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The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recently published a discretionary research funding announcement titled "Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Research Scholars," which is summarized below. If you have questions regarding this grant announcement, please email the OPRE grant review team at ChildCareScholars@icfi.com<
Child Care Research Scholars Grant
The full announcement for "Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Research Scholars" is available online at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
Who is eligible to apply? Funds for Child Care Research Scholars are available to support dissertation research on child care policy issues by advanced graduate students from relevant disciplines.
Eligible applicants include doctoral level graduate students enrolled in accredited public, State-controlled, and private institutions of higher education. The institution must be fully accredited by one of the regional accrediting commissions recognized by the Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. Additionally, eligible applicants must have a faculty mentor, who has a Ph.D. or equivalent in the respective field, and conducts research as a primary professional responsibility in their university/institution.
What is the funding award limit and project period? Applicants may apply for project periods up to 24 months with two 12-month budget periods. Up to $25,000 may be awarded for each budget period. For information about previous Child Care Research Scholars, see http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
What types of research are supported? Proposed projects must represent high-quality research (including research using different methodologies, designs, or secondary data analysis) and must address applied research questions that will inform and improve child care policies and practice. Topics of current interest for this announcement include, but are not limited to (please see announcement for further details):
* Understanding the child care needs of diverse low-income families and/or improving child care programs and policies for various subpopulations;
* The effects of alternative State/Territory/Tribal- and local-level child care subsidy policies and practices on children and families served (e.g., access to subsidies, the accessibility and quality of care, parental employment and self-sufficiency, children's school readiness);
* Issues related to Tribal child care, including maintaining culture, language, and traditions through intergenerational approaches to child care and intergenerational approaches that utilize older adult volunteers;
* Features of child care that are most critical to support children's development and family well-being;
* Factors that play a role in parents' decisions about work, child care, and subsidy access;
* Identification and examination of family-level processes that might be influenced by child care or child care subsidy use or might moderate the relationships between care and children's development;
* Identification and examination of context-level factors that influence availability of and access to quality child care in rural United States, and solutions that might moderate the relationship between context and children's development in rural U.S.;
* Issues related to the participation of various minority groups in different types of early care and education programs and how these types of care/programs meet the needs of children and their families in these groups;
* Cost-effective investments (e.g. professional development interventions, child care environment improvement strategies, service coordination models) to improve child care quality in all settings;
* Impact of changes in the early child care sector (e.g., unionization of workforce, expansion of universal preK) on the delivery and quality of child care and access to high-quality care by low-income, at-risk families;
* Issues and outcomes related to early childhood workforce development, including in-depth examination of promising training programs or other interventions to support caregivers in all settings, examination of promising new technologies to deliver caregiver education and training, efforts to improve data about caregivers, local and state-level strategies for the professional development of caregivers, evaluation of different early childhood credentialing and educational models and their associations with care, and comparison of benefits, compensation, and other efforts to reduce turnover;
* Factors promoting or hindering collaboration among child care providers and other early childhood systems;
* Issues related to the participation of home-based providers in professional development initiatives and other systemic approaches to improve quality of care received by low-income children (e.g., Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS));
* Development/validation of measures/instruments to assess the characteristics of care or needs of caregivers, especially home-based providers; and
* Issues related to child care licensing, including improvement in State licensing standards and policies promoting the licensing of diverse programs.
When is the application deadline? Letters of intent are due April 21, 2013 and applications are due May 21, 2013.
If you have questions regarding this grant announcement, please email the OPRE grant review team at ChildCareScholars@icfi.com<
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recently published a discretionary research funding announcement titled "Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Research Scholars," which is summarized below. If you have questions regarding this grant announcement, please email the OPRE grant review team at ChildCareScholars@icfi.com<
Child Care Research Scholars Grant
The full announcement for "Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Research Scholars" is available online at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
Who is eligible to apply? Funds for Child Care Research Scholars are available to support dissertation research on child care policy issues by advanced graduate students from relevant disciplines.
Eligible applicants include doctoral level graduate students enrolled in accredited public, State-controlled, and private institutions of higher education. The institution must be fully accredited by one of the regional accrediting commissions recognized by the Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. Additionally, eligible applicants must have a faculty mentor, who has a Ph.D. or equivalent in the respective field, and conducts research as a primary professional responsibility in their university/institution.
What is the funding award limit and project period? Applicants may apply for project periods up to 24 months with two 12-month budget periods. Up to $25,000 may be awarded for each budget period. For information about previous Child Care Research Scholars, see http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
What types of research are supported? Proposed projects must represent high-quality research (including research using different methodologies, designs, or secondary data analysis) and must address applied research questions that will inform and improve child care policies and practice. Topics of current interest for this announcement include, but are not limited to (please see announcement for further details):
* Understanding the child care needs of diverse low-income families and/or improving child care programs and policies for various subpopulations;
* The effects of alternative State/Territory/Tribal- and local-level child care subsidy policies and practices on children and families served (e.g., access to subsidies, the accessibility and quality of care, parental employment and self-sufficiency, children's school readiness);
* Issues related to Tribal child care, including maintaining culture, language, and traditions through intergenerational approaches to child care and intergenerational approaches that utilize older adult volunteers;
* Features of child care that are most critical to support children's development and family well-being;
* Factors that play a role in parents' decisions about work, child care, and subsidy access;
* Identification and examination of family-level processes that might be influenced by child care or child care subsidy use or might moderate the relationships between care and children's development;
* Identification and examination of context-level factors that influence availability of and access to quality child care in rural United States, and solutions that might moderate the relationship between context and children's development in rural U.S.;
* Issues related to the participation of various minority groups in different types of early care and education programs and how these types of care/programs meet the needs of children and their families in these groups;
* Cost-effective investments (e.g. professional development interventions, child care environment improvement strategies, service coordination models) to improve child care quality in all settings;
* Impact of changes in the early child care sector (e.g., unionization of workforce, expansion of universal preK) on the delivery and quality of child care and access to high-quality care by low-income, at-risk families;
* Issues and outcomes related to early childhood workforce development, including in-depth examination of promising training programs or other interventions to support caregivers in all settings, examination of promising new technologies to deliver caregiver education and training, efforts to improve data about caregivers, local and state-level strategies for the professional development of caregivers, evaluation of different early childhood credentialing and educational models and their associations with care, and comparison of benefits, compensation, and other efforts to reduce turnover;
* Factors promoting or hindering collaboration among child care providers and other early childhood systems;
* Issues related to the participation of home-based providers in professional development initiatives and other systemic approaches to improve quality of care received by low-income children (e.g., Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS));
* Development/validation of measures/instruments to assess the characteristics of care or needs of caregivers, especially home-based providers; and
* Issues related to child care licensing, including improvement in State licensing standards and policies promoting the licensing of diverse programs.
When is the application deadline? Letters of intent are due April 21, 2013 and applications are due May 21, 2013.
If you have questions regarding this grant announcement, please email the OPRE grant review team at ChildCareScholars@icfi.com<
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