CSD is celebrating 50 years in 2017 and pictured here is their window banner being installed on the 3rd floor of the PCD building. More details on their year-long celebration will be forthcoming over the next few months. Stay tuned.
 

Florida KIDS COUNT has released the 2016 County Data Book featuring a number of child well-being indicators on Florida's children. The county-by-county data tells us where we need to work harder at the state level and in each of our counties. We hope state legislators, public officials and child advocates will use this reliable data to advance sound policies that benefit children and families.

Robert Weech-Maldonado, MBA, PhD, will present "Under-resourced Nursing Homes: Differentiating between High and Low Performers" at 10:30am on Friday, January 27, 2017 in the USF College of Public Health Auditorium 1023B. Dr. Robert Weech-Maldonado is Professor and L.R. Jordan Endowed Chair in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Currently, he is Co-Director of the Center for Health Organization and Transformation (CHOT) funded by NSF, Analysis Core Director of the UAB Resource Center on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR), and Co-Director of the Research Program for the Minority Health Research Center (MHRC). He is also Senior Scientist of the UAB's Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education and the Center for Comprehensive Healthy Aging. Dr. Weech-Maldonado's research interests include examining the organizational, management, and community factors associated with higher quality and financial performance among nursing homes.

The deadline for applications for undergraduate research assistantships to be offered through a special program known as The Moms Project has been extended through January 31, 2017. An award of $500 each will be awarded to undergraduate students who will be conducting research during the Spring and/or Summer semesters, 2017. In order to be eligible for The Moms Project Assistantships, students must be:

• Completing an undergraduate major or minor in the College of Behavioral & Community Sciences;
• Conducting research in one of the three priority areas of The Moms Project:
   
• Substance abuse
• Nutrition and well being
• Positive aging
   
• Collaborating with a CBCS faculty member and/or doctoral student who will serve as a research mentor for the undergraduate student. 

The application may be found here. The priority areas may be broadly interpreted and some examples are provided on the webpage to demonstrate the wide range of possibilities. Additional information about the Moms Project, including previous recipients, may be found here.