November 2020 Newsletter

Spotlight: Research To Action Grants, Round One

The Doris Duke Fellowships are pleased to announce a new round of Research to Action Grants, generously funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Inc. The grants are an opportunity for teams of Doris Duke Fellows, researchers, and their policy or practice partners to design and implement an applied research, translation, and dissemination project that focuses on a specific child well-being question. Proposal overview/requirements and budget instructions/template are posted on the website.

An informational webinar open to fellows and their proposed partners will occur Wednesday, Dec. 2, from 1:00 to 2:15 PM Central Time. It will be recorded for those unable to participate. Please register here.

Call for Submissions for Special Issues in the International Journal of Environmental Research on Public Health

The editors of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health are looking for publications that discuss the impact of community conditions on the health and well-being of children and adolescents.

This is a great opportunity for students or community partner collaborative work. Submission deadline is June 30, 2021.

Two New Books Published by Doris Duke Fellows

Nathanael Okpych, University of Connecticut, has a book coming out in January 2021: Climbing a Broken Ladder. This book is based on his dissertation research on understanding contributors of college success for youth in foster care and what can be done to support and improve college outcomes. Nathanael uses evidence-based research to investigate the effects of early trauma, and the lasting impact of child welfare policies.

Christina Danko, University of Maryland, is an author on a recently published book: Supporting Caregivers of Children with ADHD: An Integrated Parenting Program, Therapist Guide. This book integrates research on parents’ mental health with tools/skills and how they can be applied across groups of children and parents with different needs.

Doris Duke Fellow Presenting NIJ Webinar

Carly Dierkhising, California State University, is co-presenting a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) webinar on Dual System Youth on Thursday, December 3 at 2pm ET. Click here for more information and to register.

Fellows Updates:

Sheridan Miyamoto, Pennsylvania State University, has three updates:

She will be inducted as an American Academy of Nursing fellow for her contribution to education management, practice, and policy research
She has a recent publication in the Journal of Rural Health on a comprehensive nurse-led telehealth model to address disparities in sexual assault care
She received a grant to form the Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Telehealth (SAFE-T) Center Campus Community Collaborative

Lindsey Bullinger and Kelley Fong, both at Georgia Tech University, recently published an article in Housing Policy Debate on evictions and neighborhood child maltreatment reports

Christina Mondi-Rago, Brazelton Touchpoints Center, is one of the Principal Investigators on COVID-Forward, a newly launched study examining how U.S. families are coping during COVID-19. The study is based out of American University. The study is looking for parents of children ages 0-17 to participate in an online survey about their experiences during the pandemic

Lindsey Weil started a new position at Amazon as Visiting Academic Sr. Program Manager to apply research methods in practice to solve hard technical challenges

Barbara Chaiyachati, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, published a blog post on racial disparities and disproportionality in the child welfare system and areas to improve the definition of race in child welfare research

Tyler Hein, Department of Veterans Affairs, has two new publications:

In Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, on how childhood violence exposure and social deprivation are linked to adolescent threat and reward neutral function
In the American Journal of Health Behavior, on the association among ACES, health behavior, and veteran health by service era

Kelley Fong, Georgia Tech University, recently spoke with Rise Magazine about her research on CPS reporting

Kaela Byers, University of Kansas, and colleagues Jared Barton, PhD, and Becci Akin, PhD, will serve as the external evaluators for a five year demonstration grant awarded to Saint Francis Ministries from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Office of Family Assistance for the Fatherhood – Family-focused, Interconnected, Resilient, and Essential (Fatherhood FIRE) project. Saint Francis Ministries, one of five private foster care providers in Kansas, is implementing and expanding a comprehensive fatherhood program including skill-building workshops with domestic violence and child abuse prevention components, comprehensive case management with community-based referrals, and supplemental parenting and relationship workshops, for up to 1,200 adult fathers, fathers with co-parents, and fathers experiencing incarceration