Funding Opportunities
Division 56 CHANGE Grant
The Division 56 Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity (CHANGE) Grant supports graduate student or early-career psychologist-led collaborative projects aimed at identifying and dismantling all forms of systemic racism, discrimination, and violence.
The Division 56 Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity (CHANGE) Grant will provide three grants of up to $1,866. The CHANGE Grant supports graduate student or early-career psychologist-led collaborative projects aimed at identifying and dismantling all forms of systemic racism, discrimination, and violence.
Examples include projects focused on the following:
- 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
Eligibility
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.
Application Instructions
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)
Evaluation Criteria
Applications will be evaluated on:
- impact
- innovation, originality, & contribution to the field
- methodology and plan
Please be advised that APF does not provide feedback to applicants on their proposals.
Please review our Program FAQs for important details on the application process.
Recent Recipient
Christopher Gomez
University of Kansas
“Using a Daily Diary Methodology to Study Community Violence Exposure and School Engagement in Latino Youth: Associations with Daily Negative Affect and Peer Conflict.”
Past Recipients
2023
Álvaro Gamio Cuervo, University of Massachusetts Boston
“Suicidal thoughts, racial-gendered discrimination, and post-traumatic sequelae: Ecological momentary assessment of discrimination-induced suicidal states within a BIPOC TNGE community sample.”
Stephanie Hsin-Tien Yu, University of California, Los Angeles
“Research as Healing: A Critical Participatory Action Research Approach to Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) Healing from Racial Trauma.”
Christopher Gomez, University of Kansas
“Using a Daily Diary Methodology to Study Community Violence Exposure and School Engagement in Latino Youth: Associations with Daily Negative Affect and Peer Conflict.”
2022
Daneele Thorpe, Stony Brook University
“Neighborhood Disparities as a Primary Indicator of Structural Racism that Influences the Parenting of Young Children”