Monthly Archives: January 2020

HRSA Opioid-Impacted Family Support Program

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Proposal due date: April 13, 2020

Purpose of the Program:

The purpose of this program is to support training programs that enhance and expand paraprofessionals knowledge, skills and expertise, and to increase the number of peer support specialists and other behavioral health-related paraprofessionals who work on integrated, interprofessional teams in providing services to children whose parents are impacted by opioid use disorders (OUD) and other substance use disorders (SUD), and their family members who are in guardianship roles. Additionally, a special focus is on demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the specific concerns for children, adolescents and transitional aged youth in high need and high demand areas2 who are at risk for mental health disorders and SUDs.

Program Objectives are to:

  • Enhance and expand, didactic educational support and experiential field training opportunities for OIFSP paraprofessional trainees that target children, adolescents and transitional age youth whose parents are impacted by OUD and other SUDs, and their family members who are in guardianship roles. These two components (didactic and experiential field training) comprise Level I training and are further explained in the Background section.
  • Develop, or establish a partnership with, registered apprenticeship programs to provide in-service training that places paraprofessional trainees in behavioral health-related positions addressing OUD and other SUDs. The apprenticeship program constitutes Level II training and is also further explained in the Background section.
  • Reduce financial barriers by providing financial support to trainees in the form of tuition/fees, supplies, and stipend support.
  • Create additional training positions beyond current program capacity to increase the number of paraprofessionals trained by a minimum of 10 percent in year one and maintain that level each year of the 4-year project period, with a focus on working with families who are impacted by OUD and other SUDs.

Additional information including the Notice of Funding Opportunity can be found on the HRSA site.

National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship 2020 Solicitation Webinar

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This webinar will provide information about the National Institute of Justice’s Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program to potential applicants.

Previously, NIJ offered two separate funding opportunities: GRF-Social and Behavioral Science (SBS) and GRF-STEM. Beginning this year, NIJ invites applications from Ph.D. students in ALL science and engineering fields under a single solicitation.

The presenters will discuss eligibility, application requirements, and answer frequently asked questions. A live Q&A session will conclude the webinar.

The webinar will occur on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 from 1:00-2:00 pm EST.

Learn more about the GRF program and download the solicitation PDF.

You can register for the webinar here.

NineSigma – Transforming the Future of Self-Care Challenge

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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare is on a mission to “Transform the Future of Self-Care” to enable consumers to do more, feel better and live longer.  We are actively seeking to establish strategic partnerships with start-ups and entrepreneurs who are equally passionate about delivering against this mission.  The way consumers treat, diagnose and engage with their health is dramatically shifting and we want to partner with breakthrough thinkers so that we can jointly improve lives. 

To drive this mission to enhance our current key, over-the-counter and consumer product brands, we are currently seeking new opportunities in the following three Challenge Topics:  Digital Health, At-Home Diagnostics, and Formulation Technologies.

Click links below to view detailed descriptions about each topic:

There is a maximum of US$50,000 available for cash prizes.  The Competition will award up to five (5) US$10,000 prizes to the winners across the three Topics.  The Challenge sponsor may also explore funding or other support of an Entry for further development and/or commercialization.

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2020 by 5:00 PM EST

Additional information can be found on the NineSigma web page.

Army Research Lab – Scalable, Adaptive, and Resilient Autonomy (SARA) Funding Opportunity

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Key Dates:

  • Opportunity Webinar – January 24, 2020
  • Deadline for Questions on Funding Opportunity – January 31, 2020
  • Proposals due for Cycle 1 – February 14, 2020

Program Description

Future Army forces will need to conduct cross-domain maneuver (CDM) and at times, operate semi-independently, disbursed, and while communications and infrastructure such as Global Positioning System (GPS) are disrupted or denied. Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) will play a key role in expanding the operational reach, situational awareness, and effectiveness of maneuver forces in CDM. The Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is focused on developing fundamental understanding and informing the art-of-the-possible for warfighter concepts through research to greatly improve air and ground based autonomous vehicle perception, learning, reasoning, communication, navigation, and physical capabilities to augment and increase the freedom of maneuver in complex and contested environments. The Scalable, Adaptive, and Resilient Autonomy (SARA) program is focused on developing and experimentally accelerating emerging research in autonomous mobility and maneuverability, scalable heterogeneous and collaborative behaviors, and human agent teaming to realize adaptive and resilient Intelligent Systems that can reason about the environment, work in distributed and collaborative heterogeneous teams, and make optempo decisions to enable Autonomous Maneuver in complex and contested environments. In order to achieve this vision, advancements are needed in following:

  • Novel methods for all-terrain ground and aerial maneuver to interact with and move through complex environments.
  • Methods for scalable and heterogeneous collaborative behaviors in support of collaborative air and ground manned-unmanned teaming operations.
  • Techniques for improved perception, decision-making, and adaptive behaviors for fully autonomous maneuver in contested environments.
  • Methods, metrics, and tools to facilitate, simulate, and enable testing and evaluation of emerging approaches for intelligent and autonomous systems under Army relevant constraints and environments.
  • Experimental testbeds to develop and refine knowledge products to inform and transition technology to Army stakeholders.

Additional information, including the solicitation, can be found on the SARA webpage or on grants.gov.

Ohio Occupational Safety and Health Research Program

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Proposal Deadline: February 28, 2020

Overview of Program

The Ohio Occupational Safety and Health Research Program, hereafter the “Program,” is administered by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). It is a competitive research program with an emphasis on maximizing the impact of research efforts in the areas of occupational safety and health on the overall safety, health, productivity, and competitiveness of Ohio’s workforce. BWC has modeled the program, with minor modifications, after the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA). The program provides funding for research projects up to $250,000 per project. The duration of each research project is limited to 12 to 24 months. The program is an open competition for researchers in Ohio’s not-for-profit higher education institutions and research organizations.

Priority research focus areas include:

  • Prevention of musculoskeletal disorders
  • Prevention of injuries/illnesses/fatalities
  • Use of technological interventions to improve occupational safety and health
  • Reduction of injury rates and duration of disability using health and wellness program interventions
  • Integration of workers’ health and wellness into occupational safety and health programs
  • Prevention of suicide and assisting the mental health of workers
  • Prevention of long-term disability among injured workers after their injury
  • Prevention of injuries related to lack of awareness or impairment due to prescription medication, drugs of abuse, or other causes
  • Prevention of opioid abuse among injured workers and/or at-risk populations in the workforce

While the above list represents the program priorities, other types of proposals addressing occupational safety and health, reducing accidents and injuries, and disability prevention among injured workers will be accepted for review and evaluation.

Additional information can be found the OH Bureau of Worker’s Compensation.