports innovative group psychotherapy research applied to small groups in a naturalistic setting.
- Div. 49 Group Psychology and/or Group Psychotherapy Travel Grant ($1,500) supports a graduate student or member of Div. 49 for travel to meet with a mentor/researcher in order to improve teaching, supervision, clinical work or research.
The application deadline for all three grants is June 1.
Grantee spotlight: More than a dissertation
In 2014, University of Kansas graduate student Joy Gabrielli received an Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship to complete a dissertation project on youth in foster care called the SPARK (Studying Pathways to Adjustment and Resilience in Kids) Project. Specifically, Gabrielli studied how child maltreatment and substance use are related in this population.
The $15,000 fellowship enabled Gabrielli to complete a project of publication-level quality. She expects that at least one publication, and possibly two, will result from the research supported by the Koppitz Fellowship.
"Completion of a dissertation project of this scope would not have been possible without support from this funding," Gabrielli says. "I was able to pass my dissertation defense with honors due to the scope, quality and impact of this research project, a distinction that has only been awarded twice prior in my graduate program's history."
In addition, the APF funding allowed Gabrielli to develop important research skills for a career in clinical child psychology by training her in analytic methods. The fellowship also strengthened her applications for additional career opportunities: Gabrielli is now a postdoctoral research fellow doing similar work at Dartmouth College.
"In sum, receipt of this award has had tremendous impact on my completion of my PhD requirements and has shaped me as an individual researcher in clinical child psychology," she says.
