Fellowship Opportunites

Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Policy Fellowships 2004-2005

SRCD is seeking applications for the upcoming Policy Fellowships for the 2004-2005 term. There are currently two types of Fellowships: Congressional and Executive Branch. Both Fellowships provide exciting opportunities for researchers to come to Washington, DC and use their research skills in child development outside of the academic setting to inform and influence public policy. Both Fellowships typically run from September 1st through August 31st of the following year. Following a two-week science policy orientation program sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellows work as resident scholars within their federal agency or Congressional office placements. SRCD's Office for Policy and Communications in Washington will facilitate the Fellows' experience and be available as a resource throughout the year.

Application Requirements: Applicants must have a doctoral-level degree, must demonstrate exceptional competence in an area of child development research, and must be a member of SRCD. Ph.D's, M.D.'s, Ed.D's, and D.S.W.'s are encouraged to apply.

Applicants must submit: A statement of interest (1,000-word maximum) providing information about the applicant's interest in the Fellowship and what the applicant hopes to gain from the Fellowship experience; a current C.V.; and three letters of recommendation. For Congressional Fellowships, applicants should write about the contributions the applicant believes he or she can make to the legislative process. For Executive Branch Fellowships, applicants may indicate an agency preference, if desired. You may apply for either one of the fellowships or for both of them. In all applications, please specify for which fellowship you are applying, or if you are interested in both, please indicate your preference in your letter. (Application materials for finalists may be forwarded to offices and/or agencies.)

For a complete description of the fellowships and for further information on applying, please visit the SRCD web site or call SRCD's Office for Policy and Communications at 202-336-5926.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS!! December 15, 2003

New NCOFF Publications

Heading Home: Offender Reintegration into the Family, Vivian L. Gadsden, Editor, American Community Corrections Association and International Community Corrections Association., 2003.

For information on ordering this book, contact the publisher at 800-222-5646

Introduction:

The Bay Area Fathering Programs (BAyFIDS) 2003 Directory is one of several products to emerge from The Bay Area Fathering Integrated Data System (BAyFIDS) policy research project. The overarching goal of the project is to deepen the field?s knowledge of fathers and families programs, the participants in them, and the potential of these programs to contribute to integrated activities that support children and families. BAyFIDS is designed to track, document, and analyze the operation and impact of fathering programs and the nature of local and county policy efforts in nine counties in the San Francisco Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma.

Why is the Directory important? At the outset of the project, many organizations and governments in the Bay Area offered fathering services. However, there was little information on the nature of coordination across programs; between public and private efforts; or between public efforts funded by different government agencies at the local, state, and national levels. Without a comprehensive list of programs and their outcomes in the region, it was and continues to be difficult to determine what service gaps exist, both within specific geographic areas and in terms of programmatic offerings. The intention of the BAyFIDS project has been to provide this missing, but critical, information to fathering programs, practitioners, and policymakers at local and county levels, enabling them to coordinate efforts and share knowledge.

What does the Directory contain? The Directory represents the cornerstone of the BAyFIDS project's information-gathering efforts. It is a catalog of organizations addressing fathering issues; it provides individuals, agencies, organizations, and governments with a compendium of fathering programs. In addition to listing contact information and service offerings, the Directory includes data on program mission, objectives, populations served, and duration. A listing of selected county, state, and national resources is provided in the Appendices. In what formats is the Directory available? The Directory is available in two forms: (1) as a downloadable PDF document and (2) as an interactive website (http://www.bayfids.org). The website contains an overview of the project, descriptions of each Bay Area county included in the study, information on relevant national and county resources, and a searchable version of this Directory. If you are unable to download the electronic version of this report, please visit the Adobe website to download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF files. This software is free and is necessary to open PDF documents.

What are the other products emerging from the BAyFIDS project? The two additional components of the BAyFIDS project are the Father Programs Dataset (FPD) and the County Policy Review Project. The FPD compiles information on a wide range of program indicators, including participant demographics, public-private partnerships, referral patterns, and funding sources. The report from this study is available from the NCOFF and BAyFIDS websites. The County Policy Review Project has collected information from key public sector agencies and private sector practitioners about the nature of fathering support efforts and policies from 1997 to 2003 and the expectations for continuation of these efforts over the next five years.

Roundtable Summaries! 

• Roundtable on Constructing and Coping with Incarceration and Family Re-Entry: Perspectives from the Field," The summary report of this important roundtable is now available in PDF format from the NCOFF web site. The Roundtable, which was held on November 15th and 16th, 2001, addressed several overarching themes: the ambivalence that exists toward the impact of incarceration on families and communities, resulting in a confusion of approaches to the problem; the issues surrounding re-integration and eliminating recidivism; the lack of research data; and the need for greater program support for incarcerated parents.

The video files from the Roundtable WEB CAST are still available for viewing from the NCOFF web site. The video files must first be downloaded. We suggest using a high-speed Internet connection to download these files. To watch these videos, the requirements remain the same as those for the live event.

• Fathering and Family Processes Roundtable, Part of a series of NCOFF Roundtable summaries. This, the latest report, presents the discussion from October 19 and 20, 2001 and explores how family processes and father involvement effect child outcomes.

Core Learnings Literature Reviews now in PDF format. (December 2003)
The NCOFF Core Learnings Literature Reviews are now available to be downloaded in PDF format. Previously, they were only available in HTML format. To access, them, visit the NCOFF Publications, Literature Reviews page.

Bay Area Fathering Initiatives: Portraits and Possibilities, March 2001.The BAyFIDS Project is an attempt to track, document, and analyze the operation and impact of fathering programs, as well as the nature of local and county policy efforts around fatherhood in one region of the country--the nine counties comprising the San Francisco Bay area.

• Download Executive Summary (PDF format -- 26 pgs.)
• Download Bayfids Report, Part I (PDF format -- 62 pgs.)
• Download Bayfids Report, Part II (PDF format -- 77 pgs.)

The Fathering Indicators Framework: A Tool for Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, The Fathering Indicators Working Group, National Center on Fathers and Families, March 2001. This new report outlines the Fathering Indicators Framework (FIF) Project, a tool that is designed to help researchers, practitioners, and policymakers conceptualize, examine, and measure change in fathering behaviors in relation to child and family well-being.

 

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