NDACAN Summer Research Institute (SRI)
A free, competitive online institute in which selected researchers work on their own secondary-analysis project using NDACAN child maltreatment datasets, with NDACAN staff and statistical consultants supporting them toward a publishable paper.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)In-kind: the page states there is no fee or tuition for the SRI; no stipend is mentioned.
- Timing
- Annual cycleNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.NDACAN emails an announcement to its mailing list several months before the Institute and then posts a downloadable application on the site.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Individuals apply, not teams; selection is competitive on proposal quality, research background and intention to publish. Participants obtain an NDACAN dataset and begin a secondary analysis before the Institute. The only potential cost named is a webcam and headset microphone.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- child maltreatment · secondary data analysis · foster care data · methods training · child welfare research
- Apply at
- https://ndacan.acf.hhs.gov/summer-institute/sri-general-information.cfm
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-09-23. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
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