Division 56 Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity Grant (US)

Focus Areas

• Improving transdisciplinary and intervention research methods and approaches addressing trauma disparities
• Understanding the historical and ongoing sociopolitical and systemic causes, mechanisms, consequences, and solutions for racial trauma and health disparities
• Identifying the ways in which individuals identifying as persons of color 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

Funding Information

• Amount: 3 grants of $2,000.

Eligible Costs

• Open access costs/publication costs are considered direct project costs and are acceptable. It is important to consider how your funded proposal will make an impact – and if/how your results will be disseminated.
• PI stipend/salary support is considered a direct cost, but is evaluated within the context of the methodology and the PI time dependent on the success of the study. If an applicant includes PI stipend/salary support as a budget item line, they should include justification/rationale for the divergence of funds from other project areas.
• Other examples of direct costs include:
  • Participant payments
  • Technology expenses (hardware/software/imaging etc)
  • Travel (to conduct research or disseminate findings)
  • Non-PI (personnel) stipend/salary support (this includes co-PI’s and/or Research Assistants)
  • Supplemental training

Eligibility Criteria

• APF encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography.
• Graduate students and early career psychologists (a psychologist with a doctoral degree who is no more than 10 years postdoctoral) are eligible to apply.

Evaluation Criteria

• Applications will be evaluated on:
  • Impact
  • Innovation, originality, & contribution to the field
  • Methodology and plan

Application Requirements

• Application Materials:
  • Project proposal
  • Project timeline (not to exceed one page; typically APF grants are for one year)
  • Detailed budget and justification (not to exceed one page)
  • Abbreviated CV (not to exceed ten pages)

For more information, visit APF.