Grants | Administration for Children and Families

Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants

HHS-2013-ACF-OPRE-YR-0573

Summary
Funding Opportunity Title:	Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants
Funding Opportunity Number (FON):	HHS-2013-ACF-OPRE-YR-0573
Program Office:	Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
Funding Type:	Discretionary
Funding Category:	Grant
Announcement Type:	Initial
CFDA#:	93.600

Letter of Intent Date:	05/29/2013
Post Date:	04/29/2013
Application Due Date:	06/28/2013

Description
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) plans to provide funds for Head Start 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. Competitive applicants will 1) demonstrate a collaborative partnership with their program partners, and 2) pursue research questions that directly inform local, State, or Federal policy relevant to multiple early care and education contexts. Applicants should consider pursuing data collection across contexts, including child care, pre-k, home-visiting programs, Head Starts, Early Head Starts, and/or others. Applicants are expected to demonstrate an established partnership with their early care and education program partners that should be apparent throughout the research plan, from development and refinement of the research questions through the proposed data collection, interpretation, and dissemination. For more information about OPRE, please go to http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/index.html. For further information about previous Head Start Graduate Student Research Grantees, please refer to http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hs/grad_student/index.html. The EXPIRED Funding Opportunity Announcement for the prior Fiscal Year can be reviewed on the ACF Funding Opportunities web page through http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/prior under the link to Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE). Awards are dependent on the availability of funds and the best interest of the Federal government.