Grant Opportunities

This page identifies some sources that have provided grants for mental health and family research. The information on this web appears in alphabetical order by name of sponsoring organization. This page is offered as a courtesy for students.

American Association of University Women (AAUW)
This organization provides fellowships and grants for women scholars. For more information, refer to www.aauw.org/education/fga/.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This organization offers fellowships for work leading up to completing doctoral dissertations. For more information, refer to www.mellon.org/grant_programs/programs/higher-education-and-scholarship/researchuniversities.

American Educational Research Association (AERA)
This organization provides research and dissertation grants for studies of education. For more information, refer to www.aera.net/grantsprogram/.

Association for Adult Development and Aging
The AADA provides funds to increase the understanding of issues pertaining to adult development and aging. For more information, please refer to Research Grants - Calls for Proposals 2011.

Association for Creativity in Counseling (ACC)
Each year, ACC awards two research grants: one for professional members and one for student members. Practitioners are encouraged to apply. Grants are awarded in the award in the amount of $250.00. The purpose of these awards is to support research that increases understanding of the use of creativity in counseling. Previous awards were given to research on a) resiliency and creativity in survivors of a natural disaster, b) bibliotherapeutic practices of professional counselors, c) the therapeutic value of digital storytelling, d) sand play and supervision; and, e) art-based techniques in group supervision. The deadline for submissions for this year's grants -to be awarded at the ACC Business Meeting at the ACA Conference in San Francisco (2012) is November 30, 2011. please contact Dr. Laura Bruneau at lbruneau@adams.edu for further information. The deadline for submission is November 30, 2011.

Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES)
This organization, a division of the American Counseling Association, provides research grants to student members who are enrolled in Counselor Education and Supervision programs. For more information on this year's grant, refer to www.acesonline.net/aces-research-grants-call-for-proposals/.

Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
The dissertation fellowship program provides funds to doctoral students beginning their dissertation. The program supports research on postsecondary education using the NCES and NSF national databases or research studies that increase the understanding and knowledge of student decisions in postsecondary education. Funded fellowship projects promise a significant contribution to the national knowledge of the nature and operation of postsecondary education. For more information, refer to www.airweb.org.

Association for Specialists in Group Work
The ASGW has allocated $2000 to the Research Committee to support deserving group work research. Distribution will be determined by the Research Committee based on number and quality of proposals submitted. Typically the committee has identified 2-3 recipients. They would like to fund studies that increase understanding of group leadership, group processes, or training in group work. For more information, refer to Association for Specialists in Group Work or email Deborah Rubel at deborah.rubel@oregonstate.edu.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Dissertation Grant Awards for Doctoral Candidates for Violence-Related Injury Prevention Research in Minority Communities (K01)
The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is soliciting investigator initiated and mentored research scientist development award (K01) applications from doctoral students that will help expand and advance our understanding of violence, its causes, and prevention strategies in minority communities. The proposed research must address one of the research priorities listed in the following chapters from NCIPC s research agenda; Preventing Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, and Child Maltreatment, Preventing Suicidal Behavior, or Preventing Youth Violence.

Counseling Association for Humanistic Education and Development (C-AHEAD)
The Make a Difference Grant provides funding for research projects in the area of humanistic counseling and education. The recipient will receive a $500 research grant and a certificate of recognition presented at the ACA 2011 Annual Conference. In addition to this, the recipient will also: be acknowledged of the research award on the C-AHEAD website, in Counseling Today, and at other appropriate venues; receive an invitation to present the research project at the C-AHEAD Breakfast at the ACA 2011 Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA; receive an invitation to prepare a manuscript for consideration by the C-AHEAD journal (The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development); and an invitation to join the join the Make a Difference Grant Award Committee the following year. Honorable mention will be given to the next highly rated applicant. For additional information please see C-AHEAD.

Dan E. Homeyer Research Awards of the Texas Association for Play Therapy
The Texas Association for Play Therapy (TAPT) awards two $500 grants are awarded each fall and spring. These awards are presented to students and faculty members of Texas colleges and universities who use play therapy in some aspect in their research and who have obtained approval for their research from the Human Subjects Review Board (IRB) at their institution. In addition to the monetary award, recipients receive a paid registration for the next TAPT conference (held in April) and two nights lodging at the conference hotel. Recipients are expected to present their findings at the TAPT conference and to submit a short synopsis of their findings for possible publication in the TAPT Newsletter. For more information, refer to txapt.org/images/research_grant.pdf. The deadline for this fall has been extended to October 15th.

Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation (ELA)
ELA Scholarships are available only to women graduate students with physical disabilities who are enrolled in a college or university in the United States. These scholarships are awarded on an objective and nondiscriminatory basis. Scholarships range between $500 and $2,000.

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Program
The Ford Foundation is offering fellowships to doctoral students who plan to enter a career in teaching and research at a college or university. The goals of these fellowships is to increase the ethnic and racial diversity in university faculties, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. For more information, refer to www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/index.html.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.

Hispanic Scholarship Fund
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund was founded in 1975 to help Hispanic-American college students complete their education. The scholarships are available on a competitive basis for community college, four-year college, and graduate students of Hispanic heritage. Awards generally range from $1000 to $3,000.

National Institute of Health

The objective of this funding opportunity announcement is to help ensure that highly trained scientists will be available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to carry out the Nations biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research agenda. The participating Institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide individual predoctoral research training fellowship awards to promising doctoral candidates who have the potential to become productive, independent investigators in research fields relevant to the missions of these participating NIH Institutes and Centers.

The International Association of Addiction and Offender Counselors (IAAOC) The intent of this Grant Award is to recognize and honor IAAOC members who are seeking to complete research investigations that demonstrate promise for outstanding contributions to the specialty areas of addictions and/or offender counseling. This is a cash award $500, a certificate of recognition presented at the IAAOC Annual Conference Breakfast, and acknowledgement of the award in the IAAOC Newsletter. For more information, please see IAAOC.

Department of Health & Human Services - Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows (F30)
The NIA, NIAAA, NIDCD, NIDA, NIEHS, NIMH, NINDS, and the ODS are interested in supporting individual predoctoral fellowships for combined MD/PhD training in research areas relevant to the mission of the participating Institutes.

Law and Society Association
The Law and Society Association, in collaboration with the American Bar Foundation and the National Science Foundation, seeks applications for the Law and Social Science Dissertation Fellowship and Mentoring Program (LSS Fellowship). Third-, fourth-, and fifth-year graduate students who specialize in the field of law and social science and whose research interests include law and inequality are invited to apply. Fellowship applicants should be students in a Ph.D. program in a social science department or an interdisciplinary program. For more information please refer to Dissertation and Mentoring Fellowship.

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation offers fellowships to students working on doctoral dissertations. The Newcombe Fellowships are awarded for work on dissertations in which ethical or religious values are a central concern. These fellowships provide 12-months of full-time dissertation writing support ($24,000 total award). All pre-dissertation requirements must be met prior to application. For more information, refer to www.woodrow.org/newcombe.

The Women's Studies Fellowships are awarded for $3,000 worth of expenses related to dissertation research focused on women. This research must cross disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries. For more information, refer to www.woodrow.org/womens-studies.

Upcoming Grants

Lowe Foundation
www.thelowefoundation.org/guidelines.htm

United Health Care Foundation
www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/request_form.doc

Zachry Foundation
www.zachryfoundation.org/

Brown Foundation
www.brownfoundation.org/Guidelines.asp

Alamo Area Council of Governments
VOCA (Victims of Crime Act) and VAWA (Violence of Women Act) funding for the San Antonio area is managed out of this office
http://www.aacog.com/default.asp