Each week a quote is shared for your consideration. Some quotes might offer comfort, hope, a challenge, a chuckle, or inspiration. You may or may not agree with the quote, but it is offered simply to help you reflect and ponder.
The future depends on what we do in the present
- Mahatma Gandhi
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
This week’s recommended Health and Wellness Activity
MFP 2024 Intensive Training Institute 50th Anniversary celebration
Health and Wellness Articles
Can Drinking Water (or Not Drinking Enough) Affect Your Sleep? (opens new window)
Work-Life Balance: 7 Tips for Getting Better at It (opens new window)
Picture this: Snapping photos of our food could be good for us (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
- Apply for a Merit Switzer Research Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research (opens new window)
Proposals due Friday, June 28, 2024
Administration for Community Living's National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (opens new window) (NIDILRR) is announcing a new funding opportunity for the Switzer Research Fellowship Program (opens new window).
The purpose of the Switzer Research Fellowship Program is to build research capacity by providing support to highly qualified individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to conduct research on rehabilitation, independent living, and other experiences and outcomes of people with disabilities.
The purpose of the Merit Switzer Research Fellowships for Doctoral Dissertation Research (opens new window) is to support doctoral candidates as they conduct their dissertation research focused on a disability or rehabilitation topic that addresses outcomes among people with disabilities in one or more of NIDILRR’s outcome domains: community living and participation, employment, or health and function.
NIDILRR plans to make five fellowship awards under this opportunity. Applicants must demonstrate their formal academic status as doctoral candidates and have approval of dissertation proposal. Fellowship awards will have one 12-month project period.
Notice of Funding Opportunity
Application Due Date: Friday, July 12, 2024
The purpose of this program is to provide substance use prevention, substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, HIV, and viral hepatitis prevention and treatment services for racial and ethnic individuals vulnerable to a SUD and/or mental health condition, HIV, viral hepatitis, and other infectious disease (e.g., sexually transmitted infections). Recipients will be expected to take a syndemic approach to SUD, HIV, and viral hepatitis by providing SUD prevention and treatment to racial and ethnic individuals at risk for or living with HIV.
Anticipated Total Available Funding: $5,700,000
Anticipated Number of Awards: Up to 8
- State Opioid Response (SOR)/Tribal Opioid Response (TOR) Technical Assistance (opens new window)
Application Due Date: Monday, July 15, 2024
The purpose of this program is to advance the provision of trauma-informed, culturally relevant, and evidence-based substance use-related approaches and interventions across the country and across the lifespan to reduce the impacts of opioid and stimulant misuse and use disorders on individuals, families, and communities.
Anticipated Total Available Funding: $18,500,000
Anticipated Number of Awards: One (1)
Photo Highlights from SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Symposium today themed “Fostering Connections through Mentorship and Collaboration to Advance Behavioral Health Equity” #SAMHSAMFP2024 (opens new window)
How the MFP/ANA takes nurse scientists to places they never imagined. Listen to the full episode here for more insights into this amazing program, and earn FREE CNEs!