Division 56 Grants and Awards
Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity (CHANGE) Grant
New Grant Deadline: April 30, 2021
Please click on the grant title above to download the announcement.
Description: The purpose of this grant is to support student or early career psychologist (ECP; i.e., 10 years within receipt of their degree) led collaborative projects aimed at identifying and dismantling all forms of systemic racism, discrimination, and violence. Examples include projects focused on the following:
• Improving transdisciplinary and intervention research methods and approaches addressing trauma disparities
• Understanding the historical and ongoing sociopolitical and systemic causes, mechanisms, consequences and solutions to racial trauma and health disparities
• Identifying the ways in which individuals identifying as BIPOC and their communities thrive
• Developing trauma-informed, culturally tailored and sustainable programs that promote well-being
• Providing access to trauma psychology information and services to underserved individuals and communities
• Restorative justice practices
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Division 56 CHANGE Grant Award Winners for 2020
Examination of the Migration Experiences and Mental Health Needs of Unaccompanied Minors Who are Resettled in the United States – Maria Jimenez-Salazar
Continual Collective Betrayal Trauma: Gendered and Racialized Police Violence toward the Black Community – Melissa Barnes
Surviving COVID-19: Risk and Resilience Factors for Black Adults – Jasmin Brooks
An Experimental Vignette Study on Race, Harm Severity, College Discipline, and Restorative Justice – Terrill Taylor
Protecting mental well-being among racial justice activists of color at predominantly White institutions – Christin Mujica
Resilience, action, and hope: A qualitative exploration of sociopolitical development, and academic goal development among Black and Latinx adolescent girls – Taina Quiles
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Division 56 Awards Deadline: April 30, 2021
Winners of the Division 56 awards will be announced at the APA Convention in August - so everyone can know what great work you do!
Outstanding Contributions to Practice in Trauma Psychology
Outstanding Contributions to the Science in Trauma Psychology
Outstanding Service to the Field of Trauma Psychology
Lifetime Achievement Award
Outstanding Contributions to Trauma Psychology by an Early Career Psychologist
Award for Media Contributions to the Field of Trauma Psychology
Early Career Award for Ethnic Minority Psychologist in Trauma Psychology
All you need is a CV and a nominating letter - so easy!
Send your applications (in 1 PDF please) to Yo Jackson yjackson@ku.edu - with the subject Div 56 Award (and the name of the award)
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Division 56 Poster Awards for the APA 2020 Conference
Trajectories of PTSD symptoms after a natural disaster in South Korea – Junwon Lee, M.A., Dongil Kim, Ph. D., Jusuk Song, B.A., Chanhoon Park, B.A. Seoul National University, South Korea
Typical university crime alert emails contribute to mail student agreement with rape myths - Adams-Clark, Alexis - Alexis Adams-Clark, M.S., Carly Smith, Ph.D., Prachi Bhuptani, M.A., Jennifer J. Freyd, Ph.D University of Oregon
Examining patterns of adverse childhood experiences as predictors of psychological symptoms in early childhood school age and adolescents - Whaling, Kelly, University of California, Santa Barbara
Callous and emotional traits moderate the relationship between trauma exposure and Traumatic symptoms - Kathryn McGill, M.A. & Tres Stefurak, Ph.D., Clinical & Counseling Psychology University of South Alabama
Post traumatic outcomes for veterans who have caused serious harm or death to others - Marvin Cabral, M.A.; Antonella Bariani, M.A.; & Carolyn B. Allard, Ph.D., ABPP, Alliant International University (CSPP)
