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The APF Trauma Psychology Grant offers funding to support innovative work to alleviate trauma. This grant is sponsored by APA Division 56: Division of Trauma Psychology. The program seeks to fund early career psychologists who demonstrate knowledge of trauma and trauma research, as well as competence and capacity to execute proposed work. Applications are evaluated on the quality, viability, and potential impact of the proposed project, as well as originality, innovation, and contribution to the field of trauma. The grant provides support for innovative projects that advance understanding of trauma and develop interventions to help individuals and communities affected by traumatic experiences.

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. Examples of supported projects include improving transdisciplinary and intervention research methods addressing trauma disparities, understanding the historical and ongoing sociopolitical and systemic causes of racial trauma and health disparities, identifying ways in which persons of color and their communities thrive, developing trauma-informed and culturally tailored sustainable programs that promote well-being, providing access to trauma psychology information and services to underserved individuals and communities, and restorative justice practices. The grant is offered by the American Psychological Foundation in collaboration with Division 56 of the American Psychological Association. APF encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography.

The Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Grant will support graduate students and early career researchers conducting innovative work focusing on the understanding, prevention and/or treatment of the consequences of exposure to traumatic events such as sexual assault, sexual harassment and/or rape. This grant is sponsored by APA Division 56: Division of Trauma Psychology. The grant provides funding for innovative research projects that contribute to the field of trauma psychology. Applications are evaluated on the quality, viability, and potential impact of the proposed project, originality and innovation, and the applicant's demonstrated competence to execute the proposed work. The program encourages applications from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography.