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Extension website promotes fit, healthy kids
Nebraska Extension's Fit and Healthy Kids website is an invaluable resource for early childhood professionals and child care providers throughout Nebraska.
The website features web-based training and classes for professionals and providers, as well as families, students and teachers. The affordable — sometimes free — research-based educational programs and resources are designed to empower all adults who care for young children by providing high-quality professional development that sets the stage for lifelong learning, discovery and success.
Fit and Healthy Kids is a team of Early Childcare experts from across the United States who offer online training opportunities. The programs feature diverse experts sharing evidence-based practices, resources, ideas and the latest research.
The goal is to foster quality early learning experiences for children birth through 8 years old.
Each training incorporates some aspect of Early Learning guidelines: Birth to five learning and development standards. There are seven domains: social and emotional development, approaches to learning, health and physical development, language and literacy development, mathematics, science and creative arts.
Fit and Healthy Kids training modules incorporate one or more of these domain topics in the session and address how childcare providers can address each topic in their natural environment and daily routine.
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Here are recent publications from NAECR researchers:
Jentry Barrett, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Rachel Schachter, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln*
Danni Gilbert, Glenn Korff School of Music, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Mathew Fuerst, Music Department, Doane University
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Would you like to see your work featured here? Contact us at naecr@unl.edu
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NAECR can assist you in finding research partners for your funding applications and staff in CYFS are available to assist with your proposal development for these or other funding opportunities.
Please contact Lisa Knoche if you are interested in building a collaborative team, need assistance with proposal development or would like to discuss funding opportunities for your research.
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New! American Association of University Women – American Fellowships
These fellowships support women scholars in all fields of study who are pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research full time, or preparing research for publication.
Application due date: Nov. 1, 2022
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New! Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
This program supports innovative projects that help youth — defined as birth through college-aged (about 26) — with disabilities develop the leadership and employment skills they need to succeed.
The program will also consider projects to create tools that help break down barriers to employment and increase job opportunities for young people with disabilities entering the workforce, including returning veterans with disabilities.
Proposal due date: Nov. 1, 2022
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New! Department of Education – Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program
The Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Program provides competitive grants to support and demonstrate innovative partnerships to train school-based mental health services providers for employment in schools and local educational agencies (LEAs).
The goal of this program is to increase the number and diversity of high-quality, trained providers available to address the shortages of mental health service professionals in schools served by high-need LEAs. The partnerships must include: (1) one or more high-need LEAs or a state educational agency on behalf of one or more high-need LEAs, and (2) one or more eligible institutions of higher education.
Proposal due date: Nov. 3, 2022
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New! Spencer Foundation – Research-Practice Partnerships: Collaborative Research for Educational Change
This program supports education research projects that engage in collaborative and participatory partnerships with project budgets up to $400,000 and durations of up to three years.
Application due date: Nov. 9, 2022
Full proposal due date: Dec. 7, 2022
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New! Spencer Foundation – Small Research Grants on Education
This program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets of up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years.
Proposal due date: Dec. 5, 2022
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Student Funding: American Psychological Foundation
The Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Fellowship program supports graduate research projects and scholarships in child psychology.
The program is accepting applications to provide support for the 2023-24 academic year.
Proposal due date: Nov. 15, 2022
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Nebraska Research Initiative and Collaboration Initiative Grants
The Nebraska Research Initiative and Collaboration Initiative is accepting proposals for one- or two-year grants to fund preliminary data collection, resubmissions, exploratory research, seed grants, NSRI IRAD topics and Intellectual Property (IP) development.
With the exception of grants specifically for IP development, awards are only available to collaborative teams with faculty from at least two different NU campuses. Principal investigators must attend the NRI and Collaboration Initiative Grants annual meeting to be eligible for funding.
Proposal due date: Jan. 17, 2023
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Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting
Call for proposals
May 30 – June 1, 2023
Washington, D.C.
The theme of the Society for Prevention Research 2023 Annual Meeting is "The Role of Prevention Science in Achieving Social Justice and health Equity for All."
SPR is currently accepting proposals and encourages submissions that focus on structural inequality and health equity in marginalized populations and communities, advancing gender health equity in the context of social justice and/or addressing the impacts of global climate change on health equity in the context of social justice.
Proposal due date: Oct. 31, 2022
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National Home Visiting Summit
Call for proposals
March 14-16, 2023
Virtual
Start Early (formerly known as The Ounce) is seeking proposals for the National Home Visiting Summit. Proposals should demonstrate a clear connection to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging that advances the home visiting field and connected systems of care through innovation, diverse perspectives and a focus on impact.
Proposal due date: Nov. 4, 2022
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Society for Cross-Cultural Research
Annual Meeting Home Visiting Summit
Call for proposals
Feb. 22-25, 2023
San Juan, Puerto Rico
The Society for Cross-Cultural Research is accepting proposals for individual paper presentations, poster presentations, symposia and workshops. All presentations must pertain to cross-cultural or cultural research. Work that explicitly addresses equity/inequity, social justice, or racism and anti-racism is especially welcomed.
Proposal due date: Dec. 1, 2022
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MAP Academy Fall 2022 Methodology Applications Series
Featuring Kristy Feden
Friday, Nov. 11, 2022
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. CST
Virtual via Zoom
On Friday, Nov. 11, Kristy Feden, senior director of special services for the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, School District, will lead a virtual presentation titled, "Lessons from the Field: What it Really Takes to Move From Research to Practice in a Large Urban School District."
This virtual presentation will bring to life the application of National Implementation Research Network stages of implementation in a large urban school district regarding district-wide development and implementation of a multi-tiered system of support.
Feden will also highlight gaps and barriers to implementation as well as strategies implementation support practitioners may utilize when facilitating large-scale implementation efforts in a public school environment.
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NAECR Knowledge:
Creating and Maintaining Research Partnerships
Nov. 17, 2022
Noon – 1 p.m. CST
Virtual via Zoom
Establishing and sustaining productive research partnerships is critical for early childhood researchers, but these can sometimes be difficult to establish. This session will feature a panel of NU early childhood researchers and community partners who will share their experiences in forming and maintaining successful research partnerships and lessons learned through their interactions.
Panelists include:
- Tessie Beaver, North Bend Central Elementary School principal
- Danae Dinkel, assistant professor, Health Promotion, Social & Behavior Health, University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Amy Encinger, assistant professor, Education and Child Development, University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Natalie Hanna, early childhood educator, Natalie’s Daycare
- Amanda Witte, CYFS research assistant professor
The virtual event will include time for attendees to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
The event is free but requires registration.
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NAECR Networking:
Exploring Research Impact Through Partnerships
Dec. 5, 2022
Noon – 1 p.m. CST
Virtual via Zoom
Research collaborations and partnerships are essential for early childhood researchers. This session will include remarks from Jocelyn Bosely, UNL research impact coordinator, who will share strategies for coordinating research impacts, including the facilitation of research partnerships.
The session will also include breakout rooms and small group conversations for NAECR researchers to share strategies for initiating and sustaining research partnerships and collaborations with community partners and other researchers.
The virtual event is free but requires registration.
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Connecting Research and Policy
Learn more and sign up for alerts about legislation relevant to early childhood researchers.
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NAECR Student Researchers
Students involved in early childhood research at the University of Nebraska can access a number of resources through NAECR.
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Find a Researcher
Find and collaborate with other early childhood researchers across the NU system.
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NAECR News archives available
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NAECR News will be shared twice a month to inform the early childhood research community across the NU system.
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