Announcing the new publication: Kenzie - Atlanta. Produced and distributed by Atlanta Hospital News, Kenzie - Atlanta will provide consumer pediatric healthcare news and information to parents. Kenzie - Atlanta, which will be distributed throughout the north side of Metro Atlanta, will provide a forum through which information can be shared with parents to help make their decisions in the pediatric healthcare community.

Contact info@kenzieatlanta.com for more information.

OPRE has recently published four research discretionary funding announcements. Three announcements are Child Care Research, all with applications due May 13th. The fourth is for Head Start Research, with a due date of June 16th.

Child Care Research Scholars
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-OPRE-YE-0010.html
Eligible Applicants: Doctoral-level graduate students enrolled in accredited public, State-controlled, and private institutions of higher education, including Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs).

This funding will support dissertation research, conducted in partnership with State Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agencies, regarding child care policy issues. Applicants may apply for project periods up to two years and will be awarded up to $30,000 for the first year and up to $20,000 for the second year of the project. Four to six individual grants are expected to be awarded.

Child Care State Research Capacity
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-OPRE-YE-0031.html
Eligible Applicants: State, Territory and Tribal governments

Funds will be provided for cooperative agreements to support Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agencies' analyses of administrative data; data improvements, including linking data across programs; and measurement of the effects of CCDF on program outcomes. Applicants may apply for project periods up to three years and will be awarded up to $250,000 for the first year and up to $200,000 for each of the second and third years of the project. Three to four individual cooperative agreements are expected to be awarded.

Child Care and Early Education Research Connections
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-OPRE-YE-0014.html
Eligible Applicants: Public and State-controlled institutions of higher education, Non-profits with 501(c)(3) IRS status (other than institutions of higher education), Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations, Small businesses, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions

Funds will be provided for a cooperative agreement to operate Child Care and Early Education Research Connections (CCEERC) (www.researchconnections.org) for five years. Applicants will be awarded up to $1,500,000 for the first year and up to $1,500,000 for each for the subsequent years for the duration of this cooperative agreement. One cooperative agreement is expected to be awarded.

Head Start Graduate Students Research Grants
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-OPRE-YR-0068.html

Eligible Applicants: Doctoral-level graduate students enrolled in accredited public, State-controlled, and private institutions of higher education, including Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs).

Funds are provided for Graduate Student Research Grants to support dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are working in partnership with Head Start programs and with faculty mentors. Applicants may apply for project periods up to two years and will be awarded up to $25,000 per budget period, for a total not exceeding $50,000. Up to ten individual grants are expected to be awarded.

New title from Marybeth Shinn and Yoshikawa Hirokazu: Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs. This book provides detailed strategies for transforming social settings to harness their power to promote positive youth development. Book review available at http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/Education/
?view=usa&ci=9780195327892.

SRCD members receive 20% off.

October 31-November 2, 2008

Keynote Speaker:
Barbara Landau, Johns Hopkins University
Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition: Origins, Development, and Interaction

Plenary Speaker:
Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
From Input to Mind: How Acquisition work captures the heart of linguistic theory and the soul of practical application

Lunch Symposium:
Brain mechanisms of language development: The promise and Pitfalls of Neuroimaging
Dick Aslin, University of Rochester
Debra Mills, Emory University
Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University

Submissions which present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including:

A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/template.html

Abstracts are now being accepted. To facilitate the abstract submission process, abstracts will be submitted using the form available at the conference website at
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm.

Deadline:
All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2008.

Further Information:
General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085

Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract@bu.edu.

The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry invites submissions for a special section/issue on Emotion Regulation, Risk, and Psychopathology. Submissions of all innovative work in this area are welcome, but of particular interest are empirical papers addressing (a) developmental perspectives on underlying neurobehavioral or physiological mechanisms of emotion regulation and dysregulation, (b) specification of links between emotional processes and psychopathology, (c) emotion regulation processes in family or peer contexts, (d) cultural variations in emotion regulation, or (e) interventions that address relations among emotion regulation and other core processes. Conceptual and theoretical papers as well as authoritative reviews of the literature that advance the field also will be considered.

The special section/issue will be edited by Kirby Deater-Deckard and Pamela Cole, and papers will be subjected to the normal refereeing process. There is a 6000 word limit (including Title page, Abstract, References, Tables and Figures). The deadline is October 1st 2008. Authors who intend to submit papers should notify the journal office in advance by contacting Sam Moore (sam.moore@acamh.org.uk). Please submit manuscripts electronically at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcpp-camh. Under Manuscript Type please select ‘Special Section’.

The SDBP Abstract Submission Program is now open for the Paper, Poster and Concurrent sessions to be presented during our 2008 Annual Meeting.

The deadline for proposals is May 15, 2008.

This year’s lectureship presenter: Thomas H. Wassink, M.D., will discuss the genetics of autism and other developmental disorders.

Plan now to attend SDBP’s Annual Meeting, October 16-20, 2008, in Cincinnati, OH, at the Hyatt Regency!

To submit your abstract online please visit:
SDBP Abstract Submissions

Keynote Speaker:
Barbara Landau, Johns Hopkins University
“Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition: Origins, Development, and Interaction”

Plenary Speaker:
Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
“From Input to Mind: How Acquisition work captures the heart of linguistic theory and the soul of practical application”

Lunch Symposium:
“Brain mechanisms of language development: The promise and pitfalls of neuroimaging”
Dick Aslin, University of Rochester
Debra Mills, Emory University
Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University

DEADLINE

• All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2008.
• Late abstracts will not be considered, whatever the reason for the delay.
• We regret that we cannot accept abstract submissions by fax or email.
• Submissions via surface mail will only be accepted in special circumstances, on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us well in advance of the submission deadline (May 15, 2008) to make these arrangements.

FURTHER INFORMATION
General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085

Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract@bu.edu.

The APA Science Directorate is pleased to sponsor five Advanced Training Institutes in the summer of 2008. These intensive training programs are hosted each summer at prominent research institutions across the country. ATIs expose advanced graduate students, new and established faculty, post-docs, and other researchers to state-of-the-art research methods and emerging technologies. A list of this year’s programs is included here. Complete information about these exciting programs can be viewed at: http://www.apa.org/science/ati.html

• Structural Equation Modeling in Longitudinal Research (June 9-13, Univ. of Virginia)
• Non-Linear Methods for Psychological Science (June 9-13, Univ. of Cincinnati)
• Research Methods with Diverse Racial & Ethnic Groups (June 23-27, Michigan State Univ.)
• Geographic Information Systems for Behavioral Research (July 16-18, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
• Using Large-Scale Databases: NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (Aug. 4-8, Univ. of North Carolina)

You are invited to apply for these training opportunities. Keep in mind that application deadlines begin in March. Applications are available at http://www.apa.org/science/ati.html and must be submitted electronically through each program's webpage. Tuition for all ATIs is substantially lower than marketplace prices because of a subsidy from APA's Science Directorate or, in the case of "Using Large-Scale Databases," a grant from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. For more information, contact APA's Science Directorate at ati@apa.org or (202) 336-6000.

Introducing SRCD’s new, interactive, online job board—SRCD Career Center. SRCD Career Center is your resource for making online employment connections.

Many employers and job seekers today are discovering the advantages of shopping online for industry jobs and qualified candidates to fill them. But the one-size-fits-all approach of the mega job boards may not be the best way to find what you’re looking for. SRCD Career Center offers employers targeted access to quality child development professionals, along with quick and easy job posting and online job activity reports.

Job seeking professionals can make sure their resumes are being seen by those in the industry who matter most to them. SRCD Career Center offers job seekers free and confidential resume posting, automated weekly email notification of new job listings, and the ability to save jobs for later review.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to search jobs and post your resume today!

Employers and job seekers welcome!

Program Officer: Dr. Amy Silverman (202-219-1201; amy.silverman@ed.gov)

Through its Social and Behavioral Context for Academic Learning Research Program, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to support research on interventions designed to improve social skills and behaviors that support academic and other important school-related outcomes in typically developing students from kindergarten through Grade 12. Under this research grant program, the Institute will fund research to (1) identify programs and practices that are associated with better social skills and behaviors that support academic learning, as well as mediators and moderators of the relations between these practices and student outcomes; (2) developing new programs and practices for improving social skills and behaviors that support academic learning; (3) evaluating fully developed programs and practices for improving social skills and behaviors that support academic learning through efficacy or replication trials; (4) evaluating the effectiveness of programs and practices for improving social skills and behaviors that support academic learning that are implemented at scale; and (5) developing and validating measures of teacher classroom management practices.

For more information about the Social and Behavioral Context For Academic Learning research competition please go to http://ies.ed.gov/ncer/funding/soc_beh/index.asp.

SRCD is proud to announce that Lonnie R. Sherrod will be its next Executive Director. Dr. Sherrod is a developmental psychologist currently at Fordham University where he is Professor of Psychology, Director of the Applied Developmental Psychology Program, and Co-Director of the Center on Action, Responsibility, and Evaluation Studies. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President of the William T. Grant Foundation, Assistant Dean of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, and was on the staff of the Social Science Research Council.

Dr. Sherrod has been associated with SRCD in a number of roles since 1990 including membership on the Leadership Council and the Committee on Child Development, Public Policy, and Public Information for which he was also Chair. He is currently on the Publications Committee and Editor-in-Chief of the Social Policy Report, one of SRCD’s four publications. Dr. Sherrod has been active in other organizations as well, serving as Vice-President of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences; Chair of the Committee for Children, Youth, and Families with the American Psychological Association (APA); and Executive Council member for APA’s Division 7.

The Child Care Bureau/Office of Family Assistance (CCB), Children's Bureau (CB), Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), Office of Head Start (OHS), and Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) are currently recruiting qualified professionals to serve as grant reviewers and panel chairpersons to evaluate federal grant applications. Both novice and experienced reviewers are welcome to apply. Visit the ACYF Grant Web site (www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/grantreview) for instructions on submitting your resume and writing sample. Questions? Call our reviewer help line at (866) 796-1613 or email reviewer@dixongroup.com.

We welcome all suitable manuscripts. Manuscripts are peer reviewed and the author receives notification of acceptance, need for revision, or rejection in approximately 3 months. Accepted manuscripts generally appear in the journal within 9 months of acceptance. Each author receives two complimentary copies of the issue in which his or her article appears and permission to reproduce additional copies of that article.Before submitting a manuscript, please consult our web site at http://www.heldref.org for author guidelines. Submit all manuscripts by electronic mail to the Managing Editor, The Journal of Genetic Psychology, Heldref Publications, gnt@Heldref.org. Phone (202) 296-6267; Fax: (202) 296-5149.

Ruth Ault (Executive Co-Editor)
Chair and Maddrey Professor of Psychology
Davidson College
P.O. Box 6904
Davidson, NC 28035-6904
Phone: (704) 894-2885
Fax: (704) 894-2512
E-mail: ruault@davidson.edu